C / CH

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Orthographic Variants: 
Chicome coatl

a deity or goddess, "Seven Snake" (a calendrical name) was an older sister of the rain deities called Tlaloque
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 98. And see Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 32.

She also had an association with food and beverages. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 1 -- The Gods; No. 14, Part 2, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1950), 4.

Orthographic Variants: 
Chicome Oçomatli

Seven Monkey, a favorable day sign (see attestations)

Seven Flint; a calendar year; one of these was the equivalent of 1512 in the Christian calendar

Víctor M. Castillo F., "Relación Tepepulca de los señores de México Tenochtitlan y de Acolhuacan," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 183–225, and see p. 209.

Seven Flower, the name of the deity that gave birth to maize; also, the name of a religious observance with agricultural associations (especially maize and water) and involving offerings of maize

tʃikoːme
Orthographic Variants: 
chicume

seven (see Karttunen, Lockhart, and Molina)

seven.
tʃikoːmepɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
chicōmepa

seven times (see Karttunen)

the name for corn, an ear of corn or the paper cuttings used to make offerings and in many different ceremonies.
Orthographic Variants: 
chicumipilli

140 pieces of cloth, tortillas, pieces of paper, mats, etc. (flat and thin things)

seven ears of maize (see Molina)

a place name; a legendary place in the migration from Aztlan; translates as the Place of Seven Caves

Orthographic Variants: 
chicumpantli

seven rows of something (see Molina); can refer to agricultural furrows

Orthographic Variants: 
chicumpoalli, chicompoalli

seven times twenty (140)

Orthographic Variants: 
chicome pohualli

7 x 20 = 140

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Chiucnahui Itzcuintli

a deity's name ("Nine Dog") with a calendrical significance, part of the Xiuhtecuhtli Complex of deities, associated with hearth/fire and paternalism
"Table 3. Major Deities of the Late Pre-Hispanic Central Mexican Nahua-Speaking Communities." Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6: Social Anthropology, ed Manning Nash (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967).

Orthographic Variants: 
chiconaui, chiucnahui, chicunahui, chicunaui, chiuhnatzin

nine (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chicunappa chicunaui, chiucnappa chiucnahui, chicunappa chicunahui

nine times nine (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chiucnappa ixquich, chicunappa ixquich

nine times as much (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chiucnappa; chicuhnauapan, chicunappa

nine times (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chiucnauh mictlan, chicunauh mictlan

the ninth and deepest level of the underworld (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chicunauh tianquiztli, chiucnauhtianquiztli, chicunauhtianquiztli, chiucnahu tianquiztli

a festival or market that takes place every nine days (see Molina)