#Meso-America

[mahgnib]

Mayan ruin, Copan, Honduras

[msamba]

CARNAVALES LAS TABLAS 2023 MARTES CULECOS [Panama]

 

[haganez]

[petpackss]

Namor movie fancast

Tenoch Huerta as Namor

Mabel Cadena as Namora

Alex Livinalli as Attuma

Fátima Molina as Dorma

Regis Myrupu as Karthon the Quester

Alex Castillo as Byrrah

Dalia Hernández as Llyra

Danny Trejo as Vyrra

Óscar Jaenada as Leonard McKenzie

María Mercedes Coroy as Fen

Frida Tavera as Tamara Rahn

Mark Consuelos as Paul Destine 

Estanislao Marín as Suma-Ket

Aura Garrido as Betty Dean

Raoul Trujillo as Krang

Dagoberto Gama as as Thakorr

Sofia Engberg as Andromeda

Jorge Antonio Guerrero as Orka

David Zepeda as Tiger Shark

Luis Tosar as Lemuel Dorcas

Letitia Wright as Black Panther

Tess Romero as Namorita

Gabriela Cartol as Echidna

Sonia Couoh as Mara

John Krasinski as Reed Richards

Elizabeth Lail as Susan Storm

Rudy Pankow as Johnny Storm

Drew Powell as Ben Grimm

[ur-resident-golden-cherri]

Wakanda Forever

…………………. Major spoiler alerts in this one dnr

⚠️dni spoiler Wakanda forever⚠️

⚠️⚠️SPOILER ALERT DONT READ!!!!!!! ⚠️⚠️

I just came out of watching Wakanda forever and I don’t know where to start with this movie. It’s so well written with all the characters having deep human flaws, the portrayal of grief and the stages of growth for each character was just pure gold.

Shuri’s personal growth and her sudden and rapid change into maturity was incredibly well done. She experiences the death of multiple family members and she eventually gets consumed by rage and vengeance, (shown when she sees N’Jdaka in the ancestral plane) and wanting to burn the world down. Her grief is so tangible and her hurt is so powerful bc she lost the very anchor to her emotions. Once Queen Ramonda dies, Shuri states her heart is buried with her mother, showing a well done parallel to Namors name, the child without love. Shuri also rapidly matured bc of the constant trauma and the forced ascension to the throne, causing her to see Namor in a new light and recognize the damage that colonizing countries want to inflict on the two empires of land and sea. It was all a grab for resources and the usage of manipulative tactics of pitting one minority group against the other to gain power thru extortion. Shuri and Namor were both ready to burn it to the ground, but chose to save and heal their traumas and keep their people safe. Ugh I love this too much I’m never gonna get over it!!!! Eeeeeeee :’’DD

Namor is also an incredible character. He represents the more melanated Meso-American kings and empires that colonization has erased and lost. It also brings a sense of dignity back to Indigenous culture and history, since Namor’s uses two names, one in the mother tongue, the translation being the Feathered Serpent God, (Ku’kulkan). This name he used in familiarity with his people, with his allies. His other name, “Namor” was cursed upon him by a Spanish priest who forced his mother out of her home. Names hold a lot of power in Indigenous and Black communities; it’s a reminder of the past, who you were, and provided a kind of identification within those communities. It’s crucial to understand that when Namor have the choice to Shuri and Ramonda to use either name, it was almost as if he was testing their resolve and who they were. Choose wisely bc one is for my enemies and one is for my allies. He also oozes confidence and strength, which isn’t something that men of color can’t often do without it being critiqued or considered arrogant. Same thing with women of color, particularly Black and Indigenous women. It’s such a great choice for him to be such a beautiful character (both physically and written), and I would watch this again and again <3

if you want me to do more analysis on this- plz let me know or request scenes and stuff…. Idk how it works but ask and I will do my best to answer! :)

Thank you!! :DD

[stars-and-soda]

This is just me plugging my daily reminder that historically, Mexicans have more right to USA lands than the majority of Americans

[jagzii]

"Tell me why almost every time I learned about a new civilization growing up, I simultaneously learned about its destruction thanks to imperial expansionism. Because the first time I learned about the Mayans was in the context of the Spanish arriving in Meso-America in the 16th century and promptly fucking everything up. Finding out about that was so depressing that I never bothered to look any closer. All of that is changing today because it turns out the Mayan civilization had already experienced a collapse centuries before the Spanish arrived– known as the collapse of the Classic Maya civilization."

