Tonantzin Coatlicue

• 1. Traduccion:
  "Sobre un cerrito cualquiera,
  Donde las flores se extienden,
  Yo vi a una joven mujer,
  Y mi corazón latió apresuradamente".

• Teotihuacán:

  lit. "where the gods are born" is an ancient Mesoamerican city located in a sub-valley of the Valley of Mexico, located in the State of Mexico 40 kilometres (25 mi) northeast of modern-day Mexico City, known today as the site of many of the most architecturally significant Mesoamerican pyramids built in the pre-Columbian Americas.

• náhuatl:

  It's either referring to the language Nahuatl or the Nahuas (the people).

• Ometeotl:

  lit. "Two gods" is a name sometimes used to refer to the pair of Aztec deities Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, also known as Tōnacātēcuhtli and Tonacacihuatl. Ōme translates as "two" or "dual" in Nahuatl and teōtl translates as "god".

• Ipalnemohuani:

  lit. "One by whose grace we live". The ancient Mexicans conceived the sun as the source of all vital force; hence they named him Ipalnemohuani, “He by whom men live.” But if he bestowed life on the world, he needed also to receive life from it.

• Tlaktikpaque:

  lit. "place above clay land"

• Tloke Nahuake:

  In the first apparition, at sunrise, the Guadalupe tells Juan Diego: ke nehuatl in inantzin in huel nelli Teotl, in ipalnemohuani, in Teyokoyani, in Tloke nahuake, in Ihuikahua, in Tlaltikpake. This means that the Guadalupe does not say she is the mother of Jesus Christ but the supreme Mexican Divinity. Because it results that Ipalnemohuani, Teyokoyani and Tlokenahuake are different advocations of the same cosmic beginning; Ometeotl. Ometeotl signifies: The Sacred Duality.

• Totahtzin:

  lit. "Venerable Father"

• Tonantzin:

  is the title for a Aztec mother goddess. lit. "Our mother".

• Tepeyak:

  commonly spelled as "Tepeyac" (lit. "in front of the hill"), is located inside Gustavo A. Madero, the northernmost delegación or borough of the Mexican Federal District. According to the Catholic tradition, it is the site where Saint Juan Diego met the Virgin of Guadalupe in December 1531, and received the iconic image of the Lady of Guadalupe. The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe located there is one of the most visited Catholic shrines in the world. Spanish colonists erected a Catholic chapel at the site, Our Lady of Guadalupe, "the place of many miracles."

• Coatlicue:

  lit. "skirt of serpents" is the Aztec goddess who gave birth to the moon, stars, and Huitzilopochtli, the god of the sun and war. The goddesses Tocih “our grandmother”, and Cihuacoatl “snake woman”, the patron of women who die in childbirth, were also seen as aspects of Coatlicue.

• Koyolxauki:

  or "Coyolxāuhqui" (lit. "she who is adorned by bells") was the Goddess of the Moon, daughter of Coatlicue who was killed by her brother Huitzilopochtli when Coatlicue was pregnant with him, casting her limbs into the heavens and so she became the Moon.

• Zenzohuitznahua:

  also known as "Centzonhuītznāhua" lit. "the four hundred surrounded by thorns" were the gods of the southern stars. They are the evil elder sons of Cōātlīcue, and their sister is Coyolxāuhqui. They and their sister tried to murder their mother upon learning of her pregnancy with Huītzilōpōchtli; their plan was thwarted when their brother sprang from the womb—fully grown and garbed for battle—and killed them all.

• Huitzilopochtli:

  lit. "Left hummingbird" (or can be interpreted as "The Hummingbird of the South") is a deity of war, sun, human sacrifice, and the patron of the city of Tenochtitlan. He was also the national god of the Mexicas, also known as Aztecs, of Tenochtitlan.

• Anáhuak:

  or "Anahuac" lit. "close to water".

• Nahui-Ollin:

  or "Naollin" lit. "four movements" refers to the four elements.

• ésta era:

  An interesting legend surrounds these four symbols. It is called the legend "del Quinto Sol." The legend of the Fifth Sun. According to this legend, we are now living in the era of the Fifth Sun, which is, incidentally, an era of decline.

• mazehuales:

  In Nahuatl "Macehualtin" (pl.) refers to an indigenous commoner.

• Tenochtitlán:

  lit. "place where the prickly pear grows in abundance"

• Tlatelolco:

  lit. "mound of rounded land".

• Cuauhtémoc:

  was the Aztec ruler (tlatoani) of Tenochtitlan from 1520 to 1521, making him the last Aztec Emperor. The name Cuauhtemōc means "one who has descended like an eagle".

• GUADALUPANA:

  a follower of the Virgin of Guadalupe or refers to the Virgin herself.

• tlakuilo:

  Nahuatl for "painter" or "muralist".

• Kuautlatoatzin:

  or "Cuauhtlatoatzin" is the Nahuatl name of Juan Diego, the Nahua to whom the Virgin of Guadalupe first appeared to in 1531 on the hill of Tepeyac

• macehual:

  indigenous commoner

• como prueba le llevó:

  Super brief storytelling: The Virgin appeared to Juan Diego five times (technically four are for proof), asking that a chapel be erected for her on the hill of Tepeyac. Juan Diego told the bishop Fray Juan Zumárraga who asked for proof. On her fourth apparition, the Virgin left her image in Juan Diego's tilma when he picked roses from nearby at the Virgin's request. When he unfolded his tilma, the roses fell out and the Fray Juan Zumárraga and those present saw with their very own eyes the image of the Virgin, finally believing what Juan Diego had been saying all this time. The fifth apparition was when she healed Juan Diego's ailing uncle.

• Lupita:

  diminutive for Guadalupe

• Zapata:

  refers to Emiliano Zapata

• la gran Coatlicue:

  The Coatlicue statue is one of the most famous surviving Aztec sculptures. It is a 2.52 metre (8.3 ft) tall andesite statue by an unidentified Mexica artist. Although there are debates about what or who the statue represents, it is usually identified as the Aztec deity Coatlicue ("Snakes-Her-Skirt").

Przesłany przez użytkownika citlālicue w 2018-11-25

Ostatniej edycji dokonał użytkownik Lobolyrix w 2018-12-12