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Yauhqueme.

Headword: 
Yauhqueme.
Principal English Translation: 

a deity: "Owner of the Sweet-Scented Marigold Vestment;" this was one of the deities associated with rain and fertility, the Tlaloque
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 103.

Attestations from sources in English: 

A hill west of Mexico Tenochtitlan, near Tacubaya, had the name Yauhqueme.
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 103.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Yauhqueme = el vestido de yauhtli [una planta fragante]; para asegurar la lluvia, se aplicaba el vestido del dios tanto a uno de estos cerros como al niño que iba a ser sacrificado en su cima. El Yauhqueme es uno de los dioses inscritos en los Primeros Memoriales, uno de los tlaloque.
Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano, "Las hierbas de Tláloc," Estudios de cultura náhuatl 14 (1980), 287–314, ver la p. 290.

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