Toci

alternative obsolete Toccy

1. An Aztec goddess.

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   The ſame night thee arriued, by order of the murtherer whom they worſhipped, they killed her cruelly; and hauing flayed her artificially asa they could doe, they did clothe a young man with her skin, and thereupon her apparell, placing him neere their Idoll, dedicating him for a Goddeſſe and the mother of their god, and euer after did worſhip it, making an Idoll which they called Toccy, which is to ſay, our grand mother.

   1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, volume 3, London: William Stansby, page 1004