English Name: Humming bird
(Family Apodidae)Spanish Names: Colibrí, Chupaflor, Picaflor, Gorrión.
Maya Names: Tzunuun, Dzunnun, Ts’ak ts’unu’un (Yucatec, Itzaj)
The hummingbird is one of the few animals that always appear in a natural form. Although they are not exact renditions of real birds, the Maya artists emphasized the beaks, wings, and tails, which are easily recognizable.
Their appearance suggests that these small birds, associated with the sun, the vegetation, war, and love, inhabited the living world and cared for gardens and flowers.
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