medianoche city

Xicano/Nde' queer, artist, danzante, activist, nerd.

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Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl’s escape from Tollan Xicocotitlan 

by Angus McBride

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Agave.

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beaded birch bark earrings, Birch Bark Betty (Ojibwe)

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[cazadordementes]

12 DE FEBRERO EN MALINALCO INICIO DEL CICLO SOLAR EN MESOAMÉRICA.

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kia labeija vogues through streets and colourful markets in bogotá, colombia in pillar point’s ‘dove’ music video directed by jacob krupnick

read more about it here

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☁️👽💔☁️

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The Most Intense Color of Any Living Thing on Earth

Also known as the marble berry, Pollia condensata is a wild plant that grows in the forests of several African countries. The berries are not edible, but they have an extremely rare property. They produce the most intense color of any living thing on Earth. Even after the berries have been picked from the plant, they stay the same shiny, vibrant, metallic blue color for many decades.

The vast majority of colors in the biological world are produced by pigments—compounds produced by a living organism that selectively absorb certain wavelengths of light, so that they appear to be the color of whichever wavelengths they reflect.

However, the marble berry’s skin has no pigment. The berries produce their vibrant blue color through nanoscale-sized cellulose strands that scatter light as they interact with one another. Thus the fruit’s color is even visible at the cellular level as pictured above.

[cosmicfunnies]

The last but not least of Assorted Planets Month!

And now to cool you all off with some “refreshing” rain!

This week’s entry: Planetary Rain

http://www.zmescience.com/other/science-abc/rain-titan-earth-neptune/

http://io9.com/on-jupiter-you-can-see-neon-rain-1640118403

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Callisto, Io and Europa. Jupiter’s moons

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Bathroom Shots

[futurebones]

The 3rd & 4th Gender #Navajo #TwoSpirit 🚻🆔

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Elk Skin Pawnee Star Chart, circa 1700.

Depicting major constellations and stars important to Pawnee religion, the star chart was said to originally been used to wrap a meteorite.  

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[riverlovesme]

Juan told me of two wondrous events that bound his family to the worship of orisa. First, his mother, grandmother and aunt went to a drum festival for Oshun, at the society. Before midnight, Lola, his grandmother became possessed by Oshun. She gave everyone toasted corn (agbado sisun) and told them to go home, the festival was ended. They asked her if she was angry with them and she told them that she was not angry but she wanted everyone not to come there and to stay home for the rest of the year. The elders of the society sent everyone home but Oshun remained mounted after they had closed the doors. Two days later someone bombed the society. The police came and accused the society members of the bombing. When the police questioned Lola they talked to her disrespectfully, but they didn’t realize that she was mounted by Oshun. She told the policeman that she was not Lola, but Oshun. She opened the door of the society and everyone saw the chief of police inside the building. He was found to be the culprit. Oshun had saved the people and revealed the guilty person. The second event occurred when his brother, Jesús was born. Their father, who was present when both Juan and his brother were born, called the midwife in each birth. Jesús could not breathe when he was born and the midwife became possessed by Oya and began rubbing him until he started breathing regularly. She saved his life.

John Mason, Araaraara: Wondrous Inhabitor of Thunder, 2012, pg. 199.

These two true stories are incredible examples of the kinds of miracles that happen in Orisha religion and are related in stories passed down from practitioner to practitioner. Maferefun Oshun ati Oya!

(via riverlovesme)

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鹿島様

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Guardian deity. Japan