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Acolhuacan

The land of the Acolhua on the east side of the lake of Mexico, whose capital was Texcoco. Nezahualcoyotl ruled it in the fifteenth century.

Today: eastern Valley of Mexico, State of Mexico, Mexico

Songs of Flowers and Parting

Nahua singers, three songs from the Cantares mexicanos manuscript, as printed by Daniel G. Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry (Philadelphia, 1887), songs XXII–XXIV · sung before and after the Spanish conquest; written down in the sixteenth century; printed 1887

XXIII.4

Quenon maniz tlallin Acolihuacan huiya cuixoca quen mano o ticmomoyahuaz in momacehuali ye nimitzcahua noteouh, etc.

How will the land of Acolihuacan endure? Will you someday scatter your people? Now I leave you, my god, and so on.