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Yei Cuetzpalan Yei Acatl.

Headword: 
Yei Cuetzpalan Yei Acatl.
Principal English Translation: 

one of the boundaries of the Nonohualca of Tollan (Tula)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, 4v. Taken from the image of the folio published in Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2009), 65. Paleography and regularization of this toponym by Stephanie Wood.

Orthographic Variants: 
ey quetzpalā eiacatl
Attestations from sources in English: 

This place seems to have calendrical associations, which argues against a reading of Quetzalapa(n). But Kirchhoff points to a correspondence with Quetzalapa, east of the settlement of Quiotepec.
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 78.

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See also: 
yei.
cuetzpalin.
acatl.