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mixzolichiuhticac.

Headword: 
mixzolichiuhticac.
Principal English Translation: 

"his face is painted in a quail motif"

Elena Mazzetto, "Quail in the Religious Life of the Ancient Nahuas," in Susan Milbrath and Elizabeth Baquedano, eds., Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica. Denver: University Press of Colorado, 2023, 204.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
See also: 
zolin.
ixtli.
chīhua.