article on Aztecs

[Richard Haly]

>>From this little bit I get the sense that there is some PC/New Age
revisionism going on here based on a lack of understanding of Nahuatl.
Zenteotl is doubtfully from Cen "whole, all" but from Centli/cintli, maize.

Richard Haly

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>From: Mel Sanchez <melesan at pacbell.net>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <nahuat-l at server.umt.edu>
>Subject: Re: article on Aztecs
>Date: Sat, Aug 07, 1999, 17:14
>

> "They understood the planetary cycles, the interrelationships between
> animals, plants and human ecologically balanced in cyclical pattern
> nurtured by the enery of the One Supreme Force of Zenteotol. Thus, to
> refer to mutiple gods is to project a medieval Western Christian
> perception of reality as seen through the worship of hundreds of saints,
> virgins and trinities."