cuicoyan

Updated: May 1, 2025

William A. Hammond and other observers. One of these songs began, Cuicoyan nohuan mitotia; In-the-place-of-song with-me they-dance. But the old chronicler, who doubtless knew it all by heart, gives us no more of it.

Daniel Garrison Brinton - Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature Number VII.

There were also special schools, called cuicoyan, singing places, where both sexes were taught to sing the popular songs and to dance to the sound of the drums. After the Conquest the Church set its face firmly against the continuance of these amusements.

Daniel Garrison Brinton - Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature Number VII.