[Aztlan] A question about Aztecs and armadillos

[mario]

It is said in the Danza Chichimeca/Conchera/Azteca that when the Spanish 
prohibited the Otomi and other indigenous people from getting wood 
materials to make their guitars and mandolins, they began to use the 
shells of the Armadillo. Thus we are called "concheros".....

Today, certain revisionist new age "Mexi'ca dancers" use the word 
Conchero as a disparaging term for "Hispanicized Ladino" dancers.

But those of us that follow the Indocristiano traditions of La Danza, we 
dance with our "dillos" with pride!!!!!

On another note, when My son found out that armadillos can carry 
Leprosy, he went around spraying all our Conchas with Lysol!!!

-- 
I live for reasoned, enlightened spirituality:

"Tlacecelilli", tranquilidad, paz


Mario E. Aguilar, PhD

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On 10/2/2014 9:02 AM, Peter Keeler wrote:
> U'uyeh, Listeros,
>
>         The recent interchange (on Aztlan) about the word for armadillo in nahuatl,
>
>        eg:
>
> "It is ayotochtli not azotochtli.  Whoever told you azo... Probably was misinformed.
>
> Yes, it means something along the lines of turtle rabbit.
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
> John Schwaller
> Professor of History
> University at Albany "
>
> ......prompted an off-line discussion among some of my Mayanist friends,
>
>        in which I made the point that armadillos can move fast, when they want to:
>
>           " Also NB armadillo ears, rather rabbit-like.
>
>        and they can really moooove.
>
>        once upon a long long time ago, W. and I out in the [Texas] hill country, we encountered a dillo, by the road. W. began to walk in her direction; she started ambling away. W. walked a little faster, she began to slowly lope away. W. began a slow run, and she took off. Then he ran full speed, and she was moving about twice as fast. And, like a jackrabbit, she was gone.
>
>      a delightful animal, long the mascot of the counter-culture. Dillos are pretty laid back, unless you are running after them. "
>
>        Which elicited the image below from W (still running, or at least ambling, after all these years), that I suspect most of our Nahuatl listeros already know:
>
> "Early (? earliest) illustration of an armadillo (Florentine Codex, Book 11; page 61, fig. 201)."
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>
>
>
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>       I urge interested parties to visit the web to see more accurate photographic depictions of this peaceful critter.
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>    http://www.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=armadillo&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ei=QHQtVN38NZT-yQTMjYHIDQ&ved=0CCoQsAQ
>
>   that's all,
>
>                Peter
>
>
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