a child of Tlacateotzin (ruler of Tlatelolco) and Tlacateotzin's aunt-wife, Xiuhcanahualtzin
(central Mexico, 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, 112–113.
1. for many inflated things to burst all at once. 2. for lots of popcorn to burst. (an onomatopoetic word)
# Se truena algo que tiene mucho aire adentro. “Todos los globos con los que habían adornado se tronaron porque los hallo el sol”. 2. Se truenan las palomitas. “Juana no quiere preparar palomitas porque se truenan mucho y no los puede mover”.
the elder Totoquihuaztli was a lord of Tlacopan and of the Tepanecs, and he died in 1470; the younger Totoquihuaztli held the same position, and he died ca. 1519; in the Cantares Mexicanos their names appears in association with Moctezuma and Nezahualcoyotl or Moctezuma and Nezahualpilli
the elder Totoquihuaztli was the son of Tezozomoc of Azcapotzalco and therefore "a legitimate pretender to the throne of the Tepanec empire"
the second Totoquihuaztli may have been the father of don Antonio Cortés Totoquihuaztli, who was municipal governor of Tlacopan in the sixteenth century (see our entry Cortés Totoquihuaztli)
for a person or an animal to run off another’s partner or offspring.
# nic. Una persona, un animal silvestre y un animal domestico le espanta a otro lo que está con él o cerca. “Alma espantó el perro de blanca porque no entiende y se mete adentro”.
captives of a special type, sacrificed for offerings made during the month of Tlacaxipehualiztli 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), 46.