#mexica

from The MET

If you like kingdom hearts, jak and daxter with a sprinkle of Naruto and West African inspired magic, then Ambys Stoma is the show for you!

[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!

Women who did not survive childbirth were called Cihuateteo, meaning “Divine Women.” Aztec belief said they accompanied the Sun from its highest point at midday until sunset, while fallen male warriors were associated with another part of the Sun’s daily journey.

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.