Acacitli

Acacitli (Nahuatl for "reed hare";[1] pronounced [aːkaˈsiʔtɬi]) was a Mexica chief and one of the "founding fathers" of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire.

Acacitli
Acacitli's image
Acacitli (mislabelled as Ocelopan[1]) with his name glyph in the Codex Mendoza.
ChildrenQueen Tezcatlan Miyahuatzin
RelativesHuitzilihuitl (grandson)

According to the Crónica mexicayotl, his daughter Tezcatlan Miyahuatzin was married to Acamapichtli, the first tlatoani of Tenochtitlan, and gave birth to King Huitzilihuitl.[2]

See also

Notes
  1. Berdan & Anawalt (1997): p. 5.
  2. Chimalpahin (1997): pp. 36–37.

References
  • Berdan, Frances F; Patricia Rieff Anawalt (1997). The Essential Codex Mendoza. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 5. ISBN 0-520-20454-9.
  • Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997). "Mexican History or Chronicle". Codex Chimalpahin: society and politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and other Nahua altepetl in central Mexico: the Nahuatl and Spanish annals and accounts collected by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin. Edited and translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 25–177. ISBN 0-8061-2921-2.
  • García Granados, Rafael (1952). "3 Acacitli". Diccionario Biográfico de Historia Antigua de Méjico. Méjico: Instituto de Historia. pp. vol. 1, p. 2.
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