spider Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 88–89.
Alternatively, tocatl might refer to a beetle or other bug, judging from a glyph in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco (f. 629r.), where the tocatl only has four legs. But another one, on f. 814r. has six legs.
# Color blanco y se parece a un hilo que esta unido y hay es la casa de la tarántula. “hay muchas telarañas en la casa de Esther porque nunca los quitan.”
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), 239.