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ayahuitl itzon.

Headword: 
ayahuitl itzon.
Principal English Translation: 

Her-hair is Mist; in the Treatise, a metaphorical name for fire (Atenango, between Mexico City and Acapulco, 1629)
Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain, 1629, eds. and transl. J. Richard Andrews and Ross Hassig (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984), 220.

Attestations from sources in English: 

āyahuitl = it is mist, and ītzon = it is her hair (Atenango, between Mexico City and Acapulco, 1629)
Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain, 1629, eds. and transl. J. Richard Andrews and Ross Hassig (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984), 220.

themes: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense
Metaphors, Proverbs, Riddles
Religion (Indigenous)