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wElP this would have made a LOT of things easier for a LOT of people in Greek myths

As punishment for your crimes you are thrown into the Labyrinth to be a living sacrifice to the Minotaur that lives inside. However nobody seemed to put together that since he is half bull; the Minotaur is actually a vegetarian.

Never, ever suicide, It's not worth it your presence on this Earth is beautiful please do not remove it

This becomes more fitting/disturbing when you consider that the Aztecs made blood sacrifices to the gods.

That being said, many of the Aztec gods would have knowledge on what blood/different organs in the body would taste like, and dare I say, some would enjoy it.

Tezcatlipoca definitely does. That guy's a psychopath.

Tezcatlipoca: *licks a knife* Xipe Totec: what's wrong with you?? Tezcatlipoca: Oh, like you never lick a knife after you're done using it Xipe Totec: not during surgery!!

wait a damn second where does food even go if you eat it while decapitated

Coyolxauhqui's favorite ice cream? I know she tried to kill her brother and got decapitated and all that but she probably still likes ice cream...

Hmmmm she strikes me as a chocolate chip enjoyer

And as a bonus:

For popsicles she likes grape, popsicles prob easier to eat even when you are a decapitated head in the void idk tho

The omniscient god trope is played out. I want an omnipotent god with absolutely no common sense or foresight. I mean just absurdly powerful, but cannot predict even a whisper of the consequences to their actions whatsoev— ohh whoops, hang on, that's just Zeus

I know my followers aren't really big on asks but send me some ig

I feel like Huitzilopochtli wants and has wanted to have a semi-normal relationship with Coyolxauhqui since he was born but it's very one-sided, Coyolxauhqui doesn't want anything to do with him.

Like, just imagine:

"I don't want to hurt you."

"If we got everything we wanted, I'd have killed you a long time ago."

And then Huitzilopochtli goes silent bc just because you live with Tezcatlipoca doesn't mean you get better at retorting to sick fucking burns

I actually think because day and night are just like the timezones when Huitzilopochtli and Coyolxauhqui are fighting (according to the Aztecs), the reason it takes so long is because Huitzilopochtli is actively trying to refrain from killing his sister until he's absolutely forced to decapitate her. In a way it kills him along with her. That's why Huitzilopochtli is quiet most of the time I would say, because his experience with his other (?) family is just an endless one-sided relationship that he needs to relive every day. And he's not really sure that his current one with the Four Tezcatlipocas is going to end up any different, you know?

Like, he doesn't know if he's going to end up having to kill one of them sometime in the future, and I think he doesn't say anything because he's afraid that if he says something wrong he'll pay the price. Because gods don't die, they just keep coming back until it feels like you're the one who's dying. Huitzilopochtli is honestly the most human of the gods, despite the fact that he shows emotion rarely. I think it's partially because he shows emotion rarely, maybe an automatic response regarding the shit he's been through.

Oh, my bad, did I make this too much of an angst idea? well SOMEONE needs to write a STORY about those two I SWEAR

Idk why this came to mind but

Any Huitzilopochtli-Coyolxauhqui sibling dynamic hcs?

I feel like everyone forgets Coyolxauhqui is Huitzilopochtli's sister...

HULLO. YES.

first of all. i invite you to peruse my Huitzilopochtli hc's here,, and if you are interested, also, shameless self-plug, but my visual hc's for Huitzilopochtli and Coyolxauhqui on the 2nd page (just a rough sketch ehehe but that's what i imagine!)

now.

Coyolxauhqui is the older sibling. as per the lore, Coyolxauhqui also has 400 younger brothers, the stars; the Centzonhuītznāhua.

i think, to understand Coyolxauhqui's fight with Huitzilopochtli, we have to imagine what life was like BEFORE Huitzilopochtli was born.

and i hc that Coyolxauhqui was actually quite lovely. i think she had one of those subtle smiles... not bursting out into laughter, but she'd smirk a lot and her younger brothers' antics.

i think she has razor sharp wits-- she's quick to give out witty retorts and they're GOOD.

being the older sibling of ANY family is a tough role to play-- many look up to you and you have to look after all your younger siblings. but now Coyolxauhqui has 400 YOUNGER SIBLINGS, all brothers--- i think life was pretty hectic for her.

she had to be stern and tough so that she could help her mother raise all of them.

there isn't any mention of who Coyolxauhqui's father is, but we must assume she had one since she was so furious at the method by which Huitzilopochtli was born (more on that later), but Coatlicue, her mother, is mentioned as being the wife of Mixcoatl, so i think it seems reasonable to hc him as Coyolxauhqui's father also.

now, Mixcoatl is the god of the hunt, and i think he may have taught Coyolxauhqui and her brothers a lot about fighting and hunting... i think they would all be quite good at it.

however, being the god of the hunt, i hc Mixcoatl to be away from home a lot of the time.... i think in those times, Coyolxauhqui would bond a lot with her mother, them being the only two women in the family.

as a result, i imagine Coyolxauhqui to have utmost admiration and respect for her mother. she is like; the role model of all time to Coyolxauhqui. she does everything correctly, the way the law writes things should be.

everything is PERFECT.

