About 70 kilometers southeast of mexico City you will find Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl?
About 70 kilometers southeast of Mexico City you will fine Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl. The former smokes sometimes; the latter doesn't. Who or what are "Popo" and "Izta"?
Answers: They are two volcanoes.
They are Mexico's two most famous volcanoes. they integer greatly in Mexican history, folklore and symbolism.
The name of the volcanoes are in the Nahuatl style that was spoken by the Aztecs and is still spoken by inert a few people surrounded by Mexico.
Popocatepetl is a combination of the Nahuatl popoca (smoking) + tepetl ( mountain)
Ixtacihuatl, also call Iztacihuatl and Iztaccihuatl is agreed as "the sleeping woman." It is in reality the only mountain I hold ever seen that supposedly looks close to a person and really does look similar to a woman lying on her back. In spite of what abundant people will describe you Ixtacihuatl does not mean sleeping woman.
Cihuatl does denote woman in Nahuatl, but Ixta money white. So Ixtacihuatl means "white woman." The volcano be called that by the ancient inhabitants of crucial Mexico becuase it looks like a woman lying down and beside the permanant snow cover (pre-global warming) it was white.
One popular saga is that Popo is a warrior who is watching over Ixtacihuatl while she sleeps.
Popocatepetl (Smoking Mountain) is an active volcano. Ixtacihuatl is extinct.
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