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@porphyrogenneta
hello! my name is Ewan, I’m a trans creator known for my Celestial series and for The Folly of Man, and I have a Patreon!
I’m currently trying to reach a goal of $300 a month so I can take my webcomic, Sunder, off hiatus! (it’s about cetacean sapience, a subject I have a strong passion for)
despite the high number of notes my work gets I’m still struggling to make a living wage as an artist, so please reblog if you can’t join! every bit of visibility counts 🙏
White people at it again. The Flayed Lord’s name is Xipe Totec, he’s one of the main dieties in Aztec culture. He is primarily associated with fertility and agriculture, and is strongly connected to renewal and rebirth (the flayed aspect is supposed to symbolize how corn, a major crop, sheds it’s outer layers). Aside from that, we know *very* little about mesoamerican cultures. What we do know mainly comes from retellings and accounts from Spanish conquerors, who of course had a biased perspective. Finding a new temple is a huge deal, because when the Spanish were systematically wiping out our culture, they made a point to build churches over preexisting temples and shrines. A lot of the churches are still there, but the Mexican government considers them historical buildings, and as such no one is allowed to dig under the churches or excavate the area. There are countless temples we haven’t seen because they’re under these churches. Finding a temple we can actually study is such a big deal!
It really is a big deal! also, mesoamerican art history/anthropological research are actually very robust and rapidly growing fields of study. A big problem for what white people call “Aztec” research before the 90s was that, yes, a huge number of readable personal accounts were from the Spanish. The others were written in Maya Nahuatl which used two forms of glyphs, the iconographic type, and the logogram type.
That was illegible up until a boy raised on Maya archaeological sites, David Stuart, was awarded a MacArthur genius grant (the youngest ever at 18) to study the glyphs. he was able to read them as well as his first language, solved several codes, and then other academics were able to easily translate codices and ruins. that was over 30 years ago, so now we are working with about 50 fully translated Nahua codices and hundreds of fragmented ones. there are many beautiful ruins and ancient sites like these all over South America, but the Spanish did make sure to build on top of many very important ones. restoring pyramids and temples that were plundered and destroyed by conquistadors and centries of war before them is crucial to ancient Mexicatl research, but the colonial churches above so many of these sites are also unfortunately historically important sites themselves. Mexico city is also an ancient city; it would be really difficult to excavate where families have built their homes for over 20 generations.
If you need a quarantine binge one of my favorite professors at my alma mater has uploaded so many free fun lectures on Maya, Peruvian, Nahua art and visual culture here :-)
If this ain't me
do not separate them…..
Starter Pokémon in Ohio
I’ve been trying to find this post again for ages
Every apex predator, looking at a capybara chilling: “…nah, I can’t eat this dude, that would be fucked up”
Do you like poems?
yes! my favorites are The Tiger and the unnamed werewolf fridge poem
for context these are the poems
also I almost forgot but the r/ambien Gives Us The Sleep post takes a completely serious third place in my favorite poems list:
ok but helen and odysseus have SO much potential as a brotp. his lying/disguise skills + her vocal impression abilities? the chaos would be UNSTOPPABLE
concept: the scene in little iliad where odysseus sneaks into troy to find the palladium and helen recognizes him, but it’s shot exactly like the window reunion scene from doctor who
the little iliad is a lost epic so i’m just going to assume this is what happened :)
zodiac bookshop inspo - ceilings
LOVE OUTLIVES BOTH THE LOVED AND THE LOVER
(i) JMC toynbee, beasts and their names in the roman empire / (ii) dog sleeping on dog mosaic in pompeii / (iii) george a. reisner, the dog which was honored by the king of upper and lower egypt / (iv) grave stele for helena, 150-200 CE / (v) assyrian dog figurines found beneath a palace doorway at nineveh, c. 645 BCE / (vi) tracing made by archaeologist henri breuil from font-de-gaume cave, c. 17,000 years ago / (vii) JMC toynbee, beasts and their names in the roman empire
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So go ahead. Call me a lion if you want, or Scylla who lives in the Tyrrhenian land—for I have touched your heart in its vital spot. // (Euripides’ Medea, 1358-60)
Inspired by the calyx krater of Medea in flight.
this is how you lose the time war — amal el-mohtar & max gladstone
why are centuries/millenia-old vampires so often described as tall? the average height now is higher than it was centuries ago. you're probably taller than the sexy vampire. own it.
you know what you’re right
I MEAN THAT’S ESSENTIALLY IT
so I found a full label, and the dose for an adult is a half-teaspoon four times a day
(A later version, but still clearly the same thing. Also please note how alcohol is the thing they want to reassure consumers they didn’t put in a lot of. Gotta love the Temperance Movement.)
not sure if that makes this better or worse
US Elevation.
by @cstats1
man the Appalachian mountains really aren’t shit huh
The Rockies are new, young and virile and fresh from the Laramide orogeny, tall and lanky teenagers on the geological scale. the Appalachian mountains are old, formed hundreds of millions of years ago before dinosaurs walked the Earth. They are ancients, elders, witnesses to half a billion years of life coming and going. To be tall is not a virtue. To be small is not a sin. The Appalachians are eroding under the weight of time, slowly shrinking and returning to the Earth from which they sprang. Appreciate them while they are still here.
I do want to say real quick again about the age of the Appalachians…
They said “before dinosaurs,” but we have a cave here that began forming between 450 million to 550 million years ago.
There are no bones in that cave. No fossils. No nothing.
That’s because this cave began forming before bones existed on land, and had only just started to exist in the ocean. Shellfish hadn’t evolved yet. Limestone, which forms many caves, was just starting to become a more prevalent rock.
The mountains aren’t older than dinosaurs. They are older than bones.
see that little lump up at the top of minnesota? the sawtooth mountains? so small most places would just call them hills?
those are over a billion years old.
that’s why they’re so small. they’re the last ancient remnants of a lava flow 5 miles thick. the lava didn’t kill any dinosaurs. or any fish. or any animals at all. because there were no animals. you know what there was?
algae.
those mountains were 5 miles tall when the most advanced life on earth was algae.
so i’m just gonna go ahead and keep calling them mountains, even though all you need to climb them is hiking shoes and a nice afternoon. because a place where you can crouch down and touch basalt that was lava before leaves were invented deserves some respect.
The earth is unfathomably ancient, and you garner no love from her when you insult her eldest children.
