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amaxotlaliztli.

Headword: 
amaxotlaliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

a paper-cutting ceremony (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

¶ 2. tochtli xihuitl 1338 años. ypan inyn ome tochtli xihuitl y hualcallaque yn culhuacā yc hualaque amatequiliztli ynic huel quiximatia ȳ tleȳ amaxotlaliztli motlallico ȳ mexico = The year Two Rabbit, 1338. At this time, the year Two Rabbit, they entered Culhuacan when they came for the cutting of paper. Thus they knew what was the [nature of] the paper-cutting [ceremony that] came to be established in Mexico.
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 226, 227.

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