atlitic.

Headword: 
atlitic.
Principal English Translation: 

inside the water; at least sometimes a reference to Mexico City, which was surrounded by lakes (central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 106–107.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Ynic chiquacen ytoca acamapichtli ynin yxhuiuhtzin yn coxcoxtli yehuatl yn tlahtocatico achto nican mexico tenochtitlan yn tultzallan acatzallan atlitic motenehua = The sixth was named Acamapichtli. This one was a grandson of Coxcoxtli. He was the first to rule here in Mexico Tenochtitlan Toltzallan Azatzallan in the midst of the water, [as] it was called. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 106–107.

Also a placename, e.g. La Magdalena Atlitic, or Santa María Magdalena Atlitic (today Magdalena Contreras), part of Mexico City, once part of Coyoacan, and with abundant water. There is also a place name called Atlitic on the map of the Relación Geográfica of what is now called Yecapixtla (originally Yacapitztla). See our Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs. (SW)

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