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cihuateopixqui.

Headword: 
cihuateopixqui.
Principal English Translation: 

a female priest, or a nun (see attestations)

Alonso de Molina: 

Ciua teupixqui. monja.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 22v.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Doña leonor de la Trinidad ynin cihuateopixqui monja omochiuh = doña Leonor de la Trinidad. This one became a priestess, a nun. (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, 108–109.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)
Religion (Indigenous Christianty)