Cuauhtlequetzqui
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Correctly would be Cuauhtliquetzqui; "eagle that rise". Several personages with this name exist.
Most important probably he was born between 1250 and 1260, his father also was called Cuauhtlequetzqui, fact that is part of the confusion. In addition the personage is projected to the past, doing it first cuauhtlahto " to get out" of Aztlan, thus written by Chimalpain p.159, puts who it as she runs of 1116-1153, even says that he is the same of 1280.
His historical participation excessively is mithific, his first intervention is in the war against texcaltepecas-malinalcas in 1281, where being the commander in chief Copil stands out when capturing, the rival captain, takes his Xicomoyahualtzin wife, from them will be born Cohuatzontli. In the myth it is mentioned that Copil is son of Malinalxoch, that is brother as well of Huitzilopochtli, this woman was left of dishonourable way in Malinalco and swore to take revenge itself, his son would be the means. But when failing in the site of Chapoltepec (1281) becomes the simiente from the foundation symbol, reason why the myth would have the function to legitimize rights of tenochcas on other towns besides tying "teological" with matlatzincas.
With the victory in Chapoltepec is named ruler of the place obtaining the mexitin its own one excan tlahtoloyan (Huixachtitlan-Cuauhmixtitlan- Chapoltepec), Cuauhtlequetzqui only governs five years, because in 1285 the one of Teotenanco tries to recover the zone of the forest, they not obtain but Cuauhtlequetzqui dies in the final battle.
[edit] Bibliografía
- Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo. Las ocho relaciones y el memorial de Colhuacan. CNCA. Mexico 1998.
- Garibay Kintana, Angel Maria. Teogonía e Historia de los mexicanos. Ed. Porrúa. Mexico 1986.
- Torquemada, Fray Juan de. Monarquia Indiana. B.E.U. #84 UNAM. Mexico 1995.
