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huentelolotli.

Headword: 
huentelolotli.
Principal English Translation: 

an offering of maize dough balls
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), 76.

Orthographic Variants: 
ventelolotli, uentelolotli
Attestations from sources in English: 

vncan contema nauhtetl ynepapatlaia, ventelolotli, cenca tlamatzin, cencan juja, cencan matca in contlalia = Then in his turn he laid down four balls of dough made of maize, placing them very cautiously, very heedfully, very warily
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), 76.

themes: 
Religion (Indigenous)