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I believe it was an obsidian knife, though I don't know what the translation was. The deity Tonatiuh, of the 5th world, is depicted in the aztec calendar, or sun stone as having an obsidian knife for a tongue, which represents his demand for blood sacrifice. Here are a couple of websites that talk more about that -

http://www.helium.com/items/2180428-aztec-gods-tonatiuh

http://alex-sk.de/mirror/sunstone.html

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