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motlaltocani.

Headword: 
motlaltocani.
Principal English Translation: 

literally, one who buries himself (i.e., one who does not seek praise or the limelight, SW)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 10: The People", fol. 12v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/12v Accessed 4 September 2025.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

in tetzicueoallo, amihtollalani, minaiani, motlatiani, motlapachoani, tlallancalaquini, motlaltocani, motlalpachuani = The one of noble lineage wishes no praise; [he is] a concealer, a hider, a coverer of himself; an enterer into caves; a burier, a belittler of himself.
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 10: The People", fol. 12v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/12v Accessed 4 September 2025.