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Amimitl.

Headword: 
Amimitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a deity's name; "Hunting Arrow" was a god related to the hunting/stellar Chichimec deity Mixcoatl/Camaxtli and to Otontecuhtli, the patron of the Otomi people; the name Amimitl may have been carried by an ancestral ruler of the P'urhépecha
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 107.

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Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Hunting or Fishing
Names (for people, deities)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Religion (Indigenous)