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I am a direct ancester to the Princess Xochitl, and named after her and so is my grandmother, great great grandmother and on up the line. It is pronounced So-Chee OR So-chill in spanish, In aztec it is pronounced Zoe-Chee-Tul. The name means flower in Aztec. The princess Xochitl was the daughter of the aztec emporior. She was suppose to marry a warrior her father approved of but She was also the mistress of Cortez. Corteze's Conquistadors were killing the aztecs in thier search for gold. The princess made a deal with Cortez in exchange for her family's life. She got the aztec warriors drunk and had sex with them. When the Warriors pasted out drunk, Cortez's army slaughtered them in thier sleep. Her misdeed was discovered by the warrior she was suppose to marry (he was gone when the slaughter happened). He became angry and jealous and killed her. During the american/mexican revolution, the american goverenment granted land around the Larado area to Xochitl's tribe in exchange for staying out of the war. Her tribe, my ancesters lived there up until 20 years ago when the american goverenment took back the land. We are now fighting in court to get it back. The name Xochitl means flower on the grape vine, is the Holiday of flowers on the aztec calendar, and is the goddess of Wine and love.
If she had not done what she did, I would not excist. Her blood still runs strong to this day
If she had not done what she did, I would not excist. Her blood still runs strong to this day
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My father gave me this name because my mother is Aztec so when I had my last daughter and I named her Bianca Xochilt Tovar. I have been told that I look like Xochitl the princess of the Aztecs it means beautiful flower a goddess, beauty, strong and she loved her people and they're loved her back. I am a princesses by name and my father if German & Spanish what a commatation.
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My mom chose this name because she knew I would like flowers because she did to she it meant the princess of the flowers another reason was because she really loved that name and my dad agreed with it just because of my mom.My mom told him what it meant so he loved it immediately so if you wondered why my name is Xochitl just read the whole thing of this comment but if you have to be somewhere please don’t waste your time on this ok I have no idea what this has the deal with this but bye.
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My daughters middle name is Xochitl!!����️���
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Just a correction about the pronunciation; it's pronounced SHO-chee-tl (though the tl part is a bit different from what it looks like), not ZOE-chee-tul, in Classical Nahuatl. The z sound seems like an Anglicized sound.
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Birth records did not exist that far back. This lineage would be impossible to document. Family lore can be sketchy at best.
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Good for You! Stay strong and persistent and you will succeed.
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yOU MAY BE THE DESCENDANT, NOT THE ANCESTOR.
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Yeah inwas wondering about thay also. An unmarried princess would not have kids.
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Good point and then there’s the multitude of Spaniards that had sex with her. And then her betrothed came and killed her for entrapping her tribe in a drunken sex brawl. There a large hole in this story and I am afraid it’s in the not so fair maiden.
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In the story (not saying it's true or not) she had sex with the Aztec warriors, not the Spanish. "She got the aztec warriors drunk and had sex with them."
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HI! I'm doing a project on the name Xochitl and I was wondering if you could send where you got this info from! Thanks!
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This name is very pretty, and I never even knew about the princess! So beautiful, and unique and unusual (in a good way)
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Thank you very much for that enlightening article.
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Malinche (Malinilli) was with Cortez. I was never with him I'm Xochitl Spirit messenger. By the way your name is beautiful God bless.
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You have the pronunciation so wrong it isn't even funny. Also it's obvious that you were told a tall tale about your ancestry, as there was no "Princess Xochitl" in Aztec society. This reeks of whiteness.
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And laredo land....i was scratching my head on tbis one
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Not Aztec, but there may have been a Toltec Queen see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xochitl_(Toltec)
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Uh... It's her name? She pronounced it how she pronounces it, which, to her, is the 'correct' pronunciation.
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I'm always amused when someone corrects another on the pronunciation of their name!
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She doesn't give "her" pronunciation, she purports to give the "Aztec" pronunciation, which she gets wrong (the tl represents the voiceless alveolar lateral affricate, a rare affricate found in some Central/North American languages and Icelandic; the second element of the affricate, the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative |ɬ|, is more common, found in Welsh, Icelandic (in both spelled ll), some Norwegian and Swedish dialects (l in the pairs lt and tl), some Caucasian, African and Asian languages and many Central/North American languages. It seems to arise by leveling of the alveolar lateral approximant |l| with the adjacent voiceless alveolar stop |t|. It's a difficult phoneme that if you didn't grow up speaking, you probably can't wrap your tongue around.
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That was kind of sad, sweet, and gross and the same time.
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Did you mean to say you're a direct descendant?
There was a Toltec queen called Xochitl. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xochitl_%28Toltec%29
Do you have any info or links for the things you are claiming. Because I only know of the Toltec queen by the name.
There was a Toltec queen called Xochitl. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xochitl_%28Toltec%29
Do you have any info or links for the things you are claiming. Because I only know of the Toltec queen by the name.
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I keep seeing these stories but know they have no truth mexica Kings had no Mistresses they had concubines ,the custom was multiple wives for many children to say they were Mistresses is to call them whores which was against Aztec law.
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Why can’t people just read a story without ripping apart the author??
Unless you are an Aztec or Toltec historian what makes you an expert on the matter
Unless you are an Aztec or Toltec historian what makes you an expert on the matter
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