<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Anthony,</div><div>Its possible that the mexica just happened to see an eagle perched on a cactus, but since nahua spirituality is blatantly tied to nature, I would like to see if grasshopper hill refers to more than just the sum of it's components.<br>John<br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 25/07/2009, at 11:48, ANTHONY APPLEYARD <<a href="mailto:a.appleyard@btinternet.com">a.appleyard@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">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.<br><br>Citlalyani<br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 25/7/09, John Sullivan, Ph.D. <i><<a href="mailto:idiez@me.com">idiez@me.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">... 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. ...</blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Nahuatl mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Nahuatl@lists.famsi.org">Nahuatl@lists.famsi.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl">http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>