TLACOPAN, now TACUBA, 135. A small state west of Mexico and subject to it, built up on the ruins of the ancient Tepanecas. Comp. from _tlacotli_, a slave.
TLAHUICAN, 118. A Nahuatl province south of the valley of Mexico, so called from the cinnabar, _tlahuitl_, there obtained (Buschmann; but the _Cod. Ramirez_ gives the meaning "toward the earth," from _tlalli_ and _huic_). [*Transcriber's note: TLAHUICAN not found in text. See Tlahuica in Vocabulary.]
TLAILOTLACAN, 140. One of the seven divisions of the city of Tezcuco (_Ixtlilxochitl_, _Hist. Chichimeca_, cap. 38). [*Transcriber's note: TLAILOTLACAN not found in text.]
TLAILOTLAQUI, 84. Literally, "workers in refuse," or "scavengers." Said by M. Aubin to have been a tribe who settled in Tezcuco in the reign of Quinantzin. The term is apparently one of contempt. [*Transcriber's note: TLAILOTLAQUI not found on page 84 in text. See Tlailotlaqui in Vocabulary.]
TLALMANALCO, 42. A village near the foot of the volcano Popocatepetl. Derived from _tlalmanalli_, level ground, with postpos. _co_.
TLALNAHUACATL, 89. "Dweller on the land;" name of a warrior.
TLALOC, 45. God of rain and the waters; a famous divinity among the ancient Mexicans. The word means "stretched on the earth," and the idol of the god represented a man extended on his back holding a vase.
TLAPALLAN, 105. A mythical land from which the Toltecs were fabled to have come and to which Quetzalcoatl returned. The derivation is from _tlapalli_, color, especially red.
TLATETOLCO, TLATILULCO, 33, 83, 85. A suburb of the ancient city of Mexico, founded in 1338; from _tlatelli_, a mound, _ololoa_, to make round, the sense being "an island." See Motolinia, _Historia de los Indios_, Trat. III, cap. 7.
TLAXCALLAN, now TLASCALA, 89, 93, 103. "The place of bread," from _tlaxcalli_, bread. Site of a warlike tribe of Nahuatl descent, east of the valley of Mexico.
TLATZIN, 46. Chief of a town of the Chichimecs, situated on Lake Chalco. He flourished toward the close of the 14th century. From _tlatli_, a falcon.
TOCHIN, 89. From _tochtli_, rabbit; name of the brother of the Tezcucan ruler Quinantzin, and of many other personages.
TOLLAN, or TULAN, 46, 105, 107. The ancient mythical capital of the Toltecs. The common derivation from _tolin_, a rush, is erroneous. The name is a syncopated form of _tonatlan_, "the place of the sun."
