[Nahuat-l] morphology and sacred landscape

[John Sullivan, Ph.D.]

Anthony,
Its possible that the mexica just happened to see an eagle perched on  
a cactus, but since nahua spirituality is blatantly tied to nature, I  
would like to see if grasshopper hill refers to more than just the sum  
of it's components.
John
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On 25/07/2009, at 11:48, ANTHONY APPLEYARD  
<a.appleyard at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Could some merely refer to ordinary non-religious landscape  
> features? For example, Chapultepec (= Chapoltepe_c) = "at the  
> grasshopper hill" maybe merely when the first Aztec-speakers came  
> there there were many noisy grasshoppers there, or their first crops  
> there were much damaged by grasshoppers.
>
> Citlalyani
>
> --- On Sat, 25/7/09, John Sullivan, Ph.D. <idiez at me.com> wrote:
> ... I believe that Nahua place names allude directly to some aspect  
> of Mesoamerican sacred landscape, in other words, to some aspect of  
> the migration process from Aztlan to Chicomoztoc to Colhuahcan. This  
> may include physical aspects of the landscape, animals, plants,  
> actions and deities. ...
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