Az: Question regarding Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca...

[mike gaby]

Fran,
what of the Palenque Triad?
Mike


>From: karttu at nantucket.net (Frances Karttunen)
>Reply-To: nahuat-l at server.umt.edu
>To: Multiple recipients of list <nahuat-l at server.umt.edu>
>Subject: Re: Az: Question regarding Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca...
>Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 04:59:33 -0600
>
> >----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> >Listeros,
> >
> >  Mulling over god triads in ancient Mesoamerica while visiting a
> >temple supposedly dedicated to Tezcatlipoca at Teopanzolco (in
> >Cuernavaca),
> >
> >Jorge Perez de Lara
> >Mexico
> >
> >jorgepl at infosel.net.mx
>
>Dear Jorge,
>
>I can't answer your specific questions, but I'd like to point out that a
>triad of anything would be decidedly un-Mesoamerican.  The Aztec world,
>sharing in the Mesoamerican cosmovision, was a cognitive world pervaded by
>2s (the duality expressed by pairs uch as Ometeotl/Omecihuatl) and 4s (the
>quadripartite nature of just about everything).
>
>Fran
>
>


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