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Titlacahuan.

Headword: 
Titlacahuan.
Principal English Translation: 

"We His Slaves," a deity, part of the Tezcatlipoca Complex of deities that relate to power, omnipotence, often malevolence, feasting and revelry
"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). See also: Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 66, 68.

Attestations from sources in English: 

On the second day of dancing and singing prior to the slaying of the captive who was prepared in the month of Toxcatl to represent the deity, Tezcatlipoca, people went to the house of the guardian of the image of Titlacauan (Titlacahuan) to perform.
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 68.

themes: 
Names (for people, deities)
Religion (Indigenous)
Slavery