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tlaelatl.

Headword: 
tlaelatl.
Principal English Translation: 

dirty water

Orthographic Variants: 
tlayelatl
Attestations from sources in English: 

in tequisquiatl, in tlaelatl = the nitrous water, the dirty water (a metaphor for original sin) (16th-c. central Mexico)
John F. Schwaller, "The Pre-Hispanic Poetics of Sahagún's Psalmodia christiana," in Psalms in the Early Modern World, eds. Linda Phyllis Austern, Kari Boyd McBride, and David L. Orvis (London: Ashgate, 2011), 321. Cites Bierhorst, Cantares Mexicanos, 252–253.

themes: 
Metaphors, Proverbs, Riddles
Water
See also: 
tlayelli.
atl.