Tangaxoan (Zinzicha)
The eldest son of Zuangua, who succeeded him as ruler of the Purépecha.
The Mexica Embassy and the Smallpox in Michoacán
Purépecha elders and a Franciscan friar, Relación de Michoacán (about 1539–1541), on the Mexica embassy of 1520 and the death of the cazonci Zuangua · compiled about 1539–1541 (events of 1520)
y fuéronse á sus casas y no supo mas, y vino luego una pestilencia de viruelas é cámaras de sangre por toda la provincia, y murieron todos los obispos de los ques, y todos los señores, y el cazonci viejo Zuangua murió de las viruelas, y quedaron sus hijos Tangaxoan, por otro nombre Zinzicha que era el mayor, Tirimarasco, Hazinchu, Cuyne.
Then they went to their houses, and nothing more came of it. Soon afterward a pestilence of smallpox and bloody flux swept through the whole province. All the high priests of the temples died, and all the lords. The old cazonci Zuangua died of the smallpox. He left his sons: Tangaxoan, also called Zinzicha, who was the eldest; Tirimarasco; Hazinchu; and Cuyne.