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poyon.
Headword:
poyon.
Principal English Translation:
a narcotic, a hallucinogen (see Bierhorst, attestations)
Attestations from sources in English:
See an image that represents poyon in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
"POYOMAHTLI, variant POYOMATL... apoc. var. POYON. A narcotic plant material (see HG bk. 10, ch. 24, para. 17; cf. FC 10:88, see also FC 10:56); a root that " reveals occult things and prophecies" (HERN 1: 105 ), narcotic flower of the CACAHUAXOCHITL (see FC 11:202 and 11:212)
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