one of the boundaries of the Nonohualca of Tollan (Tula) Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, 4v. Taken from the image of the folio published in Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2009), 65. Paleography and regularization of this toponym by Stephanie Wood.
"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.