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a cave filled with water (see attestations)
aoztotl = "manantial de agua, profundo, como cueva" = "deep source of water, like a cave" (Anderson and Dibble translation) (central Mexico, sixteenth century, no later than the 1570s)
In the Yucatan, caverns with water are called tsʼonoʼot (also spelled dzonot, which entered Spanish as cenote) in Yucatec Maya. The drawing of an aoztotl in the Florentine Codex shows the water swirling, as though coming from a natural spring, and of course, the landscapes between the central altiplano and the Yucatan are considerably different. In the Yucatan, the water of the cenotes can involve lengthy underground rivers. (SW)