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- noun
Pulque .
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In Nahuatl the stuff was called octli which meant "alcoholic drink" but it is supposed that by a day or two later it was being called an excellent accompaniment to a housewarming bottle. the book about the words we use for our bodies
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Who could not love a historical drink like tequila developed from the fermented agave drinks "octli" and "pulque" of the Aztecs?
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Who could not love a historical drink like tequila developed from the fermented agave drinks "octli" and "pulque" of the Aztecs?
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Who could not love a historical drink like tequila developed from the fermented agave drinks "octli" and "pulque" of the Aztecs?
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Who could not love a historical drink like tequila developed from the fermented agave drinks "octli" and "pulque" of the Aztecs?
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The Feast for the Greatly Revered Ones: Cacao mixed with ground maize, agave wine, and octli, mixed with herbs and spices native to central Mexico.
Thor's Day anverie 2009
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This pulque, or octli, has an acid resembling that of cider, and a very disagreeable odor, but the taste is cooling and refreshing.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 Various
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Doubtless this was partly attributable to the scarcity of food which prevailed; but that the authorities traced it also to some secret ceremonials is evident from the law which was immediately passed forbidding the Indians to wear the _piochtli_, or scalp-lock, a portion of the hair preserved from birth as part of the genethliac rituals, [32-§] and the especial enactments against the _octli_.
Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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Sahagun adds that the _octli_ was poured on the hearth at four separate points, doubtless the four cardinal points.
Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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= Other ceremonies connected with fire worship took place in connection with the manufacture of the pulque, or _octli_, the fermented liquor obtained from the sap of the maguey plant.
Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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