See an image that represents oztotl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
niman ye yc quauhtzotzona yn oztotenpa ynic oncan quinelhuayotiique yn yehuatl altepetl. yn ical yn iteocal yn huitzilopochtli = Thereupon they hammered in wood [piles] at the cave's mouth. Thus they made a foundation for the city and Huitzilopochtli's house, his temple. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 108–109.
auh niman oquittaque nepaniuhticac yn texcalli yn oztotol = And then they saw the intersecting crags and caves. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 100–101.
oztotl. oncan ca Motenehua chicomoztoc yn oncan quizque chiconcalpoltin. Mexitin. = A cave is there, called Chicomoztoc, whence the seven Mexitin calpulli issued. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 68–69.
cana oztoc calaquiz = He would go into a cave somewhere. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 88.
niman quicalaqui cecni oztoc = then he made him enter a cave in a certain place (early seventeenth century, Central Mexico)
Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 139.
auh injc onelle motlahelnelo, injc omotlaz in anetlaxoian, in atlan, in oztoc = and as if truly he had dirtied himself, had hurled himself into the bottomless pit, into the water, into a cave (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 29.
ca oztotl, ca tepexitl in totech ca: ca ҫan tequjtl imacoca qujchia, ca ҫan tequjtl tlacelia = In us is a cave, a gorge, whose only function is to await that which is given, whose only function is to receive (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 118–9.