Tlacaxipehualiztli

alternative Tlacaxipeoaliztli · alternative Tlacaxipeualiztli

1. An Aztec religious festival.

   THere was an other kinde of ſacrifice which they made in divers feaſts, which they called Racaxipe Velitzli^([sic]), which is as much as the fleaing of men.

   [1604, José de Acosta, translated by E. G., The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies, London, translation of Historia natural y moral delas Indias, page 386

2. A month of the Aztec calendar.

   Tlacaxipeualiztli, the second Mexican month according to some authorities and the first according to others, began in 1521 on March 8th of our present calendar.

   1916, Herbert J. Spinden, “The question of the zodiac in America”, in American Anthropologist, volume 18, number 1, page 66