mixpantli.

Headword: 
mixpantli.
Principal English Translation: 

a tornado (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

Frances Krug captures four examples of references in the annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley to a tornado (mixpantli) that raced across the sky in 1525, 1526, and/or 1544. In one record, tetzauh seems to be used in a parallel construction. See tetzahuatl and tetzahuitl, below. Also, in one of the entries, instead of mixpantli, the tlacuilos uses mixcoatl. (SW)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 5, p. 40, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart..

themes: 
Weather, Climate
See also: 
tetzahuatl.
tetzahuitl.
mixtli.
ecamalacotl.
ehecacoatl.
Mixcoatl.