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tlatlauhqui.

Headword: 
tlatlauhqui.
Principal English Translation: 

red

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tlatlauhqui in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

çan ixquich yn cohuatzontecomatl oncan neztica nenepillotoc yn cohuatl tlatlauhqui = a serpent’s head, from which the tongue is seen to extend; the serpent is red.
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 22–23.

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