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  • The Aztecs used the word "teotl" to express the name meaning; the Mayas, the word "ku;" the Peruvians, "huaca."

    The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

  • This view is confirmed by the first example given above, where the Spanish word Dios appears to be a gloss on the Nahuatl term teotl ( "god or deity"), i.e. it is merely an explanation of the Nahuatl term.

    Reinventing the Aztecs - part two Mexican history 2008

  • This view is confirmed by the first example given above, where the Spanish word Dios appears to be a gloss on the Nahuatl term teotl ( "god or deity"), i.e. it is merely an explanation of the Nahuatl term.

    Reinventing the Aztecs - part two Mexican history 2008

  • Dihana is the prime minister of Capitol City, having recently inherited the position from her late father; her difficulties include the fact that she has not won the support yet of the Councilmen, who are "old fathers," original settlers from hundreds of years ago, or the loas, who are aliens who have been fighting against the teotl since before any of them settled this world.

    Crystal Rain adamosf 2007

  • Dihana is the prime minister of Capitol City, having recently inherited the position from her late father; her difficulties include the fact that she has not won the support yet of the Councilmen, who are "old fathers," original settlers from hundreds of years ago, or the loas, who are aliens who have been fighting against the teotl since before any of them settled this world.

    Archive 2007-08-01 adamosf 2007

  • What is the relationship between the loa and the teotl?

    Crystal Rain adamosf 2007

  • What is the relationship between the loa and the teotl?

    Archive 2007-08-01 adamosf 2007

  • The Azteca have been trying to cross over the mountain for decades, urged on by their priests and their gods, the teotl, who are actually living beings, warlike aliens with incredible super-human powers.

    Archive 2007-08-01 adamosf 2007

  • The Azteca have been trying to cross over the mountain for decades, urged on by their priests and their gods, the teotl, who are actually living beings, warlike aliens with incredible super-human powers.

    Crystal Rain adamosf 2007

  • These monuments were called _teocallis_, not because they were pyramids, but because they were temples; "Teocalli" means "god's house" -- (_teotl_, god, _calli_, house), a name which the traveller hears explained for the first time with some wonder; and Humboldt cannot help adverting to its curious correspondence with [Greek: theou kalia], _dei cella_.

    Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

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