Pop Culture References of Wizard101: Azteca – Tezomoc Stone Singer

https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Tezomoc_Stone_Singer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tezozomoc_(Azcapotzalco)

Tezomoc Stone Singer

Level 88+ Necromancers must defeat Tezomoc Stone Singer to earn their Avenging Fossil Spell.

“Your blood… will feed… the song of the stones!” – Tezomoc Stone Singer

Tezozomoc Yacateteltetl (also Tezozómoc, Tezozomoctli, Tezozomoctzin; 1320 – 1426), was a Tepanec leader who ruled the altepetl (ethnic state) of Azcapotzalco from the year 1353 or Five Reed (1367) or Eight Rabbit (1370)[sources vary] until his death in the year Twelve Rabbit (1426). Histories written down in the early colonial period portray Tezozomoc as a military and political genius who oversaw an expansion of Tepanec influence, bringing about Azcapotzalco’s dominance in the Valley of Mexico and beyond.

Tezozomoc in the Codex Xolotl, with his name glyph (top) and the glyph for Azcapotzalco (right)

Tezozomoc was a son of Acolnahuacatzin and Cuetlaxochitzin. He is described by Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl as a tyrant and: “the most cruel man who ever lived, proud, warlike and domineering. And he was so old, according to what appears in the histories, and to what elderly princes have told me, that they carried him about like a child swathed in feathers and soft skins; they always took him out into the sun to warm him up, and at night he slept between two great braziers, and he never withdrew from their glow because he lacked natural heat. And he was very temperate in his eating and drinking and for this reason he lived so long.”

The current list of all the (known) Azteca references are located here.

Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references, I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.

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