"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.
a military government (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.].
the wooden columns around a patio Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 119v. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/119v?spTexts=&nhTexts= . Accessed 12 November 2025.