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ochpanhuaztli.

Headword: 
ochpanhuaztli.
Principal English Translation: 

the act of sweeping

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 88.

Orthographic Variants: 
ochpanoaztli
Attestations from sources in English: 

yoan ixtoҫoa in ochpanoaztli, in tlacujcuiliztli, in chico, tlanaoac tlaujqujliztli, in juelmach in totecujo = and who holdeth vigil for the sweeping, the cleaning, the ordering of things, is the pleasure of our lord (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 88.

xiccujtivetzi in ochpanoaztli in ochpanalli, itlan xaquj: maca xiiamanjxto, maca xitotojxto = Seize the broom: be diligent with the sweeping; be not tepid, be not lukewarm (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 95.

concujtivetzia in ochpanoaztli, itlan oac in ochpanalli, in tlacujcujliztli, in tlaiecapeviliztli = he seized the broom, he became diligent in the sweeping, the cleaning, the fanning (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 109.

ma itlan xonmaqujti in ochpanoaztli, in tlenamactli = Be diligent in the sweeping, in the offering of incense (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 216.

themes: 
Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)