#feathered serpent dark heart of sky myths of mexico

[kuramirocket]

"My father, root of my blood, do not let weakness and fear stop the warrior spirit of our eagles from flying. Our men cannot abandon their desire to defend these lands so our children may live in the eternal garden of happiness that our gods promised. May the hand that will stop the enemy not be weak and never desire to press in friendship those hands that have been washed with the blood of our brothers."

- Erendira (who became a symbol of indigenous resistance when she led the Purépecha uprising against the Spanish invaders).

From Feathered Serpent Dark Heart of Sky Myths of Mexico by David Bowles

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Erendira the princess of the Purépecha Empire of Meso-America ( known mainly as the Tarascan Empire which is a name given by the Spanish). More info on the read more

Erendira's existence is debated and is regarded as a semi legendary person. Her story I have not been able to find a full telling in English online but I recommend the book Feathered Serpent Dark Heart of Sky Myths of Mexico by David Bowles. If you are interested in the story of the Purépecha I recommend this video:

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Erendira the princess of the Purépecha Empire of Meso-America ( known mainly as the Tarascan Empire which is a name given by the Spanish). More info on the read more

Erendira's existence is debated and is regarded as a semi legendary person. Her story I have not been able to find a full telling in English online but I recommend the book Feathered Serpent Dark Heart of Sky Myths of Mexico by David Bowles. If you are interested in the story of the Purépecha I recommend this video:

[balioc]

BALIOC’S READING LIST, 2019 EDITION

This list counts only published books, consumed in published-book format, that I read for the first time and finished.  No rereads, nothing abandoned halfway through, no Internet detritus of any kind, etc.  Also no children’s picture books.

1. In a Time of Treason, David Keck

2. A King In Cobwebs, David Keck

3. War In Human Civilization, Azar Gat

4. The Kingdom of Copper, S. A. Chakraborty

5. The Impossibility of Religious Freedom, Winifred Fallers Sullivan

6. The Winter of the Witch, Katherine Arden

7. Out of the Silent Planet, C. S. Lewis

8. Perelandra, C. S. Lewis

9. The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis

10. Underlord, Will Wight

11. The Devil-Wives of Li Fong, E. Hoffman Price

12. How to Hide an Empire: The History of the Greater United States, Daniel Immerwahr

13. The Raven Tower, Ann Leckie

14. The Rage of Dragons, Evan Winter

15. The Bird King, G. Willow Wilson

16. A Betrayal In Winter, Daniel Abraham

17. An Autumn War, Daniel Abraham

18. The Price of Spring, Daniel Abraham

19. Chartism, Thomas Carlyle

20. Impro: Improvisation and the Theater, Keith Johnstone

21. A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine

22. Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett

23. Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest Stats, James C. Scott

24. The Ruin of Kings, Jenn Lyons

25. Ship of Smoke and Steel, Django Wexler

26. Pan, Knut Hamsun

27. The Unbound Empire, Melissa Caruso

28. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation For Failure, Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt

29. Empire of Sand, Tasha Suri

30. Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson

31. A Brightness Long Ago, Guy Gavriel Kay

32. The Riddle-Master of Hed, Patricia McKillip

33. Heir of Sea and Fire, Patricia McKillip

34. Harpist In the Wind, Patricia McKillip

35. Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment, Francis Fukuyama

36. Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire

37. The Witchwood Crown, Tad Williams

38. Empire of Grass, Tad Williams

39. Ten Restaurants That Changed America, Paul Freedman

40. The Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon

41. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith

42. Wyrms, Orson Scott Card

43. Seedfolks, Paul Fleischman

44. The Axe and the Throne, M. D. Ireman

45. The Sun King, Nancy Mitford

46. The Demons of King Solomon, various (ed. Aaron J. French)

47. Towards a New Socialism,  W. Paul Cockshott & Allin F. Cottrell

48. The Oracle Glass, Judith Merkle Riley

49. The Orphans of Raspay, Lois McMaster Bujold

50. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness In the West, Cormac McCarthy

51. Lent, Jo Walton

52. Empress of Forever, Max Gladstone

53. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, Trevor Noah

54. The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead

55. The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism, Leigh Phillips & Michal Rozworski

56. Turning Darkness Into Light, Marie Brennan

57. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell

58. The Initiate Brother, Sean Russell

59. Gatherer of Clouds, Sean Russell

60. Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics, Mary Eberstadt

61. The New Achilles, Christian Cameron

62. World Without End, Sean Russell

63. Sea Without a Shore, Sean Russell

64. Uncrowned, Will Wight

65. A Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation, Tim Hannigan

66. The Vagrant, Peter Newman

67. Jade War, Fonda Lee

68. The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith

69. The Hod King, Josiah Bancroft

70. The Name of All Things, Jenn Lyons

71. Cold Iron, Miles Cameron [Christian Cameron]

72. Dark Forge, Miles Cameron [Christian Cameron]

73. Emily of New Moon, Lucy Maude Montgomery

74. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory, Ben Mcintyre

75. The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow

76. Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico, David Bowles

77. Flowers In the Mirror, Li Ruzhen

78. Bright Steel, Miles Cameron [Christian Cameron]

79. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, Dave Grossman

80. That Hideous Strength, C. S. Lewis

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Plausible works of improving nonfiction consumed in 2019: 19

