xochihua

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Classical Nahuatl[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From xochi(tl) (“flower”).

Noun[edit]

xochihua

  1. (literally) flower-bearer
  2. seducer, seductress
  3. The term applied to a cross-dressing figure depicted, and described as having androgynous qualities, in the Florentine Codex.

References[edit]

  • Neil L. Whitehead, editor (2007), “Sexual Encounters/Sexual Collisions: Alternative Sexualities in Colonial Mesoamerica”, in Ethnohistory (in Classical Nahuatl), volume 54, number 1, Winter
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