[Aztlan] Santa Barbara Tamasolco

[Sam Edgerton]

Here it is again Michael. Aside from banks failing and stock markets 
collapsing, computer crashing is still going to be the greatest threat to 
modern society in the 21st century. Even China and India won't be immune!
Sam

Listeros: Can anyone help me concerning a late sixteenth century Mexican 
colonial map in the British Museum (HMAI #298) depicting churches in the 
neighboring Tlaxcala parishes of Santa Barbara Tomasolco and Santa Ana. The 
map is painted on amatl paper, inscribed in Latinized Nahuatl, and may be a 
fragment of a much larger, circular map of the whole Tlaxcala diocese. I 
have checked with several modern sources; Charles Gibson, Uta Berger, 
Gordon Brotherston, and Serge Gruzinski, and all have no idea of what has 
become of "Tamascolco" since there is no mention of it on any modern map 
today. One clue is that it may once have existed where the present 
community of Ocotelulco is today. The latter does possess a church, though 
of more recent construction, that does resemble the church represented on 
the BM map. Anything you can tell about this puzzle will be much appreciated.
Thanks in anticipation,
Sam Edgerton