#ometecuhtli

I was looking at him bc He rules over the Aztec day of Crocodile (23rd of july)

And I was like damn He's got huge nose piercings adorning His beautifully indigenous Mexican nose. The black lipstick on His lips that all life springs from?? King, honestly

Tbh such observations about Him help me realize the natural way of being outside the confines of white supremacy is all the more beautiful by gazing upon Him. Like. "Oh shit THE SOURCE OF ALL EXISTANCE got a huge nose piercing and black lipstick in human form? I feel so incredibly seen and comfortable in the ways I embody myself. my self love meter just got overmaxxed like a geyser" AKA the effect of gazing upon Them

It reminds me of Source as Ma Kali makes me go "I love that God is a very very dark skinned black woman (literally made of the darkest matter of the rage of injustice) who is goth as fuck. When I look at Her I think of the trans black women everywhere."

I mean LOOK AT HER

I have concluded that the xipe totec was last to graduate (he radiates younger siblings' vibes), which means he also got the loudest cheers (Tezcatlipoca 100% snucked in air horns and banners, Huitzilopochtli can just scream that loud, and Quetzalcoatl has whistles).

When Tezcatlipoca graduated, he had to deal with Omecihuatl and Ometecuhtli being like photo! Everywhere.

Quetzalcoatl got cake thrown at him by tezcatlipoca and a banner made. Xipe totec had fun with a whistle.

Ometeotl, the god of duality, is a self-created god that divided “himself” into two, a male and a female: Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, “Two Lord” and “Two Lady” (Or Tonacatecuhtli and Tonacacihuatl, “Lord/Lady of our Sustenance”). They reside in Omeyocan, the highest of the 13 heavens, and they are responsible for the creation of the four Tezcatlipocas.

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The Cosmic Egg is a symbol that appears in several mythologies around the world, specifically in cosmogony. Greco-Roman, Egyptian, Hindu and Finnish creation myths to name a few. They usually describe the world coming from the different parts of an egg, or a creator deity hatching from one, then creating the universe. A summary of some of them with respective links is here.

The Legend Of The Suns is the Aztec creation myth, and it fits Monkey Wrench to have the cosmic egg appear in its pilot, specially as the introduction of the show. I believe this is what the “Ghost Egg” is referencing.

There is no cosmic egg in Aztec mythology, though. The closest thing we have to that is Ometeotl, the self-created god who, as the creator couple, are the “parents” of the main four.

The “ghost” part of the ghost egg comes from the fact that the Potoo family are, well, potoos. The potoos are a bird family found in Central and South America. They have many names, such as kakuy, guajojo, or like in Paraguay, urutau, “ghost bird”.

You can see that Queen Potoo is designed after a potoo bird, whereas Nobert is based on a parrot.

Beautiful.

These two have a ghost egg, or a cosmic egg motif. These two serve as the very first bit of foreshadowing of the possible trajectory of the story.

I feel like it’s completely in the spirit of the series to have the two primordial creator gods, the ones that started everything, the ones that are the highest above in the 13 heavens, and make them joke characters. Also, how convenient that they’re voiced by the two creators of the show!

AL FIN DESPUÉS DE TANTO PUDE TERMINAR ESTE DIBUJO 😭

Ometecihuatl y Ometecuhtli, la pareja creadora!

Also it seems that the show is taking the route of Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl being the parents of the four Tezcatlipocas. It seems like Tez, Xipe, and Huitzi all still have knowledge of their godliness. But Sal, for some reason, does not, despite seemingly being aware of his godly powers. I have a theory on that.

Tez said his leg was taken by a winged snake, and in Aztec Mythos the rivalry between Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca was the driving force for much of the conflict that shaped the world into the way it is today. So my theory is that Tez and Sal got into a fight, a really bad one. Sal took Tez’s leg and Tez took Sal’s memories/sanity in return. I mean, Sal doesn’t even seem to remember Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl despite literally being related to them.

I also think Huitzi might have gotten mixed up in this whole sibling-fight situation and ended up getting trapped in his hummingbird form, which is why he isn’t able to turn into a humanoid form like his brothers are.