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Ce Coatl.

Headword: 
Ce Coatl.
Principal English Translation: 

One Snake; in the Treatise, this is a ritual name for the veins in the eyes, for the beehive hunter, and for feminine apparel

(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: 
cē-cōātl
themes: 
Snakes, Serpents