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Totochtin.

Headword: 
Totochtin.
Principal English Translation: 

a deity; "Rabbits" were important in fertility rites; one of many deities often called by the generic calendar name "Ome Tochtli" ("Two Rabbit")
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 96.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Also known as the Centzontotochtin. "The Four Hundred Rabbits," they were the gods of octli.
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 96.

Totochtin = the gods of wine (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 1 -- The Gods; No. 14, Part 2, 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, 1950), 11.

themes: 
Religion (Indigenous)
Sexuality, Fertility, Reproduction