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Displaying 441 - 480 of 1121 records found.to carve or trace a design using stone
the name of a very important divine or sacred force, associated with war, the sun, and the rain; the translation of the name is debated, e.g., "Left-Hand Side of the Hummingbird," "Hummingbird's Left," or, "Left of the Hummingbird" (and left was associated with the cardinal direction south)
a xolotl head adornment, worn on the back; looks like a dog with a long neck and no ears
literally, On the Serpent-Sand, this was "a space situated at the steps of the [temple of Huitzilopochtli] and the patio below, a space that [one] would climb up in five or six steps" and played an important role in the ritual of human sacrifice.
a divine force, usually translated as Cloud Serpent; said in the Florentine Codex to be the only deity worshipped by the Chichimecs (Sahagún); also, a personal name taken by Nahua men
fourteenth ruler of the Mexica (fourth ruler in Tenochtitlan; fourteenth when counting from their time in Aztlan); also, a person's name (attested male), meaning "Obsidian Snake"
the name of a river in the hot lands
the name of a barrio (also spelled Amacotzac) near Cohuixco (presumably near the river, too)
the feather of a bird of yellow color (from the toztli bird), used for rites, dance, and "sorcery"
The orthographic variant with the "z" has not yet been attested, but we are including it here given that the feather comes from the toz(tli) bird.
a church expenditure(?), this term is still under investigation; seen defined as funds provided to the church by the cabildo in Cuernavaca (Robert Haskett, 2005); seen as funds to underwrite a special mass relating to Pascua de Resurreccíon (Margarita Loera y Chávez 1981); seen as funds provided to bury a pre-hispanic sculpture that frightened people (Lorenzo Ochoa, 1989); a variant, tetlapalolli, has been translated as "painted," referring to the church (Benjamin Daniel Johnson, 2018, in ed Javier Eduardo Ramírez López), but this was at the time of "Pascua Navidad," so may refer to a mass instead of painting?
like the xochiatl, this may be a medicinal plant that is born and flowers in the water, according to Clavijero 1780
a river; a canal or water ditch (see Molina); the lower counterpart to the cuemitl (ridge) in traditional agriculture; possibly also used to demarcate a boundary or the edge of a parcel of land or territory
a carrying frame fitted to the human back
could be used for carrying birds (see Molina), and it can be part of a metaphor for governance when paired with quimilli (see attestations)
to kiss (see Lockhart); can also involve an act required in the courts, involving kissing the cross (a religious and legal act) and crossing one's hands in front of one's lips (see attestations)
sorrowful song(s), song(s) of reflection
"Two God," a principle of duality and theoretically a creator deity, possibly either with male and female complementary roles/aspects or a pair of deities with one being male (Ometecuhtli or Tonacatecuhtli, among other names) and one female (Omecihuatl or Tonacacihuatl, among other names); may have created all other deities; may have collaborated with Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl; may have presided over the "celestial Place of Duality (Omeyocan)"
a famous name; held by the leader of the merchants of Tlatelolco during the reign of Cuacuauhpitzahuac, and held by a lord of Colhuahcân who was a successor of Yohuallatônac; finally, according to Siméon, this is variant for the name Xiuhtecatl, someone who takes care of green herbs or turquoise
with numbers; functions like om- (two; also means and or plus)
nonspecific human object prefix; also occurs as an impersonal possessive prefix to convey a generic sense: everyone in general, people (see Karttunen)