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'''Nezahualcoyotl''' ({{lang-nci|Nezahualcoyōtl}} {{IPA-nah|nesawalˈkojoːtɬ|||}}, {{audio|Nesawalkoyotl.ogg|modern Nahuatl pronunciation}}) (April 28, 1402 – June 4, 1472) was a scholar, philosopher (tlamatini), warrior, architect, poet and ruler (''[[tlatoani]]'') of the city-state of [[Texcoco (altepetl)|Texcoco]] in [[pre-Columbian era]] [[Mexico]]. Unlike other high-profile Mexican figures from the century preceding [[Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire]], Nezahualcoyotl was not fully [[Mexica]]; his father's people were the [[Acolhua]], another Nahuan people settled in the eastern part of the [[Valley of Mexico]], on the coast of [[Lake Texcoco]]. His mother, however, was the sister of [[Chimalpopoca]], the Mexica king of [[Tenochtitlan]].
He is best remembered for his poetry, but according to accounts by his descendants and biographers, [[Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl]] and [[Juan Bautista Pomar]], he had an experience of an "Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere" to whom he built an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were allowed — not even those of animals. However, he allowed human sacrifices to continue in his other temples.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Prescott|first=William H.|title=History of the Conquest of Mexico|publisher=J. B. Lippincott Company|year=1904|location=Paris|pages=208}}</ref>
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