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tlayahualoliztli.

Headword: 
tlayahualoliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

a religious procession; or, the act of walking in a circle; or, a migration (see Molina and attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlayavaloliztli, tlayaualoliztli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑjɑwɑlolistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlayaualoliztli. procession, o el acto de andar ala redonda.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 120v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

quihualtzacuilli tlayahualoliztli ynic amo huel mochihuaz. yhuã descomunion quinhuallalili yn españoles. = he blocked the procession, so that it could not be held, and he excommunicated the Spaniards, (central Mexico, 1612)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 226–227.

Jn tlayavaloliztlj inic muchivaia iquac in tlein ilhuitl motlalitivia iquac mochivaia mochi tlacatl tlaiavaloaya aço yoatzinco anoço ye teotlac ic tlaxinia. = Processions were held in this way: When certain festivals took place this was then done. Everyone went in a procession, either before daybreak or at sundown; then they broke ranks.
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 76.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)
Religion (Indigenous)