a woman who was one of eight Mimixcoa mentioned in the Aztec migration, as recounted in the Crónica Mexicayotl; sister of Mimichtzin
Fernando Alvarado Tezozomoc, Crónica mexicayotl; traducción directa del náhuatl por Adrián León (Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1998), 21.
emery or corundrum, a hard granular rock that served as a grinding stone; it came in red, blue, or brown; it could be ground into sand for polishing other precious stones (see the Florentine Codex, Book 11, folio 215v)
turquoise; also came to take on another meaning, "in the year of our Lord" Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 88.