THE TAJIN TOTONAC PART 1 KELLY AND PALERM 



Table 18. — The dated wars of Axayacatl (1469-81)" 



273 



Key 



No. 



map 



15 



Pueblo 



Codice Chimal- 

 popoca 



Anales de 

 Tlatelolco 



Historia de los 



mexicanos por 



sus pinturas 



Codex Telleriano- 

 Remensis 



Torquemada 



Codice en 

 Cruz 



Other sources 



1 



Tlatlauquitepec '— 



Cuaxoxoca 2 



Tlatelolco 3 



Huexotla*' 35 



Matlatzincas'- 22 -". 



Ocuilan 22 



3 calli [1469] 

 (p. 55) 



4 tochtli [1470] 

 (p. 55) 



7 calli [1473] 



(p. 55) 



8 tochtli [1474] 

 (p. 56) 



8 tochtli [1474] 

 12 tochtli [1478] 

 (pp. 56, 57) 



llO tecpatl [1476] 

 f(p. 56) 



11 calli [1477] 

 (p. 56) 



12 tochtli [1478] 



(p. 57) 















2 















3 



4 



7 calli [1473] 

 (pp. 17, 59) 



ano 151 [1473] 

 (p. 231) 



7 casas [calli] 1473 

 (5: 151) 



[1474] 

 (1: 173, 177) 



7 calli 1473 

 (pp. 59, 60, 145) 



1 8 tochtli 1474 

 [ (pp. 61, 145) 



Ixtlilxocbitl 



1463 b 

 (2: 251-252) 



5 



9 acatl [1475] 



(p. 59) 



10 tecpatl [1476] 



(p. 59) 



aflo 155 [1477] 

 (p. 231) 



6 navajas 1472 



[tecpatl] 

 (5: 151) 

 11 navajas 1476 



[tecpatl] 

 (5: 151) 



[1472] 

 [1475] 

 (1: 181-182) 



[1474] 



(1:181) 





6 





7 



Cuernavaca e 



Pochote 7. 









8 















9 







12 conejos 1478 



[tochtli] 

 (5: 152) 

 6 navajas 1472 



[tecpatl] 

 (5: 161) 



[1474] 



(1: 181) 



[1475] 



(1: 182) 



[1472] 



(1: 181) 

 1 [1475] 

 |(1: 182) 



[1472] 

 (1: 176) 



[1475] 

 (1: 182) 



I [1469] 

 f(l: 172) 



[1472] 

 (1: 176) 



1 [1474] 

 1(1: 181) 



12 tochtli 1478 

 (pp. 62-64) 





10 



Toluca 









11 



/inacATitepp.c 













12 



Tlacotepec 















33 



Totutla 















34 



Cotaxtla »■ 3! 







ano 153 [1475] 

 (p. 231) 



10 canas [acatl] 1475 

 (5: 151) 



9 acatl 1475 

 (pp. 62, 145) 





39 



Tuxpan 









50 



Tehuantepec 

















51 



Huatulco 











52 



Huejotzingo M 













Veytia 



1468 



53 



Atlixco 28 















(2: 223) 



54 



Suchixtepec J " 













55 



"Malacatepee" 



Coatepec 28 















56 





















» See the first two paragraphs of footnote a, table 16. Dubious conquest 

 or doubtful pueblo identification is discussed in the notes which accompany 

 map 15; numbered notes in the table refer to the comments appended to 



The Gulf coast was not neglected, for Mocte- 

 zuma's conquests in that area were far from se- 

 cure. 48 It was decided to invite the "new vassals" 

 of "Cempoala" and "Quiahuixtlan" to an impor- 

 tant ceremony, with the understanding that if they 

 declined, a reconquest was indicated (Tezozomoc, 

 p. 216). Prudently, they responded with alacrity 

 and war was averted. 



But just to the south, Cotaxtla revolted once 

 more, in 1475 (table 18, No. 34; map 15, No. 34). 

 To the north, a new uprising broke out in the 

 Huasteca. There are few details concerning the 

 latter; Torquemada (1:182) states merely that 

 "certain Mexican and Texcocan merchants" were 

 murdered in Tuxpan and that war followed. He 



"In fact, they -were so uncertain that Duran (1:281) even 

 speaks of "cempualtecas y quiauiztecas, dos prouincias que 

 residen junto a la costa, las quales hasta entonces no se auian 

 conquistado . . ." 



that map. Brackets apply only to the column in which they are placed. 



i> Apparently through error, the date is given as 1463 instead of 1473 (cf. 

 Ixtlilxochitl, ftn. 2, 2: 252). 



places this episode after his second war in the 

 Matlatzinca area, and, as nearly as can be told, 

 his date would be roughly 1475. In any case, the 

 campaign seems to have come late in the reign ; at 

 least the Huastecan pueblos appear at the end 

 of the lists of conquests (Codice Chimalpopoca, 

 p. 67; Anales de Tlatelolco, p. 17; Coleccion de 

 Mendoza 5 : 46) . A date somewhere between 1475 

 and 1480 cannot be far wrong. 



Tuxpan (map 15, No. 39), was not the only 

 Huastecan pueblo subjugated at this time, and at 

 least two others, also on the frontier of northern 

 Totonacapan, succumbed. These are Zapotitlan 

 (map 15, No. 37), in the vicinity of Temapache, 

 and "Micquetlan," presumably modern Mequetla 

 (map 15, No. 38), on a tributary of the Rio Tux- 

 pan. Moreover, the "Tcnexticpac," conquered by 

 Axayacatl, suggests modern Tenixtepec, near Pa- 

 pantla. However, we are relatively sure that the 



