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Tlantepozilama.

Headword: 
Tlantepozilama.
Principal English Translation: 

a goddess; the "Old Woman of the Metal Teeth"

Orthographic Variants: 
Tlantepozyllama, tlantepozilama
Attestations from sources in English: 

This goddess could be associated with the tzitzimeh, powerful Nahua skeletal supernaturals.
David Tavárez, The Invisible War: Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011), 54.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yn iquac amechittaz yn Tlantepozyllama yc amechimacaciz yc amo amechquaz = Y cuando los vea la tlantepozilama les tendrá miedo y no se los comerá. (ca. 1582, México)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (México: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 158–159.

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Religion (Indigenous)