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tlenamacac.

Headword: 
tlenamacac.
Principal English Translation: 

a fire priest; the priest who drills fire in the end-of-52-year-cycle ceremony
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, no. 14, Part III, 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, 1951), 81.

IPAspelling: 
tɬenɑːmɑkɑk
Attestations from sources in English: 

copolco tlenamacac, in vel imatia, in itequiuh catca, in quitlaçaia, in quimamalia tlequauitl. = Of the fire priest of Copulco, who was experienced, it was his office to draw, to drill, the new fire. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 7 -- The Sun, Moon, and Stars, and the Binding of the Venus, No. 14, Part VIII, 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, 1961), 26.

yoan oc cequjntin tletlenamacaque = and the other fire priests
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, no. 14, Part III, 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, 1951), 81.

themes: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense
Religion (Indigenous)