momik? mimik? (Insane, crazy, or kook customer?)

[Richard Haly]

Greetings:

Is your Nahuatl-speaking employee from the Sierra Norte de Puebla? Though
NNE could be in Hidalgo. The Sierra Norte de Puebla is about 100 mi  (or
more) ENE of DF.

An exact location can help with an exact translation.

Mimiki  or perhaps mijmikki  (aka. mihmicqui) could be
translated "bird of ill omen" in the Sierra Norte de Puebla. It would come
from the Land of the Dead and would disrupt the order of talticpac, the
middle world in which we spend most of our time.

Just plain mikki is a dead person. mijmikki wd be "someone who having died
repeatedly comes" which means someone who has made more than one journey to
the Land of the Dead and now comes here, thus, the omen.

qualli yetoc nejin.

Richard Haly

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>From: Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha at OregonVOS.net>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <nahuat-l at server.umt.edu>
>Subject: Re: momik? mimik?  (Insane, crazy, or kook customer?)
>Date: Mon, Oct 18, 1999, 0:08
>

> Where is your Nahuatl-speaking employee from?
>
> Oh, somewheres north by northeast of Mexico City, a hundred (?) miles or
> so.