a person's name (attested male); also, a tlatoani of the Chichimecas, son of Mamahuini; he became tlatoani in the year his father died, 2 Flint; he turned power over to his son, Tecamecatl, in 13 Reed; he died in 2 Rabbit (1445?); xiuhcozcatl = another name for the wild domestic turkey (see totolin)
(Quauhtinchan, sixteenth century) Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 215, 219, 220.
daughter of Aatzin, an ancient Mexica lord who reached Tenochtitlan; Aatzin gave this daughter to Acamapichtli to help him produce a child when his own wife, Illancueitl could not have children (all according to Chimalpahin)
(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, 82–83.
a medicinal plant, mixed with other plants and stones for making a drink to cure head ailments (fever and chills); also used with injuries of the feet
Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 17 [7r.], 53 [37r.].
mosaic turquoise diadem, the pre-contact Mexican royal crown Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 113, 114.
the turquoise diadem Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 57.
a binding of the years; a calendrical concept; this happened every fifty-two years; originally, 1 Tochtli (One Rabbit) was recognized as the beginning of the first cycle of fifty-two years; but it was changed to 2 Acatl (Two Reed) in 1455 as a result of 1454 being a year of troubles (see attestations)
turquoise ear plugs Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 128.
the Morning Star; also, Xiuhnel was the name of a Cloud Serpent {mixcoatl) in an origin story studied by Williard Gingerich; Xiuhneltzin was a Chichimec ruler who governed in Temilco; the name Xiuhnel was also taken by tribute payers, such as in the area of Mexico City, held by a man who lived in the city prior to the Spanish invasion) see attestations; it is also regularly attested in sixteenth-century Huejotzingo (contemporary state of Puebla).
a woman's name; in the Historia Tolteca Chichimeca, she is mentioned as being a wife (zohuatl), apparently of an Olmec Xicalanca tlahtoani (sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan) Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 152.