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an alcoholic beverage made from the maguey (agave plant), said to have medicinal qualities

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1978), 16.

captives who were sacrificed and offered to the deities or divinities (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
teumjmjlli, teumimilli

cylinder-shaped fake bones made of fish amaranth dough; they were placed hip-high with the figure in the round representing Huitzilopochtli on an altar at the Temple of Huitznahuac (Uitznauac)

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 69.

teoːmiki
Orthographic Variants: 
teumiqui

to die in a holy way; i.e. to be sacrificed/offered to the divinities/deities (see attestations)

ceremonial arrows

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 69.

Orthographic Variants: 
teunacaztli, teunaçaztli. teunaçazço

"divine ear" spice (oreja divina), derived from a medicinal and aromatic plant or flower (see attestations, Sahagún)

teoːnɑːwɑtiːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
teonauatilli
Orthographic Variants: 
teonauatilpiani

a hallucinogenic mushroom (species: psilosybe aztecorum)
S. Kraitsowits and Leighton Kille, "Discovering hallucinogenic mushrooms in Mexico," translated by Arnaud Exbalin, The Conversation, April 11, 2019. http://theconversation.com/discovering-hallucinogenic-mushrooms-in-mexic...