Cuauhtecolotl (MH491v)

See also the other Cuauhtecolotl from the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, below. Cuauhtecolotl, which combines two bird names, Eagle-Owl, was a name used by some prominent men. There was, for example, a ruler in Quiahuiztlan, Tlaxcala, with the name don Baltazar Cuauhtecolotl. He is mentioned by Diego Muñoz Camargo (ed. Germán Vázquez, 1986, 130). A person named Cuauhtecolotl also appears in a poem from Chalco (Miguel León Portilla, Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World, 1992, 253). Another person named Cuauhtecolotl was a steward of Ahuatepec (Tetzcoco region) (Pedro Carrasco, The Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico, 2012, 147). John Bierhorst wondered whether a cuauhtecolotl was a fallen warrior (see his A Nahuatl-English Dictionary and Concordance to the Cantares Mexicanos, 1985, 295).