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tlahuahuanaliztli.
Headword:
tlahuahuanaliztli.
Principal English Translation:
the act of scratching or making lines on something; or, to scrape or scratch the earth (as hens do) (see Molina); or, a type of sacrifice that involved making furrows or scrapes in the body; it was paired with another type of sacrifice, involving the use of arrows; this was practiced by the Toltecas and the Chichimecas used when they conquered altepetl lords (see attestations) (sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Orthographic Variants:
tlavavanaliztli
IPAspelling:
tɬɑwɑwɑːnɑlistɬi
Attestations from sources in English:
a ceremony that involves making stripes
See a scene labeled tlahuahuanaliztli in the Codex Zouche-Nuttall, folio 89.
Another scene that is labeled tlahuahuanaliztli--and is described as gladiatory sacrifice-- comes from the Codex Magliabechiano, folio 30r.
The tlahuahuanaliztli is itself referred to as "gladiatory combat" in a study of a head of Xipe Totec that has been published on line by Dumbarton Oaks.
Attestations from sources in Spanish:
Olman oncan quipolloque yn chaneque catca yn olmeca oncan quincacalque quiuauanque yehuantin yn tlalpolloque yn icxicouatl yn quetzalteueyac yn tezcauitzil yn tololouitzin = Olman. Allí destruyeron a los habitantes, a los olmeca. Allí los sacrificaron por flechamiento, los "rayaron", ellos Icxicouatl, Quetzalteueyac, Tezcauitzil y Tololuitzin, conquistaron la tierra. (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)