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etzalli.

Headword: 
etzalli.
Principal English Translation: 

a bean and corn stew (Durán, 430)

IPAspelling: 
etsɑlli
Attestations from sources in English: 

ceceiaca metzalhuiaia, yoan etzalmaceoaloia: cintopiltica mitotia = Each one made etzalli for himself; and there was a dance in which etzalli was begged. With green maize stalks they danced. (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), 18. During the Etzalqualiztli ceremony, etzalli was a key food, consisting of maize and boiled beans. There was a special jar for it, the etzalcomitl, and there was an etzalli song and dance. (central Mexico, sixteenth century) 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), 79.

themes: 
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking
Music, Song, Dance