the corn earworm, an edible worm found on maize/corn (see Molina and the DFC) Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 105v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/105v/images/5fc0ed36-... Accessed 9 November 2025.
# nic. Una mujer muele maíz para otra persona en el metate o en el molino. “Basilia muele el maíz de Martha porque le duele la mano y lo no puede moler”
a name, associated with the Ear-of-maize god; in the Treatise, we see it used as "the only god," showing a misunderstanding of the "cen" element, originally from centli, dried ear of maize, believing it to be "cen" or "one." (Atenango, between Mexico City and Acapulco, 1629) Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain, 1629, eds. and transl. J. Richard Andrews and Ross Hassig (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984), 221.
# ni. Una persona luego termina su maíz porque tenían muy poquito en su casa o en su milpa. “En casa de Lorenzo luego lo terminan el maíz porque comen mucho sus puercos”
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, 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, 1951), 53.