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Xiuhcozcatl.

Headword: 
Xiuhcozcatl.
Principal English Translation: 

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.

Orthographic Variants: 
Xiuhcuzcatl
Attestations from sources in English: 

ytoca xiuhcuzcatl = named Xiuhcozcatl (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 134–135.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Names (for people, deities)
See also: 
totolin.
tōtolin.
xiuhcozcatl.