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mecapatzca.

Headword: 
mecapatzca.
Principal English Translation: 

to crush (patzca) someone with a net (matlatl) or rope (mecatl)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 10: The People", fol. 132r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/132r/images/36fcfff6-... Accessed 5 October 2025. This was part of a ritual of human sacrifice.

themes: 
Death
Religion (Indigenous)
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See also: 
tematlapatzca.
matlatl.
patzca.