to die as a male youth; this term is seen in Chimalpahin in his discussion of sixteenth-century nobles, descendants of Tizoc, many of whom died young and unmarried (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, 114–115.
a ruffian; or, a carnal youth (see Molina); or, a lewd youth (see Sahagún)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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, 1961), 32.
son, young man, a youth, a young warrior (see Molina and attestations); also, Telpochtli, "Male Youth," who was a deity, part of the Tezcatlipoca Complex of deities that relate to power, omnipotence, often malevolence, feasting and revelry "Table 3. Major Deities of the Late Pre-Hispanic Central Mexican Nahua-Speaking Communities." Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6: Social Anthropology, ed Manning Nash (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967).