[Aztlan] Votan

[Karen Bassie]

Although as Nick Hopkins pointed, Daniel Brinton wasn't correct in his 
etymology about the name Votan, he was a very insightful scholar in many 
of his observations. For example, sixteenth century Tzeltal and Tzotzil 
dictionaries refer to a meteor deity called Pazlam, Pozlom or Poxlon. In 
Tzotzil Zinacantan, Poslom is still considered a meteor or a ball of 
fire. Nunez de la Vega stated that another term for the poslom was 
tzihuizin. Brinton noted that tzihuizin was the Pipil form of Nahuatl 
word xihuitl. As Karl Taube has pointed out, Xiuhtecuhtli was a fire 
deity with meteor association.