[Aztlan] ethnoastronomy

[grigsby tom]

Listeros,

 

Digging
through some yellowed 40-year old field notes from Tepoztlán I found an entry wherein an
elderly gentleman told me that the Pleiades, well-known as los siete cabrillas
in Spanish, were called cuauhchiquihuitl (wooden basket) in his native Nahuatl.  I know that the name for these stars in
Classic times was tianquiztli, the market, but I wonder if anyone working in Mesoamerica has come across a baskety or
alternative designation for that star cluster. 

 

Thanks,

 

Tom Grigsby



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