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Galen Brokaw brokaw at BUFFALO.EDU
Tue Jun 29 18:50:20 UTC 2004


>>CLOUD JAGUAR -- cloud is Mix (any other words for this?) / jaguar is Ocelotl
>>or Tecuani
>>    --- so would this word then be Mixocelotl? or Mixtecuani ?  (that just
>>seems wrong to me :)


Actually, tecuani literally means "one who eats people", and is more
generically translated as beast. So, an ocelotl can be considered a
tecuani, but a tecuani is not necessarily always an ocelotl.

Galen



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