Tetzcoco.

Headword: 
Tetzcoco.
Principal English Translation: 

a place name; a very important altepetl, founded by the Acolhua people, located in the eastern area of the Nahua heartland

Orthographic Variants: 
Tezcoco, Tezcuco, Tetzcuco, Texcoco, Tetzcohco, Tetzicocon, Tetzicoco
IPAspelling: 
tetskohko
Frances Karttunen: 

TETZCOHCO place name Texcoco [(4)Bf.4r,4v,9v,11v,(2)Cf.56r,97r]. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 237.

Attestations from sources in English: 

In jpan xiujtl 1521, oc ceppa oallaque in españoles, ompa omotlalique, in tetzcuco, uecauhtica qujniauchiuhque, qujmpeuhque, qujmjcalque, in mexica. = In the year 1521, the Spaniards came once more. They stayed there in Texcoco. After some time they made war, and they vanquished and fought the Mexicans. (central Mexico, sixteenth century) Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 22. Tetzcoco was a prominant part of Acolhuacan. See the glyph for the conquest of Acolhuacan in the Codex Mendoza, lámina 5v. ¶ i tecpatl xihuitl 1532 años ypan in momiquilli Don hernando cortes yxtlilxochitzin thahtohuani tetzcuco yehuatl in y huel quinpalehui españoles ynic cacique mexico = The year One Flint, 1532. At this time don Hernando Cortés Ixtlilxochitzin, ruler of Texcoco, died. He was the one who aided the Spaniards well when they captured Mexico. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century) Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 236, 237. Tetzcoco had six divisions: Mexicapan, Culhuacan, Tecpanecapan, Huitznahuac, Chimalpan, and Tlailotlacan. (Citing Ixtlilxochitl, vol. I, 164.) Edward John Payne, History of the New World Called America, Book II, Aboriginal America (Clarendon Press, 1899), 538, note 1.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

En un estudio de sucesión y alianzas matrimoniales entre los señores de Teotihuacan y los señores de Tetzcoco, Pedro Carrasco dice, "Los señores del linaje subordinado de Teotihuacan casan con princesas del linaje superior de Tetzcoco, las cuales reciben tierras dotales que afianzan la situación del señor de Teotihuacan como subordinado de Tetzcoco. Al repetirse la alianza matrimonial de ambos linajes en generaciones sucesivas los señores de Teotihuacan casan con mujeres que resultan ser agnadas de las madres de estos señores de Teotihuacan. Son casamientos del tipo 'con prima cruzada matrilateral'." Pedro Carrasco, "Sucesión y alianzas matrimoniales en la disnastía Teotihuacana," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 235–241, ver la pág. 238.ynicã ypã altepetl ciudad tetzcocu = Aquí en el altepetl y ciudad de Tetzcocu (Tetzcoco, 1580)
Benjamin Daniel Johnson, “Transcripción de los documentos Nahuas de Tezcoco en los Papeles de la Embajada Americana resguardados en el Archivo Histórico de la Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia de México”, en Documentos nahuas de Tezcoco, Vol. 1, ed. Javier Eduardo Ramírez López (Texcoco: Diócesis de Texcoco, 2018), 74–75.

themes: 
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