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mazazacatzontetelli.

Headword: 
mazazacatzontetelli.
Principal English Translation: 

mound(s) erected for a ceremony dedicated to the plains and its inhabitants (e.g. the deer)
Luis Reyes García, Cuauhtinchan del siglo XII al XVI (Mexico: CIESAS, 1988), 67.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Mentioned in the Historia Tolteca Chichimeca as a place where a fire was also started. (sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 203.

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Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Fire, Tobacco, Incense
Landscape Features
Religion (Indigenous)