guacamaya

There is little to see now but the site was originally dedicated to Xaguije, a celestial constellation that descended to earth in the form of a brightly-coloured macaw or guacamaya.

The Oaxaca Valley: a week's adventures in a single day... 2005

There is little to see now but the site was originally dedicated to Xaguije, a celestial constellation that descended to earth in the form of a brightly-coloured macaw or guacamaya.

The Oaxaca Valley: a week's adventures in a single day... 2005

With the Indians, the pithaya enters, of course, into religion, and the beautiful macaw (guacamaya), which revels in the fruit, is associated with it in their beliefs.

Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan Carl Lumholtz 1886

[4] The guacamaya comes from the Tierra Caliente to eat the first fruits.

Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan Carl Lumholtz 1886

On his head is a fillet band ornamented in like manner, with bright plumes, set vertically around it -- the tail-feathers of the _guacamaya_, one of the most superb of South American parrots.

Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco Mayne Reid 1850

The following gives the trend of one of the guacamaya songs: "The pithaya is ripe, let us go and get it.

Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan Carl Lumholtz 1886