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tlatoyahualiztli.

Headword: 
tlatoyahualiztli.
Principal English Translation: 

libation (a ceremony)

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 72.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlatoyaualiztli
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatoyaualiztli. el acto de derramar agua, o otra cosa liquida.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 140v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)