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Letter C/CH: Displaying 1841 - 1860 of 5709

Chalchiuhcoatl.

a person's name (attested as male)

(Tepetlaoztoc, mid-sixteenth century)
Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey, The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary: Households and Lands in Sixteenth-Century Tepetlaoztoc (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 80.

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chalchiuhconetl.

a turquoise "child," which, according to Bartolomé de Alva, was a type of "idol;" such would be brought out into the sun and wrapped in cotton as a way of honoring them
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 9.

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chalchiuhcozcatl.

a necklace of green stones; also, a female divine force ("goddess")
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 206.

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chalchiuhelotl.

emerald-colored new ears of corn

James Lockhart, Nahuas and Spaniards: Postconquest Central Mexican History and Philology (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991), 147.

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chalchiuhiximatqui.

one who deals in stones and gems, a lapidary (see Molina)

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Chalchiuhmomozco.

the older place name for Amaquemecan (Amecameca)

Miguel León-Portilla, "Un testimonio de Sahagún aprovechado por Chimalpahin," Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl 14 (1980), 95–129; see p. 119.

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Chalchiuhnenetl.

Orthographic Variants: 
Chalchiuhnenetzin

a personal name, attested female (see attestations)

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Chalchiuhquiyauhtzin.

don Miguel Chalchiuhquiyauhtzin was a child of on Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin and a noblewoman of Acatlan; he was born in Ecatepec; his mother also had another son named don Cristóbal Xochicamatzin

(central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 104–105.

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chalchiuhtamazolin.

a turquoise "toad," which, according to Bartolomé de Alva, was a type of "idol;" such would be brought out into the sun and wrapped in cotton as a way of honoring them
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 9.

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chalchiuhtentetl.

Orthographic Variants: 
chalchiuhtētetl

green stone lip plug
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 206.

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Chalchiuhtepehua.

a priest involved in sacrifice
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (1977), 91.

a personal Nahua name (attested male) (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 172–173.

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chalchiuhtetl.

green stone(s) (see Sahagún)

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chalchiuhteuh.

tʃɑːltʃiwteːw
Orthographic Variants: 
chālchiuhtēuh

in the manner of precious green stones (see Karttunen)

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Chalchiuhtlanetzin.

first ruler of the Toltecs in Tollan (Tula), a man

Anónimo mexicano, ed. Richley H. Crapo and Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 8.

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Chalchiuhtlatonac.

second ruler of the Mexica

Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 144–145.

another (?) Chalchiuhtlatonac was a son of Itzcoatzin, ruler of Tenochtitlan, who sent him to Apan to be a ruler there; and from him Mexican noblemen were born in Apan

Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 100–101.

also, an average person's name, attested male, in Tepetlaoztoc, sixteenth century (see attestations)

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Chalchiuhtlicue.

Orthographic Variants: 
Chalchiuhtli icue, Chalchiuhtli ycue

a deity; a female divine force associated with earthly waters; literally, green stones her skirt; considered the elder sister of the Tlaloque

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 104.

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Chalchiuhtotolin.

the name of a deity ("Jade-Turkey" or "Precious Turkey"), part of the Tetzcatlipoca complex, representing omnipotence, feasting and revelry
"Table 3. Major Deities of the Late Pre-Hispanic Central Mexican Nahua-Speaking Communities." Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6: Social Anthropology, ed Manning Nash (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967).

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chalchiuhtototl.

Red-legged Honeycreeper, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

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Chalchiuhxochitzin.

daughter of Tlacateotzin, ruler of Tlatelolco, and Xiuhtomiyauhtzin; she married Chahuaquauhtzin of Chalco, said to be a "son of Toteoci teuhctli"

(central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 112–113.

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chalchococuahuitl.

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