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tetehualtia.
Headword:
tetehualtia.
Principal English Translation:
a ceremony that was performed by merchants, involving the treatment of captive or enslaved men and women, 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" (enslaved people)
Orthographic Variants:
teteualtia
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.