📚 noun • entry_id 57221
tenamaste
Meanings (ES + gloss)
tenamaste • tenamastle • tenamaxtle
Any of the three stones traditionally used to elevate a comal above a fire in Mesoamerican cultures.
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…
Tenamaste stones were used as pot rests or firedogs in a cooking fire.
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