Louise M. Burkhart reports that, in Mesoamerica, there was a belief that one being in a god's presence was "a dangerous place, a slippery place."
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- Book
- Source
- Louise M. Burkhart Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- Secondary
- Reference
Louise M. Burkhart, The Slippery Earth: Nahua-Christian Monologue in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 1989), 92
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- University of Arizona Press
- People
- Louise M. Burkhart
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
To be in this god’s presence is to be in a dangerous place, a slippery place: tlaalaoa, tlapetzcavi ‘it is slippery, it is slick’ (Sahagún 1953—82:VI, 10). The skunk, a tetzahuitl that invaded people’s houses and sickened them with its odor, was Tezcatlipoca’s image or impersonator (ixiptla; Sahagún 1953—82:VI:10). When Tezcatlipoca descended to earth to wreak havoc upon Quetzalcoad’s ordered kingdom, he came down on a spider web—a bit of tlazolli (Mendieta 1980:82).
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