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texochihuiani.

Headword: 
texochihuiani.
Principal English Translation: 

a person who enchants others; e.g., a man who enchants women and takes them off (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
texochiuiani
Alonso de Molina: 

texochiuiani. encantador que encanta mugeres y las lleua por ay.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 112v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

themes: 
Women, Men, Gender