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Axayacatl (/ ˌ æ ʃ ə ˈ j ɑː k ə t əl /; Classical Nahuatl: āxāyacatl [aːʃaːˈjákatɬ] ⓘ; Spanish: Axayácatl [axaˈʝakatɬ]; meaning "face of water"; c. 1449 –1481) was the sixth tlatoani of the altepetl of Tenochtitlan and Emperor of the Aztec Triple Alliance.
The Obsidian and Blood series by Aliette de Bodard is set in the last year of the reign of Axayacatl and the first years of the reign of Tizoc, with their youngest brother Ahuitzotl appearing as a primary character. The second book, Harbinger of the Storm is primarily set during the election of Tizoc as tlatoani after the death of Axayacatl.
2.3 The reigns of Axayacatl 1469–1481 and Tizoc 1481–1486. 2.4 The reign of Moctezuma II Xocoyotzin. ... Guggenheim Museum, New York. Hassig, Ross (1988) ...
Axayacatl himself was wounded in the battle, retreated to Tenochtitlan, and never engaged the Purépecha in battle again. [38] In 1472, Nezahualcoyotl died, and his son Nezahualpilli was enthroned as the new huetlatoani of Texcoco. [39] This was followed by the death of Axayacatl in 1481. [38] Axayacatl was replaced by his brother Tizoc. Tizoc ...
Cortés and his army were permitted to stay in the Palace of Axayacatl, and tensions continued to grow. While the Spaniards were in Tenochtitlan, Velázquez assembled a force of nineteen ships, more than 1400 soldiers with twenty cannons, eighty horsemen, one-hundred and twenty crossbowmen, and eighty arquebusiers under the command of Pánfilo ...
[3] Therefore, it is believed that Quecholcohuatl and Axayacatl engaged in sexual relations that afternoon before a great feast. [1] Axayacatl died two years later in 1481. His successor and eldest half-brother, Tizoc , completed the process of reinstating the royal lines and tlatoque of Chalco in 1486.
Xicotencatl II Axayacatl, also known as Xicotencatl the Younger (died 1521), was a prince and warleader, probably with the title of Tlacochcalcatl, [citation needed] of the pre-Columbian state of Tlaxcala at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
The stone was likely created in 1438 under the rule of Axayacatl (1469-1481). [1] [10] The artist of the Coyolxauhqui stone carved this disk in high relief out of a single large stone, 3.25 meters in diameter. Aztec historian Richard Townsend describes it as one of the most powerfully expressive sculptures of Mesoamerican art, using "an ...