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Tenoch
Depiction of Tenoch in the Codex Mendoza.
Reign
c. 1325–1375 (?)[1]
Born
c. 1299
Died
1350, 1367 or 1375
Father
Iztac-Mixcoatl
Mother
Ilancueitl[2]
Tenoch (or Tenuch, modern Nahuatl pronunciationⓘ) was a ruler of the Mexicas (Aztecas) during the fourteenth century during the Aztec travels from Aztlán to Tenochtitlan. Tenoch's father was Iztac Mixcoatl, who had a total of seven sons with two wives. The Tenochtitlan people were originally referred to as Tenochca, then the Mexica.[3]
He was a respected chief who was elected to power by the council of elders and died sometime between 1350 and 1375, depending on the source. There is disagreement whether Tenoch is a mythological person or a real Mexica leader who was later mythologized. Tenoch was one of nine Mexica leaders who were told how Mexica could gain support from the forces of nature. After traveling southward for a span of 200 years, the Mexica found the sign. In honor of their leader, they named the small, reedy island in Lake Texcoco, Tenochtitlan. Tenochtitlan soon became the capital of the Aztec Empire.
The Nahuatl symbols of his name are found in the Mexican flag: Tetl, the rock, and Nochtli, the prickly pear cactus. The theocratic government of Tenoch lasted from 1269 to 1363. In 1325 he founded Mexico City, which was nicknamed Tenochtitlan, in honor of the claudillo[2]
Surrounded the Earth by the seas and submerged in them for a long time, the old frog, with a thousand jaws and bloody tongues, and the strange name it takes, Tlaltecuhtli; Iztac-Mixcoatl, the fierce white cloud serpent, who lives in Citlalco, joins her in sweet collusion. And six tlacame with love engender; the six brothers on earth dwell and are the trunk of various races: the first-born, the giant Xelhua, of Itzocan and Epatlan, and Cuauquechollan, the cities he founded. Tenoch, the great Aztec claudillo, in Mexico stops the march of his people, and builds the great Tenochtitlan, a lake city. The strong Cuetlachoapan founds Ulmecatl, and gives its indolent people a seat. On the shores of the gulf, Xicalancatl, the brave Mixtecatl takes refuge. Of Mixtecapan in the sour lands; Otomitl, the xocoyotl, always lives in mountains near Mexico, and there it thrives in rich populations such as Tollan, Xilotepec and Otompan[4]
— Gerónimo de Mendieta (1525–1604)
^Vázquez-Gómez 1997, p. 5. sfn error: no target: CITEREFVázquez-Gómez1997 (help)
^ abCecilio A. Robelo (1905). Diccionario de Mitología Nahoa (in Spanish). Editorial Porrúa. p. 501. ISBN 970-07-3149-9.
^de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin 1579-1660., Domingo Francisco; Schroeder, Susan; de Gómara 1511-1564., Francisco López (2010). Chimalpahin's Conquest : A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco lopez de Go´mara's la Conquista de Mexico. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. pp. 444.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^Guilhem Olivier (2015). Cacería, Sacrificio y Poder en Mesoamérica: Tras las Huellas de Mixcóatl (in Spanish). Fondo de Cultura Económica. ISBN 978-607-16-3216-6.
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