So also did the four hundred Chichimecs, and these set about to burn one of the five goddesses, by name Coatlicue, the Serpent Skirted, because it was discovered that she was with child, though yet unmarried.

According to general tradition the Chichimecs were a barbarous people who inhabited Mexico before the Aztecs came.

Yet Sahagun says the Toltecs were the real Chichimecs (Lib. x, cap. xxix).

2. Here unrolled itself the royal line of Colhuacan, here our nobles of Colhuacan, united with the Chichimecs.

The Chichimecs and the leaders and Iztaccoyotl have with difficulty and vain labor arranged and set in order their jewels and feathers.

The battle is there, the beginning of the battle is in the open fields, the smoke of the warriors winds around and curls upward from the slaughter of the flowery war, ye friends and warriors of the Chichimecs. 5.

There comes from within the heavens a good flower, a good song, which will destroy your grief, destroy your sorrow; therefore, Chief of the Chichimecs, be glad and rejoice.

CHICHIMECATL or CHICHIMECS, 88, 89, 91, 101.

Chief of a town of the Chichimecs, situated on Lake Chalco.

An early if not the first king of the Chichimecs.