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throne, Meconetzin, under the name of Topiltzin , became in 1094 the 
ninth and last ruler of the Toltec nation. 
The assumption of the governmental power by Topiltzin was looked 
upon with disfavor, and this sad condition of affairs continued until all 
respect for the new king was entirely lost among the people. Add to 
this, the conduct observed by the monarch himself, whose laxity of 
morals was upheld and even honored by a few of his caciques and court 
sycophants. 
The curly hair, presenting the form of a tiara, which had been noticed 
on the head of the infant Meconetzin at birth, was turning out to be, as 
it had been expected, of an evil omen. 
In the course of time immorality and corruption invaded all conditions 
of life and all grades of society. While the king and many of his ca¬ 
ciques and court flatterers were leading a life of shame and vice, totally 
regardless of government and the good of the people, these were prepar¬ 
ing a just vengeance, alone to be found in rebellion and war. 
Internal dissensions gave rise to invasions by neighboring tribes; to 
confusion, anarchy, and a series of terrible encounters, all this lasting 
for a period of three years. In one of the most bloody battles the mon¬ 
arch’s old father Tecpancaltzin and his mother Xochitl lost their lives, 
and Meconetzin himself escaped through flight. The fate of the last of 
the Toltec kings was never known. 
According to ALFREDO CHAVERO,* the high priest Huemac, leav¬ 
ing Tollan with his followers, wended his way towards Xaltocan. The 
march was a direct one from North to South, traversing Coatliyapan , 
Mepocatlapan , Tepetlayacac , and Huehuecuauhtitlan. From here the 
emigrants followed a course from East to West, over the northern part of 
the Vallejo of Mexico, and passed through Nepopoalco, Jemacpalco, Aca- 
t it Ian, Tenamitliyacac, Atzcapotzalco , and Tetlilincan, where Cihuatlatonac 
was then reigning, and in his care they left the two infirm old men, 
Xochiolotzin and Coyotzin-Teotlicuacomalli; then, taking a southern course 
and turning towards the east, after going through Chapultepec , they ar¬ 
rived at Culliuacan, and there the wanderers, having abandoned the 
theocratic form of government, elected Nauhyotl as their ruler. But in 
the year chicome toclitli, 1122, Huemac, seeing himself abandoned by all 
his people, the Toltecs, hung himself in Chapultepec at a place known as 
Cincalco. 
Desolation and total devastation of the country was the final result of 
such disturbances and changes. A most terrible famine soon followed, 
which gave rise to an enormous loss of life. The populous nation was 
soon converted into a desolate cemetery. 
Thus perished a great people; thus disappeared from the face of the 
* Mexico a Travel de los Siglos, Tom. I, p. 384. 
