teocalli
Americannoun
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teocallis
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of teocalli
1605–15; < Nahuatl, equivalent to teō ( tl ) god + calli house
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Cholula, with its great teocalli, was the Mecca of Anahuac, and was veritably a land flowing with milk and honey.
From Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by Martin Hume
Not content with these matters, or, rather, urged by their religious fervour, the Spaniards obtained permission to erect an altar and crucifix in one of the sanctuaries of the great teocalli.
From Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by Martin Hume
As it was not yet dusk he ascended the principal teocalli to reconnoitre the surrounding country, and there beheld a sight which could but cause him grave anxiety.
From The True Story Book by Andrew Lang
The similarity of the six flagons, the two dishes and the four animal figures showed that they came from an Aztec teocalli, or temple, of great wealth and importance.
From His Unknown Wife by Louis Tracy
The funeral piles were erected in the courtyard before the palace, and were made of arrows, javelins, and other weapons drawn by the emperor's permission from those stored round the great teocalli.
From The True Story Book by Andrew Lang
The structures in or about which, they were originally placed were probably of wood, and great mounds and earthworks, like the teocallis of Mexico, were associated with them.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
The thunder, reverberating from the rocky amphitheatre of hills, bellowed over the waste of waters, and shook the teocallis and crazy tenements of Tenochtitlan—the few that yet survived—to their foundations.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Rossiter Johnson
This monument, like all the Mexican teocallis or temples, is composed of several stages.
From Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe by William Bingley
Near Nice there is a hill which gives a wonderfully correct idea of the appearance of the terraced teocallis of Mexico, as they must have looked before time effaced the sharpness of their lines.
From Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern by Edward Burnett Tylor
Among the teocallis of the Aztec capital the “great temple” stood foremost.
From Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology by John D. (John Denison) Baldwin
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