Tezcatlipoca

[John F. Schwaller]

I have always assumed that it referred to an obsidian mirror, a piece of
black volcanic glass polished to a high sheen.



> Tezcatlipoca.
>
> Excuse me but my question is perhaps rather stupid.
>
> What is now the real meaning of Tezcatlipoca.
>
> The french expression, "il fume comme un mirroir de pierre", is perhaps
> better translated as, "he smokes like a mirror stone".
>
> But the question is did there really exist a sort of mirror stone in
> Mesoamerica which could burn and smoke.
>
> Or is this a purely methaphorical expression, and if so what is than the
> exact meaning.
>
> Or is this a reflection in a mirror stone of a smoking mountain?
>
>
>
> Baert Georges
>
> Flanders Fields
>
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John F. Schwaller
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SUNY Potsdam
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