a personal name; e.g. don Carlos Ahuachpitzactzin was a Tetzcocan noble who was active in the battles shortly after the Cortés expedition came into central Mexico; he assumed the rule in Tetzcoco after Coanacochtzin; but he was not a strong supporter of Cortés, so the Captain had Coanacochtzin re-installed in place of the younger brother (central Mexico, early seventeenth century) Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 194–195, 198–199.
water-owners (deities); in the Treatise of Alarcón, a metaphorical name for clouds (Atenango, between Mexico City and Acapulco, 1629); see also our entry for ahuaque Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain, 1629, eds. and transl. J. Richard Andrews and Ross Hassig (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984), 220.
divinities that make/cause rain, thunder, lightning and lightning bolts that strike trees.