English translation of my keyblade art post:
Well, I never thought I would, but since I like being in kingdom hearts roles I decided to make a keyblade half based on the Mayans and especially the Mexicas/Aztecs. I have not named it, perhaps something like "yohuallimacahuilt" or "macahuilt of darkness" (or dankness as a meme xD). I took creative liberties, but here's the explanation:
I decided to go to a black blade because of the obsidian, the edge full of tips represents the macahuilt while the rest of the blade is inspired by the famous ceremonial daggers, to not make it look flat I decided to put emeralds in the middle. The upper part is traced from two pieces found in archaeological sites.
In the middle is represented a large black circle surrounded by smaller ones of a silver color. The shape of this circle is the one corresponding to the Mexica glyph of yohualli or "darkness", in the middle is Gula’s sign for two reasons: The main one is that the oc that uses this weapon, although is a character of a worldbu that I am creating, would be a kind of mestizo between a Mexica and an European explorer (WARNING: European explorer very interested in culture in the style of responsible researches for the 21st century, no intentions to make apology to colonialism. This uneven mixture seeks to represent a personal aspect of myself), so using a jaguar seemed to me at least inappropriate; the second reason is because this oc has a leopard nahual because of his origin, if he had been "Mexica" it would had been a jaguar. Around the glyph are the solar angles. This represents two things: the triumph of darkness over light and at the same time a light within a character who is a being of darkness.
At the bottom, around the handler, the roots of a ceiba are represented as the sacred and life tree that connects the 3 cosmological floors (heaven, earth and underworld). In his case only the roots because the roots are the ones that connect the underworld or xibalbá/mictlán with the rest; I don't want to lengthen the post, so I will only say that the Mesoamerican underworld was, literally, the opposite of the world of the living, a dark place, where the knowledge of magic, disease and life emerged (seeds were put underground, therefore in underworld). This roots come out of the mouth of a snake that seeks to imitate the cipactli, a monster from which the earth emerged in Mexic mythology and at the same time imitates the snake in the scyth of King Pakal, in which the entry of the ruler into the underworld is represented when he falls into the mouth of a snake; snakes represent earth and fertility. The fusion of roots and snake form some jaws that represent the entrance to the underworld.
As a key ring is the glyph of the house of darkness, one of the tests of the Popol Vuh that the twins Hunuahpú and Ixbalanqué had to overcome in order to become sun and moon; at the end of the chain the Mexica glyph of the moon.
