#mexica

from The MET

[Description - An illustration of a fierce nude woman with motherly proportions. Superimposed over her are design elements from the Mexica Coatlicue Statue: A skirt of woven snakes, a necklace of human hands and hearts with a central skull, and dual ornamental serpents facing one another over her face. Her hands are reptilian and clawed, and she holds a macuahuitl.]

Brothers!

Mexican Noblewoman

Exquisitely carved Aztec snake and jaguar from the national museum of anthropology , Mexico City.

The Mesoamerican civilizations represent a long continuum of complex societies that emerged independently in Central America and southern Mexico from roughly 1500 BCE to the early 16th century CE, prior to Spanish conquest. Rather than a single empire or linear progression, Mesoamerica was shaped by successive cultural horizons in which shared ideas, such as maize agriculture, ritual calendars, urban ceremonial centers, and sacred kingship, were continually adapted to local environments and political structures. These societies developed without large domesticated animals or metal tools, relying instead on intensive agriculture, labor organization, and sophisticated knowledge systems.

Imagine being a foreigner to Mexican culture and thinking you have any right to tell US what we can and cannot be done with OUR culture and traditions. Imagine thinking you have the right to tell indigenous Mexicans that we should just quietly accept the ongoing commercialization, gentrification and colonization of Day of the Dead - "It is not your choice. Get over yourself. Not everyone is like that, let others be." The fucking audacity and disrespect. This attitude and behavior proves that people only want to take and take from our Mexican and indigenous culture and roots all the while ignoring the actual people that these traditions and culture comes from. But sure, you're being "respectful' while ignoring everything I've and other indigenous Mexicans have said and the posts I shared that further explain this. I'm pretty sure, they didn't even read and watch those posts considering their disrespectful egotistical reply.

Los hermanos brothers