Cuauhtlequetzqui

In addition, this personage is projected further into the past, making him the first cuauhtlahto (Mexica leader) "to set out" from Aztlan,[1] Chimalpain places him as ruler from 1116-1153, and even says that he is the same person mentioned from 1280 AD onward.

His historical participation is extensively mythologised, his first action is in the war against the Texcaltepeca-Malinalcas in 1281, when, as war-leader, he distinguished himself by capturing Copil, the enemy leader, and taking his daughter, Xicomoyahual, to marry.

[2] With the failure at Chapoltepec in 1281, the myth came to symbolise the foundation of the site, with the legend becoming the justification for Tenochca domination over other peoples, as well as aligning them theologically with the Matalazincas.

He only ruled for five years, being killed in the final battle when the warriors of Teotenanco tried, unsuccessfully, to recapture the area of the forest.

But, upon failing at the siege of Chapoltepec (1281), Copil's campaign became the seed of the founding symbol, so the myth would have the function of legitimizing the rights of the Tenochcas over other peoples in addition to linking "theogonically" with the Matlatzincas.