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Moyocoyani.

Headword: 
Moyocoyani.
Principal English Translation: 

"Maker of Himself" (elsewhere translated as Self-Creator) was a deity that was part of the Tezcatlipoca Complex of deities that relate to power, omnipotence, often malevolence, feasting and revelry.
"Table 3. Major Deities of the Late Pre-Hispanic Central Mexican Nahua-Speaking Communities." Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6: Social Anthropology, ed Manning Nash (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967).

IPAspelling: 
mojoːkojɑni
Alonso de Molina: 

moyocoyani. comedido.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 58r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Religion (Indigenous)