Ecatepec station
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The story behind the icon
The station silhouette is the glyph (a writing system and graphic language used to represent an object, an idea or a word) used by the ancient Mexica to represent Ehecatépetl, a mountain on whose summit stands the image of the god of the wind (Ehécatl).
Ecatepec is a place-name glyph with two etymological roots in the Nahuatl language: Ehéca(tl), wind, and Tépe(tl), hill, giving Ehecatépec, on the hill of the wind. Nahuatl is a metaphorical language, and to say hill is to evoke the idea of a town or city; through the hispanicisation of Nahuatl, it is now pronounced simply Ecatepec.
It is worth noting that Ehécatl is one of the names of Quetzalcóatl, the deity par excellence of all the ancient cultures of Mesoamerica, associated with the creation of the cosmos and with maize, and identified with the planet Venus and the Feathered Serpent.
Ehécatl-Quetzalcóatl is an anthropomorphic god, differing in that he wears a beak-like buccal mask on his face as god of the air, through which he distributes the winds to the various corners of the cosmos.
In 2008 the station was renamed from Tecnológico to Ecatepec.