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tlateotoca.

Headword: 
tlateotoca.
Principal English Translation: 

to practice pre-Columbian religion, or what the Spaniards called practicing idolatry

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ypanpa ye tlaquayatequiltin ocçepa otlateotocaque = [E]n razón de que siendo ya bautizados otra vez idolotraron. (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 136–137.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)
Religion (Indigenous)