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tenitzania.

Headword: 
tenitzania.
Principal English Translation: 

to cut one's lips for bloodletting, as a self-sacrifice and offering to the deities or divinities (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
teːnitsɑniɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tenitzania. nino. (pret. oninotenitzani.) sacrificar y cortar los labrios ante los idolos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 99r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Nahuales, Sorcery, Divining
Religion (Indigenous)