Acolhuacan

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Not to be confused with Culhuacan.
Aztec glyph for Acolhuacan, which depicts an arm with water emerging from the humerus.[1]

Acolhuacan or Aculhuacan (

Texcoco (Tetzcoco).[4]

In some sources, the name "Acolhuacan" was also used to refer to a city within the larger Acolhuacan province (e.g., in the

Frances Berdan and Patricia Rieff Anawalt argue that it was likely Texcoco, Acolman, or Coatlichan, with the latter two being "the most likely prospects."[1] Additional scholars largely agree that Acolhuacan was likely another name for Coatlichan.[6][7]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Berdan and Anawalt (1997): p. 38.
  2. ^ Karttunen (1983): p. 3.
  3. ^ Lee (2009): p. 90.
  4. ^ Johnson (2017): p. xiii.
  5. ^ Berdan and Anawalt (1997): p. 37.
  6. ^ Gibson (1964): p. 17.
  7. ^ Lee (2009): p. 78, 90.

References

  • Berdan, Frances; Anawalt, Patricia Rieff (1997). The Essential Codex Mendoza. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
    ISBN 978-0-520-20454-6
    .
  • JSTOR 2508623
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  • Gibson, Charles (1964). The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule: A History of the Indians of the Valley of Mexico, 1519-1810. Stanford University Press.
    ISBN 978-0-8047-0196-9
    .
  • Johnson, Benjamin D. (2017). Pueblos within Pueblos. Boulder, CA: University Press of Colorado.
    ISBN 978-1-60732-690-8
    .
  • ISBN 0-8061-2421-0
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  • Lee, Jongsoo (2009-12-09). The Allure of Nezahualcoyotl: Pre-Hispanic History, Religion, and Nahua Poetics.
    ISBN 978-0-8263-4339-0
    .


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