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Totomochtzin.

Headword: 
Totomochtzin.
Principal English Translation: 

a personal name; the name of a Chichimec ruler of Huexotla (Huejutla) (see the Florentine Codex)

Attestations from sources in English: 

Injc macujlli tlatoanj itoca totomochtzin in tlatocat vmpoalxiujtl ipan matlacxiujtl ioan vnxiujtl = The fifth ruler was named Totomochtzin; he ruled fifty-two years. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, 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, 1951), 13.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Totomochtzin: Se refiere a las hojas secas que envuelven la mazorca del maíz; claramente expresadas en las pinturas, principalmente en la del Florentino Víctor M. Castillo F., "Relación Tepepulca de los señores de México Tenochtitlan y de Acolhuacan," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 183–225, y ver la pág. 193.