ocotl

Updated: June 10, 2025

They had oil, and employed it for various purposes, but had no notion of using it or wax for burning. They lighted their houses with pine-torches; and in fact the Aztec name for a pine-torch ocotl was transferred to candles when they were introduced.

Edward Burnett Tylor - Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern