[Aztlan] Ometeotl Divine-Two-three

[Pedro de Eguiluz]

Dear List

Ometeotl is usually translated as "Divine two", but in Nawatl when we join the word Ome "two" to another word (root) it looses the final "e", for example two stones is Ontetl. 

 

With Yei "three" happens similar when we join it to another word it looses the final "i" and when we put it in the middle of two words it looses also the "Y".  So in Ometeotl we have Om "two", e "three" and teotl "divine". So the Ometeotl is Divine Two Three.

 

In the Codex Vatican 3738, page 17, we can read ".the first cause, called by another name Lord Ome, that is the same as Lord of Three dignities"



Regards



Pedro