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acxoyapoztequiliztli.

Headword: 
acxoyapoztequiliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

the cutting of pine boughs (see Sahagún, attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

itlan taqujz in vitztlapanaliztli, in acxoiapoztequjliztli, in nevitztlaliliztli, in apantemoliztli = Thou art to be diligent in the breaking off of [maguey] spines, in the cutting of pine boughs, in the insertion of [maguey] spines [in thy flesh], in the bathing in the streams (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), 215.

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