Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!
Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.
Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!
Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.
stone, rock, crag (see Molina and Karttunen), a metaphor for springtime; or, an oven/hearth (see Molina and Karttunen)
See an image that represents texcalli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
in muchintin teteu quiiaoalotimomanque in tlecuilli, in moteneoa teutescalli = all the gods proceeded to encircle the hearth, which was called teotexcalli (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
auh niman oquittaque nepaniuhticac yn texcalli yn oztotol = And then they saw the intersecting crags and caves. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
in texcalli in oztotl = crag and cave, a metaphor for a spring (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
texcal = black volcanic rock (Tepoztlan, Morelos)