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Mazatzin.

Headword: 
Mazatzin.
Principal English Translation: 

a personal name; the name of a Chichimec ruler of Huexotla (Huejutla) (see the Florentine Codex); his name means "Deer"

Attestations from sources in English: 

Injc ce tlatoanj muchiuh uexutla Maçatzin tecutli in tlatocat epoalxiujtl ipan caxtolxiujtl ioan exiujtl. = The first who became ruler of Uexotla [was] Maçatzin tecutli. He ruled seventy-eight years. (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), 13.