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Atotoztli I

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Atotoztli I of Culhuacan
SpouseOpochtli Iztahuatzin
ChildrenAcamapichtli
ParentCoxcoxtli
Atotoztli's son Acamapichtli is here depicted twice. From Codex Mendoza.
For her great-great-granddaughter, see Atotoztli II.

Atotoztli I (Classical Nahuatl: Atotoztli) was a Princess of Culhuacan.[1]

She was a daughter of King Coxcoxtli and sister of King Huehue Acamapichtli.[2] She married Opochtli Iztahuatzin and bore him a son called Acamapichtli after her brother.[3] She lived with her son in Texcoco. Her son became the first Aztec emperor.[4]

Atotoztli was an ancestor of many Aztec emperors — kings of Tenochtitlan.

Coxcoxtli
Atotoztli I
Acamapichtli
Huitzilihuitl
Moctezuma I
Atotoztli II
Axayacatl
Moctezuma II

Sources

  1. ^ Curt Muser (1978). Facts and Artifacts of Ancient Middle America: A Glossary of Terms and Words Used in the Archaeology and Art History of Pre-Columbian Mexico and Central America. Dutton. ISBN 978-0-525-47489-0.
  2. ^ Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin. Codex Chimalpahin. ISBN 0-8061-2921-2.
  3. ^ Susan D. Gillespie (2016) [1989]. The Aztec Kings: The Construction of Rulership in Mexican History. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-3478-4.
  4. ^ Frederick Ward Putnam, Alfred Louis Kroeber, Robert Harry Lowie. Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Opseg 17.

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