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Tezcacoac Ayopechtli.

Headword: 
Tezcacoac Ayopechtli.
Principal English Translation: 

a deity; "Mirror-Snake Tortoise-Bench" -- another name for Mayahuel, the goddess of the maguey plant, the source of octli; one of several maternal fertility goddesses

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 110.

themes: 
Religion (Indigenous)
Snakes, Serpents