TEHUACAN

Tehuacán: proviene de los vocablos nahuas:
TEO=dios; HUA=posesivo; CAN=lugar; lo que significa "Lugar de Dioses". Su escudo esta compuesto de cuatro partes (más acerca del Escudo).

Tehuacán tiene la particularidad de ser el sitio donde se han encontrado los vestigios de la domesticación del maíz más antiguos (hasta 5,000 años a.C). Además del edificio del Ayuntamiento, el templo del Carmen y el templo de San Francisco, Tehuacán cuenta con el museo mineralógico más importante de América Latina.(más acerca del museo mineralógico)

This is the currently accepted glyph city of Tehuacán. It is based on the work of Felipe Franco's 1946 Geographic Indonimia Puebla State, same as inferred from the word Teohuacan, ie instead of gods.



The glyph is interpreted as follows: At the bottom you can see a gum with teeth, which means "place". The album is a solar symbol, or sacred. Hence, to be known as Tehuacán "City of Gods", "Place of those gods", "Place of those with God."

The Coat of Tehuacán is composed of four quarters:
In the first room is the black eagle on a cactus with two arrows in the right claw and one crossed by the legs and left three cornstalks with ears of gold that the Indians call Miahuatl in the blue field.

The second quarter shows a black eagle on a white field with golden beak put a paw on a teponaxtle golden and the other holding up two arrows. To the right of that eagle one ayacaxtle or rattle, an instrument playing and dancing with the natives. Shortly below a drum, the two sides left the teponaxcle, and below a quetzal feathers or beam.

In the third quarter a matte finish and made ​​to order a flower red branches which in their language called tlaxochitl. A bird biting a flower at the foot of a tree that kills leaving it to those who call their language Mezquite. On the right a castle on a hill that has a large cave underneath and near the castle some red and white stones, four pockets having said castle out three arrows on the one hand and between the first and second top out one maixquahuitl, instrument with which fought in antiquity and in the other two side pockets two arrows left and go through them in one maixquahuitl.
In the fourth quarter is a freshly slaughtered head like a right hand that has outstanding hair and the other left hand is gripping a bow. Amid quartered Chimalpopoca head, and as crest, the Virgin of the Conception.