a name; perhaps meaning "Yellow Parrot of the Water" (see attestations)
1) a noblewoman who married a Mexica Chichimeca named Izquitecatl tequihua (also known as Izquitecatl Iztahuatzin); she was the mother of the second Acamapichtli; her father may have been Cocoxtli, of Colhuacan (all according to Chimalpahin) (central Mexico, seventeenth century)
2) the daughter of Achitometl (king) and Xolocihuatl (queen) of Colhuacan, and this Atotoztli was betrothed to Huetzin of Coatlichan according to the Codex Xolotl
3) the daughter of Motecuzoma and Chichimecacihuatzin, and this Atotoztli was married to Itzcoatl's son Tezozomoc and become mother to the later kings Axayacatl, Tizoc, and Ahuitzotl
A woman of this name is seen in the Codex Telleriano Remensis (f. 29v.) as linked to Ilancueitl and Acamapichtli. Another Atotoztli, who married to one of the pipiltin in a subdivision of Huexotzinco, appears in the Matrícula of Huexotzinco of 1560 (see f. 744v). (SW)