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Tlacochteuctli.
Headword:
Tlacochteuctli.
Principal English Translation:
a noble title, Lord of Darts (or arrows)
Orthographic Variants:
Tlacochtecuhtli
Attestations from sources in English:
See an image that represents Tlacochteuctli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
The Codex of Mendoza identifies a Tlacochteuctli as the gobernador. See the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.
Patrick Hajovsky (On the Lips of Others, 2015, 52) writes, "The crown and arrows phonetically signify the title of Tlacochtecuhtli (Lord of Darts) who was associated with the Tlacochcalco (House of Darts)." Two Nahua men in the Testaments of Culhuacan (Cline and León-Portilla) either held the title of Tlacochtecuhtli or this was part of their names.