Cocoxochitl

Mon Sep 30 19:03:41 UTC 2002

At 11:51 AM 9/30/02 -0700, you wrote:
>"Cocol-" often refers to sickness or pain, and I think it would be
>unlikely that the "cocolxochitl" would not also be related to this in some
>way.

The way I had viewed it was coco(z) + xochitl for yellow flower.

There is a common flower identified as:
cocoxochipahtli

which is a yellow medicine flower

Which obviously would have curative powers.

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