Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

tecpatlixcuahua.

Headword: 
tecpatlixcuahua.
Principal English Translation: 

a flint knife that was used in the killing of people for sacrificial offerings to divinities or deities (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tecpatlixquaua, tecpatlixquahua, tecpatl ixquahua, tecpahtliixcuahua
Alonso de Molina: 

tecpatlixquaua. cuchilla de pedernal, conque sacrificauan y matauan hombres ante los idolos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 93r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Gifts, Offerings, Sacrificial Rites
Religion (Indigenous)
Technology, Tools