Editing Tlillan-Tlapallan

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'''Tlillan-Tlapallan''' {{IPA|nah|ˈt͡ɬilːan t͡ɬaˈpalːan|}} 'Place of the black and red colour' is a legendary place or region on the Gulf Coast of Mexico where king [[Quetzalcoatl]] went on his flight from [[Tollan]] in order to burn himself and change into the Morning Star.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Declercq |first=Stan |date=January–June 2016 |title=Tlillan o el "Lugar de la negrura", un espacio sagrado del paisaje ritual mesoamericano |trans-title=Tlillan or the “Place of blackness”, a sacred space of the Mesoamerican ritual landscape |language=Spanish |url=https://www.academia.edu/34155662/tlillan_lugar_de_la_negrura_ECN_PDF_1_pdf |journal=Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl |issue=51 |pages=67–110 |access-date=20 August 2023 |via=''[[Academia.edu]]'' }}</ref>

The tale can be found in an important 16th-century [[manuscript]] (the [[Codex Chimalpopoca]]) containing the Annals of Quauhtitlan. Written in [[Nahuatl|Nahua]], the text basically translates a pre-Spanish book. The tale also occurs in [[Bernardino de Sahagún]]'s ''General History of the Things of New Spain''. The name "Tlillan-Tlapallan" has been interpreted as referring to writing and books.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071020222852/http://weber.ucsd.edu/~anthclub/quetzalcoatl/que.htm Quetzalcoatl the Myth]

{{Aztec mythology}}

[[Category:Locations in Aztec mythology]]
[[Category:Locations in Mesoamerican mythology]]


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