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Aachane.

Headword: 
Aachane.
Principal English Translation: 

the goddess who owns the water (see attestations)
Fernando Horcasitas, "La narrativa oral náhuatl (1920–1975)," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 13 (1978), 177–209, see 183.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

La Dueña del Agua. "Un pescador se encuentra a Aachane, la dueña del agua. Ésta le regala pescados con la condición que el hombre no tenga relaciones con su mujer. El pescador desobedece y lo pierde todo." (El resto del relato es algo confuso y contiene elementos de cuentos de hadas europeos.) (Escuchado en Zaragoza, cerca de Minatitlán, Ver. García de León, 1968, 354–356.)
Fernando Horcasitas, "La narrativa oral náhuatl (1920–1975)," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 13 (1978), 177–209, ver 182–183.

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