tlayohualli
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Classical Nahuatl
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tlayohualli
- Darkness.
- An unenlightened state.
- 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 1
- ca cenca vey tlaiooalli, yoan netlapololtiliztli, yn atlaneltoqujliztli, in tlateutoqujliztli, in jpan oamechcauhtiaque yn amotahoan, yn amoculhoan, yn amachcoculhoan
- (Very great was the darkness and the confusion, the unbelief, the idolatry in which your fathers, your grandfathers, your great-grandfathers left you)
- 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 1
References
[edit]- Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble, transl., Florentine Codex, Book 1, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, page 55