an important altepetl south of Mexico City, today spelled Coyoacan James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 216.
(central Mexico, sixteenth century) Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, 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, 1978), 14.
(central Mexico, sixteenth century) Thelma Sullivan, "Tlatoania and tlatocayotl in the Sahagún manuscripts," Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl 14 (1980), 225–238. See esp. p. 227.
the name of a female deity ("Bells Painted"), sister of Huitzilopochtli; part of the Xiuhtecuhtli Complex of deities, associated with hearth/fire and "paternalism" (parenting?) "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).
a northeastern neighborhood of Tlatelolco, part of Mexico City; the site of the surrender of the Mexica in the Spanish/Tlaxcalan seizure of power (a battle that would later be reenacted)
John Bierhorst, A Nahuatl-English Dictionary and Concordance to the Cantares Mexicanos: With an Analytic Transcription and Grammatical Notes (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985), 94.
A. una cosa, olla se parte en redondo porque le hayo o le pegan con una cosa pesada. “esa olla se agojerio de abajo porque le hayo una piedra lo pusieron fuerte en el suelo.”
B. agojero.
to punch a hole, to pierce, to bore a hole through (see Molina)
to make a hole in s.t.
A. persona, animal silvestre, o animal domestico hace un agujero en la tierra o en algun otra cosa. “Alejandro agujerea un carrizo porque su hermano le piden donde estudia.”
B. agujerea.