Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 57.
scarlet parrot feather(s) (central Mexico, sixteenth century) Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 9 -- The Merchants, No. 14, Part 10, 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, 1959), 1.
one of the names given to a little baby girl whose mother had died in childbirth (central Mexico, sixteenth century) Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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, 1961), chapter 29.
# una persona le hace su casa a alguien o un animal porque no tiene donde estar. “Leonardo le construye una casa a su mamá, porque esta muy vieja su casa donde esta”.
a female divine force/deity; the name contains chan- (home); also called Cuaxolotl (Xolotl-Head or perhaps Double- or Split-Head), which was a fertility deity; she also overlapped with Xochiquetzal, Cihuacoatl, and other fertility figures (female) Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 112.