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Ce Mazatl.

Headword: 
Ce Mazatl.
Principal English Translation: 

One Deer; a calendrical name; once the name of a creator god; possibly the calendrical name for Xochiquetzal; in the Treatise, an example of a tonalli that can be summoned

(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), 221.

Orthographic Variants: 
cē-mazātl
themes: 
Religion (Indigenous)