Works consumed in 2019 by women: 24

Works consumed in 2019 by men: 55

Works consumed in 2018 by both men and women: 1

Balioc’s Choice Award, fiction division: Lent

>>>> Honorable mention: A Betrayal in Winter et al

Balioc’s Choice Award, nonfiction division: Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

>>>> Honorable mention: War In Human Civilization

Cultural Heritage Award For “Holy Crap This Will Fuck You Up”: The Great Divorce

Cultural Heritage Award For “This Will Not Fuck You Up Nearly as Much as the Author Thinks It Will, or Maybe I Was Just In a Cranky Un-Receptive Frame of Mind”: That Hideous Strength

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A year of progress, I think.  This is probably About Enough Reading.  More nonfiction than before, although not enough (and too many things that I wanted to be Really Enlightening turned out to be duds).  More literary classics too.  A lot of modern genre fiction that was pretty-good-but-definitely-not-great.

[deetvar]

For @queenlua

-> any Three Houses ships/characters who you’ve majorly changed your opinion about—either because of fun conversations here about it, or just because of replaying, seeing new parts of the script, thinking a lot, whatever?

- All for the worse. I am growing increasily annoyed with a variety of fanwork that seeks to "fix problematic aspects" of characters via shipping. This isn't inherently bad because such thing could evolve organically but what I'm given is NOT that. I won't say anything more specific because I don't want no one misrepping me as something I didn't say nor imply. That said, as an extension of that...I am getting real tired of fanon depictions of Hilda especially off the backtrain of every flack Ingrid has been getting. Ugh. I would say something mean and semi-poignant but I ain't ready for no discourse.

-> what phat beat should i put on my playlist for walking to work tomorrow?

- The Marías. If you want an indie pop rock band with elements of jazz, psychedelia, and Latin flair here and there, go ahead. They've been in my head loop for a couple months now. I Don't Know You, Ruthless, Over The Moon, are IMO their best English songs. If you don't mind Spanish, then Cariño and Dèjate Llevar.

-> what got you into Fire Emblem in the first place?

- I was in Mexico on vacation and I was watching a Poketuber named Hayduun play a ROM hack called Pokemon Snakewood. I wanted to play it myself but couldn't figure out how to patch a file on my phone, so I downloaded a ROM of FE7 and here we are.

-> i love all your posts on mesoamerican mythology!  if i wanted to dig deeper, do you have like, 1-3 books you’d recommend for places to start?

- The Popol Vuh. It is the Maya Creation Myth and simply you have to read it, period. Don't go into this like it's an epic poem or something like...The Bible. People think it's because it's the creation myth it must have "gravitas" to which I say "fuck you." The Popol Vuh was composed by Maya elders just wanting it written down so it's not gone FOREVER. It even has a preamble saying that because Big J is in town and their old religion is crumbling away at the hands of the missionaries.

Aside from that I recommend Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico by David Bowles. I haven't had the chance to read it myself but if you want a concise thread of the mythology (plus some mythologies of Maya, Zapotec, and other groups) without having to read those stuffy old codices in Spanish. David Bowles does good word, he reads Classical Nahuatl and he gives the mythology some flair that is not perfectly allowed from Nahuatl to English.

[thedanwich]

Top 10 Books of 2019

10. Little Weirds - Jenny Slate

9. Face It - Debbie Harry

8. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body - Roxane Gay

7. Imagine Me Gone - Adam Haslett

6. What Belongs To You - Garth Greenwell

5. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

4. The North Water - Ian McGuire

3. Meet Me In The Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 - Lizzy Goodman

2. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States - Daniel Immerwahr

1. Lost City of the Monkey God - Douglas Preston

Honorable mentions:

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love - Amir Levine Dancer From The Dance - David Holleran Dead Astronauts - Jeff VanderMeer The Day It Finally Happens: Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans - and Other Possible Phenomena - Mike Pearl Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico - David Bowles Halsey Street - Naima Coster A People’s History of American Empire - Howard Zinn Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Cheryl Strayed

[dacreativegenius]

Meet #Huitzilopochtli. #SixFanArts #AztecaModerno The illustrator file is formatted to print in a 18x24 size poster, I will be making prints when this is all over! See you around the internets! http://www.instagram.com/deltatangomike http://www.twitter.com/deltatangomike https://www.facebook.com/DeltaTangoMike/ https://www.behance.net/dacreativegenius Thank you for sharing some drawing time with me, tag me in your work and let's draw together. @AdobeDrawing @Adobe @Behance Aztec Gods list created by https://twitter.com/DavidOBowles Read the Aztec/Nahua Myths in his book: Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico https://amzn.to/2UUEIrc #SixFanArtChallenge Free Vector Demos and Tutorials: http://www.youtube.com/c/Vectormaestros The business of art is not the Art Biz. https://www.youtube.com/c/ArtIsKing #StartNow2020 #ArtLifeAllDay #Storytelling #ArtDirector #CreativeClass #ContentCreator #ArtLife #DTM #iLikeToDraw #DocumentTheGame #Illustrator #Designer #CreativeDirector (at Art Is King) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_buPfypSwf/?igshid=1wln6alvyfa8x

[tyree-hfl]

Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico  David Bowles  F1219.3.R38 B69 2018

[kuramirocket]

"In school, I was taught-like my father-the myths of the Norse, the Egyptians, the Romans, and especially the Greeks. [...] But it wasn't until I took a world literature class in college that I read a single Aztec or Maya myth. Amazing. I had attended schools just miles from the Mexican border, but not one of my teachers had spoken of Quetzalcoatl or Itzamna, of Cihuacoatl or Ixchel. My family also knew nothing of these Mesoamerican gods. Something important had been kept from me and other Mexican American students."

- David Bowles, Feathered Serpent Dark Heart of Sky Myths of Mexico

Yup. If we are lucky to be taught something, it is always a very brief mention, maybe just one report we do and that's it. I didn't really learn anything about the history of Mexican Americans and Chicanos in the U.S., not about one single important activist or a person of Mexican ancestry/ethnicity/descent and their contributions to the world in fields such as science, technological advancement, etc. or of our myths and legends until I took a Mexican Anerican studies course in college.

[kuramirocket]

How can we weave the tale of Tenochtitlan's fall, sisters and brothers? How can we sing those anguished cries? Such an epic tragedy could fill book after book with sorrow.

Let us sketch the shape of the Conquest with smoke and ash. Let the end of the Mexica be a silhouette against the burning borough's, the funeral pyres, the bonfires fed with painted books.

Do you tremble, friends? Do you weep beside me?

On this battleground, littered with indigenous dead, it appears that chaos has won. The Nahuas called Tezcatlipoca-known as Hurricane to the ancients-the Enemy of Both Sides. You may see that dark god's hand at work in the destruction of mesoamerica.

The Spanish pit nation against nation. Old rivalries heighten the destructive power of firearms, foreign disease, Toledo steel. Death, spreads, conquers, reigns.

All seems lost.

But here we stand, do we not, a testament to the triumph of order and creation.

Much was torn down, many lives obliterated, many words erased. Yet something new would be built, a new hybrid people would emerge, a valiant and enduring tongue would be forged in the crucible of oppression.

Mexicans. Mexican-Americans. Chicanos. Proud inheritors of this Fifth Sun.

And if you look closely at our palimpsest souls, you can see the ghostly tracings of all we ever were, indelible if faint, ready to be read again by open hearts and minds. Ready to be emblazoned on banners like the incomparable features of Princess Donají, on seals like the noble profile of Emperor Cuauhtemoc, in paintings like Erendira upon her rearing steed.

We are their descendants, heirs to their unyielding souls.

These final stories are ours, mestizo missives and manuscripts and music. We wrote them down, recited them, shared them mind to mind. They live on in our histories, in our poetry, on our lips, in our hearts.

And we will never forget.

- David Bowles, Feathered Serpent Dark Heart of Sky Myths of Mexico

[dacreativegenius]

Progress so far on my #SixFanArts vs #AztecaModerno #Tezcatlipoca and #Cihuacoatl have their shadows and highlights set, their backgrounds look good and are now living in an Illustrator file. The illustrator file is formatted to print in a 18x24 size poster, I will be making prints when this is all over! follow the progress at: See you around the internets! http://www.instagram.com/deltatangomike http://www.twitter.com/deltatangomike https://www.facebook.com/DeltaTangoMike/ https://www.behance.net/dacreativegenius Thank you for sharing some drawing time with me, tag me in your work and let's draw together. @AdobeDrawing @Adobe @Behance Aztec Gods list created by https://twitter.com/DavidOBowles Read the Aztec/Nahua Myths in his book: Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico https://amzn.to/2UUEIrc #SixFanArtChallenge Free Vector Demos and Tutorials: http://www.youtube.com/c/Vectormaestros The business of art is not the Art Biz. https://www.youtube.com/c/ArtIsKing #StartNow2020 #ArtLifeAllDay #Storytelling #ArtDirector #CreativeClass #ContentCreator #ArtLife #DTM #iLikeToDraw #DocumentTheGame #Illustrator #Designer #CreativeDirector (at Microsoft Store Lenox Square Mall) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_YE2abJ7O-/?igshid=iem7oigh443m