Ilancuéitl

Drawn based on several codices.

Ilancuēitl is the name of various historical Mexican characters, both women and men, little known. This name in Nahuatl means 'skirt of old woman' (cuē (i) -tl 'skirt, skirt, dress', ilam-ah 'old woman').

The period from 1299 to 1376 is filled with gaps and imprecise data, curiously and despite being the crucial moment in which the city of Mexico was supposed to have been founded, it was necessary to investigate in detail the true origins of the Mexicas. This investigation reveals the existence of Ilancuēitl (woman) who ruled the Mexicas (1299-1347), was the wife of Huēhueh Ācamāpīchtli (tlahtoāni of Cōlhuahcān), was the daughter of Ahcolmiztli, lord of Cōhuatlīnchān and was imposed on the Mexicas by Coxcox the Coxcoxtli, tlahtoāni of Cōlhuahcān.

Ilancueitl appears in the Codex Ixhuatepec, Fragment of l'histoire des anciens mexicains, Xolotl, Garcia Granados among others. Although the most important image appears the Codex Tellereriano-Remensis, in which it is confirmed that it is wife of Huehue Acamapichtli and mother of the second Acamapichtli. The sources are clear in the description of the foundation of Mexico, most making it coincide with the year 1325 but later and somewhat earlier events are brief and ambiguously described, as the foundation of Tlatelolco, the Otomian wars or the ascent of Tezozomoc. This situation must be understood as the result of a manipulation to hide certain information. Some sources point out that Tenoch ruled from 1299 to 1363, a period of 64 years rather long compared to the average life of the time, if so his government should have left more testimonies and vestiges, which do not exist, so that a government directed by Ilancueitl between 1299 and 1347 is feasible, being his successor Tenoch of 1347 to 1363. Bibliography

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