a deity, "Lord of the Four Directions," was one of the Tlalocs, or water gods; he was favored by the mat-makers' (petlachiuhque) guild, who credited him with having taught them to weave mats and make seats (icpalli); he was credited with making the reeds sprout and grow, and with making rain fall on people, washing them, bathing them (central Mexico, sixteenth century) 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), 20.
a deity; "Fourfold Lord" was one of the deities of rain and fertility called Tlaloque; he was patron of mat makers (petlaciuhque) Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 108.
the four lords of the communities with chinampas (Culhuacan, Itztapalapan, Mexicaltzinco, and Huitzilopochco, also called Churubusco by the Spaniards) (ca. 1582, Mexico City) Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 152–153, and citing Tezozomoc, 1994, 274.
4 x 400, or 1,600; four times one tzontli (where a tzontli is 400)
(eighteenth century; used by a doctor who was not a native speaker but had studied classical Nahuatl) Neville Stiles, Jeff Burnham, James Nauman, "Los concejos médicos del Dr. Bartolache sobre las pastillas de fierro: Un documento colonial en el náhuatl del siglo XVIII," Estudios de Cultural Náhuatl 19 (1989), 269–287, see p. 284.
a person's name; there was a ruler of Culhuacan (the seventh ruler) who was named Nauhyotl Teuhctlamacazqui, who produced the son Acoltzin, who also ruled Culhuacan; Nauhyotl's son Acoltzin fought with Chimalpopoca, when he ruled Tenochtitlan.
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, 90–91, 106–107.