morphology and sacred landscape

[ANTHONY APPLEYARD]

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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