The Aztecs were singularly free of some of the hang-ups that inflict more modern societies. They call a spade a spade. And if avocados dangling from the Persea americana tree in pairs looked like ahuacatl that is what they called them: ‘testicle.’ Such a worldly view hardly endeared them to the priests who followed the Conquistadors. Despite its additional attribute as a shade tree they forbade any to be planted at their monastery gardens.
