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“A las tres de la mañana del 16 de abril de 1964, el enorme monolito de siete metros de alto, con 167 toneladas de peso (el más grande del Continente y uno de los cinco más grandes del mundo), irrumpió las calles del pueblo, arrastrado por dos cabezas de trailers, escoltado por militares, policías federales de caminos, arqueólogos y arquitectos.
A su paso el pueblo salió para despedirlo con música y cohetes. “La gente tenía mucho amor a la piedra de los Tecomates; cuando se la llevaron, los que en ese entonces éramos niños, salimos a darle la despedida, cantando y echándole confeti, flores y ¡vivas!, mucha gente lloraba y decía: ¡mataron a la población! Este pueblo ya quedó borrado del mapa, sin el Tláloc nadie vendrá de visita, de qué vamos a vivir.”
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Dorian Martínez, 2019
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BlackHat as Aztec Gods
BlackHat como dioses Aztecas
Tezcatlipoca
Xipe Totec
Huitzilopochtli
Quetzalcoatl
Mictlantecuhtli
Tlaloc
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Disfruten!!!
These are some details of my painting of Tlaltecuhtli, Earth Lady.
On either side of Tlaltecuhtli appear two Teteo, Mictlantecuhtli, the Lord of Death, and Tlaloc, Our Lord the Rain.
The land of the dead is under the earth, and the lords of rain live in the hollow mountains. Both are accessed by caves which pierce the earth. The joints, such as elbows and knees, are thought of as openings by which one can enter the body and the solid bones. Therefore, her joints are painted with Tlaloc faces, or, sometimes, with skeletal faces. These represent the caves by which one enters the world of the Teteo of death and rain. They also represent her two poles, of life and death, and of the duality which she incarnates.
At the feet of Mictlantecuhtli are two quail. The white spots on the quail’s feathers symbolize stars, and the quail is a symbol of the night time sky. At the feet of Tlaloc is a rattlesnake. The curving, sinuous body of the snake is like the movement of lightning across the sky, and like the curving of rivers as they wind across the earth. Both animals live in caves in the ground, and therefore are bridges between the dark and mysterious world of the Teteo beneath the earth, and the world of humanity on the earth’s surface.
You can find prints of Tlaltecuhtli in my Etsy store!
Tlaltecuhtli Mother Earth Mexica Aztec Earth Goddess | Etsy México
Our ancestors believed that before the creation of this world and its Sun, there existed four eras with four different Suns. The third era, Nahui Quiahuitl, Four Rain, was ruled by Tlaloc, Our Lord the Rain, and ended with a rain of fire, which forced the people to flap their arms, turning them into turkeys. The turkey is one of the spirit animals of Tezcatlipoca, Lord of Darkness, who commanded it to feed humans with their flesh, and in reward He gave it feathers of jewel-like colors.
You can see The Third Sun as a print in my Etsy store. Click here!
Cirquetober day 6! Today, Tlaloc fromLuzia!
This time we used it as a foreshortening and lighting study.
Largest Aztec temple was decorated with over 100 starfish
“The last well-preserved layer of the temple was the one Ahuizotl ordered built in 1487. And that’s where archaeologists discovered the galaxy of starfish that the Aztec priests had once offered to Huitzilopochtli.”
