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cuauhtzontapayolli.
Headword:
cuauhtzontapayolli.
Principal English Translation:
a woven twig ball that was part of the closing ceremony of the month of Tlacapehualiztli
Orthographic Variants:
quauhtzontapayolli
Attestations from sources in English:
auh çatepan itoalco, qujquetza in male, qujtlalia quauhtzontapaiolli, ey icxi, tzicujlicxe, ytech qujtlatlalia: yn jamatlatquj, ynjc omochichioaia totec = And thereafter the owner of the captive set up in the courtyard [of his house] a woven twig ball on three small feet. Upon it he placed the paper adornment with which had been adorned the Totec [when he died]. (16th century, Mexico City)