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<DIV><FONT size=2>Thank you all for your comments. That was surely useful
and enlightening. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>However I was wondering, if green is XOXOCTIC, why is
"green place" XOPAN and not XOXOPAN? or XOXOCPAN? What part of the word is
the removable one? I imagined it would be "TIC". (chichilTIC, cozTIC,
nexTIC, tlilTIC) Or else, is XOXO in XOXOCTIC already a duplication? so the
real word would be XOCTIC? Sorry, I'm confused.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>As for the source, actually Mike Swanton made the correct
guess: it is part of Castaneda's mythology, and more precisely to Carol
Tiggs' (one of the other two modern "shamans"). The piece is supposed to be
pronounced at the entrance of the Catedral de Tula in order to get into an
altered state of consciousness, (I respect Castaneda, and I don't feel I am
in a position to judge anything)...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Xoxopanxoco is supposed to be a personage known as the
"retador de la muerte"...... but this is all too
complicated...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>By the way, why does "cuicanitl" have an absolutive
suffix? I thought agentives didn't.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Susana</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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