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class="field field-name-field-translation1 field-type-text-long field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Principal English Translation: </div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>the name of a deity associated with the creation of the sun<br /> <bibl>Fr. Bernardino de Sahag煤n, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 7 -- The Sun, Moon, and Stars, and the Binding of the Years, Number 14, Part 8, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1953), 4.</bibl></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-additionalnotes-lang1 field-type-text-long field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Attestations from sources in English: </div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Auh in nanaoatzin, in jacxoiauh, muchi 莽an aacatl xoxouhqui, acaxoxouhqui, eey tlapilli: tlacuitlalpilli, nepan chicunaui, in ie muchi: auh in i莽acatapaiol, 莽an ieeh in oco莽acatl: auh in iuitz, 莽an ie no ieh in meuitztli: auh inic quezhuiaia, uel ieh in iez莽o: auh in icopal, 莽an ieh in inanaoauh concocoleoaia. = And [as for] Nanauatzin, his fir branches were made only of green water rushes -- green reeds bound in threes, all [making], together, nine bundles. And his grass balls [were] only dried pine needles. And his maguey spines were these same maguey spines. And the blood with which they were covered [was] his own blood. And [for] his incense, he used only the scabs from his sores, [which] he lifted up. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)<br /> <bibl>Fr. Bernardino de Sahag煤n, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 7 -- The Sun, Moon, and Stars, and the Binding of the Venus, No. 14, Part VIII, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. 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