cuenmantli.

a long pole that was set up in the month of Atl Cuahuitl (or Quahuitl Ehua) with the hope of bringing new growth, sprouting, greenness Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, 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, 1951), 42.