#Andean People

[allaboutyoupostnthings]

A Prayer for God’s Blessings on Families, Nations, and the World, Day 52, Bolivia

Dear Heavenly Father, Thank you for today. Thank you for what you do for me each and every day and for that which I fail to notice. Thank you for taking care of my family, friends, and acquaintances. I ask that you shield and protect them and guide them in this life. Bring them safely home to you. Let them know that you are there for them. Never let me forget your presence in my life and guide…

[elbiotipo]

Machu Pichu is younger than most castles in Europe. It was built while Leonardo da Vinci was alive. Just so that you know next time you read someone talking about the "ancient" Inca.

[isjasz]

[Day 69]

“I’m not going to kill you.”

Kinda from @mochiwrites and @hitheeprithee 's fic ties of string and sand i hate you guys happy day 69 mfs <3

[cimmeria-writes]

for @kataang-week -- day 4: cultural exchange

(ID: a digital drawing of katara and aang from atla. they're wearing clothing from each other's cultures. katara is wearing a yellow chuba with red trim, an orange shirt, a chumpi belt, and boots. she has one necklace with small turquoise beads and one with large yellow beads. aang is wearing a parka with a thick fur hood and black-and-white geometric patterns, and dark blue pants. he also has mittens and large boots on. they're smiling at each other, with pink hearts floating between them.

[news4dzhozhar]

[occvltswim]

‘Chimú Funerary Attire’, Imperial Epoch (1300 AD-1532 AD), at the Museo Larco in Lima, Peru

These gold adornments once belonged to a major leader of the mud brick city known as Chan Chan, the capital of the Chimú Empire. The feathers on the crown, breastplate and epaulettes express the relationship between birds and the sun, in the celestial world.

[caterpillarinacave]

(trying to make small talk) so how bout that daintree river banana

[kiragecko]

Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening

By Robert Frost

Translated into Mochica. Written with Maya glyphs. (Description in ALT.)

mo-ŋo ne-pe-te le-pe-ko ma-ŋa ʃa-ma-ke-mo-ño

mong-än nepät jepäko m-ang šam-kem moiñ

this-plural tree owner may-they recognize-d.be by.me

Whose woods these are I think I know.

ʔa-ta yu-nu-ru-ni-ki fe-lo-ko ɕu-ŋa-ne-ke

at iun-är-nik fe lok ssiung ān-ek

although village-of-in is located his house-in

His house is in the village though;

ʔa-yo-ŋo no-ta-fa no-ke-me pa-cha-me-ze-ta mo-ño mi-na-ŋa la-sa-ka

aiong änta f' nok-kem pa chäm esta moiñ, min ang lä-ssäk

by.him not is see-n.be have future.should not me, here is locate-d. being

He will not see me stopping here

me-ñe-ke-me to-po ko-cha-ŋa ɕu-ŋu ne-pe-te-na ka-na-ma

meiñ-kem-top kōcha-ng, ssiung netəp-än ak-näm

fill-ed.be-until fog-by, his tree-s watch-to

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

Further information under the cut:

The Moche were a coastal civilization of northern Peru. They did not have snow, but I felt a cold fog building up had a similar feel. I don't think I had to fudge anything else in the translation itself.

Writing it, though!

The Moche were part of a trade network that stretched up to the Maya. Shells from Maya waters were an important status symbol. While they DIDN'T adopt Maya writing, it doesn't require TOO much alternative history to get them to do so. Plus, you know, I wanted to use Maya glyphs. So I did ;)

However, Mochica has an extra vowel, and a lot of different consonants from Maya. And the writing system is syllabic, so to write things with perfect accuracy I would have had to add a symbol for every single different consonant combined with 'ä', as well as six symbols for each new consonant. That's too much. I am slowly creating symbols for the consonants as I need them. This poem has 9:

fa - from 'fanu', 'dog'

fe - from 'fellu', 'duck'

ze - from 'senu', 'cranefly/fly' (ignore the spelling. How we spell Mochica words needs an entire post. Possibly more.)

