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tlachpanalli.

Headword: 
tlachpanalli.
Principal English Translation: 

the act of sweeping (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

auh in iehoatl coatl icue, vncan tlamaceoaia, tlachpanaia, quimocuitlaviaia, in tlachpanalli = And this Coatl icue performed penances there; she swept; she was charged with the sweeping. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1978), 1.

themes: 
Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)
Religion (Indigenous)
See also: 
tlachpanaliztli.