Jacinto was a nahual who protect the people of Jojutla, Morelos, in charge of defending the community of evil spirits.
He joined the revolutionary forces in the south after a police patrol rural, influenced by mesmerists vampires, kill his eldest son.
While nahuales not usually interfere directly in the events of non-magical world since the spanish conquest , Jacinto has been one of the few exceptions to the rule.
His fate is unknown, some say that vampires caught him and kill him, but others argue that his family run away in the mountains to lead a quiet life until the end of their days.
Cacamatzin was a powerful nahual of the order of eagles. He was one of the Ahuízotl comrade in arms, accompanied him on numerous campaigns of conquest.
After the death of his friend, Cacamatzin became one of the teachers and counselors of Cuauhtemoc, the last Aztec tlatoani and son of Ahuízotl.
Cacamatzin was killed covering the withdrawal of several survivors during the siege of Tenochtitlan, the legend said has it that it took 10 Spanish soldiers and tlaxcaltecas to kill him.
A tipical scene in the underground magical mexican city of Temixtitlan.
The foundation of Temixtitlan it´s lost in the shadows of time, dated it´s foundations to pre-human times, the city was destroyed and rebuilt thousand of times, the great kings of the Xantilmeh ruled the imponent palace of jade, in modern times, the city it´s home of many magic creatures who came from every corner of the known world.
In the times of old, the xantilmeh had many clans who ruled in their underground cities, the ancient city of Ethenuke, the modern Temixtitlan, had four ruler clans: The Tepacnecatl, Tlachi, Tecuanhuey and the Yopica.
The Yopica clan it´s a trader one, they came from Danni Ba in a pilgrimage from Oaxaca to the center of México to settle in the old and forgotten ruins of Ethenuke and prosper in their walls.
The invasion of the vampire forces to Temixtitlan affected greatly to their trader costumes, and bloody rebellions happened.
Good evening. My name is Carl Engström. I am originally from Uppsala, Sweden, and on the recommendation of a friend who is a regular visitor to this page, I would like to share the following photograph of a document that I found among the belongings of my great-grandfather, Martin Engström.
My great-grandfather was born in 1895, and worked as a school teacher in Stockholm. In the 1940s, he travelled to Mexico with a British professor from his university, James Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence.
Among the many articles he brought back from the country, this document was one of them, and from what my grandfather can remember, I know that he obtained it from a priest of a church located in a town called Yagul, Oaxaca, alluding to the fact that it was part of the evidence from a well-known case of the Spanish Inquisition against the Indians of the area during the 1650s.
I know that he came to acquire more documents of this kind, but one of his friends by profession, Elthon Kirowan, a scholar who had a shady reputation, asked him to examine them, without returning them. We know that he lived on a farm in Sussex, England, and if it is possible, attempt could be made to locate the family on the possibility that his relatives know the destiny of the other documents.
We do not want to give them to any museum, because they are part of our family legacy, but I have considered sharing a photograph of it, because apparently, it is a unique piece of Mexico’s past and it deserves to be shown to a wider public. I want also to avoid what I have heard are very long protocols in the investigatory process to expose such documents.
@tlatollotl can you put any validity to Ramirez’s garbage?
Ramirez is trying to portray Mesoamerican sacrifice as strictly evil with no consideration of cultural beliefs in order to somehow justify the atrocities Europeans committed toward indigenous people from 1492 onwards. Did Mesoamericans sacrifice people? Absolutely. Is that evil/savage/barbaric/horrific? Not necessarily. It really depends on the culture you grew up in and whether or not you have the capacity to understand cultural relativism (I’ve talked to some people who are simply incapable of understanding another culture). I do recommend checking out this YouTube video of Marshall Sahlins explaining Fijian cannibalismfor those that struggle with cultural relativism. Sahlins walks you through Fijian cultural beliefs regarding “cooked men” and “raw women”. If you can follow along and accept Fijian cultural beliefs regarding cannibalism, then you should be able to accept Mesoamerican beliefs regarding sacrifice.
“It’s my culture to eat people! It’s my culture to perform human sacrifice! These things are ok because My CuLtUrE!”
Your culture is barbaric, then. Cry about it, savage.
Also, Ramirez is right - the Aztects were just as imperialistic as Columbus and his merry crew, and any European army, and no amount of “its their culture!” apologism changes that. Stay pissy that your fetishized brown people weren’t perfect angels and yeah, did shitty things because they were human.
“sacrificing people is not necessarily evil or horrific”
My head physically hurts reading this
“NOOOOO YOU CANNOT CRITICIZE BROWN PEOPLE CULTURE NOOOO”
Mexican workers shut down plant; black man fired for posting video
In Indiana, Mexican and other Spanish-speaking workers walk off job site, shutting down plant in protest of mistreatment. Black man who uploaded video of it is fired
When Antoine Dangerfield showed up to work on Tuesday, the last thing he expected was that his co-workers would walk off the job and that he’d be fired for recording and uploading it to the Internet. But that’s exactly what happened.
In an interview with us earlier today, Antoine told us how it all went down.
Antoine, who is a welder by trade, worked at CRI (Contractor’s Resource Inc.) in Plainfield, Indiana, a company contracted by UPS and others to build conveyor systems. They’re based in Texas, but have plants throughout the United States. Most of his co-workers at this site were Mexican, while some were Guatemalan. Almost all Spanish speakers, which is why he tells us the company has their daily safety meetings in both English and Spanish.
The problems on this day started when the company’s interpreter did not show up and the safety meeting had to be done all in English, which became the pretext for the plant’s safety officer — a white guy named Bill — to write up the mostly Mexican workforce for minor violations.
After six workers were sent home early, their compañeros had had enough of his bullshit and decided they would all walk off in protest, effectively shutting down the plant. All of this happening before noon.
“They sent a couple of them home; they all packed their shit up and shut this motherfucker down,” Dangerfield says in his video, which has amassed more than 2.2 million views on Facebook as of Thursday. “This is what black people need to be on, man. I swear to god, I love this shit.”
Dangerfield told us he posted the video because he simply wanted to share it with his friends, but that it quickly went viral and has now taken on a much more serious meaning in his life. As of Thursday, Antoine had been fired, telling us that at least 3 of the men seen in the video will also be fired after completing their suspension. He plans on getting a lawyer to fight this injustice and hopes other workers are encouraged to stand up for their rights, he said.
Dorian López’s MexicanoMX is more than a photo project, it’s a defiant act of self-love.
By capturing the beauty of everyday Mexicans, López’s photos destroy the false and archaic notion that only light-skinned people are pretty.
In MexicanoMX, brown skin, black hair, Indigenous eyes, noses and lips are celebrated — and in doing so, restores for many a positive self-image. And that’s a beautiful thing.
