MÉXICO🇲🇽

Effigy Vessel from Oaxaca, Mexico dated between 200 - 600 CE on display National Archaeological Museum in Madrid, Spain

This vessel is is thought to depict a warrior ruler of the Zapotec people. She wears a elaborate attire with an ornate helmet adorned with the head of jaguar. This animal is often associated with warriors and warfare in Mexican history as well as the right to rule. While female rulers were not common there are accounts prior to colonisation as well as Spanish records of women being granted rights to ancestral lands.

Plateau Tiger Salamander or Mexican Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma velasci), neotenic adult, family Ambystomatidae, endemic to Mexico

Some populations or individulas are paedomorphic, or neotenic, retaining larval traits (aquatic with gills) into adulthood.

mantén la fe

More landscapes & backgrounds 🏞

The Isthmus Zapotec city of Guidxiguie' (today Juchitán).

A slice-of-life river bathing scene, one of my favorite panels from book 2. Back then, they used the "xiuhamolli" plant (Aniseia Martinicensis) to produce foam like soap.

I made a new design, this time Tlazolteotl (based on a Huastec depiction of her).

Also finished carving both the Tlazolteotl and my ExLibris. Whenever I get some free time, I'll do some stamp tests, both in the traditional way, and I'll try with a regular ink pad too.

Un amor que me quepa en las manos

Que me quepa en la cabeza

Que me quepa en mi cuerpecito de 1.56

Uno para mí nada más 

Que no salga de aquí 

Que no salga corriendo, que se quede aquí conmigo llenandome la vida.