a deity; "Little Black Face," also called Tlaltecuin or Tlaltetecuini, "Earth-Stamper"
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 101. and Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 1 -- The Gods; No. 14, Part 2, 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, 1950), 15.
a personal name; the name carried by rulers of Tetzcoco -- the first, from 1409 to 1418, and the second, his great-grandson, put on the throne by Hernando Cortés in 1520; we also know of Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl, a historian and author who traced his descent from the earlier men, and he lived from the late sixteenth into the mid-seventeenth century; another important figure in Tetzcoco in the sixteenth century was don Hernando Cortés Ixtlilxochitzin (see the Codex Chimalpahin for this latter example)
(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, 206–207.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 222.