Read the rest here:

[pierrespuli]

so I genuinely love the energy of the dfl protests but how have clubs not simply...checked bags and pockets for tennis balls?

[cricketcat9]

Because not everything in Meso America

was warriors fighting in combat

A Tlatilca woman carrying her doggie

[jallisonsworld]

"Xibalba"

[harvestheart]

sacred jaguar

[thelastharbinger]

When Tenoch Huerta hugged and kissed a Latine reporter’s head after bringing them to welling emotions when he said:

“The only thing I want is the next time little boys and girls [in Latine countries] see themselves in the mirror, that they feel proud of that reflection. That they see that there was never anything wrong with them, but rather in the eyes of those who judged them.”

When Tenoch Huerta of Nahua and Purépecha Indigenous ancestry said this in a cast interview for Wakanda Forever:

“...We have in Latin America, two main roots: which is the Indigenous roots, of course, and African roots. The food, the customs, the music, even our way of life has a strong influence from African cultures. So for me it’s important to see it [in the movies]; I mean this character [Namor] comes from Meso-American inspiration, particularly Mayan and, of course, is an interpretation of those cultures. But at the same time, we can feel close [to it] because all the process to get us “mixed” is just a way to erase our Indigenous heritage and they taught us to feel ashamed of who we are. For 500 years!”

When long-time actor--since 2006--and advocate, Tenoch Huerta published a book (paperbacks set to release December 13 but digital copies available now!!!) titled Orgullo Prieto (Brown Pride) that is a reflection on racism and colorism in Mexico. He has also gifted his voice for the audibook narration of these books: La sombra de Miztlán [The Shadow of Miztlán]; Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina [The Open Veins of Latin America]; and Los Narcos Gringos [The Gringo Drug Traffickers] (Spanish Edition).

And when Tenoch reiterated:

“It’s not common in Mexico, in Latin America that a brown-skinned guy could be the main character and have a lead role in movies. And then I jumped to the U.S. and I did it here [with Wakanda Forever] and it’s powerful and deep, and I hope the kids in their homes can feel identified. And I’d just say to them never, never in the life was nothing wrong with you, it was in the eyes of the people who was looking at you. But not [as in nothing being wrong] in you, not in your skin, not in your roots, not in your blood, not in your history. So please, babies, feel proud.”

He is also a mental health advocate and champion for the sciences. He has said all the YouTube channels he follows are science, historian or philosophy-related. If this man didn’t already have me in a choke-hold I swear to fucking god-

[stefastral-dusk]

Man I'm so glad to see hoyoverse representing Meso America, Latin America, Africa, Maori and so much more with their upcoming region of Natlan 😍

[murfeelee]

Birds Steal Their Look Pt7b: Mesoamerican/South American Birds

I was inspired by this thread started by tenderanarchist here to turn my TS3 sims into avian fashionistas.

Meso/South American Birds: Andean Cock of the Rock, Cardinal, Harpy Eagle, Inca Jay, Magnificent Frigate, Meadowlark, Ocellated Turkey, Pompadour Cotinga, Roseate Spoonbill, Scarlet Macaw, Steller's Jay, Sun Conure

MY THOUGHTS & CC CREDITS

MY THOUGHTS

I'm starting summer classes next week--BOOOOOO~!--so we'll see how quickly I can do the next parts: North America, and Extinct Birds.

CC CREDITS

- (GENERAL): Avatar eyes & dots @csitaly, Indogene skin @niobecremisi, Mermaid & Sea Skins @niobecremisi, Nose masks (X X X X X X), Eyelashes ACCs (X X), Feather patterns by me, Eyes @chazybazzy

- Ocellated Turkey: Hair, EA Jacket, Pants (IDER), | Necklace in beta by me

- Pompadour Cotinga: Hair, Suit @simtanico

- Roseate Spoonbill: Hair at TSR, Outfit (SFS backup), Boots (IDEK?), Spoon ACC

- Scarlet Macaw: Hair, Earrings, EA Suit + Pattern @ktarsims, Boots (IDER?)

