#cocijo

[scraggscribbs]

OC TIME! 🌧😈🌧

🇲🇽 working on a story based in pre-colonial Latin mythology because not only is it my cultural background, but there's just not enough of myth fan art/expansion.

I'm prob gonna throw this on a separate side blog, so if you're interested to learn more or exchange ideas, look forward to it 🇲🇽

To introduce- we follow Cocijo here, who is the rain God (he has several names depending on the region- famously known as Chaac)

In my story, he uses his ability to make clouds and storms in combat.

In myth, he usually wields an axe and has 2 serpents with him- which I added on his poncho and come into play later.

Most Latin gods had animalistic traits but could pretty much take shape as they saw fit.

As one of the main gods, Cocijo here has jaguar eyes, ears, and feet.

Anyway, I hope you love the concept and character as much as I do 🌧🥹🌧

[lunasapphire]

Zapotec lore✨

[charring58]

Cocijo[pronunciation?] (occasionally spelt Cociyo, otherwise known as Guziu in the Zapotec language) is a lightning deity of the pre-Columbian Zapotec civilization of southern Mexico. He has attributes characteristic of similar Mesoamerican deities associated with rain, thunder and lightning, such as Tlaloc of central Mexico, and Chaac (or Chaak) of the Maya civilization.[1] In the Zapotec language, the word cocijo means "lightning", as well as referring to the deity.[1]

[imarudesalad]

Kaboom

[grymkoena]

Elite Dangerous

[welcometoteyvat]

hope they keep adding duelist achievements they’re actually kind of fun

[three-bunnies-in-a-trenchcoat]

Oh my fucking god finally

[maranull]

Sol in Elite Dangerous is under attack by the bad evil aliens™ but I've been an alien-fucker since the first video game I ever played so if Mr Cocijo wants Sol it can have it (might pass by and transport some people out though)

[scraggscribbs]

Pulling the bandaid hard for a soft debut!! I haven't played the DLC and will be doing it with pokemon suggested on Twitter/Insta. If you want to see me draw comics and talk about ideas, swing by the following day ✍️ 😎

Youtube Channel:

[neoyorzapoteca]

Cocijo has heard you.

he liked my rain dance!!!!!! sitting here eating mango salad and waiting happily for these clouds to draw near

[charring58]

At the Late Classic Zapotec archaeological site of Lambityeco in Oaxaca, the stucco busts of Cocijo are depicted holding a jar spilling water in one hand and bolts of lightning in the other.[5] During the Classic Period the jaguar was associated, at least partly, with Cocijo.[6]

[monody-media]

Titan collage:

Taranis - Cocijo Thor - Hadad Indra - Leigong Oya - Raijin

[absolmon]

🥭 for the FR ask meme?

Sure! I’ve not written a lot of lore consistently but this snippet for my girl Kamrusepa.

“Kamrusepa had not expected her life to change like this. Originally a food growth specialist on the Astrolab, Kamrusepa has suddenly found herself the unexpected mother of several of the eggs she fled with in the chaos of reentry. With the eggs hatching and immediately imprinting on her, Kamrusepa has been struggling with navigating both motherhood and life on the ground.”

I wrote this based on the Aether lore, I’ve set it up so that the Aether’s I hatched during the event are in lore still hatchlings and Kamrusepa is their single mother. She’s supposed to be kind of young and confused but eventually she finds her way on the ground and uses her knowledge of hydroponics to help the clan. I’m also noodling around the idea of her and Cocijo as a couple. I don’t really have an overarching story in my lair but it’s fun.

[jelliedgummies]

yeah theres a lot of cider things

shes so fun to draw but her eyes are such a struggle sometimes. I also like, did so much research for this au because yeah obvs im autistic

like, her shawl...I did a lot of thinking

yellar-perión

Red-Cochineal

cyan- añil + lime

the pattern on her shawl is based off the mountains and rain that is so crucial to the survival of the people that live there. The ancient Zapotecs had a predominance of deities associated with fertility and agriculture, and the rain god Cocijo is well represented here. since she is Mexican indigenous (bc she is me frs)

[friendswithclay]

“Three identical urns of the God Cocijo, and a fourth urn of a different category, in situ, sitting in a row on the stone and stucco floor of an excavated tomb.

Note: While in the Museum of Oaxaca, one of the urns of Cocijo was reproduced as Figure 2 by Caso and Bernal in their Urnas de Oaxaca, 1952. American Museum of Natural History, From the unpublished photographs taken by Marshall H. Saville, late Curator of Mexican Archaeology, during his excavations at the ceremonial center of Xoxocatlan, Oaxaca. Rephotographed for the author under his supervision and reproduced with permission.”