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Tonacatecuhtli.

Headword: 
Tonacatecuhtli.
Principal English Translation: 

"Our Flesh (Maize)-Lord"
"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).

themes: 
Religion (Indigenous)