Tepeyac or the Hill of Tepeyac, historically known by the names Tepeyacac and Tepeaquilla, is located inside

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, the northernmost ''delegación'' or borough of Mexico City. According to the Catholic tradition, it is the site where

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Juan Diego met the Virgin of Guadalupe in December 1531, and received the iconic image of the Lady of Guadalupe. The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe located there is one of the most visited Catholic shrines in the world. Spanish colonists erected a Catholic chapel at the site, Our Lady of Guadalupe, "the place of many miracles."Diaz, B., 1969, The Conquest of New Spain, London: Penguin Books, It forms part of the Sierra de Guadalupe mountain range.

Pre-Columbian history

Tepeyac Hill "had been a place for worshipping Aztec earth goddesses." Tepeyac is believed to have been a Pre-Columbian worship site for the indigenous mother

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Tonantzin Tonantzin ( nci-IPA, Tonāntzin, toˈnáːn.tsin) is a Nahuatl title composed of ''to-'' "our" + ''nān'' "mother" + ''-tzin'' "(honorific suffix)". When addressing Tonantzin directly, males use the suffixed vocative form ''Tonāntziné'' [], and ...

Coatlaxopeuh ("Tonantzin" is a title of the greatest respect and "Coatlaxopeuh" is a name).

Etymology

In Nahuatl language, Nahuatl, ''Tepeyacac'' is a proper noun, a combination of ''tepetl'' ("mountain"), ''yacatl'' ("nose"), and the relational word ''-c'', ("at"). According to scholars of the

Nahuatl Nahuatl (; ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahua peoples, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller ...

language, "the term would generally be expected to mean 'a settlement on the ridge or brow of a hill.' Since ''yacatl'' (the nose going first) often implies antecedence, here the word may refer to the fact that the hill is the first and most prominent of a series of three."

References

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Pre-Columbian history

Etymology

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