yellow water used by a deity to wash commoners, along with blue water (the latter, matlalatl)
(central Mexico, sixteenth-century) 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), 26. See also page 29.
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), 136–7.
A. Una persona empieza a colar agua abajo o en algun lugar donde esta seco. “Alla en mi rancho esta una abuelita que la odian porque cuando va a baárse a la arroyo tira mmucha agua”.