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    Source: comicvine.com

    Sam Humphries and Dalton Rose - Sacrifice covers, 2012-13

    Art direction by Dylan Todd

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    #Aztec#Mexica#Sam Humphries#Dalton Rose#comics#history#colonialism#mythology#folklore#violence#epilepsy#ink#graphic#drawing#want#race#politics#Dylan Todd#2010s#Sacrifice

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    Apr 16, 2013 (a Tuesday)
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    1:25:00 (1 month ago)

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    nevver: Prediction Filed under: still the Aztec/Mexica calendar stone, not Mayan.
    Source: blog.sfgate.com

    nevver:

    Filed under: still the Aztec/Mexica calendar stone, not Mayan.

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    #Aztec#Mexica#appropriation#apocalypse#meta#internet

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    Dec 19, 2012 (a Wednesday)
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    9:08:00 (5 months ago)

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    Archaeologists find burnt stucco floor related to astronomical event 1,350 years ago

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    TECOZAUTLA, MEXICO.- During the excavations in Pañhu, an archaeological zone which will soon open its doors to the public in the municipality of Tecozautla, Hidalgo, archaeologists registered a burn stucco floor, evidence that its main pyramid was desacralized approximately 1,350 years ago. This coincides with an astronomical event which was thought, by its inhabitants, to be a cataclysm.

    Archaeologist Fernando Lopez Aguilar, director of the site’s investigation project promoted by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH – Conaculta), informed that there was a solar eclipse at sunrise the 3rd of August in the year 650 AD.

    “To these old societies, the eclipse must have represented a catastrophe which is why they made sacrifices in order to ‘keep the star alive’, since they believed the black sun or hell’s sun had imposed on their sun ‘a giver of life’. Read more.

    Source: archaeologicalnews

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    #archaeology#Astronomy#apocalypse#death#war#eclipse#Mexica#Aztec#Mesoamerican

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    Oct 26, 2012 (a Friday)
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    1:26:08 (6 months ago)

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    Huitzilopochtli, Codex Borbonicus  Huitzilopochtli is famously a god of war and human sacrifice. Elevated as a solar god, patron of the Aztec empire and its people, he attained comparable status to the more well-known Quetzalcoatl, Texcatlipoca, and his personal equal Tlaloc, god of water, rain, and fertility. It is this important pairing with Tlaloc that is commemorated at the twin temples of Templo Mayor. In Mexica (Aztec) mythology, the world was tied to the fate of a god or goddess who ascended as a new sun—our current world being the fifth and possibly last in this succession. Earlier versions suggest an old or sickly god immolating themselves, becoming renewed and fierce in the flames. In later tradition this was merged with Huitzilopochtli’s unending battle against darkness represented by his sister and brothers, the moon and the stars. The fifth sun and the world it perpetuated could be aided by the regular offering of human blood and hearts, just as life came from the gods’ self-sacrifice. Without proper worship and offerings, the sun would blacken and the world would be destroyed by earthquakes. It is also said that through Huitzilopochtli’s guidance the Mexica were led to Lake Texcoco to found Tenochtitlan, upon which modern Mexico City is built. The Mexican flag and coat of arms still commemorates this event with the omen he gave them: an eagle eating a snake above a prickly pear on the lake.

    Huitzilopochtli, Codex Borbonicus 

    Huitzilopochtli is famously a god of war and human sacrifice. Elevated as a solar god, patron of the Aztec empire and its people, he attained comparable status to the more well-known Quetzalcoatl, Texcatlipoca, and his personal equal Tlaloc, god of water, rain, and fertility. It is this important pairing with Tlaloc that is commemorated at the twin temples of Templo Mayor.

    In Mexica (Aztec) mythology, the world was tied to the fate of a god or goddess who ascended as a new sun—our current world being the fifth and possibly last in this succession. Earlier versions suggest an old or sickly god immolating themselves, becoming renewed and fierce in the flames. In later tradition this was merged with Huitzilopochtli’s unending battle against darkness represented by his sister and brothers, the moon and the stars. The fifth sun and the world it perpetuated could be aided by the regular offering of human blood and hearts, just as life came from the gods’ self-sacrifice. Without proper worship and offerings, the sun would blacken and the world would be destroyed by earthquakes.

    It is also said that through Huitzilopochtli’s guidance the Mexica were led to Lake Texcoco to found Tenochtitlan, upon which modern Mexico City is built. The Mexican flag and coat of arms still commemorates this event with the omen he gave them: an eagle eating a snake above a prickly pear on the lake.

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    #Huitzilopochtli#apocalypse#Mexica#Aztec#mythology#16th century#drawing#art history#war#writing#Mesoamerican#folklore#paper#books

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    date:
    Jun 15, 2012 (a Friday)
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    9:52:00 (11 months ago)

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    mothernaturenetwork: NASA video crushes 2012 Mayan apocalypse mythNASA debunks fear of an apocalypse caused by calendars, incoming planets, solar flares and planetary alignments. Good points, but that’s the Aztec calendar stone. Just saying.
    Source: mothernaturenetwork

    mothernaturenetwork:

    NASA video crushes 2012 Mayan apocalypse myth
    NASA debunks fear of an apocalypse caused by calendars, incoming planets, solar flares and planetary alignments.

    Good points, but that’s the Aztec calendar stone. Just saying.

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    #NASA#space#science#apocalypse#video#artifact#Aztec#Mexica#Maya#Mesoamerican#indigenous peoples

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    Mar 13, 2012 (a Tuesday)
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    1:27:00 (1 year ago)

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    iheartmyart: Clay sculpture of an Aztec warrior dating back to the 15th century - apart of the Contested Visions exhibition at LACMA (via C-MONSTER.net)
    Source: c-monster.net

    iheartmyart:

    Clay sculpture of an Aztec warrior dating back to the 15th century - apart of the Contested Visions exhibition at LACMA

    (via C-MONSTER.net)

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    #art#sculpture#ceramic#Aztec#Mesoamerican#indigenous peoples#artifact#museums#art history#LACMA#Mexica

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    posted by:
    panicinthestudio
    date:
    Feb 15, 2012 (a Wednesday)
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    11:37:00 (1 year ago)

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