a citizen of Xochitlan; or, one of four women who were sacrificed (burned?) to honor mountain deities; or, a victim of the festival of the 13th month (see attestations)
Xochitecuhtli was a prehispanic lord who was allied with the Mexica and won rewards of lands and water for his people in the Puebla area. His story was told by a seventeenth-century Popoloca cacique and chronicler in 1675. Lidia E. Gómez García, Los anales nahuas de la ciudad de Puebla de los Angeles, siglos XVI y XVIII. Escribiendo historia indígena como aliados del Rey Católico de España (Puebla: D.R. H. Ayuntamiento de Puebla, 2019), 49.
Xochitecuhtli's life apparently spanned the prehispanic and early colonial periods. Eventually, he had baptismal names in front of his Nahua name: José de San Juan Xochitecutli Aguila Ocelote. Anales de Tepetopan. De Xochitecuhtli a don Juan de San Juan Olhuatecatl, 1370(?)-1675. Transcripción paleográfica, traducción, estudio, y anotaciones de Blanca Lara Tenorio, Eustaquio Celestino Solís, y Elisa Pérez Alemán (México: INAH, CIESAS, 2009), p. 28.)