Notes.
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The absence of a Gloss to this hymn adds to the difficulty of a translation. Otontecutli was the chief deity of the Otomis, and the chant appears to be one of their war songs in their conflict with the Azteca. The name is a compound of otomitl, an Otomi, and tecutli, ruler or lord. He is slightly referred to by Sahagun as “the first ruler to govern the ancestors of the Otomis.” (Historia, Lib. X, cap. 29, sec. 5.)