Ometeotl

[Pedro de Eguiluz]

Dear List

Ometeotl is usually translated as "Divine two", but in Nawatl when we join the word Ome "two" to another word (root) it looses the final "e", for example two stones is Ontetl. 

 

With Yei "three" happens similar when we join it to another word it looses the final "i" and when we put it in the middle of two words it looses also the "Y".  So in Ometeotl we have Om "two", e "three" and teotl "divine". So the Ometeotl is Divine Two Three.

 

In the Codex Vatican 3738, page 17, we can read ".the first cause, called by another name Ometekutli, that is the same as Lord of Three dignities"



This conception of this trinity an the union of it, was shared by all the people of Mesoamerica. Duality as we know it, good-bad arrived with Cortez and his army. This good-bad conception is very poor and destructive, compared to Ometeotl "Divine uni dual trinity", a higher conception that was not understood by the Europeans, even now very few people in the world undestand it, if any.



Regards



Pedro
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