Cosmos

Question 1

from nowhere; in no way; neither from one part or another {CN}

Answer 1

acampa

Question 2

nowhere, no place (see Molina, Karttunen, Lockhart, etc.) {CN}

Answer 2

acan

Question 3

star(s); when combined with popoca, a comet; when combined with huei, the planet Venus

[Fuente: James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 215.] {CN}

Answer 3

citlalli

Question 4

for an eclipse to take place (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 4

cualohua

Question 5

a lunar eclipse (see Karttunen); see also, metztli qualo (Molina) {CN}

Answer 5

cualometztli

Question 6

elements, “four separate things” that are related to the clouds, the sun, and the rain, and represent “the very beginning”
(a loanword from Spanish)

(early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
[Fuente: Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Anton Mui±on Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 206–207.] {CN}

Answer 6

elementos

Question 7

south, from the south, or to the south (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 7

huitztlampa

Question 8

toward the South; coming from the perspective of Cholula

(sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
[Fuente: Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Gi¼emes, y Luis Reyes Garci­a (Mexico: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 157.] {CN}

Answer 8

ic Cohuixco

Question 9

toward the North; coming from the perspective of Cholula (see attestations)

(sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
[Fuente: Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Gi¼emes, y Luis Reyes Garci­a (Mexico: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 157.] {CN}

Answer 9

mictlahuic

Question 10

the four directions

[Fuente: James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 169.]

Molina adds the “from” or “to” element in association with the four directions, a translation of the -pa ending. {CN}

Answer 10

nauhcampa

Question 11

in the four directions (see Sahagiºn) {CN}

Answer 11

nauhmapa

Question 12

east, the East

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Answer 12

oriente

Question 13

a place name; also, the center of the earth (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 13

tlalnepantla

Question 14

east (see Sahagiºn) {CN}

Answer 14

tlapcopa

Question 15

a southwest wind (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 15

tlauhcopa ehecatl

Question 16

west, the point where the sun sets (see Krattunen) {CN}

Answer 16

tonalcalaquiyampa

Question 17

west, the point of the sunset (see Krattunen) {CN}

Answer 17

tonalpolihuiyampa

Question 18

east, point of sunrise (see Krattunen) {CN}

Answer 18

tonalquizayampa

Question 19

to have an eclipse of the sun (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 19

tonatiuh cualo

Question 20

a wind from the west (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 20

tonatiuh iaquiampa ehecatl

Question 21

the emerging or rising place of the sun, i.e. east, to the east {CN}

Answer 21

tonatiuh iquizayanpa

Question 22

something relating to the West (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 22

tonatiuh ycalaquiam mochihua

Question 23

a wind from the east (see Molina) {CN}

Answer 23

tonatiuh yquizayampa ehecatl

Question 24

a fringed, sleeveless jacket tied frontally

[Fuente: Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 103.]

a male priest’s ceremonial garment

[Fuente: See Mexicolore for a photo of a surviving example found at the Templo Mayor archaeological site: http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/artefacts/xicolli]

the center or navel of the universe; umbilicus

[Fuente: Gutierre Tibon, El ombligo como centro cosmico: Una contribucion a la historia de las religiones (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2014).] {CN}

Answer 24

xicolli

Question 25

to change direction (see Karttunen) {CN}

Answer 25

yacacuepa

Question 26

toward the West; coming from the perspective of Cholula

(sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
[Fuente: Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Gi¼emes, y Luis Reyes Garci­a (Mexico: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 157.] {CN}

Answer 26

Zohuatlan