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calpolco.

Headword: 
calpolco.
Principal English Translation: 

an indigenous temple (as translated from Sahagún); calpulli and calpolli are two spellings of the same root behind this term

Orthographic Variants: 
calpulco
Attestations from sources in English: 

calpolco qujcaoaia, in jchan tlacateculotl = they left him to the tribal temple, the house of the devil (central Mexico, sixteenth century) (Note the influence of the Christian colonizers behind the use of "devil" -- SW.)
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), 53.

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