The Authentic Orthography
Earth, Mother of Gods · She of the serpent skirt
Why cōātlīcue.com is the correct form
Cōātlīcue
The name in its original Nahuatl form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
COATLICUE
Stripped of its identity, the name was reduced to plain Latin letters. The original orthography — stress, length, breathing — was erased by systems that only understand A-Z.
Cōātlīcue
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
cōātlīcue.com → xn--ctlcue-3za25a6j.com
The non-ASCII characters in Cōātlīcue are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Cōātlīcue.
How coatlicue becomes Cōātlīcue
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | c | → | C | Same | Same |
| 02 | o | → | ō | Length | Macron: long vowel |
| 03 | a | → | ā | Length | Macron: long vowel |
| 04 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
| 05 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
| 06 | i | → | ī | Length | Macron: long vowel |
| 07 | c | → | c | Same | Same |
| 08 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 09 | e | → | e | Same | Same |
Why Cōātlīcue is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Nahuatl original Cōātlīcue contains both stress AND at least one long vowel. However, there is only one historically valid Unicode restoration. The ASCII fallback is modern English, not ancient canonical. This is the full scholarly orthography — a single-tier Tier-1 name.
See how Cōātlīcue behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
coatlicue
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Cōātlīcue