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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>Does anyone have any idea what could have been the
reason Dibble and Anderson (Florentine Codex VI: 259) translated the metaphor
"Intlil intlapal" as "their black, their red" rather than "their black, their
colors"? The translation of "tlapalli" as "red" keeps cropping up in modern
sources. I can't remember where all I've seen it; another example is in
Garibay's vocabulary, in the Porrua edition of the Castillian text of the
Florentine Codex; "Tlapallan" is translated as "Lugar del rojo". Molina (I, 27r;
II 130v) makes it clear that "tlapalli" and the radical "tlapal-" refer to
pigments for painting or dying in general, regardless of hue; the same is true
of Sahagun (Florentine Codex XI: 245). Why red? The only possible
explanation I can come up with is that "colorado, -a" in old Castillian was used
for red, and retains this meaning today, especially in informal speech; this
could have led to imprecise translations.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>Comments regarding the deeper meanings of this
metaphor, or possible modern survivals, would also be greatly
appreciated.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Best regards,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>David Wright</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>