Toci
See also: Toçi
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl Tocih.
Proper noun
[edit]Toci
- An Aztec goddess.
- 1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, volume 3, London: William Stansby, page 1004:
- 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.