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'Our Lady of Guadalupe'

The origin of the name Guadalupe has always been a matter of controversy.
It is nevertheless believed that the name came about because of the translation from Nahuatl to Spanish
of the words used by the Virgin during the apparition to Juan Bernardino, the ailing uncle of Juan Diego.

It is believed that Our Lady used the Aztec Nahuatl word of coatlaxopeuh which is pronounced "quatlasupe"
and sounds remarkably like the Spanish word Guadalupe.

'Coa' meaning serpent, 'tla' being the noun ending which can be interpreted as "the",
while 'xopeuh' means to crush or stamp out.
So Our Lady must have called herself the one "who crushes the serpent."

Serpent-god Quetzalcoatl

We must remember that the Aztecs offered annually
at least 20,000 men, women and children in human sacrifice to their gods.
In 1487, just in a single 4 days long ceremony for the dedication of a new temple in Tenochtitlan,
some 80,000 captives were killed in human sacrifice.

Certainly, in this case She crushed the serpent,
and few years later millions of the natives were converted to Christianity.

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