"When Spanish friars demanded that the Aztecs destroy their gods, the priests replied, enigmatically, 'our gods are already dead'."

The Teteoh are so fucking metal.

#Teotecayotl #Mexicayotl #polytheism #Indigenous #Mesoamerica #Mexico #Chicano @theology

Holy FUCK SHIT I might be a descendant of FUCKING MOTECUHTOMZA XOCOYOTZIN

AKA

KING MONTEZUMA

AKA

THE LAST LEADER OF THE AZTEC EMPIRE

https://www.indigenousmexico.org/articles/moctezumas-descendants-in-aguascalientes

#mexico #chicano #teotecayotl #genealogy

When Tlaozolteol presents the beheaded corn snake, a metaphor for desire - She is showing us its sacredness. Even the corn snake bleeds the sacred fluid.

In opening the snake, She reveals its inner divinity.

In opening the snake, She makes us and our desires whole.

#pagan #polytheism #Chicano #Teotecayotl #Mexicayotl #sexuality #theology @religion

*laughs in Mexican polytheism*

#chicano #xicano #Teotecayotl #polytheism

Redoing my Ehecatl of the Wild Hunt/Mal de Aire/Amiliatecuhtli. Bigger, prettier, watercolor...ier.

#Chicano #ChicanoSpirituality #Mexica #Aztec #Teotecayotl #polytheism #ArtistsOnMastodon #illustration #Analog

Welp, finally finished my Big Think on the role of "digital media" in polytheist and animist art: https://rotwork.wordpress.com/2023/09/10/on-fossil-media/

#pagan #polytheism #animism #art #religion #theology #Teotecayotl @theology

Just a little thing I'm doing to keep busy in between doing other things what are keeping me busy.

Yep, I'm gonna trace/redraw the entire Codex Borbonicus at print quality so my community can have a cleaner, easier to read version complete with English notation instead of Spanish.

#mexico #mexica #mesoamerica #chicano #ChicanoSpirituality #Teotecayotl #Indigenous #CodexBorbonicus

Restrung my prayer beads today 🥰

#Teotecayotl #Chicano #ChicanoSpirituality #jewelry #pagan #polytheist