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Xochitecuhtli.

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Xochitecuhtli.
Principal English Translation: 

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.)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Ypan xihuitl 1571 = 62 años. Nehuatl notoca nixochitecutli niquauhtl niocelotli nican onitlacatli ypan ynin tepetl ytoca Quauhtli = En este año de 1571 = 62 años; Yo me llamo Xochitecutli, soy águila, soy ocelote, aquí nací en este cerro llamado Quautli. (Anales de Tepeteopan, Puebla, s. XVII)
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).)

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