Translation of Tzompantli

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Hace 25 años yo y mi esposa estuvimos en Santa Ana Chautempan y
compramos muchas cosas preciosas de lana, y algodon
inlcuyendo sarapes, cobijas, sueteres y morales.

Todavia hay mucha artesania alli?  O le ha pasado lo que paso en
Chiconcua, Estado de Mexico, adonde las atresanias  tradicionales de
tela se han reemplazado con t-shirts de fayuca de Guess, Budweisser,
Levis, etc; discos CD pirata, etc?



Raul macuil martinez wrote:

> Saludos...
>
>  Yo soy de Tlaxcala y efectivamente mucha gente que lleva por último
> apellido el de Tzompantzi, principalmente el municipio que se llama Santa
> Ana Chiauhtempan y en el poblado llamado Contla de Juan Cuamatzi. Pero mi
> pregunta es la siguiente:
>
> A que se refieren exactamente al decir : Wonder what these guys did
> for a living...  One man in Tlaxcala was running for a local
> municipal election. Would you vote for a Tzompantzin?.
>
> Podrían ser un poco más especifícos?.
>
>  Miec tlaçocamati.
>
>
>
>
>
>> From: Archaeology Institute <institute at CSUMB.EDU>
>> Reply-To: Nahua language and culture discussion <NAHUAT-L at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
>> To: NAHUAT-L at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>> Subject: Re: Translation of Tzompantli
>> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:46:50 -0800
>>
>> "John B. Carlson" <Tlaloc at umd.edu> writes:
>> >Ruben,
>> >
>> >Here's one important paper you should know:
>> >
>> >Miller, Virginia E.
>> >1999   The Skull Rack in Mesoamerica. In Mesoamerican Architecture
>> >as a Cultural Symbol (Jeff Karl Kowalski, Editor):pp. 340-360. Oxford
>> >University Press, New York.
>> >
>> >I will be interested in replies concerning the etymology as well as
>> >nuances of meaning associated with the Tzompantli. In Tlaxcala, there
>> >are a number of people with the last named Tzompantzi. I would be
>> >sure the original name was Tzompantzin. Wonder what these guys did
>> >for a living...  One man in Tlaxcala was running for a local
>> >municipal election. Would you vote for a Tzompantzin?
>> >
>> >John Carlson
>>
>> Dear John,
>>
>>         Thank you for your prompt response...I was away at the Magical
>> Kingdom in Anaheim (aka: Disneyland) with my family and returned just a
>> couple of days ago.  It has been some time since I last had contact with
>> you (Aztec exhibit at the Denver Museum
>> of Natural History), but wanted to let you know that I currently have a
>> manuscript under review regarding my recent archaeoastronomy  (solar
>> geometry) studies of the California missions.  At present, I have a
>> dozen
>> sites with confirmed solstice and
>> equinox orientations...with attendant illuminations of tabernacle
>> features
>> and the like.
>>
>>         As for the tzompantli article, that is currently under review
>> for
>> a volume on The Taking and Displaying of Human Trophies by
>> Amerindians, and
>> the article by Virginia Miller proved a great point of departure, but
>> unlike the Miller paper, my analysis
>> centers on a cosmological and iconographic analysis of the architectural
>> feature in question.  In my paper, I draw on the legend of the Hero
>> Twins
>> as a basis for interpreting extant associations between tzompantli and
>> ballcourt features, and in
>> turn, on the cults of decapitation that co-occur with said features that
>> first appear in Gulf lowland contexts...or that point of departure
>> attributed to such groups as the Quiche (the authors of the Popol Vuh).
>> Beyond that, I await further
>> commentaries and reviews as to the paper, but Arthur Demarest (one of
>> the
>> conference paper reviewers) was particularly interested in my results
>> and
>> interpretations...so I am hoping for the best as per the current
>> reviews.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>>
>> Ruben G. Mendoza, Ph.D., Director
>> Institute for Archaeological Science, Technology and Visualization
>> Social and Behavioral Sciences
>> California State University Monterey Bay
>> 100 Campus Center
>> Seaside, California 93955-8001
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