Barbara_E._Mundy]_The_Death_of_Aztec_Tenochtitlan

246 • The deaTh of azTec TenochTiTLan, The Life of mexico ciTy

vulture vessel, 160, 161

water: and cosmovision, 28–29, 31; deities
associated with, 23, 42–45; drought of 1540s,
194, 196, 225n15; flow of water connected
with Mexica rulers, 24, 27, 38, 71, 189, 193;
ideologies of, 27–28, 34; and indigenous
government of Mexico-Tenochtitlan,
190–191, 194; and lived spaces, 39–42; and
place-names, 49–50; and post-Conquest
drought, 75, 196; in representations of space
of Tenochtitlan, 27, 28, 32–35, 214n22; and
search for ideal altepetl, 30–34; sources of,
61–67; Spanish distrust of, 75, 194; streams as
connective axes, 33, 51; taxonomy of, 44; and
Templo Mayor, 50, 51; and Teocalli of Sacred

Warfare, 45–49; types of, 44; water control

in Tenochtitlan, 27, 34–35, 37–41, 43, 48, 53,

71, 75–77, 189, 194, 196, 210. See also aquatic

infrastructure; hydraulic environment

Whittaker, Gordon, 128, 139, 221n2

Wicke, Charles R., 216n67

Wittfogel, Karl, 27, 35

women, indigenous, and Tianguis of Mexico,

88, 218n53

World Tree, 48, 48

Wyman, Lance, 20

Xico (city), place-name of, 49, 49

Xipe Totec (patron deity of Mexica rulers;

deity of springtime and regeneration), 57, 58,

70–71, 125, 126, 155

xiuhhuitzolli (turquoise miter), 62, 100, 111

Xiuhtecuhtli (solar deity), 34, 34

Xochimilco: city of, 18, 35, 37, 71, 131, 160; lake of,

35, 39, 41

Xochiquentzin, Pablo Tlacatecuhtli (r. 1530–

1536): death of, 101; as gobernador, 77, 83, 84,

94; and indigenous lands, 94; palace of, 111; in

Plano Parcial de la Ciudad de México, 77, 79

Xomimitl (arrow foot), 58, 131

Yopico, 58, 71, 110, 216n25

Zapotecs, 179, 224n48

Zócalo. See Plaza Mayor, Mexico City

Zorita, Alonso de, 157, 159, 163, 166, 181, 181 , 189

Zumárraga, Juan de, 76, 83, 107, 219n35