While many scholars seek to reconcile the apparent historical events-- battles, alliances, the founding of cities and the inauguration of new rulers-- mentioned in Aztec texts, others approach the same sources as evidence of the Aztec construction of political ideology. For Susan Gillespie, the Aztec wandering myth presents the Mexica as late-comers and thus candidates to be 'stranger-kings' ruling among the already settled people of the valley. The actions of many ambiguous women in the Aztec histories reflect the role in Mexica traditions of women as founders of families, and in royal families of dynasties. Legends about the flayed princess of Culhuacan, and other indigenous women who were assimilated by the Mexica, recorded the claims to power that the Aztecs made as a result of these connections. Just so, Huitzilopochtli could claim through his mother, Cihuacoatl, the position that would otherwise have gone to his elder siblings, and foremost among them, Coyolxauhqui.