Meanings
alternative Uitzilopochtli · alternative obsolete Vitzilopuchtli · alternative obsolete Vitzliputzli
- An important god of the Mexica.
They did worſhip the Idoll Vitzliputzli, the Deuill that was in this Idoll ſpake, and gouerned this Nation eaſily.
1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, volume 3, London: William Stansby, page 10021 more example
after Sacrifice made to the Goddes of warre, called Tezcatlipuca and Vitzilopuchtli of their carkaſſes, then is theyr fleſhe eaten in banquet
1578, Thomas Nicholas, transl., The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the VVeast India, London: Henry Bynneman, translation of Historia general de las Indias by Francisco López de Gómara, page 78
Origin
- SpanishHuitzilopochtli
- EnglishHuitzilopochtli
Borrowed from Spanish Huitzilopochtli, from a Nahuatl language; compare Classical Nahuatl Huitzilopochtli.
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