teoaztatl.

Headword: 
teoaztatl.
Principal English Translation: 

Snowy Egret, a sacred egret, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

TEŌ-AZTA-TL, literally, “sacred egret,” synonym of AZTA-TL, Snowy Egret [FC: 28 teoaztatl].
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 11 – Earthly Things, no. 14, Part XII, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1963); and, with quotation selections, synthesis, and analysis here also appearing in E. S. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Colors
Feathers
See also: 
teotl.
aztatl.