#azteca

[bunnyinatree]

Helping another player quest through Azteca when you've already finished that world is An Experience™️😔💔 These drawings feature my Balance wizard and my friend @amselthebird's lovely Fire wizard!

[image ID: a set of digital drawings featuring Keira (a Lvl 85 Pyromancer) and Heather (a Lvl 100 Sorcerer). In the first drawing, Keira sees the Zocalo for the first time, with its soft indigo sky. She flings her arms wide and exclaims, "Wow! It's beautiful!" In the second drawing, she turns back to Heather, grinning, and asks, "Don't you think, Heather?" The third drawing is a close-up of Heather, who looks uncomfortable beneath her Darkmoor cowl. Off-screen, Keira asks, "Heather?" The fourth and final drawing uses the same perspective as the first, only from Heather's POV. The skies in the Zocalo are greenish-gray, and comets are raining down from every direction. Keira stares at her, oblivious to an apocalypse she cannot see. End image ID.]

[bastrod]

Mayahuel

[the-elf-witch-from-space]

It bothers me how some people still believe the colonial lie that the Aztec civilization believed Cortes was Quetzalcoatl. This is a lie. They knew he was just a colonizer. Even Cortes himself wrote about it in a letter to Charles V, Cortes recounted how Montezuma told him, “See that I am of flesh and blood like you and all other men, and I am mortal and substantial.”

They knew Quetzalcoatl was from space, which is why they depicted him in a space ship. Not like how this painting depicts the colonizers taking Tenochtitlán. Montezuma didn't just hand the keys over and think Cortes was some god. It was violent colonialism.

It is a myth and a colonial lie from the 1600's that Indigenous people of the Americas thought the conquistadors were gods. They did not. This is not true, you were lied to. There were also green eyed or blue eyed people with light hair on Turtle Island.

Kukulkan is one of the three gods that was thought to have created the Earth. He is a serpent in his natural form and was responsible for teaching the Maya about such things as how to run a civilization, agriculture, and medicine. After a brief period of being on Earth Kukulcan returned to the ocean telling the Maya that he would return at some later date. This is the basis of this colonial lie. Cortes did not even have blue or green eyes or blonde or light hair, unlike the nobility of Peru and others, who they said were descended from these "gods". Look at the ceremonial costumes. They mean Quetzalcoatl was white as in paper white, non human, not "pink european colonizer white". It's a cultural memory that these masks are so often painted unnaturally white. They are depicting a species of alien whose atmosphere was damaged and did not require melanin the way humans do. Blue eyes, green eyes, red hair, are all mutations for human beings. They can happen in any human culture or race.

[afruiteye]

Cereza, the Aztec Princess idol.

[th-oth]

Cathedral featuring Coatlicue 𓆗

[stormofthesea]

Hiiii! I was wondering if you have any resources for Mesoamerican mythology that’s good? Can be a website or book or anything really. Trying (desperately) to reconnect with my culture.

Hi!! So, so sorry for not answering sooner, but life happened lol. I’m struggling finding resources myself, considering that many were destroyed (thanks to colonization), or they were traditionally shared orally within our cultures. Some of the best resources I’ve found are often anthropology and history books, but I highly recommend doing research into the authors as well, and determine for yourself whether you trust them or not. From my own personal list here some:

Books:

Aztec & Maya: The Complete Illustrated History by Charles Phillips

The Oxford World Mythology by David Leeming

Mythology: Myths and Legends of the World by Dr. Alice Mills

Goddess Stories: Discover their mythology by Alison Davies (Has some Aztec and Native American goddesses, a Brazilian one too!)

Deck:

The Nahualli Animal Oracle Deck by Caelum Raineri and Ivory Andersen

YouTube:

Eye of the Serpent

Native American author Edgar Martin del Campo shares lessons from the indigenous religions, cultures, and languages of North to South Americ

Websites:

Mexicolore

AztecCalendar.com provides a reading of the significance of any given day and presents the relevant gods or protectors according to the Azte

Mayan Astrology Calculator for Understanding Yourself

Discover your destiny with the Mayan astrology calculator. Unlock insights about your personality and life path.

It’s a small list, but I hope it helps! I’ll also be doing some more digging and try making more posts about the gods of the Mexica :)

[sleepyisnotagamer]

Sightseeing in Wizard101 - House of Flowers

[life-mage-wolf]

The Wizard's Duty is to Protect the Spiral

Featuring ZenZen Seven Star