[Aztlan] [Nahuat-l] Me:xi'co = moon navel, maguey navel, E.T.'s navel....??

[ANTHONY APPLEYARD]

The etymology that I have seen is "'in the middle of the moon', which was short for 'in the middle of the Lake of the Moon'".

Citlalyani

--- On Fri, 24/7/09, micc2 <micc2 at cox.net> wrote:
From: micc2 <micc2 at cox.net>
The name Mexico has been interpreted by new Age types as "the place of
the navel of the moon,"  "the place of the navel of the maguey"  ...