1) a dream (see Molina and Karttunen); 2) a cocoon or a caterpillar that, much like a silkworm, encloses itself in a mortuary shroud before becoming a butterfly; 3) Temictzin, a nephew of Moctezuma I
a ruler of Tlatelolco (see the Florentine Codex and the Cantares Mexicanos); also, a fairly common name given to men in the sixteenth century in what is now the state of Morelos (see Cline, attestations in English translation, below) and in Huexotzinco (see many examples in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs)