one of the sacred names held by the divine force also known as Huitzilopochtli, taken as an ethnic name by the migrants who were carrying him and settling Mexico-Tenochtitlan
See an image that represents Mexih in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
"... el sacerdote y señor que los guiaba, se llama Meci (Mexi), de donde toda la congregación tomó la denominación". Durán. Historia de las Indias de Nueva España (1951 I 19). Cf. Códice Ramírez. Relación del origen de los indios. 1944, 24. Cf. Cronica Mexicayotl 1949, 14-16.