Tarascos
- plural of Tarasco.
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A village on the northern edge of the Sierra de los Tarascos, 32 kilometers by road west of Zacapu; pine-oak forest at village and to the south; mesquite-grassland immediately to the north.
From The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacán, México by Duellman, William E.
This salamander seems to reach its greatest abundance in Michoacán in the Sierra de los Tarascos between Pátzcuaro and Tancítaro, where it is found at elevations from 1500 to 2900 meters.
From The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacán, México by Duellman, William E.
Besides these, there were, on the territories now comprehended within the Mexican republic, the Tarascos who inhabited Michoacan, an independent sovereignty;—the barbarous Ottomies; the Olmecs; the Xicalancas; the Miztecas, and Zapotecas.
Both the Nahuas and Tarascos related legends in which he figured as father of the race of man.
From The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
The king of the Tarascos was considered merely the vicegerent of the absent hero-god, and ready to lay down the sceptre when Curicaberis should return to earth.
From American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
