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Tlaocol.

Headword: 
Tlaocol.
Principal English Translation: 

a personal name, attested male (e.g. Diego Tlaocol, a Mexica, arrested in Mexico City for protesting rising tributes in July 1564) (ca. 1582, México)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 222–223.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents Tlaocol in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

The name is also found in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, such as on f. 483 verso. (SW)

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