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Otontecuhtli.

Headword: 
Otontecuhtli.
Principal English Translation: 

a deity; "Otomi Lord," was the patron deity of the Central Mexican Otomian peoples, including the Tepaneca

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 98.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

an "igneous/mortuary deity"
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 61.

Inacayo otontecutlj, tzovallj, = the body of Otontecuhtli, made of amaranth seed dough
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 61.

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