Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

ehuillotl.

Headword: 
ehuillotl.
Principal English Translation: 

a figure made from sticks (see Sahagún, Florentine Codex, 4:69); also, a person's name (attested as male)

Orthographic Variants: 
Evillotli, Euilotl
Attestations from sources in English: 

inic tiquinmottiliaya in tlateotocanime inic quinnotzaya quintlayecoltiaya in quahuitl yn tetl in Ehuillome in diablosme yn ydolosme = you saw how the idolaters called to and served wood, stones, figures made of sticks, devils, and idols (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 154–155.

ytoca Evillotli = named Ehuilotl (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 128–129.