to humiliate oneself and throw oneself to the ground; or, to do these things to another person (see Molina); to do abeisance or prostrate oneself (see Karttunen)
This is a native plant of Mexico, Suaeda torreyana. It grows near Tlahuac, given that the soil there is salty, but it is also found in the north of Mexico. La Jornada Virtual, April 15, 2003. http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2003/04/15/04an1cul.php?printver=0
purchased land; a type of land tenure S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 237. See also p. 15, Sarah Cline, "The Testaments of Culhuacan," in James Lockhart, Lisa Sousa, and Stephanie Wood, eds., Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory (Eugene, OR: Wired Humanities Project, e-book, 2007.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 236.
eating earth (a ceremony); or, the act of taking an oath in a certain ceremony; kissing the earth; or putting earth in one's mouth Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 71.