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in petlatl in icpalli.

Headword: 
in petlatl in icpalli.
Principal English Translation: 

the mat, the seat/throne, a paired phrase intending "authority" (see Mikulska citing Montes de Oca)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

estera, asiento = un difrasismo para decir "autoridad" (p. 86)
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.

themes: 
Politics, Power, Governance