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ailotlaqui in Vocabulary.] TLALMANALCO, 42. A village near the foot of the volcano Popocatepetl. Derived from _tlalmanalli_, level ground, with postpos. _co_. TLALNAHUACATL, 89. "Dweller on the land;" name of a warrior. TLALOC, 45. God of rain and the waters; a famous divinity among the ancient Mexicans. The word means "stretched on the earth," and the idol of the god represented a man extended on his back holding a vase. TLAPALLAN, 105. A mythical land from which the Toltecs were fabled to have come and to which Quetzalcoatl returned. The derivation is from _tlapalli_, color, especially red. TLATETOLCO, TLATILULCO, 33, 83, 85. A suburb of the ancient city of Mexico, founded in 1338; from _tlatelli_, a mound, _ololoa_, to make round, the sense being "an island." See Motolinia, _Historia de los Indios_, Trat. III, cap. 7. TLAXCALLAN, now TLASCALA, 89, 93, 103. "The place of bread," from _tlaxcalli_, bread. Site of a warlike tribe of Nahuatl descent, east of the valley of Mexico. TLATZIN, 46. Chief of a town of the Chichimecs, situated on Lake Chalco. He flourished toward the close of the 14th century. From _tlatli_, a falcon. TOCHIN, 89. From _tochtli_, rabbit; name of the brother of the Tezcucan ruler Quinantzin, and of many other personages. TOLLAN, or TULAN, 46, 105, 107. The ancient mythical capital of the Toltecs. The common derivation from _tolin_, a rush, is erroneous. The name is a syncopated form of _tonatlan_, "the place of the sun." TOLTEC, properly TOLTECATL, 46, 111. An inhabitant of Tollan. The Toltecs were a mythical people, whose civilization was supposed to have preceded that of the Aztecs. TOPILTZIN, 46, 105. "Our son" or "Our lord" (see Nopiltzin). The term was especially applied to Quetzalcoatl, q. v. See Orozco y Berra, _Hist. Antig. de Mexico_, Tom. III, p. 54. TOTOQUILHUATLI, 41. From _totoquilia_, to act as agent or lieutenant. Ruler of Tlacopan. The verse of the song in which this name occurs is given in the original Nahuatl by Ixtlilxochitl, who says it was very popular throughout New Spain. See his _Historia Chichimeca_, cap. 32. XICALANCO, 107. A locality on the borders of the province Tabasco. The people spoke Nahuatl. Deriv. _xicalli_, gourd or jar, and postpos. _co_. XICOMATZINTLAMATA, 43. Name of a warrior not otherwise known. The compound seems to mean "skillful with angry hand" (_xicoa, maitl, tlamati_). XICONTECATL, 103. Name of several distinguished
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