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mictlampa.

Headword: 
mictlampa.
Principal English Translation: 

toward hell (i.e. the underworld); or, toward the north (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
mictlanpa, mjctlanpa
IPAspelling: 
miktɬɑːmpɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

mictlampa. hazia el infierno, o ala parte aquilonar.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 56r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

auh navi in mjtotonti qujchivilia, qujl ce tlapcopa pouhquj, qujl ce cihoatlampa pouhquj, qujl ce vitzlanpa pouhquj, qujl ce mjctlanpa pouhquj = And they made him four little arrows; they said one belonged to the east, one belonged to the west, one belonged to the south, one belonged to the north (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 201.

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