yauhtli.

Headword: 
yauhtli.
Principal English Translation: 

a plant that smells and tastes of anise, which was burned in place of incense (central Mexico, 1634)
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 10.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents yauhtli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

"...dos hierbas, el iztauhyatl y el yauhtli, quedaron asociadas tan íntimamente con el culto de los dioses del agua, que el comprender las ramificaciones de esta asociación puede ayudarnos a entender los usos de las dos plantas desde los tiempos coloniales hasta el presente."
Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano, "Las hierbas de Tláloc," Estudios de cultura náhuatl 14 (1980), 287–314, ver la p. 288.

themes: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense
Plants, Trees, Flora
Religion (Indigenous)