animal
Parrot
Parrot as an animal people have named and used. Fertility, Self expression, Joy — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Roman religion
Parrot appears in Roman religion.
Pliny’s Natural History records the parrot among talking birds of Roman encyclopedic speech. A named parrot in that encyclopedia, not a modern pet dump and not a generic bird checklist.
from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE
appears in · sourced · documented
Nahua tradition
Parrot appears in Nahua tradition.
Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records toznene and kin in Book 11 bird chapters — named parrot speech among colorful birds. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
appears in · sourced · culturally specific
sources
- Natural History · Pliny the Elder
Pliny, Naturalis Historia.
- Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).