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to cut the chest open (part of human sacrifice, to extract the heart that will serve as an offering to the divinities or deities)
quimeltetequi in mamalti, in imezio ic quimonatzelhuiaia in titlanti = they cut open their chests and sprinkled their blood on the messengers (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
ça monomahuique y meltecque = Quite of their own will were their breasts cut open.
oncan teeltequia quinmictiaya yn iyaohuan = where they cut open men’s breasts [when] they killed their foes