bernard Wrote:
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> One more time , briefly. The quetzal bird's
> habitat is in the highlands, not is the sea level
> Yucatan.
Maybe the birds don't travel but the design for the sound did.
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The god Quetzalcoatl is an import from
> Central Mexico in the Post-Classic and the name
> "Kukulkan" is a translation of quetzalcoatl, which
> in Mexico means "plumed serpent" NOT "quetzal
> serpent" . And the same applies to the Maya area.
> Here are the relevant entries from a Yukatek Maya
> Dictionary
>
> Barrera Vazquez, A. ed. 1980 Diccionario Maya
> Cordemex Merida: Edicione Cordemex
>
> [my translations from Spanish, apostrophe
> indicates a glottal stop
> p. 420
>
> K’UK’UL ripe fruit that stay hard
>
> K’UK’UL a stubborn swelling
>
>
> K’UK’ULKAN Literally (“plumed-serpent) a god
> introduced by the Mexican invaders, the Maya name
> is the translation of Quetzalcoatl, the well-known
> Mexican god and culture hero. 13. literally
> “plumed Serpent” is the name of the Mexican
> Quetzalcoatl in the Maya area. A foreign
> civilizing god with warrior attributes. It was
> worshiped primarily by the xiw tribe in Yucatan.
> It was considred to be t he god of wind and
> storms.
>
> K’UKUM 1. feathers generally
>
> (AH)KU’KUM the quetzal, the most plumed one,
> mentioned in the text of the Chilam Balam books

(Mayan Kulkul = Quetzal, Can = Serpent, which the Aztecs called Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent

Are you saying that a quetzal chirp would have no more meaning to the Maya than
the sound of a seagull?