#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]

[three-bunnies-in-a-trenchcoat]

Oh my fucking god finally

[neoyorzapoteca]

Cocijo has heard you.

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

[monody-media]

Titan collage:

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

[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:

[frogliftcertified]

visited the titan inside of maelstrom cocijo

elite dangerous spoilers below the cut obviously, lots of screenshots

approaching the titan, seeing it reveal itself through the fog was honestly jaw-dropping. there were a lot of thargoid "mines" floating around the outside of the maelstrom, spewing clouds of concentrated acid. avoiding them werent much of a challenge, but you gotta keep an eye out.

found a bunch of weird stuff on the titan, notably these swollen spots which i assume is where turrets appear when it's angry, which it did later on. also this one is hard to see, but also a weird pattern in the centre of the titan, which i assume is the "front" of it. not that there's a designated front and backside of it.

but here's the really weird stuff that i absolutely cannot figure out, there are several orthrus interceptors in the area amongst other types, but the orthruses are the only ones who enter the titan through this pool of goo-like substance. i tried entering too, as one does, but it's completely solid to my ship. do they enter, or does the substance simply dissolve them? lots of questions.

eventually the titan was fairly fed up with my presence and started blasting. it also attracted the attention of a couple of the new thargoid type, hunters. specifically the only known variant at the time of writing, dubbed glaives. needless to say they finished me off quite quickly.

[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)

[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]

[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.”

[plantpoemoo]

#sitio arqueológico

Sector Religioso de Mitla

Tras el abandono del gobierno por inconformidad del pueblo Zapoteco, el sector político migró al municipio de Zaachila y el sector religioso se acentó en Mitla. Monte Albán quedó a su suerte expuesto a las condiciones naturales e invasión de la misma vegetación. Se ejemplifica en la siguiente imagen:

En Mitla podemos observar edificios que son constituidos primeramente por una base gruesa y profunda, seguida de una estructura lisa y finalmente un techo. Las paredes gruesas de la base manifestaba la necesidad de arquitectura antisísmica y el conocimiento de la época sobre los fenómenos naturales.

En la estructura lisa de las edificaciones se encuentran grecas que servían como simbología del gran avance que tenía la civilización en el conocimiento de la geometría y matemáticas. Tenían dos técnicas de grecas: labrada e incrustada.

Las grecas labradas se realizaban en una sola estructura de piedra cincel. Por su parte las incrustadas se componían de puedras a la medida cuidadosamente colocadas para formar los patrones que querían. Contaban con sus significados individuales:

Escalinata: unión familiar a través de las generaciones así como su concepción de la muerte. Ellos no creían en el final de la vida, sino en la reencarnación que se simboliza con el espiral.

Relámpagos: representa la deidad del relámpago y de la lluvia Pitao Cocijo.

Cruz en medio: figura controversial por la similitud del patrón con las posteriores enseñanzas de la conquista, sin embargo para ellos representaba los 4 puntos cardinales, los 4 elementos y la unión familiar que daba como resultado un linaje de trabajadores que beneficiaban al pueblo.

El pueblo Zapoteca imprimía su conocimiento, inteligencia, creencia y cultura en su arquitectura dando como resultado increíble y hermosas edificaciones llenas de historia y armonía.

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Fucking Cocijo, man...

[chanarie69]

THE KIOSK OF DEMOCRACY PRESENTS "Xipe Totec y Cocijo (renacimiento y abundancia)" A mural By Raúl Sisniega - Mexico www.facebook.com/kioskofdemocracy

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