Tlilli tlapalli

[Chichiltic Coyotl]

Hi

Could it be because tlapalli is a metaphorical reference to blood?

EZR


>From: David Wright <dcwright at prodigy.net.mx>
>
>Does anyone have any idea what could have been the reason Dibble and
>Anderson (Florentine Codex VI: 259) translated the metaphor "Intlil
>intlapal" as "their black, their red" rather than "their black, their
>colors"? The translation of "tlapalli" as "red" keeps cropping up in
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