Ancient Nahuatl Poetry, Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems / Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature Number VII.

by Daniel G. Brinton

XIUHTZAL, 46. A queen of ancient Tollan, said by Clavigero to have ruled from A. D. 979 to 984. Other writers give the name more correctly Xiuhtlaltzin, "Lady of the Green Fields," and place her death in 987. (Orozco y Berra, Hist. Antig. de Mexico, Tom. III, p. 45.)

XOLOTL, 46. An early if not the first king of the Chichimecs. His death occurred in 1232.

YOHUALLATONOC, 89. "Shining at night." Name of a warrior.

YOPICO, 22. A division of the ancient city of Mexico, containing a temple of this name. The word means "the place of the tearing out of hearts" (yolltol, pi, co), from the form of sacrifice there carried out.

YOYONTZIN, 35, 40, 66, 67. A name of Nezahualcoyotl. See p. 35.

FOOTNOTES.

[1] Diego Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España, Tom. I, p. 233; and compare Geronimo de Mendieta, Historia Eclesiastica Indiana, Lib. II, cap. 31.

[2] Sahagun, Historia de Nueva España, Lib. VIII, cap. 26.

[3] Sahagun, Historia de Nueva España, Lib. III, cap. 8.