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neelpiliztli.

Headword: 
neelpiliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

tying (a ceremony or ritual)

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 77.

Attestations from sources in English: 

A ceremony that involved the tying of small children about their wrists and necks with thread.
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 77.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)