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cuexteca.

Headword: 
cuexteca.
Principal English Translation: 

the people of the Huaxteca

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), 34.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Auh in cuexteca; qujl cenca vel qujnmoteutiaia in tlaҫulteteu = And as for the Huaxteca, it is said that they specifically worshipped [the] Tlaҫolteotl goddesses (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), 34.

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