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teicpalli.

Headword: 
teicpalli.
Principal English Translation: 

stone seats, stone thrones; can be a metaphor for the founding of a town (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

niman ya contlalia yn chicome teycpalli yuetz contema y y[tla]quotl contlallia = Luego ya pone los siete teycpalli, coloca sus espinas, pone sus varas [Y, Lockhart añade, en las notas del margen de su copia de esta publicación, "foundation of 7 towns," o sea, que la expresión habla de la fundación de siete altepetl.] (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 136.

themes: 
Metaphors, Proverbs, Riddles
Origins (human, ethnic, towns)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods