ethnoastronomy

[Jonathan Amith]

Hi, for the Pleiades I have heard, in Balsas, Miak. This term is shared
among all speakers I have asked and is commonly known.

As for "basket" The word for the head of Taurus is tlálkopétli (Oapan), cf.
tolkopehtli (San Miguel Tecuiciapan) which is a conical-shaped basket of
three sticks and woven palm used in pairs to transport objects (e.g.,
mazorca, comales) by beast of burden (one hanging on either side of the
animal). In local Spanish it is called tenjolote or tencolote
A better defintion is in Santamaría dictionary, p. 1003

It would seem strange for the Pleiades to be so named, but perhaps?

Best, jonathan

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 6:58 PM, grigsby tom <tom_grigsby at yahoo.com> wrote:

>   Listeros,
>
>
>
> Digging through some yellowed 40-year old field notes from Tepoztlán I
> found an entry wherein an elderly gentleman told me that the Pleiades,
> well-known as los siete cabrillas in Spanish, were called cuauhchiquihuitl
> (wooden basket) in his native Nahuatl.  I know that the name for these
> stars in Classic times was tianquiztli, the market, but I wonder if anyone
> working in Mesoamerica has come across a baskety or alternative
> designation for that star cluster.
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> Thanks,
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>
> Tom Grigsby
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