Acacitli
Acacitli | |
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Tezcatlan Miyahuatzin | |
Relatives | Huitzilihuitl (grandson) |
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.
According to the
The cuauhtlatoani
Temporality
The two main versions that expose its temporality come from the same historian: Domingo Chimalpahin, deposited at the Memorial of Colhuacan, The [3] the Seventh Relation,[4] and the Journal respectively. [5]
The Memorial de Colhuacan shares (and complements) its conclusions with the
On the other hand, the Journal provides a clearer and more coherent list based on older sources calculating in the Indigenous way, from which the inconsistencies of the periods of the other lists are observed and studied. In the same manner as the previous list, he was converted
The Annals of Tlatelolco present a different list that does not clear up the problem in its entirety, taking into account that
It is also useful to mention that it is preferable to bring the
See also
- List of Tenochtitlan rulers
Notes
- ^ a b Berdan & Anawalt (1997): p. 5.
- ^ Chimalpahin (1997): pp. 36–37.
- BnF) that succeeds the Second Relation and precedes the Third Relation is "Brief Memorial on the Foundation of the City of Culhuacan" (in the original fol. 15r: Memorial breue sobre la fundaçiô de la ciudad de Culhuacan), so it is an abbreviation.
- America and Europe, this also causes the Mexica chronology to extend into the past towards even more remote times and most of the inconsistencies arise.(Hernández Maciel 2019).
- ^ There are other versions (one by Chimalpahin) that do not expose Acacitli, so they will not be mentioned.
- Toltec, the binomial of nine (9). It was eventually standardized to ninecuauhtlahtohquehfrom the third to the fifth, which, according to the Memorial of Colhuacan complemented on this occasion by the Diary give us to understand that they are "filler": Citlallitzin: 'venerable star' (1219–1234), Tzimpantzin: 'venerable standard-bearer' (1234–1235) and Tlazohtzin: 'venerable appreciated' (1235–1239). (Hernández Maciel 2019, p. 1).
- ^ Calendric-symbolic binomial that represents the end/beginning of an event or events, so other sources point to the foundation in this year.
- ^ That instead, the Third relation (from the same Chimalpahin) clarifies this "gap" by placing Iztacmixcoatl, who would be the "initiator" of the first Mexica royal lineage.
- ^ Well, that's how the sources interpret it.
References
- Berdan, Frances F; Patricia Rieff Anawalt (1997). The Essential Codex Mendoza. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 5. ISBN 0-520-20454-9.
- 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.
- Hernández Maciel, Francisco Jesús (2019). ¿Se equivocó Chimalpahin? La manera indígena de contar el tiempo [Was Chimalpahin wrong? The indigenous way of counting time] (in Spanish). Guadalajara, México: Estudios cronológicos.