C / CH | Nahuatl Dictionary

Letter C/CH: Displaying 2221 - 2240 of 5744

Chicome Ozomatli.

Orthographic Variants:

Chicome Oçomatli

Seven Monkey, a favorable day sign (see attestations)

Chicome Tecpatl.

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.

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Chicome Xochitl.

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

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chicome.

tʃikoːme

Orthographic Variants:

chicume

seven (see Karttunen, Lockhart, and Molina)

seven.

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chicomepa.

tʃikoːmepɑ

Orthographic Variants:

chicōmepa

seven times (see Karttunen)

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chicōmexōchitl.

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

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chicomipilli.

Orthographic Variants:

chicumipilli

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

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chicomolotl.

seven ears of maize (see Molina)

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Chicomoztoc.

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

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chicompantli.

Orthographic Variants:

chicumpantli

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

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chicompohualli.

Orthographic Variants:

chicumpoalli, chicompoalli

seven times twenty (140)

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Chiconahui Itzcuintli.

Orthographic Variants:

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).

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