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7/24/2025, 7:21:46 AM
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>>716281794
>...or as kind of boasting myths to play up how hardcore they were as warriors, or some combination of those things...
cont:
Some versions don't even actually have sacrificing the princess and such at all, and most of these also involve acts of magic and the gods doing things so they're quite possibly/probably not even real events to begin with. If you read into them they also are kind of strange in that in a lot of tellings, the king of Colhuacan SHOULD have known his daughter was being requested as a sacrifice, and obviously with the ear/nose example it doesn't make much sense that he'd be upset when he asked them to basically go do that to begin with (other then if, again, it's just meant to be "guys we're so badass he asked us to invade this place and we did it so well even he got scared!").
That being said, there's also versions where it does come off as the Mexica actually being dicks and disliked by other groups prior to them being chased off to where they'd found Tenochtitlan...
>>716282170
>>716286008
>>716282473
I'm unconvinced that Citlali's eyes are intentionally meant to look like the red and white "Starry eye" glyphs, especially when they gave one as a pendant to Kachina who isn't even named after a Mesoamerican thing. I do agree she SHOULD have those glyphs since her name litterally means "star", though. Pic related has some redesigns I like.
The biker chick also only uses solar ray/sunbeam arrows in a totally superficial way and also isn't even named after a Mesoamerican thing. I've some reddit posts by, admittedly, somebody who clearly knows their Mesoamerican stuff which claims to draw connections between various Natlan designs and Mesoamerican iconography, but all of them seem like a big stretch IMO. The only Natlan design I think does anything kinda neat Kinich and even then only barely
One of my friends who made most of pic related talks about this more here: x.com/Majora__Z/status/1936051781219279272
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>>716281794
>...or as kind of boasting myths to play up how hardcore they were as warriors, or some combination of those things...
cont:
Some versions don't even actually have sacrificing the princess and such at all, and most of these also involve acts of magic and the gods doing things so they're quite possibly/probably not even real events to begin with. If you read into them they also are kind of strange in that in a lot of tellings, the king of Colhuacan SHOULD have known his daughter was being requested as a sacrifice, and obviously with the ear/nose example it doesn't make much sense that he'd be upset when he asked them to basically go do that to begin with (other then if, again, it's just meant to be "guys we're so badass he asked us to invade this place and we did it so well even he got scared!").
That being said, there's also versions where it does come off as the Mexica actually being dicks and disliked by other groups prior to them being chased off to where they'd found Tenochtitlan...
>>716282170
>>716286008
>>716282473
I'm unconvinced that Citlali's eyes are intentionally meant to look like the red and white "Starry eye" glyphs, especially when they gave one as a pendant to Kachina who isn't even named after a Mesoamerican thing. I do agree she SHOULD have those glyphs since her name litterally means "star", though. Pic related has some redesigns I like.
The biker chick also only uses solar ray/sunbeam arrows in a totally superficial way and also isn't even named after a Mesoamerican thing. I've some reddit posts by, admittedly, somebody who clearly knows their Mesoamerican stuff which claims to draw connections between various Natlan designs and Mesoamerican iconography, but all of them seem like a big stretch IMO. The only Natlan design I think does anything kinda neat Kinich and even then only barely
One of my friends who made most of pic related talks about this more here: x.com/Majora__Z/status/1936051781219279272
5/?
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