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cihuacuacuilli.

Headword: 
cihuacuacuilli.
Principal English Translation: 

a priestess of Iztac Cihuatl (White Woman) in Atenchicalcan

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 88.

female priest, older and of higher status

Susan Kellogg, Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500-1700,( Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), 223.

Orthographic Variants: 
çyuaquacuili iztac çiuatl
IPAspelling: 
siwɑːkwɑːkwiːlli