UNTIL. the feather-ball incident.

and that completely shatters Coyolxauhqui's image of a perfect mother. she sees it as the ultimate dishonour... in Coyolxauhqui's mind, this child conceived between the feathers and her mother is not even her sibling at all.... it's just an abomination. something which, as the eldest, it is her duty to be rid of.

that's how i think, Coyolxauhqui becomes cold and mean... fixated on only one thing; the destruction of her mother and her unholy child.

i have a soft spot for characters who uphold the law so deeply that they will even hurt their family if it means keeping their "honour".. and i think Coyolxauhqui is exactly that.

for Huitzilopochtli, his whole childhood is robbed from him due to Coyolxauhqui's attack.... he literally never gets the time to grow up and just be a kid the way Coyolxauhqui and her brothers had... i think he can be very awkward and unsociable a lot of the time because he never had siblings to play with, to share with, to laugh with... and i think that makes him grumpy most of the time. it's just one battle after the other with no break.

so in a way, Huitzilopochtli is actually sooo similar to Coyolxauhqui.

if not for the fighting, they would have been the perfect siblings.

as for Coatlicue. i think her heart simply breaks to see her children fighting. i don't hc her to hate Coyolxauhqui; she always will remain her child... there is a myth where Huitzilopochtli places Coyolxauhqui's head in the sky which becomes the moon so that Coatlicue might see her daughter every day. so that tells me she didn't hate her.

Huitzilopochtli also-- i think he would stop fighting if Coyolxauhqui did.... he only fights to survive.

as a final note; in the myths, Huitzilopochtli chops Coyolxauhqui's head off... but i like the idea that he cuts her head off, and then her head re-attaches or at least regrows, so that they are perpetually locked in a battle; a mirror of Ra's fight with Apep, if you get what im saying!

perhaps her brothers recover her head for her... in any case, i like the idea of Coyolxauhqui having a scar at the base of her neck from the number of times her head has been lopped off by Huitzilopochtli.

THIS. Idk why so many people portray Ares as a senselessly violent person, he's a good guy and I will die on this hill.

Ares: My parents think I like to kill just to kill sometimes I lose my shit and blow a little steam but I've never enjoy it. I'm not a violent god. I don't why I get so angry....

Hestia*holds his hand*: Your job dear is one of the hardest, you can't blame yourself

Tezcatlipoca: I don't want your advice, period.

Quetzalcoatl: Yet you clearly need it.

Quetzalcoatl: lemme give you some friendly advice-

Tezcatlipoca: ew i dont want your advice

Quetzalcoatl: well then consider this some unfriendly advice

REBLOG IF I CAN MESSAGE YOU 'HEY' AND START A FRIENDSHIP.

always gonna re-reblog

Reblog if this sight on your blog makes you smile and you would like your followers to talk to you more. 

Pandora as requested!

I’ve always found it interesting that there are many different takes in understanding the story of Pandora and the jar. The most well-known one being naive curiosity leading to the eternal despair of humanity, but the remaining hope giving them reason to live on.

I personally like the interpretation of Pandora’s action and hope meaning the pursuit of knowledge letting humanity break out of the bliss of ignorance. Like in the Brave new world and the garden of Eden, not being aware of one’s own suffering can leave people simply content. But without knowing wrongness, there cannot be any real improvement in their lives.

I had so much fun drawing the amphora so thank you for requesting this drawing :)

Update: Hades pronounced as heyds is now an option (inspired by a blog that reblogged this stating their friend pronounced it like that and now that I think of it the second hand embarrassment I get when I remember that sometime when I was a child I pronounced it like that too including the Po-sey-don thing)

Reblog if you once called Aphrodite "Afro-dyt", Persephone "Persa-phone", or Poseidon "Po-sey-don" (or optionally all three)

yeah but I prefer my water cold

...wut

I told @prettykittytanjiro about my Shesh x Quetzalcoatl ship and they spit out their juice (not really but cranberry juice on a garment would've been fun).

This was the exact reaction of Vishnu and Tezcatlipoca btw.

Music, poetry, archery, prophecy, truth, healing, plague, sun, light, and who knows maybe more.

The one and only, Apollo☀️

Cosmic snake x cosmic snake

sounds good

I told @prettykittytanjiro about my Shesh x Quetzalcoatl ship and they spit out their juice (not really but cranberry juice on a garment would've been fun).

This was the exact reaction of Vishnu and Tezcatlipoca btw.

Tezcatlipoca: what else are you good at? other than making my life fucking miserable. Quetzalcoatl: i can colour!

Reblogging because the art is amazing

Is your Sheshnag×Quetzalcoatl ship still going on? I made a drawing of Shesha for it. What do you think?

OMGGG IT'S SO COOL??? LOOK AT MAH BOI SHESH LOOK AT HIM WITH THE LIL PLANETS ON HIS HEADS AAAAAAAAAAA I LOVE ITTT😭😭😭

Also YES OFCCC the Sheshzalcoatl ship is still on. It'll never die as long as I'm alive DW bout it 💅.

Self care tips, we love you Nanahuatzin

This is the Aztec god Nanahuatzin. He sacrificed himself in a fire so that the world would have a sun and humanity could live. However, there is a problem. More and more humans are spending less time in the sun to spend more time at work and in school. In some places, people spend the whole day without seeing the light of the sun because they are busy working! This makes Nanahuatzin very sad because it means his sacrifice was in vain. Please cheer him up by quitting your job and/or classes to spend more time in his radiant light.