macuiltzontli ontzontli.

Headword: 
macuiltzontli ontzontli.
Principal English Translation: 

2,800 (five times 400, i.e. 2,000, plus two times 400, i.e. 800, for a total of 2,800)

Attestations from sources in English: 

Some 2,800 pieces of firewood were brought each night to be burned in honor of Huitzilopochtli. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, 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, 1978), 6.

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