1) Xolotl, the name of a Chichimec ruler; said to have died at the age of 200, after ruling 112 years; 2) there is a sixteenth-century manuscript, the Codex Xolotl; 3) Xolotl, the name of the divine force of lightning and death, typically depicted as a dog-headed man; and 4), xolotl or xoloitzcuintli, a type of dog, the Mexican hairless
anoço tozquaxolotl = or the yellow Xolotl head (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
tozquaxolotl iquetzaltemal, coztic teucujtlaio, toçehoatl inamjc, coztic teucujtlatl injc motlotloujtec, xoxouhquj quaxolotl, quetzallo coztic teucujtlaio in jnamic xoxouhquj eoatl.
Iztac quaxolotl, quetzallo, coztic teucujtlaio in jnamjc iztac eoatl. Chichiltic quaxolotl, quetzallo, coztic teucujtlaio, in jeoaio, çan no chichiltic. = The Xolotl head of yellow parrot feathers, with balls of quetzal feathers, was ornamented with gold. With it belonged a shirt of yellow parrot feathers with hawk scratch decorations in gold.
The blue Xolotl head was ornamented with quetzal feathers and gold. With it belonged a blue shirt. The white Xolotl head was ornamented with quetzal feathers and gold. With it belonged a white shirt. The bright red Xolotl head was ornamented with quetzal feathers and gold; its shirt was likewise bright red. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Ypan onpoali yhuá chi come xihuitl oazico yn Pilli. Xolotl, ohuallaque hoc yeintin tlatoque = In the forty and seventh year after the noble Xolotl arrived, another three rulers came
Xolotl, the Chichimec ruler is said to have died at the age of 200, after ruling 112 years; his son Nopaltzin inherited his rule; also, a name given to campesinos in the sixteenth century in what is now the state of Morelos
ymach y vevetl ytoca xolotl = Here is Huehuetl's nephew named Xolotl. (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Códice Xolotl is a historical manuscript held in the French national library in Paris. For an excellent study of this manuscript, see the work of Marc Thouvenot.