Toci
English
Alternative forms
- Toccy (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl Tocih.
Proper noun
Toci
- An Aztec goddess.
- 1625, Purchas, Samuel, 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.
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Anagrams
- -otic, Coit, Tico, coit, otic