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cuauhtzatzaztli.

Headword: 
cuauhtzatzaztli.
Principal English Translation: 

a wooden structure or frame where captives were tied and then shot with arrows as a form of human sacrifice/offerings (sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 185.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtzatzaztli
themes: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Gifts, Offerings, Sacrificial Rites
Religion (Indigenous)
Technology, Tools
War, Conflict
Weapons, Shields, Heraldry