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amatzotzomatli.

Headword: 
amatzotzomatli.
Principal English Translation: 

certain papers that were offered to the pre-Columbian deities (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
amatzutzumatli
Alonso de Molina: 

amatzutzumatli. ciertos papeles que ofrecian alos idolos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 4v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

amatzotzomatli = "papel que se ofrenda a los dioses, muchas veces recortado en figuras que representan a las deidades o símbolos figurativos afines a las peticiones"
Adela Fernández, Diccionario ritual de voces nahuas: definiciones de palabras (1992), 19.

amatzotzomatli = "Tipo de papel que los indígenas ofrecían a los dioses."
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (1977), 24.

themes: 
Gifts, Offerings, Sacrificial Rites
Paper
Religion (Indigenous)