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tlancuacemilhuime.

Headword: 
tlancuacemilhuime.
Principal English Translation: 

those who walked the whole day without tiring, some of the Toltec vassals of the deity Quetzalcoatl, who were fast runners

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, 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, 1978), 13 and see note 5.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlanquacemilhuime
themes: 
Religion (Christian)
Religion (Indigenous)