Louise M. Burkhart reproduces a Nahuatl proverb, "It is slippery, it is slick on the earth."

Date
1989
Type
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), frontispiece

Scribe/Publisher
University of Arizona Press
People
Louise M. Burkhart
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

Tlaalahui, tlapetzcahui in tlalticpac.

It is slippery, it is slick on the earth.

Nahuatl proverb

Citations in Mormonr Qnas
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