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A complex deity, he appeared under many guises — Titlacahuan, Moyocoyatzin, Yaotzin, among others — and was closely associated with the forces of disorder and chaos, dirt and filth.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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For example, a native could think that his rheumatic problems came from the supreme will of Titlacahuan, from the punishment sent by Tlaloque for not having performed a certain rite, from direct attack by a being who inhabited a certain spring, and from prolonged chilling in cold water; the native would not consider it all as a confluence of diverse causes but as a complex. 10
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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The god Titlacahuan instructed a man named Nata to make a boat by hollowing out a cypress tree, so as to escape the coming deluge with his wife Nena.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904
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Titlacahuan had closed the door he said, 'Thou shalt eat but a single ear of maize, and thy wife but one also.'
The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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"Now at the end of the year the god Titlacahuan had warned Nata and his spouse Nena, saying, 'Make no more wine of Agave, but begin to hollow out a great cypress, and you will enter into it when in the month
Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866
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