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epcohuacuacuilli tepictoton.

Headword: 
epcohuacuacuilli tepictoton.
Principal English Translation: 

the epcoacuacuilli [priest of the] tepictoton, sculptures of small mountains
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 89.

Orthographic Variants: 
epcouaquacuilli, epcohuaquacuilli
Attestations from sources in English: 

This priest would order singers and singing in the home of someone who made a figure of a mountain or other figure.
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 89.

themes: 
Art, Crafts
Ceramics, Pottery
Landscape Features
Religion (Indigenous)