Fwd(2): Re: About the word "teotl" and Ometeotl

[Craig Berry]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Ramiro Medrano wrote:

> Does "teotl" translate to "inexplicable," "powerful," "untouchable," or
> maybe even "divine"? It makes sense to me.

My attempt at a single-word translation is "supernatural", in both the
senses of that word.  A horse is a "supernatural deer" in the sense that
it is shaped like a deer, but is bigger and stronger than a deer, and
behaves very differently from a deer.  Thus it is "outside nature".  A god
is "supernatural" in a different (but ultimately related) sense.

So for example "Ometeotl" is "supernatural duality", the concept of "two"
expressed outside all normal experience and natural limits.

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