[Aztlan] Directional colors in Nahua thought

[D. M. Urquidi]

Adam:
   
  The home of the [false} sun is in the west. Many books
  besides the Popul Vuh, and Leon-Portillo's Aztec poems
  give this information and everyone is trying to adjust the
  information to read the [true] Sun. The [false] sun is
  the sun of the dead. . . . . that is why the west is the land
  of the dead.
   
  Dea

Adam John Cooper <biffboats at yahoo.com> wrote:
  Later on, in the same book, pg. 57, he offers a quote
which seems to contradict this: "There [West] where it
sets, there is its home, in the land of the red
color... opposite the region of the sun's house [its
house is in the West, so I presume we're talking now
about the East?] is the direction of light, fertility,
and life, symbolized by the color white."



D. M. Urquidi
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