[Aztlan] Tenochtitlan or Mexico-Tenochtitlan??

[Greg Sandor]

I recognize the glyph for Tenochtitlan, the eagle, cactus, and rock, but I 
think I haven't ever seen a glyph for Mexico, or Mexica.  What does it look 
like?  How would it, or Mexico-Tenochtitlan have been written without the 
alphabet we use?

As an aside there is an interesting resource online at 
http://geography.berkeley.edu/ProjectsResources/Glyphs/Home.html

"In 1885 Don Antonio Peñafiel published his "Nombres Geográficos de México," 
an annotated listing of all the place name glyphs included in the Matricula 
de Tributos and the Codex Mendocino. The book includes an Atlas with 39 
colored plates and a total of 462 glyphs. In the Aztec Place Name Glyphs 
Project we made this book available online."


Regards,

Greg

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From: "John F. Schwaller" <schwallr at potsdam.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Aztlan] Tenochtitlan or Mexico-Tenochtitlan??


>
>> Prof. John Schwaller is probably the authority here.
>>
>
> Thanks.  My impression here, and I haven't had a chance to do all the
> research, is that the city was traditionally called Tenochtitlan.  The
> double name became very common after the conquest, with the Tenochtitlan
> part eventually dropping.  Mexico refers to a larger but vague place of
> the Mexica.
>
>
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