What does "Tepeyac" mean?

Factual Questions
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I’m sure you’ve seen restaurants called So and So’s Tepeyac. But what or who or where is Tepeyac?
I’ve asked several people and got very different responses:

  1. It has to do with Indians in Mexico
  2. It’s a place in Spain
  3. It has to do with the Virgin of Guadalupe

Are any of these right?
Are there multiple definitions or meanings I haven’t heard yet?

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According to Wikipedia, Tepeyac is the location of the Basilica of Guadalupe. And also a term meaning “settlement on a hill” in Nahuatl.

It’s also the title of a film that tells "the story of the Virgin of Guadalupe’s appearance to Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin in 1531. "

http://www.silentfilm.org/pastprograms/2003festival/tepeyac/schedule.htm

As for the restaurant version, I have no idea.

Guess that clears approximately nothing up. :slight_smile:

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vivalostwages writes:

> I’m sure you’ve seen restaurants called So and So’s Tepeyac.

Well, I haven’t. I assume that this is mostly a California thing. I Googled on “Tepeyac” and “restaurant” and got a lot of hits, but they mostly seem to be about restaurants in California.

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Ah yes, I should not have assumed. Tepeyac is a name used by a number of Mexican restaurants here.

Brainiac, thanks!