#Quetzalcoatl Tlaloc and Xochiquetzal were like “This is great we should share it with the humans”
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Silly Game Time: If you were to be the patron deity of something (the way the Muses are goddesses of different artforms, Tlaloc is a rain god, Amaterasu is a sun goddess, and Anansi is a god of stories and trickery), what would you choose? It can be as broad or as specific as you like.
This is a hard one because I'm convinced I'd be an awful god OR be a good one although very problematic (like, meddling too much).
BUT- If I had to choose on this precise moment, I'd like to be a deity for extinct critters (and by extension, paleontology). It just gets me really sentimental thinking about prehistoric animals, how they died million of years ago, and million years later, we are able to find them and try to discover their stories and act with a fascination about them or even be moved by what they went through.
They're the reason why things are the ways they're right now, our existence is in debt of them, it's as sad as it's beautiful.
#I'm feeling particularly sentimental about fossils today lol#Also fun fact since you mentioned Tlaloc!#SOME mexican gods were also very meddling on the mortal's business#I don't mean this as greek gods like Mr. Zeus and his “hole is hole”#I mean it more like... our homie Tlaloc watching a whole ass telenovella and going “NOOOOOOOOOO? THEY CAN'T END LIKE THAT!”#“I want a happy ending for my ship!” [turns dead lovers into something funky like flowers so they can always be together]#Also... His wife Xochiquetzal? Great goddess.#She was so pro-homosexual romance#There's also the whole story of chocolate#Quetzalcoatl Tlaloc and Xochiquetzal were like “This is great we should share it with the humans”#And the other gods didn't particularly want that but they went with it anyhow#So at least there's that#Maybe if I were a deity the other deities would go “whatever” because they already had to deal with these 3 and their shenanigans
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