Edgar: doublets, bifrasismos, difrasismos

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Anthony,
        The only problem is that in accordance with Mesoamerican sacred 
landscape, indigenous people prefered living in marshy areas and 
ravines which were prone to flooding. And they prefered living at the 
foot of the sacred hill (which should have caves with springs running 
out of them), not on top of it. The sacred hill itself can be thought 
of as a womb or water filled gourd, representing the primordial lake in 
which humanity gestated. Further, this whole mountain/aquatic system 
was situated normally within large natural depression, horseshoe-shaped 
valley or rinconada. Stephanie knows all this and more, and I'm sure 
she will have quite a few things to say on the topic.
John

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On Sep 3, 2004, at 12:25 AM, ANTHONY APPLEYARD wrote:

>  --- Stephanie Wood <swood at DARKWING.UOREGON.EDU> wrote:
>> ... the implications behind in atl, in tepetl?
>
> If you mean "atltepetl" = "it is water and it is a hill" = "it is a
> village: in the Valley of Mexico the village needs water for drinking
> and irrigation, and preferably a hill to build a fort on or to live on
> out of reach of floods. Or else, where there has beenb a village for a
> long time, the ground slowly builds up into a mound.
>