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==Name== According to a figurative etymology in the ''Florentine Codex'' of Sahagún (bk. 10, ch. 29, para. 14), "Tamoanchan probably means "We go down to our home".<ref>López Austin (1997, p.283 [18]); see also ''Ibid.'', p.54.</ref> The word ''tamoanchan'' does not actually come from the [[Nahuatl language]]s, but is instead demonstrated to have its roots in [[Mayan languages|Mayan etymology]], with a meaning which could be [[Gloss (transliteration)|glossed]] as "place of the misty sky", or similar. Descriptions of Tamoanchan appearing in the [[Florentine Codex]] indicate that the Postclassic [[Nahua people|Nahua]]s thought of it being located in the humid lowlands region of the [[Gulf Coast of Mexico]], inhabited by the [[Huastec people|Huastec]] Maya people.<ref>Miller and Taube (1993, p.160)</ref>
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