Editing Moctezuma II (section)

====Aftermath====
Regardless, multiple prisoners were taken after the fight, who were later sacrificed in Moctezuma's honor.{{sfn|de Torquemada|1723|p=195}} Tlacahuepan was remembered as a hero despite the loss, and many songs were dedicated to him to be remembered through poetry. In one song called ''Ycuic neçahualpilli yc tlamato huexotzinco. Cuextecayotl, Quitlali cuicani Tececepouhqui'' (''The song of Nezahualpilli when he took captives in Huexotzinco. [It tells of] the Huastec themes, it was written down by the singer Tececepouhqui''), he's referred as "the golden one, the [[Huastec civilization|Huastec]] lord, the owner of the sapota skirt", about the god [[Xipe Totec]], and also states "With the flowery liquor of war, he is drunk, my nobleman, the golden one, the Huastec Lord", about his Huastec heritage, using the stereotype that the Huastecs were drunkards.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Katarzyna|last=Szoblik|title=Traces of Aztec Cultural Memory in Sixteenth-Century Songs and Chronicles: The Case of Tlacahuepan|date=21 October 2020|journal=The Americas|publisher=Cambridge University Press|volume=77|issue=4|pages=513–537|doi=10.1017/tam.2020.35|s2cid=226372401|doi-access=free}}</ref> Anyway, the defeat was a humiliating one, and Moctezuma is said to have cried in anguish upon hearing of the death of Tlacahuepan and the massive loss of soldiers. Moctezuma himself welcomed the soldiers who survived back into Mexico, while the population that welcomed them mourned.{{sfn|Durán|1867|p=453}}

The fact that the Huexotzinca also suffered massive casualties caused their military power to be highly weakened by this battle and various others, and so this could be seen as the beginning of the fall of Huejotzingo, as multiple military losses against Tlaxcala and Mexico in the following years eventually led to its fall, despite the victory in the fight.{{sfn|Isaac|1983|p=423}}