AS IZTAC MIXCOATL = “WHITE CLOUD SERPENT”
- Minor Names: Ce eecatl = “One Wind.”
- Relationship:
- Husband of Ilancuêyê and progenitor of the Xelhua national ancestors, Tenoch, Ulmecatl, Xicalancatl, Mixtecatl, Otomitl.
- Husband of a second wife, Chimamatl, by whom he had a son, Quetzalcoatl.
- Compass Direction: Upper region.
ASPECT AND INSIGNIA
Codex Fejérváry-Mayer.—Sheet 32: He has the head of a deer. He carries for a staff the neck of a long-billed, white bird, a heron. Before him stands a dish containing an eye and a feather ornament, reproducing in form and colour the warrior’s forked heron-feather adornment. Sheet 6: He is painted a yellow colour, thin and with wrinkled skin, his face looking out of the open throat of a bird, which has a feather crest curling up and a variegated rosette on its beak. In one hand he holds a bone dagger, in the other a staff tied round with a white-fringed cloth. As hieroglyph is shown beside him the day ce eecatl, “one wind.”
Codex Borgia.—Sheet 60: Here he is represented as having heron-feather hair and beard, and a ring-shaped appendage below the upper lip indicative of age. He is dressed as a priest, with tobacco-calabash on back and red patch on temple. He holds in one hand a staff bent like a heron’s neck, and in the other a bunch of malinalli grass. Sheet 24: The representation here is almost identical, except that the staff has a heron’s head and that a bone piercer [[313]]is worn behind the ear. In both pictures he wears a curious back device, recalling that on the rattle-staff of Quetzalcoatl. In some places he wears a helmet-mask like the head of a deer.