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Tecciztecatl Metztli.

Headword: 
Tecciztecatl Metztli.
Principal English Translation: 

one or two related deities ("Conch Shell-Lord" and "Moon"), part of the Tetzcatlipoca complex, representing omnipotence, feasting and revelry, possibly symbolic of the moon
"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).

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

themes: 
Celestial Phenomena
Religion (Indigenous)
Shells