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tlalcuatimani.

Headword: 
tlalcuatimani.
Principal English Translation: 

an earth-eating gesture

Orthographic Variants: 
tlalquatimani
Attestations from sources in English: 

ceceniaca ontlalquatimani yixpan in capitan = each of them made the earth-eating gesture before the Captain (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 70.

themes: 
Religion (Indigenous)