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tletlaliliztli.

Headword: 
tletlaliliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

lighting of fires (a ceremony or ritual)

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 126.

IPAspelling: 
tɬetɬɑːlilistɬi
themes: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense
Religion (Indigenous)