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<font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Thank you all for your responses...<br />
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</font><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;">Very many men have names which do not end in "-man".</font></span><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;"><br />
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Right, well, then, is there any reason why some "gods" have this suffix and some don't? Is it simply a name, or does the name carry with itself a form of higher reverence? </font><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;"><br />
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It is similar in Hinduism. Some say that all of their gods are aspects<br />
of one god, but others talk of separate gods.<br />
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It is similar in Christianity with "3 or 1?": God and Jesus and the<br />
Holy Spirit: the mystery of the Trinity.</font></span><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;"><br />
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Well, then, by the same token, shouldn't Christianity be considered a religion of many gods? If Mexicayotl is considered polytheistic because of the "various representations of Ometeotl," shouldn't then Christianity be viewed the same way?</font><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;"><br />
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Without me getting any further sidetracked into religious mysticism, it<br />
seems clear to me that [teotl] = "a god", and was used by the<br />
Christians to mean "God".</font></span><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;"><br />
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I'm not too convinced, but I appreciate your input. <br />
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I liked Mr. Berry's interpretation of teotl with the word "teomazatl" (meaning "horse") as a challenge to its meaning of "god." Surely the Mexica weren't as simple-minded to believe that an animal they had never before seen (but which resembles a deer) was a form of deer-god.<br />
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Does "teotl" translate to "inexplicable," "powerful," "untouchable," or maybe even "divine"? It makes sense to me.</font><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;"><br />
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</font></span><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Ramiro<br />
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