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Iztac_tepetl
Iztac tepetl
See also: iztac tepetl
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Iztaccíhuatl
Classical Nahuatl
Alternative forms
Proper noun
- Iztaccíhuatl, a mountain in Mexico. Literally "white woman."
- 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, "Florentine Codex", book 1
- qujnpiquiz: quetzalcoatl, in chalchivitl ycue, in tlaloc: popucatepetl, iztac tepetl, poiauhtecatl: yoan in çaço quezqujtetl tepetl in qujnteneoaz in qujpiquiz.
- (he would mold representations of Quetzalcoatl, Chalchiuitl ycue, Tlaloc, Popocatepetl, Iztac tepetl, Poiauhtecatl, and any other mountain of which they would choose to make representations.)
- 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, "Florentine Codex", book 1
References
- Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Florentine Codex: Book 1 - The Gods, ed. and trans. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble, 2nd ed., rev. edition, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, page 47