The Tepanecs, or Tepaneca, had arrived in…

The Tepanecs, or Tepaneca, had arrived in the Valley of Mexico in the late twelfth or early thirteenth centuries.

Welcomed to the Valley of Mexico by Xolotl, the god with associations to both lightning and death, the Tepanecs, as well as the Acolhua and other tribes speaking the Nahuatl language and sharing the same general pantheon, with local and tribal variations, have settled on the west shores of Lake Texcoco.

Under their tlatoani, Acolnahuacatl, the Tepanec had taken over Azcapotzalco from the indigenous inhabitants.

Azcapotzalco and ...