ɕu/ɕo - from the Maya glyph for 'they/he/she', since it's usually used for 'ssio, ssiung', 'they/he/she, theirs/his/hers'

ru - from 'rūz', 'moat/canal'

ñe - from 'ñieš-', 'to trade/exchange'

ño - from the Maya glyph for 'man/person', used for the Mochica word 'ñofän', 'man/male'

ŋa - from 'iang', 'crab/shrimp' ('ng' isn't allowed at the beginning of Mochica words)

ŋo - from 'ong', 'carob tree/algorrobo'

ŋu - from the Maya glyph for 'spine/thorn/penis', used for the Mochica word 'ȷ̕ung-','to poke/sting/cut'

(I really like Moche crabs. Look at some of these dudes, before I needed to ink them!)

The extra vowel, 'ä', however, is probably a shwa ('ə'). Shwas are barely vowels. To see how wimpy a shwa is, try this:

say the words 'bigger' and 'middle' casually (not emphasizing them) and try to hear the vowel before the final 'r' and 'l'.

Like, it's SORT OF there. Linguists argue if those are syllabic consonants (consonants pretending to be vowels), or if they have tiny shwas.

Some languages have shwas that act like normal vowels, but both English and Mochica have ones that like to disappear. Some Mochica words can be pronounced with or without their shwas. Most Mochica shwas can disappear if a suffix is added to the word. And sometimes, other vowels turn into shwas when suffixes are added!

So I decided that shwas were dumb, and were going to be treated the same way that Maya writing treated consonants without vowels. If the Maya needed to write a consonant that didn't have a vowel, they chose a glyph that had the same vowel as the previous glyph (ie. 'xan' can be written 'xa-na', and 'okib' can be written 'o-ki-bi'.)

So to write 'yunärnik', 'in the village', I used the glyphs 'yu-nu-ru-ni-ki'. A bit harder to parse for someone who doesn't know the language, but probably pretty clear to anyone who knew Mochica suffixes.

[theheartlandsblog]

xatu amidst the dasylirion and creosote. 🌿💛🖤 15 july 2023.

entirely crosshatched in pen.

[kalach-cha]

the fact that some of y’all have made a quariwarmi pride flag unsettles me

[vulturandes]

🛣️🤨 Esto no estaba aquí...

[chaos-deimos-et-eris]

does anyone have pictures of ecuadorian fashion over the years??? because all i can find is traditional (i will also take more pictures of traditional clothing) and i want to see how clothing evolved over the years and draw inspiration from it but cant find shit. everything that looks anything even a little different turns out to be peruvian mexican or ukrainian upon futher research. ive taken to going on etsy and ebay but even than i can only find sweaters and ponchos. which i love dont get me wrong but i cant find anything else. so any picture of ecuadorian clothing pls. i will also settle for woven baskets and painted ceramics.

[herbreishcreolenegra]

[alyanas-little-hideout]

honestly though having a solid idea of where everything came from makes any descriptions of food more interesting.

Fuck that post going around saying "you can have coffee in your story without justifying it :) you don't need to explain everything :)" I want, no, I DEMAND a fully researched ethnobotanical paper on every single food item in your work, if you don't explain to me where did potatoes come from in your fantasy setting or don't explain how the industry of coffee works over interstellar distances with full detail you are doing things wrong and I personally hate you and I hate your stupid story, fuck you

[mothmiso]

Combeima Canyon (2) (3) (4) by Panegyrics of Granovetter

[lackablazeical]

[Part 1 - Joel / Part 2 - Joey / Part 3 - Katherine / Part 4 - Sausage]

I ain't actually too happy with this, it. Had so many problems and set backs and things I just wasn't enjoying dealing with, so it is. Mid to me. Maybe I'll retry it soonish so I don't hate it forevers

ANYWAY! GEM! I watched her series a bit for the lore (and Redstone twins angst sorry not sorry) but I don't remember much so I struggled with this LMAO

I didn't have many irl inspirations other then the people's of the Andean mountains in Peru, and even then, it was mostly just. How her overcoat folds and clips IWHWIDBD everything else was just kinda what I thought would look nice

Her clothes have dragon scales on them as armor bc even if she's a healer she's also pretty scrappy, some of the potions on her person are def ones of harming LMAO

I also imagine she has other outfits but haven't drawn them yet cus I. Gave up! Simple as that LMAO

Coloring on this one was interesting, speedpaint below the cut ⬇️⬇️⬇️