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quetzaltzontecomayo.

Headword: 
quetzaltzontecomayo.
Principal English Translation: 

golden banners decorated with quetzal bird feathers (see Mikulska, citing the Florentine Codex)

Orthographic Variants: 
quetzaltzontecomaio
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

quetzaltzontecomaio = "banderas de oro rematadas con plumas de quetzal" (Códice Florentino, 1979, lib. IX: 92) (p. 97)
Katarzyna Mikulska, "Te hago bandera... Signos de banderas y sus significados en la expresión gráfica nahua", en Los códices mesoamericanos: registros de religión, política y sociedad, Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio y Juan José Batalla Rosado, coordinadores (Zinacantepec: El Colegio Mexiquense, 2016), 85–133.

themes: 
Feathers