place
Valley
Low ground between rising sides. Not canyon as a steep river-cut, and not plain as open flat alone.
Nahua tradition
Valley appears in Nahua tradition.
Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records valley and basin settlement speech around the Mexica highland world — named valleys as lived geography. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
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Chinese tradition
Valley appears in Chinese tradition.
Wilhelm’s Yijing image speech seats the valley among landform figures of the hexagram world. A named valley in that classic, not a Daoist empty-valley slogan alone and not a gazetteer dale.
from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950
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Hellenic religion
Valley appears in Hellenic religion.
Pausanias names cult valleys among Greek travel speech—Nemea and kin as sanctuary floors between hills. A named valley in that periegesis, not a hiking gazetteer dump and not mountain already walked.
from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE
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sources
- Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).
- I Ching (Yijing) · Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation)
The I Ching or Book of Changes, trans. Richard Wilhelm, English Cary F. Baynes.
- Description of Greece · Pausanias
Pausanias, Description of Greece.