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in acxoyatl in huitztli.

Headword: 
in acxoyatl in huitztli.
Principal English Translation: 

these are objects used in auto-sacrifice, tree branches and maguey spines (see Mikulska)

Orthographic Variants: 
in acxoyatl in huiztli
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

objetos del autosacrificio: ramas de un árbol espinas de maguey = un difrasismo que quiere decir "autosacrificio" (p. 87)
Katarzyna Mikulska, "Te hago bandera... Signos de banderas y sus significados en la expresión gráfica nahua", en Los códices mesoamericanos: registros de religión, política y sociedad, Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio y Juan José Batalla Rosado, coordinadores (Zinacantepec: El Colegio Mexiquense, 2016), 85–133.