PIPILA

[Ted Danger]

Hello Horacio,
    After weeks of research at the IHAH library, Wendy Griffin, our
anthropological adviser determined that the indians that once flourished in the
NE Honduran "Ciudad Blanca Archaeological Reserve" where the Pipil.  From what
little I know, they were indeed nobility from Mexico.  With the abundant
Quetzalcoatl effigies on the massive ceremonial metates and the precision of
their work with this very hard igneous rock, I would have consider them master
artisans.  The few remaining Pech folk in the region are quick to offer a cup
of "chocolate".
    How does one contact Lyle Campbell or an authority on the Pipil of
Nicaragua?  I'm still working on a film, as soon as my fever breaks.
Regards,
Ted Danger
http://www.roatanet.com/ciudadblanca

Frances Karttunen wrote:

> I think the common sense of pipiltin as 'nobles' and the Pipil of Central
> America (who speak a closely related language) is something like 'offspring
> of a lineage.'  That might or might not imply nobility.  Maybe for the
> Central Mexicans it did, but not necessarily for the Central Americans.
>
> We should try to find out what Lyle Campbell thinks.  He wrote a major
> grammatical description of Pipil.
>
> Fran