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Xolotecatl.

Headword: 
Xolotecatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a person's name (attested as male), someone from Xolotlan; Xolotl can refer to a divine force and to the founder of the Chichimec empire; Xolotl can appear visually as a dog-like head or as pieces of wood or trees (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

ytoca xolotecatl = named Xolotecatl (male, husband of Teicuh) (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), 126–127. See 146–147 and 156–157 for more examples.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Xolotlan = cerca de Xolotl. Y el glifo tiene "...una cabeza de animal carnívero con los atributos de divinidad, una raya negra vertical que pasa por el ojo y un nacochtli ornamentado."
Antonio Peñafiel, Nomenclatura geográfica de México (1897), 318.

"...expresado por el colectivo de cuahuitl, árbol, cuauhtla, arboleda."
Antonio Peñafiel, Nomenclatura geográfica de México (1897), 318.