![]() Crapo and Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 37. y huá Yxpan qui hue n manaya ynin theoû Camaxtle = hummingbird, and tobacco incense, liquid nectar, rabbits, snakes, and quails- for they killed all these together and spread the offerings out before their god Camaxtli.Īnónimo mexicano, ed. âhuí altic, totoch tin coamê, Zolimê camochí ynin cenca míec quin míctiaya. Huítzilin, Yhuá Pizíetl Co pallí, Xochí ocotzotl. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission. 1 (México, D.F., 1940) and, with quotation selections, synthesis, and analysis here also appearing in E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1963) Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (University of Oklahoma, Norman, 1983) Rafael Martín del Campo, “Ensayo de interpretación del Libro Undecimo de la Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España de Fray Bernardino de Sahagún – 11 Las Aves (1),” Anales del Instituto de Biología Tomo XI, Núm. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain Book 11 – Earthly Things, no. See also AYOPAL-HUĪTZIL-IN, CHALCHI-HUĪTZIL-IN, CUAPPACH-HUĪTZIL-IN, ECA-HUĪTZIL-IN, QUETZAL-HUĪTZIL-IN, TELOLO-HUĪTZIL-IN, TLAPAL-HUĪTZIL-IN, TLE-HUĪTZIL-IN, TOTOZCATLE-TON, XI-HUĪTZITZIL-IN, YAUHTIC HUĪTZIL-IN.įr. I believe it is best to leave several unspecified. The specific kinds of hummingbirds are rarely described in sufficient detail to allow for positive identification, and I find several of Martin del Campo’s guesses to be wide of the mark. This term serves as the generic head term for 10 distinct kinds of hummingbirds (of 11 recognized and named). Regional dialect variants include HUITZACATZIN, HUĪTZĪQUI-TZIN, HUĪTZTZĪTZIQUIH, all noted in Karttunen). It inserts its bill in a tree there it shrinks, shrivels, molts.” Despite the misapprehension with regard to hibernations and rejuvenation, this is no doubt a general term for the Núm.us species of hummingbirds of Central Mexico. In shrubs, in trees it makes itself a nest, it lays eggs, sits, hatches its young. ![]() Santa Fe, N.M: School of American Research, 1950-1982, Book XI, pp.24.HUĪTZITZIL-I/HUĪTZITZIL-IN/HUĪTZIL-IN, hummingbirds (Trochilidae) “The bill is black, slender, small and pointed, needle-pointed, needle-like. General History of the Things of New Spain: Florentine Codex. “Canto del Colibri,” courtesy of jjeess11 Thus, this tiny little winged jewel is a microcosm of the vast world around it and the deities interwoven in the system. Thus, a bird that’s possibly the perfect representation of the sky with its ability to hover and move at will in the air, shows its other face as a facet of the earth/water/plant divinity complex, a deity web that also extends into the realm of the dead. These feathers, believed to have been shed like dead leaves in the fall, are linked to fresh, living plants by Sahagun’s informant, called into existence after the warmth of the sun, power of the sky gods, works in tandem with the watery might of Tlaloc and the other earth and vegetation gods, spiraling together to burst forth in life and movement. Incidentally, remember that the hummingbird is Huitzilopochtli’s symbol, and note that many hummingbirds, including several species in Mexico, have the brilliant blue-green color of divinity for their plumage, just like another sacred bird, the resplendent quetzal. It’s the hummingbird ( huitzitzili in Nahuatl). What is this mysterious creature that defies death? ![]() And when it thunders for rain, at that time it awakens, moves, comes to life.” And when rejuvenates, when the sun warms, when the tree sprouts, when it leafs out, at this time also grows feathers once again. It inserts its bill in a tree there it shrinks, shrivels, molts. In honor of the springtime finally rolling around after this seemingly-endless winter, I’d like to introduce you to a mysterious creature which the Aztecs said dies and rises with the seasons.
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