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a person with kyphosis, or the excessive curvature of the upper back, once called a hunchback (SW; and see Karttunen)
See an image that represents tepotzotli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
in tzapame, in tepotzome = the dwarfs and the hunchbacks (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
auh in tovenio quimilhuja in ixqujchtĩ tzapame, in vilame, macamo ximomauhtica, nican tiqujnpopolozque, njcan tomac tlamizque = And the stranger said to all the dwarfs and cripples: "Have no fear. Here we shall destroy them; here, by our hands, they will meet their doom." (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
vncatca imaachoan, ixoloan in qujnujcatinenca in qujmehellelqujxtiaia, tzapame, villame, tepotzome, teachme = There were their servants, their pages who attended them and gave them solace; dwarfs, cripples, hunchbacks, servants. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)