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Omacatl.

Headword: 
Omacatl.
Principal English Translation: 

"god of feasting and revelry"
Elizabeth Hill Boone, The Art and Iconography of Late Post-Classic Central Mexico, 1982, 59.

a deity; "Two Reed" (Ome Acatl); this was the main calendrical name for Tezcatlipoca, an omnipotent and often malevolent deity associated with feasts and revelry; sometimes represented as a large bone made of amaranth dough that people ate during festivals in his honor
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 113; and see "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).

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