Coahuila

[ANTHONY APPLEYARD]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, DARKHORSE wrote:
> The way I gathered, Teca(s) means "People" Correct?
> Thus "COAHUILTECANS" means "People of the Flying Serpent?"

Coahuila is largely desert, like nearby Sonora. In the deserts of the
Middle East, heat delirium hallucinations caused by dehydration,
including seeing flying snakes, were so frequent down the millennia
that some people believed that flying snakes existed: thus even the
Greek historian Herodotus wrote "Snakes occur everywhere, but flying
snakes in the desert of Arabia only.". Could travellers in Coahuila
have hallucinated flying snakes for the same reason?