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Totec.

Headword: 
Totec.
Principal English Translation: 

a personal name, a follower or devotee of the divine force, [Xipe] Totec
J. Richard Andrews, Introduction to Classical Náhuatl (1975), 607.

possibly also the divine force himself (as shown in an image in the Florentine Codex)
Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 9: The Merchants", fol. 49v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/9/folio/49v/images/0 Accessed 1 September 2025.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

Tototectin = They are followers/devotees of Totec.
Totectin = They are followers/devotees of Totec.
J. Richard Andrews, Introduction to Classical Náhuatl (1975), 607.