tenamaste

plural tenamastes

1. Any of the three stones traditionally used to elevate a comal above a fire in Mesoamerican cultures.

   Tenamaste stones were used as pot rests or firedogs in a cooking fire.

   1987, Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation, page 174

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   Also, at the foot of the tenamastes people bury coins, chiles, grains of corn, and a handful of beans to assure that the domestic food supply will never run out. [...] Contemporary Totonac usually construct a wooden box with legs that is filled with dirt on which the tenamastes are placed. The most sacred place in the main room is the home altar [...]

   2005, Pablo Valderrama Rouy, “The Totonac”, in Native Peoples of the Gulf Coast of Mexico, page 199