tlaquimilolli.

Headword: 
tlaquimilolli.
Principal English Translation: 

a sacred bundle (see attestations)

Alonso de Molina: 

tlaquimilolli. cosa liada assi.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 134r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Mendieta (1845, vol. I:85–86) and Torquemada (1969, vol. II: 78) describe the tlaquimilolli as being made up of folded cloths of the gods, encased in sticks and one of the sticks had embedded precious green stones, and snake and jaguar skins ("ciertos palos y haciendo una muesca, o agujero al palo, le ponían por corazón unas pedrezuelas verdes, y cuero de culebra, y tigre.") Another tlaquimilolli is described in the Anales de Quauhtitlan (1938: 53 and 361; 1945: 3 and 124) as having ashes and an obsidian flint. (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 137.

Something covered in turquoise (see Molina; and see Molly H. Bassett, The Fate of Earthly Things, 2015, ch. 4, note 2, citing assistance from Joe Campbell).

tlaquimilolli = a "sacred bundle" and "made up of the relics and/or belongings of the divinized founder -- tutelary deity or mythical hero (López Austin 1973)." The contents were "part of the supernatural powers of the universe and therefore functioned as a channel through which flowed the sacred forces that empowered, protected, legitimated, and gave a common identity to the village or town. Logically, the tlaquimilolli was housed in the temple that represented the sacred center of the community." Eventually, the Christian "patron saint of a village substituted for the tlaquimilolli...."
J. Jorge Klor de Alva, "Aztec Spirituality and Nahuatlized Christianity," in South and Meso-American Native Spirituality, ed. Gary H. Gossen in collaboration with Miguel Leeo_Portilla (New York: Crossroad, 1993), 178, 179.

"In addition to human and animal forms, deities also appeared solely in material objects of certain kinds. Most prominent among these are the sacred
bundles, which carry items quintessentially identified with the respective tutelary deity. The sacred bundles were held in great awe and were, because of the
power contained within, opened only in protected environments and situations. We do not know much about these bundles, most probably because the
Indigenous peoples protected the esoteric knowledge and the power associated with them (Olivier 2007: 285; see also Guernsey 2006)."
Isabel Laack, Aztec Religion and Art of Writing (Leiden: Brill, 2019), 122.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ueuetzin ualteachcauhtitiya no ceppa ye quiualmeme yn tlaquimilolli = [Huehuetzin] "fue fungiendo como teachcauh; también una vez cargó el tlaquimilolli." (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 137.