The tlenamacac (fire giver, incense offerer) was an Aztec priestly office responsible for the offering of incense before the temple images at fixed hours through the day and night, one of the defined ranks of the priesthood described by Sahagun's Nahua informants alongside broader terms such as tlamacazqui for a priest in general.
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Status TodayHistorical; not practised continuously 1 Current StatusExtinct with the Spanish conquest and forced Christianization of central Mexico in the sixteenth century. 1 Significance
Sacred RoleLiterally he who gives fire, a general Aztec term for an ordained priest who performed offerings and incense rites; priests trained for the role in the calmecac schools attached to major temples. 1 Connections
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Source Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New SpainBernardino de Sahagun; translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble
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1. Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain
Bernardino de Sahagun; translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble, School of American Research and University of Utah Press, 1950on the tlenamacac and daily incense offeringView the Source Book of the Gods and Rites and The Ancient Calendar
Diego Duran; translated by Fernando Horcasitas and Doris Heyden, University of Oklahoma Press, 1971general reference on Aztec priestly offices
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