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a mountain cave, a cavern (see attestations)
oztotl tepetl = sima = cave, cavern = "...temauhtica, temamauhtican, mjctlan; ic mjtoa mjctlan, ca mico[vaia]..." = temauhtica, temamauhtican, mictlan; ic mitoa mictlan, ca micohuaya (SW) = "It is frightening, a fearful place, a place of death. It is called a place of death because there is dying...." Anderson & Dibble translation (central Mexico, sixteenth century, not later than the 1570s)