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tetzompan mamana.

Headword: 
tetzompan mamana.
Principal English Translation: 

Loggerhead Shrike, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
tetzompah mamana
Attestations from sources in English: 

TETZOMPAH MĀMANA, Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) [FC: 45 Têtzompã, tetzompã mâmana]. Variant of TETZOMPAH.
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analysis here also appearing in E. S. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission.

See https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tetzompan for supporting material for the orthography of tetzompan vs. tezompah.

See the Florentine Codex for a painting of this bird:
Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 49r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/49r/images/ce983b42-2... Accessed 18 October 2025.

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