Xiuhcoac (TR33r)

This place is named for a divine force or deity related to fire, which also has creation associations. Elizabeth Hill Boone noted how Quetzalcoatl drilled a new fire on "Xiuhtecuhtli/Xiuhcoatl" in the Codex Borgia. Patrick Jajovsky (On the Lips of Others, 2015, 88, 91) reports that the stone carving of Xiuhcoatl (held at Dumbarton Oaks) also refers to the fire-drilling ceremony of 1507. According to Kay Read there is also a xiuhcoatl weapon with the following meanings: greenstone, turquoise, heat, comet, grass, year, and snake. [See: Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos, 1998, 256.] this weapon was used by Huitzilopochtli to cut off the head of Coyolxauhqui, according to Esther Pasztory (Aztec Art, 1983, 173). Mutsumi Izeki describes the unusual tail of the Xiuhcoatl as "trapeze-and-ray," [See Conceptualization of 'Xihuitl,' 2008, 45.]