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Amoxtepetl.

Headword: 
Amoxtepetl.
Principal English Translation: 

the name of a mountain in what is now the state of Guerrero (see attestations)
Fernando Horcasitas, "La narrativa oral náhuatl (1920–1975)," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 13 (1978), 177–209, see 186.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Yeja on volcan onohuisoc ihuan sen teptl (Un volcán y una montaña se pelearon).
"El Amoxtepetl de Guerrero y el Popocatépetl de México se pelearon. El Amoxtepetl le arrojó una pedrada al Popocatépetl y lo partió, separándolo del Iztaccíhuatl. Por eso se fundó México cerca del Popocatépetl, porque éste perdió la batalla. En México pasan muchas desgracias, mientras que la gente de Atliaca vive feliz." (Escuchado en Atliaca, Gro. Molina Rocha, 1975, 3–5.)
Fernando Horcasitas, "La narrativa oral náhuatl (1920–1975)," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 13 (1978), 177–209, ver 186.