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his distinguished reign that the most costly cotton fabrics and the most 
imposing works of Toltec architecture and ornamentation were produced. 
The cities were embellished with magnificent edifices, particularly that 
great mystic town Teotihuacan , which in the native Toltec tongue signi¬ 
fies habitation of the gods. It was in Teotihuacan where the great tem¬ 
ples of Tonatiuh Itzacual (house of the sun) and Meztli Itzacual (house of 
the moon) were raised. 
After Naxacoc, the next ruler, the government was entrusted to Mitl¬ 
zin. The new king, rich in personal and social virtues, ascended the 
throne in 979 amidst the jo} r ous manifestations of the people. Mitlzin, 
or Mitl, patriotic and possessed naturally of a spirit of progress, spared 
no pains in promoting the welfare of his country. He soon conquered 
the admiration and love of his fellowmen by stimulating with undying 
enthusiasm progress in all conditions of life and society. Thus, industry, 
the arts, agriculture and science, all and each received protection, but 
that kind of protection that can alone contribute to the greatness and 
happiness of nations. Mitlzin was certainly the greatest of the Toltec 
rulers. The monarch, imbued with religious ideas, and solicitous of the re¬ 
ligion of his ancestors and of his people, promoted and carried into effect 
the erection of a new temple which, for its gorgeousness, grandeur and 
magnificence, should surpass the many other sanctuaries already in ex¬ 
istence, especially at Teotihuacan. That temple was the great Teocalli , 
dedicated to the Frog, the goddess of water. It was also during his 
reign that a seminary was founded for the assemblage of the most eminent 
men in the arts, literature, science and philosophy. 
His period being about to expire, the king prepared himself to receive 
iiis successor, but his most loyal caciques and the people in general, in 
recognition of the monarch’s important services to the country at large, 
laid aside for the first time the prescription of the law, and the king was 
urged upon to continue at the head of the government. The acceptance 
of a second term was hailed with universal satisfaction. Mitlzin con¬ 
tinued in power amidst the most enthusiastic manifestations of private 
and public rejoicings. 
During seven years of his second term the monarch continued to give 
complete satisfaction in the management of the government, when death 
came to cut short a most worthy life, a life consecrated to the good of 
the country he loved so well and of the people by whom he was so 
beloved. 
According to law women were exempt from occupying the throne as 
rulers of the nation. But the Toltecs, true to the memory of the defunct 
monarch, grateful for his distinguished services, and as an honor they 
desired to confer upon the faithful and intelligent wife that had so aided 
her husband in the discharge of his high duties, once more disregarded 
