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teoamoxtli.

Headword: 
teoamoxtli.
Principal English Translation: 

sacred scripture, a divine book, a sacred book (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
teōāmoxtli
IPAspelling: 
teoːɑːmoʃtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

TEŌĀMOX-TLI sacred scripture / libro divino, libro sagrado. Especie de recopilación general escrita en caracteres jeroglíficos que contenía las leyes, las costumbres, la religión, el rito, lo cronología, la astronomía, etc. (S) [(2)Cf.92r]. See TEŌ-TL, ĀMOX-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 227.

themes: 
Religion (Indigenous)