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Xiuhcoatl

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A named fire-serpent weapon of Mexica image. Not a Macuahuitl, not a being, and not a generic spear under a turquoise name.

Nahua tradition

Xiuhcoatl appears in Nahua tradition.
The Florentine Codex names Xiuhcoatl, the turquoise fire-serpent weapon of Huitzilopochtli’s image. A named Mexica weapon-object in that ethnography, not a being and not the mācuahuitl.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
appears in · sourced · culturally specific

sources

Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).