Unicode restoration and ASCII comparison
Metztli
The name survives in scholarly transliteration. Metztli is the standard Nahuatl romanisation, documented in academic sources — “Moon”. Because the spelling uses only Latin letters, the form is the same in both ASCII and Unicode.
No indigenous writing system is securely attested for individual nahuatl names. The form shown is a modern scholarly transliteration.
metztli
The plain metztli form is identical to the Unicode restoration. Because this name is already written in Latin letters, no diacritics, stress, or script information were lost — only capitalization differs.
Metztli
The Unicode restoration does not need to recover lost marks for Metztli. Its value is canonical spelling and consistent cataloguing, not the reconstruction of erased orthography. The domain is readable as-is to both DNS and humanity.
Metztli.com → metztli.com
The non-ASCII characters in Metztli are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Metztli.
How Metztli is preserved in writing
No indigenous writing system is securely attested for individual nahuatl names. The form shown is a modern scholarly transliteration.
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Metztli
The full Unicode restoration. metztli.com is not in the PuniCodex collection — it is watched for release; if it drops, this temple upgrades to an owned flagship.
How Metztli was spoken
Moon
Metztli is moon. The name means "Moon" and belongs to the nahuatl tradition.
The restoration Metztli returns the figure to scholarly recognition.
Central domain: moon.
Honored in nahuatl myth, cult, and cultural memory.
Preserved as a flagship temple despite the unregistrable plain-ASCII form.
Stories of Metztli
The stories of Metztli place moon at the center of a living mythological world.
Metztli appears in nahuatl tradition as moon. The name's meaning, "Moon", shapes the narratives told about this figure.
Devotees and later tradition-keepers preserved Metztli in ritual, text, and iconography, ensuring the name survived into the modern scholarly record.
The lore you have read is the surface — the living myth. Beneath it lies the scholarship: etymology, reconstructed pronunciation, Unicode character breakdown, and the cultural legacy of Metztli.
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