Note VIII-1 — Chapter VIII · GODS, SUPERNATURAL BEINGS, AND WORSHIP.
Reading edition
Huitzilopochtli is derived from two words: huitzilin, the humming-bird, and opochtli, left—so called from the left foot of his image being decorated with humming-bird feathers. Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., pp. 17-19.