Don’t fuck around in the archeology zones!

Mayans usually only sacrificed nobility. This dude got a “von” in his name?

Yes! Please help!

I don’t do social media outside of Lemmy so I can’t understand why Facebook and Twitter destroyed the minds of my countrymen.

I wouldn’t mind immigrating, but what country will take a mid level front end developer in his 40’s?

I’m from Texas; I like Mexico and Canada. Why would I want to start shit with the neighbors?

Not this SPAM again!

Sell your blood platelets.

One of the posts got deleted. So I’m guessing this is a troll using alt accounts. Weak trolling though.

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It depends on context and conversation. I get 👍 replies to my comments at work which 80% of the time means whatever I’m about to break in the code base nobody is currently working on.

Neon signs are cool and I am a man.

I stopped feeling I had imposter syndrome about a year ago. Now it feels like everyone has long covid and keeping a coherent thought in your head for longer than five minutes is a super power.

Came here to say that.

Not much.

Tiger Orange

You still need to use the bathroom eventually even with Soylent. Honestly I found after a couple weeks only doing Soylent wrecked my guts.

Honestly Huel is a lot easier on the tummy, give that a try for a few days and see how well you adjust.

I heard it from the Castle Superbeast podcast.

Bullet Heaven

Think of it in terms of bat, vampire, vampire bat, and Dracula. There are bats, vampires can turn into bats, and Dracula is a lord of vampires. Not all bats are the species vampire bat and usually you wouldn’t go around calling bats Dracula (unless you’re in a situation involving vampires and/or you’re hunting Dracula). Dracula can turn into other forms other than bats.

When Teotl shapeshift they turn into forms of specific animals known to the indigenous people. The core important animal forms get names (like a Dracula) while they are in that form and are considered gods themselves. As far as I’m aware there isn’t a specific owl deity or at least I haven’t found a reference yet.

As far as my posting history is concerned, I’m both a hermit in cyber and meat space.

Chicuahtli isn’t mythical, it’s the Nahuatl word the barred owl. I’ve found a lot of online and books that will interchange the barred owl for a barn owl, but the barn owl in Nahuatl is chichtli.

Edit: didn’t realize it was you anon! Sorry we’ve had this conversation like 3 times now.

I have been summoned.

So the article doesn’t cover Mesoamerican areas which is weird that they’ll use the term “Native American” and have the term stop applying past the Rio Grande.

I got a couple of tidbits of owl folklore in regards to Nahua people located in central Mexico (Aztecs).

You have two owls built into the holy calendar the Tonalpolhualli. In each 13 day week “trecena” you have the barred owl “chicuatli” represents the 6th day and you have the great horned owl “tecolotl” that represents the 10th day. I’ve heard the myth that when a person dies part of their soul is escorted by the corresponding bird from their birth date.

Tecolotl was one of the animal forms that Tezcatlipoca (smoking mirror) would shape shift into on the regular. Chicuahtli is associated with Mictlantecuhtli (lord of the dead lands) which makes sense given the skull-like appearance of the bird.

The last bit I’ll go into is the Tlacatecolotl “owl man” who was said to be (unlike Anon6789) a malevolent shapeshifter being possessed by the more sinister spirits and forces of the cosmos. I believe when you see an owl in a temple in some of the codices that is what is being depicted, but don’t quote me on that.