a location near Tepetzinco, in the midst of the lagoon near Mexico Tenochtitlan; important in rituals
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, 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, 1951), 68.
also known as chichixihuitl, this is an herb with a medicinal value; the juice from the herb was believed to alleviate indigestion and afflictions of the chest; could also "purge phlegmatic and bilious humors"
The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández, ed. Simon Varey, transl. Rafael Chabrán, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, and Simon Varey (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), 140.