[Source: Barbara J. Williams, "Pictorial Representation of Soils in the Valley of Mexico: Evidence from the Codex Vergara," Geoscience and Man 21 (1980), 51–62; see pp. 57–58. She cites Sahagún.]
Tollan was a legendary place (e.g. referring to Aztlan or Cholula) as well as the original name for Tula, a major altepetl in what is now the state of Hidalgo, extremely important as center of a legendary culture and empire (see attestations)
Toluca, an altepetl and a region 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), 240.
# una persona pasa hasta en medio de una comida o una medicina lo que tiene en su boca. “Dany no puede tragar medicina porque tiene muy inchado su garganta”.
an herbal ingredient in a medicine used to fight struma or scrofula; also used for aches of the side and in foot ailments
Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 39 [25r.], 43 [29v.], 53 [36v.].
bundles of unwoven green reeds [tolli, tules] made into seats [icpalli] for early rulers who wore rawhide capes, indicative of their Chichimec origins (central Mexico, sixteenth century) Thelma Sullivan, "Tlatoani and tlatocayotl in the Sahagún manuscripts," Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl 14 (1980), 225–238. See esp. p. 234.
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), 106.
a Tolteca Chichimeca who settled in Tula with three other Tolteca Chichimecas and four Nonoalca Chichimecas, according to the Historia Tolteca Chichimeca or Anales de Cuauhtinchan (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel León-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.