Cuacuatzin
From Academic Kids
Cuaucuauhtzin lord of Tepechpan
Born probably around 1410. He was a renowned poet in the Pre-Columbian nahua world but little is known about his life.
His king or "tlatoque" was Nezahualcoyotl with whom he shared the same ideas in his poems:
- The feather of the quetzal will break,
- the paintings will fade,
- the flower will die.
- ¿Will they exist
- in the house of the giver of life?"
He died in 1440 ( year 13 knife in the aztec calendar), through a plot by Nezahualcoyotl who coveted his young wife Azcalxóchitzin. He was sent to die on the war front. He wrote a poem in a style called "sad song" when he knew about the plot.
