Citlalcolotl

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Citlalcolotl is located in scorpius.

Etymology and History

According to the Florentino Codex Sahagun's informants identified a group of stars known as Citlalcolotl, the scorpion star. In turn, Tezozomoc also mentions the scorpion star and he called it Colotlixayac, which means face of a scorpion. In a section of the Paris Codex called zodiac pages appears the scorpion, in this codex the icons shows figures of animals hanging from the body of the Celestial Dragon.[1][2][3]

Mythology

IAU Working Group on Star Names

Reference

  1. ↑ Herbert J. Spinden (1916). The Question of the Zodiac in America. New Series, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1916), pp. 53-80. doi: https://www.jstor.org/stable/660290
  2. ↑ LOS CÓDICES DE MÉXICO pdf
  3. ↑ Códices coloniales de México
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