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Explained by the Gloss by _in tetecuti_, which I take to be an error for _in teteuctin_.
Rig Veda Americanus Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, With a Gloss in Nahuatl Various 1868
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_teteuctin_, or nobles, entrance to the order was by a severe and prolonged ceremony of initiation, the object of which was not merely to test the endurance of pain and the powers of self-denial, but especially to throw the mind into that subjective state in which it is brought into contact with the divine, in which it can “see visions and dream dreams.”
Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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