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Tamoanchan.
Headword:
Tamoanchan.
Principal English Translation:
a legendary place of origin, a paradise, for central Mexicans (see attestations)
Orthographic Variants:
tamoa ychan
Attestations from sources in English:
See an image that represents Tamoanchan in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).