eltequi.

Headword: 
eltequi.
Principal English Translation: 

to cut the chest open (part of human sacrifice, to extract the heart that will serve as an offering to the divinities or deities)

Orthographic Variants: 
eltecqui
IPAspelling: 
eːlteki
Attestations from sources in English: 

quimeltetequi in mamalti, in imezio ic quimonatzelhuiaia in titlanti = they cut open their chests and sprinkled their blood on the messengers (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 78.

ça monomahuique y meltecque = Quite of their own will were their breasts cut open.
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 224, 225.

oncan teeltequia quinmictiaya yn iyaohuan = where they cut open men’s breasts [when] they killed their foes
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 226, 227.

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