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Ce Tochtli.

Headword: 
Ce Tochtli.
Principal English Translation: 

One Rabbit; a year sign and year counter of the south; it was the first year sign in the sequence; its pending arrival was a cause of great fear that famine would occur (see Sahagún)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 7 -- The Sun, Moon, and Stars, and the Binding of the Years, Number 14, Part 8, 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, 1953), 21, 23.

also, a calendrical name used for Mayahuel, Xiuhteuctli, or Tlalteuctli; but, in the Treatise, it is used as a ritual name for land (Atenango, between Mexico City and Acapulco, 1629)
Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain, 1629, eds. and transl. J. Richard Andrews and Ross Hassig (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984), 221.

Orthographic Variants: 
Cē-Tōchtli
Attestations from sources in English: 

Auh in icoac, aiamo moquetza ce tochtli: achtopa nenemachtiloia, netlatlatililo, nenetzontilo, netacatilo, mocuezomatema in tonacaiotl: aoc tle motlaça muchicoac netlatililo = And [even] when [the year] One Rabbit had not yet set in, first provision was made; our food was hidden away, stored, saved up, and placed in bins. Nothing was thrown away; all then was saved (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 7 -- The Sun, Moon, and Stars, and the Binding of the Venus, No. 14, Part VIII, 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), 23.

In 1454, according to Chimalpahin, the people got "one-rabbited" (necetochhuilloc), in other words, they suffered famine. (early seventeenth century, central Mexico)
Louise M. Burkhart, The Slippery Earth: Nahua-Christian Moral Dialogue (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1989), 76.

themes: 
Time, Calendar, Frequency