Meaning of teckpatl by Jimeno Álvarez

Tecpatl, is a knife Flint made of Obsidian or Flint, lanceolate figure, with blade double-edged, with elongated ends, ending both on tipped or one on tip and the other pan. It can be represented with half top of red color, which recalls the color of blood, in depictions of human sacrifice and the rest of white color, indicating that it is the Flint of the knife misma.1Era tenth eighth day, of the twentieth day of the month of the Aztec calendar and the start of one of the twenty trecenas in the tonalpohualli.The Tecpatl was traditionally a human sacrifices knife used by the Aztecs, but also, was the weapon's short range of warriors jaguar, while he may have only had limited use against their enemies in the field of batalla.2 the sharp edges of the tecpatl, they became an effective weapon.