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teomimilli.

Headword: 
teomimilli.
Principal English Translation: 

cylinder-shaped fake bones made of fish amaranth dough; they were placed hip-high with the figure in the round representing Huitzilopochtli on an altar at the Temple of Huitznahuac (Uitznauac)

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), 69.

Orthographic Variants: 
teumjmjlli, teumimilli
themes: 
Religion (Christian)