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Amihmitl.

Headword: 
Amihmitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a deity's name; Water-gig; in Classic times, this was the god of fishing, according to Ponce and Clavigero (Atenango, between Mexico City and Acapulco, 1629)
Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain, 1629, eds. and transl. J. Richard Andrews and Ross Hassig (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984), 220.

Orthographic Variants: 
Amimitl
Attestations from sources in English: 

Also the patron of Cuitlahuac, a War-Sacrfice-Sanguinary Nourishment god. (Atenango, between Mexico City and Acapulco, 1629)
Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain, 1629, eds. and transl. J. Richard Andrews and Ross Hassig (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984), 220.

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