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Tezcatlipoca, Coyolxauhqui, Xipe Totec, and Mixcoatl: Why tell someone to kill themselves when you can do it for them
out of the aztec gods who would say kys and like actually mean it and who would not be serious
with the Aztecs, i feel like most of them can be scary and serious so many of them are serious lol... with Coyolxauhqui and her dad Mixcoatl,, i've always imagined them to be more serious and stern so i think they wouldn't bother saying "kys"-- they'd just get down to it.
Day 21. The prompt today was Mesoamerican mythology. I ran into a problem with this one; mainly, there seems to be a huge gap in the scholarship about folkloric monsters in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican cultures. Oh, sure, I found lots of gods and the like, but defining gods as monsters seems like dodgy territory to me. If anyone knows of non-divine supernatural creatures or spirits from those cultures, please send them my way, because now I have The Curiosity.
In light of not finding a huge amount of material to work from, I went with the idea that dogs, and specifically the Xoloitzcuintli dog, was believed to be a guide to the underworld. Now, psychopomps aren’t monsters strictly speaking, and the god associated with the dogs, Xolotl, isn’t a monster either, but there you go.
Dry media to mitigate page buckling.
Liam went from crippling physical health to crippling mental health
