Quetzalecatl (MH777v)

There is a pictorial map in the Library of Congress that bears the name Codex Quetzalecatzin (which is the reverential version of the same name shown here), but a different person than the one shown here. That mapa is also known by two place names, Ecatepec ahd Huitziltepec, of southeastern Puebla and northern Oaxaca.

There was a Quetzalecatzin (or Quetzalecatl, without the reverential suffix) was a tlahtoani of Tecamachalco (now in the state Puebla) in the fifteenth century. Apparently, his name points to a tradition that links Quetzalcoatl with Ehecatl in the figure of Nahui Ehecatl, as shown in the Codex Telleriano Rememsis. Quiñones Keber "goes on to say that ... it was related to the Tepictoton, or dough image mountain representing the tlatoque or rain gods," according to Viviana Díaz Balsera (Guardians of Idolatry, 2018, 123). The latter adds: "Recall that in the Legend of the Suns, four colored tlatoque snatched the maize bounty that was revealed after lightning (Nanahuatl) opened up the Food Mountain, discovered by Quetzalcoatl (Bierhorst 1992, 146–47; Feliciano Velázquez 1992, 121). Hence, the dual image of Nahui Ehecatl Quetzalcoatl as patron may allude to this tradition."

Gabrielle Vail and ‎Christine Hernández (Re-Creating Primordial Time, 2013) describe Ehecatl as the wind aspect of Quetzalcoatl, and they note that Ehecatl "wears a buccal (duck) mask through which to blow wind." That the "beak" may have been perceived as a blowing device is supported by the glyph for Pitztli (below).