mozahua.

Headword: 
mozahua.
Principal English Translation: 

a fasting; Lent

Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

Orthographic Variants: 
moçaua
Alonso de Molina: 

Moçauani. ayunador.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 57v.

Attestations from sources in English: 

moteuhcçauhtia ompa momiquillito quauhquechollan. = He went for a lordly fast and died in Quauhquechollan.
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 206–207.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)
Religion (Indigenous)
Religion (Indigenous Christianty)