nextlahualoya.

Headword:

nextlahualoya.

Principal English Translation:

to perform blood sacrifices (as offerings for the deities or divinities)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 200.

Orthographic Variants:

nextlaoaloya

Attestations from sources in English:

in titonalvaqui intecopa in tlatoque inic nextlaoaloya y novian tepeticpac = if we were perishing from drought, it was by order of the rulers that blood sacrifices were performed on all the mountaintops (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 201.

themes:

Religion (Indigenous)