The Authentic Orthography
Wind, Wisdom, Morning Star · Feathered serpent
Why quetzalcōātl.com is the correct form
Quetzalcōātl
The name in its original Nahuatl form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
QUETZALCOATL
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.
Quetzalcōātl
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
quetzalcōātl.com → xn--quetzalctl-1fb52g.com
The non-ASCII characters in Quetzalcōātl are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Quetzalcōātl.
How quetzalcoatl becomes Quetzalcōātl
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | q | → | Q | Same | Same |
| 02 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 03 | e | → | e | Same | Same |
| 04 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
| 05 | z | → | z | Same | Same |
| 06 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 07 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
| 08 | c | → | c | Same | Same |
| 09 | o | → | ō | Length | Macron: long vowel |
| 10 | a | → | ā | Length | Macron: long vowel |
| 11 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
| 12 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
Why Quetzalcōātl is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Nahuatl original Quetzalcōātl 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 Quetzalcōātl behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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