the earth moves, the earth quakes Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 65.
could also be a personal name ("The Earth Quaked"? or simply "Earthquake"?), Tlalolin
a worm that is called the "bone of the soil" (described and pictured in the DFC), small and white, not poisonous Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 98r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/98r/images/daf6df08-9... Accessed 4 November 2025.
deities, associated with rain and with Tlaloc, the deity of rain and celestial waters 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), 35.