"He Speaks Like an Eagle" was the third ruler of Tlatelolco (see the Florentine Codex); and the conqueror of Quauhtinchan in the year 10 Rabbit (1407?); he took the daughter (Tepexochillama) of the ruler of Quauhtinchan (who was Teuhctlecozauhqui) prisoner to Tlatelolco and made her his wife; and their child, Quauhtomicicuil, became tlatoani (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI) Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 218.
an indigenous leader who was executed by hanging; depicted in the Codex Mendoza, lam. VI, in association with the glyph for Tlatelolco Patrick K. Johansson, "Lecturas y glosas indígenas de la primera parte del Códice Mendocino en el siglo XVI," Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl, 40:13 (2010), 257.
literally "eagle-ruler" -- a non-dynastic, less than life-term governorship or interim ruler James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 33.
(central Mexico, sixteenth century) Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 9 -- The Merchants, No. 14, Part 10, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1959), 2.
a medicinal herb, used for curing dandruff and other skin-based head ailments
Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 19 [8r.].