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Ometochtli.

Headword: 
Ometochtli.
Principal English Translation: 

one or more divine forces or deities (associated with pulque, a mildly alcoholic beverage)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 87.

Attestations from sources in English: 

The deity had priests representing him:
Tezcatzoncatl Ometochtli = prepared things for the festival of Tepeilhuitl
Ometochtli Yauhqueme = (ditto)
Ometochtli Tomiyauh = (ditto)
Acalhua Ometochtli = (ditto)
Cuatlapanqui Ometochtli = prepared things for the festival of Panquetzaliztli
Ometochtli Papaztac = prepared octli, white octli, and gave it to Moteucçoma
Ometochtlii Napatecutli = saw to the copal, papers, rubber and other things needed in the festival of Tepeilhuitl
Ometochtli Pahtecatl = prepared a special octli consumed in the festival of Panquetzaliztli
Tlilhua Ometochtli = saw to the papers, copal, sleeveless shirt, bells and other things for the Tepeilhuitl
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 86, 87.

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Beverages
Names (for people, deities)
Religion (Indigenous)
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