this was a name given a child on the special occasion of a human sacrifice that would be made of the child on the top of a hill of the same name Bernard Ortiz de Montellano, Aztec Medicine, Health, and Nutrition (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990), 195.
also one of the rain deities (tlaloque), who were "dwarfish assistants" to Tlaloc Handbook of Middle American Indians, vols. 10 and 11: Archaeology of Northern Mesoamerica, eds. Gordon F. Ekholm and Ignacio Bernal (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971).
a plant that smells and tastes of anise, which was burned in place of incense (central Mexico, 1634) Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 10.