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Cuahuitl Icac.

Headword: 
Cuahuitl Icac.
Principal English Translation: 

a deity or legendary figure who helped Huitzilopochtli; he spied for him when Huitzilopochtli was plotting to kill his siblings to save his mother, Coatlicue(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, 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, 1978), 2.

Orthographic Variants: 
Quahuitl Icac, Quauitl Icac
themes: 
Religion (Indigenous)