Editing Ītzpāpālōtl (section)

==Iconography==
Itzpapalotl's name can either mean "obsidian butterfly" or "clawed butterfly;" the latter meaning seems most likely.{{sfn|Miller|Taube|1993|p=100}} It's quite possible that clawed butterfly refers to the bat and in some instances Itzpapalotl is depicted with bat wings. However, she can also appear with clear butterfly or eagle attributes. Her wings are obsidian or [[tecpatl]] (flint) knife tipped.{{sfn|Miller|Taube|1993|p=100}} (In the ''[[Manuscript of 1558]]'', Itzpapalotl is described as having "blossomed into the white flint, and they took the white and wrapped it in a bundle.") She could appear in the form of a beautiful, seductive woman or terrible goddess with a skeletal head and butterfly wings supplied with stone blades. Although the identity remains inconclusive, the [[Zapotec civilization|Zapotec]] deity named Goddess 2J by Alfonso Caso and Ignacio Bernal may be a Classic Zapotec form of Itzpapalotl. In many instances Goddess 2J, whose image is found on ceramic urns, is identified with bats. "In folklore, bats are sometimes called "black butterflies"".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Benson |first1=Elizabeth |title=The Maya and the Bat |journal=Latin American Indian Literatures Journal |volume=4 |issue=2 |date=Fall 1988 |pages=99–124 }} Citing: {{cite book |last1=Parsons |first1=Elsie Clews |title=Mitla, town of the souls, and other Zapoteco-speaking pueblos of Oaxaca, Mexico |date=1936 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |page=318 |oclc=185287287 }}</ref> Itzpapalotl is sometimes represented as a goddess with flowing hair holding a trophy leg. The femur is thought by some scholars to have significance as a war trophy or a sacred object in Pre-Hispanic art.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Yoneda |first1=Keiko |chapter=Glyphs and Messages in the ''Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2'': Chicomoztoc, Itzpapalotl and 13 Flint |pages=161–203 |chapter-url={{Google books|1UxGR6UB7AwC|page=161|plainurl=yes}} |editor1-last=Carrasco |editor1-first=Davíd |editor2-last=Sessions |editor2-first=Scott |title=Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest: An Interpretive Journey Through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2 |date=2007 |publisher=UNM Press |isbn=978-0-8263-4283-6 }}</ref>