Tlillan-Tlapallan

Tlillan-Tlapallan

In Aztec mythology, Tlillan-Tlapallan (or unhyphenated as Tlillan Tlapallan) "the land of black and red, of wisdom" was the middle realm of heaven, and was reserved for those who understood Quetzalcoatl's wisdom.

References

* http://www.pantheon.org/articles/t/tlillan-tlapallan.html
* http://weber.ucsd.edu/~anthclub/quetzalcoatl/que.htm


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