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cihuateocalli.

Headword: 
cihuateocalli.
Principal English Translation: 

women's temple (tentative)
Jonathan Truitt, Sustaining the Divine in Mexico Tenochtitlan: Nahuas and Catholicism, 1523–1700 (Oceanside, CA: The Academy of American Franciscan History; Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018), 18.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents cihuateocalli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

"...the cihuateocaltitlan (place of the women's temple) may have been a place beholden to priestesses during the prehispanic period."
Jonathan Truitt, Sustaining the Divine in Mexico Tenochtitlan: Nahuas and Catholicism, 1523–1700 (Oceanside, CA: The Academy of American Franciscan History; Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018), 18.

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