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SHE 👏 LIKES 👏 TO 👏 COLLECT 👏 ROCKS

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She’s proud of herself and I’m proud of her

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If I scroll past this post without reblogging it, please hold an exorcism to rid my body of the foul soul inhabiting it

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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!

[lesb0]

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 :-)

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[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

i am going to sound ssssooooooo mean. but. i legit do not care if it wasn’t that couple’s intention to start a wildfire. like...no kidding. i never thought it was. who would intentionally set california on fire for a gender reveal??? they still deserve to be ridiculed as much as they are. sorry

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

as a californian, we know when wildfire season is. we watch it every year. we know what point in the summer is most dangerous for things like bonfires or outdoor barbecues or fireworks. how self-centered do you have to be to set off explosives in the middle of a dry field, in the middle of california, in the middle of august? in the middle of a PANDEMIC? for a GENDER REVEAL! i’m fucking livid

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

intention vs outcome, right? they really thought they were doing a “cool” gender reveal and that would be the end of it. get a bunch of likes on instagram. get some clout off of their unborn child. whatever. sure. i buy it. very californian sentiment, admittedly. they didn’t intend to displace 3,000+ people, coat the sky in ash (in the middle of a pandemic which attacks your respiratory system), and incinerate some of the oldest trees on earth. but that kind of disregard, vapidness at the level which they conducted themselves to even think it was a good idea.....is a kind of malice. and it’s mean of me, and kind of not helping anyone, but i want them to be embarrassed about it for the rest of their lives. end of rant

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Reblog if you'll PUBLICLY answer anything in your ask right now.

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Im game

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this is the most intense 2 minutes of sexual tension ever put to film

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this is the physical manifestation of a risky text

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[awesome-picz]

Breathtaking Photos By Julius Kähkönen That Look Like They’re From A Dream

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Jordan Torres by Torian Lewin – Crotch Magazine #4