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quetzalpanitl.

Headword: 
quetzalpanitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a flag or banner decorated with green quetzal feathers (see Mikulska)

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Se trata, entre otras, de quetzalpanitl o 'bandera de plumas verdes o de quetzal' (PM, f. 73v)". (p. 96)
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
See also: 
quetzalli.
ihuitl.