Principal English Translation:
a ceremony that was performed by merchants, involving the treatment of male and females slaves, dressing them up and making them dance prior to their begin slain; similar to teyolmelahua and tlaixnextia, but with different regalia for the "bathed ones" (slaves)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 9 -- The Merchants, No. 14, Part 10, 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, 1959), 59–60.
Attestations from sources in English:
The regalia included a headdress of feathers and turquoise, wooden ear plugs, a nose pendant of obsidian, a feathered jacket decorated with a skull and bone design. On the shoulders were paper falcons, painted with red, black, and iron pyrites. There were armbands and obsidian sandals.
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 9 -- The Merchants, No. 14, Part 10, 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, 1959), 60.