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[Michael McCafferty]

Sorry, nahuatlahtos, I thought I was answering Susana directly with my most
recent missive. Still learning how to drive a computer. Everyone, get out of
the road!!

Michael

Quoting Susana Moraleda-Dragotto <susana at DRAGOTTO.COM>:

> Re: translationThank you all for your comments. That was surely useful and
> enlightening.
>     However I was wondering, if green is XOXOCTIC, why is "green place"
XOPAN
> and not XOXOPAN? or XOXOCPAN? What part of the word is the removable one? I
> imagined it would be "TIC". (chichilTIC, cozTIC, nexTIC, tlilTIC) Or else,
is
> XOXO in XOXOCTIC already a duplication? so the real word would be XOCTIC?
> Sorry, I'm confused.
>
>     As for the source, actually Mike Swanton made the correct guess: it is
> part of Castaneda's mythology, and more precisely to Carol Tiggs' (one of
the
> other two modern "shamans"). The piece is supposed to be pronounced at the
> entrance of the Catedral de Tula in order to get into an altered state of
> consciousness, (I respect Castaneda, and I don't feel I am in a position to
> judge anything)...
>
>     Xoxopanxoco is supposed to be a personage known as the "retador de la
> muerte"......  but this is all too complicated...
>
>     By the way, why does "cuicanitl" have an absolutive suffix? I thought
> agentives didn't.
>
>     Susana
>
>