MEXICO=name of capital and by extension of state. MEK-TAN=Maya name for empire, literally: “land of Mek.” MITNAL or METNAL=underworld. Maya. MICTLAN=name of region surrounding pyramids of Teotihuacan. MITLA=name of ruins in Oaxaca, Mexico. MICTLAMPA=north. Nahuatl. _cf._ miquiztli=death. MICTLAN-TECUHTLI=lord of the North, or underworld. Mexican pole-star god.