- Steller's Jay: Hair at the Store (X), Earrings (SFS backup), Top, Shrug ACC @rstarsims3, Skirt, Boots

- Sun Conure: Visor ACC, Shades & Hair by EA, Top @rstarsims3, Skirt at MTS, Shoes

[opencommunion]

"My analysis challenges a number of ideas, some mentioned above, common in many Western feminist writings:

Gender categories are universal and timeless and have been present in every society at all times. This idea is often expressed in a biblical tone, as if to suggest that 'in the beginning there was gender.'

Gender is a fundamental organizing principle in all societies and is therefore always salient. In any given society, gender is everywhere.

There is an essential, universal category 'woman' that is characterized by the social uniformity of its members.

The subordination of women is a universal.

The category 'woman' is precultural, fixed in historical time and cultural space in antithesis to another fixed category—'man.'

... Merely by analyzing a particular society with gender constructs, scholars create gender categories. To put this another way: by writing about any society through a gendered perspective, scholars necessarily write gender into that society. Gender, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. The idea that in dealing with gender constructs one necessarily contributes to their creation is apparent in Judith Lorber's claim that 'the prime paradox of gender is that in order to dismantle the institution, you must first make it very visible.' In actuality, the process of making gender visible is also a process of creating gender. Thus, scholarship is implicated in the process of gender-formation."

Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses (1997) ~

"Feminist anthropologists of racialized peoples in the Americas tend not to think about the concept of gender when they use the term as a classificatory instrument, they take its meaning for granted. This, I claim, is an example of a colonial methodology. Though the claim that gender, the concept, applies universally is not explicitly stated, it is implied. In both group and conference conversations I have heard the claim that 'gender is everywhere,' meaning, technically, that sexual difference is socialized everywhere. The claim, implied or explicit, is that all societies organize dimorphic sexuality, reproductive sexuality, in terms of dichotomous roles that are hierarchically arranged and normatively enforced. That is, gender is the normative social conceptualization of sex, the biological fact of the matter. ... The critique of the binary has not been accompanied by an unveiling of the relation between colonization, race, and gender, nor by an analysis of gender as a colonial introduction of control of the humanity of the colonized, nor by an understanding that gender obscures rather than uncovers the organization of life among the colonized. The critique has favored thinking of more sexes and genders than two, yet it has not abandoned the universality of gender arrangements. ... Understanding the group with gender on one’s mind, one would see gender everywhere, imposing an order of relations uncritically as if coloniality had been completely successful both in erasing other meanings and people had totally assimilated, or as if they had always had the socio-political-economic structure that constitutes and is constituted by what Butler calls the gender norm inscribed in the organization of their relations. Thus, the claim 'There is gender everywhere' is false ... since for a colonized, non-Western people to have their socio-political-economic relations regulated by gender would mean that the conceptual and structural framework of their society fits the conceptual and structural framework of colonial or neocolonial and imperialist societies. ... Why does anyone want to insist on finding gender among all the peoples of our planet? What is good about the concept that we would want to keep it at the center of our 'liberation'?" María Lugones, "Gender and Universality in Colonial Methodology," in Decolonial Feminism in Abya Yala: Caribbean, Meso, and South American Contributions and Challenges (2022)

[blooming-grove]

Hey. Its been bothering me a bit but id like to point out that Queetzalcoatl of aztec mythology is a mesoamerican deity which I'm very glad people have learned.

However I've seen people incorrectly state that mesoamerica is in south america. It is not. Mexico is not in South America. It's in North America. Pre Columbian Mesoamerica spans from lower Mexico to Central America. Central america is NOT in South America. It's above it, hence the _central_ part. The _meso_ in meso america ALSO means middle.

I realized that this was not common knowledge so I'm only making the post not to shame but to inform. Latin america is beautiful and rich with history and I'd love for everyone to get to know this beautiful land full of different cultures and encourage you to do so!! Quetzalcoatl is but ONE of the aztec pantheon deities and the aztecs (nahuatl) are but ONE of the many indigenous groups of latam.

Was debating on posting at all since, you know the idea of making a non fr post irks me but it honesty bothered me quiet a bit.

*EDIT* I MEANT NOT TO SHAME 😭😭😭 IM SO SORRY