#meso america

[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."

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[jallisonsworld]

"Xibalba"

[harvestheart]

sacred jaguar

[mahgnib]

Mayan ruin, Copan, Honduras

[haganez]

[msamba]

CARNAVALES LAS TABLAS 2023 MARTES CULECOS [Panama]

 

[prancingpedris]

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

[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

[santoschristos]

Quetzalcoatl Christ Consciousness.

In the sacred history of Meso-America, a Christ-like figure dominates the spiritual horizon. His name is Quetzalcoatl, which means the Plumed Serpent.

Christ is a cosmic force, an energy and intelligence that radiates in everything. In any religion, no matter what the name, no matter the country or the tradition, the primary concern of that religion is Christ, even if that religion doesn’t use that word.

The word Christ is derived from a Greek term, Khrestos. The word Christ is a title. It is a cosmic force. It is energy, a radiation, a vibration, a sound.

Ancient scriptures state that in the beginning God sounded. If you study the creation mythologies of any religion, you always find that in the first instances, in the first moments, what emerged was a vibration, energy, a force, a light, a sound; that is Christ.

That force is beyond any name, beyond any concept, beyond any thought, beyond any title, beyond any belief.

It is something incomprehensible, immeasurable, and eternal. Everything that we are, everything that we experience, everything that we can ever imagine or perceive, is merely a derivative of Christ.

This is how all encompassing and overpowering this energy is.

Absolutely everything in existence is merely a derivative of Christ. So when we talk about Christ, we are not talking about a man; we are not even talking about a God.

We are talking about a force, a cosmic ray, a living, vibrating, resounding energy.

There are many names for this energy that emerges out of the nothingness. In Kabbalah, it is called Ain Soph Aur.

Some Western traditions have called it “the ray of creation.”

The ancient Native Americans, the Aztec, and Maya, had many names for this ray of light, but the most famous is Quetzalcoatl.

The Christians call it Yeshua, Jesus Christ, the Son. In the East, there are thousands of names for this energy: Avalokiteshvara, Chenresig, Krishna, Vishnu, Osiris, Ahura Mazda, and Fu Xi.

These names all refer to the same primordial energy, which is the very heart and soul and purpose and meaning of religion.

This is very important to understand because we have inherited from our different cultures and tradition different mistaken concepts about religion, and especially about Christ.

People nowadays have limited the term Christ to a person. This is wrong.

They have limited the term Christ to a mere God, and this is also wrong.

They have limited the term Christ to one religion and this is wrong.

The force of Christ is universal, but religion is not. Religions are born, grow, sustain, and die. Religions belong to time.

They belong to a particular place and a particular time. That is, religions have a narrow focus on a particular psychology.

They all come from the one universal primordial religion, which is cosmic and eternal, and is the worship and science of Christ.

I am not referring to a modern system or belief, but to the ultimate primordial science which is beyond anything that we can conceive of, write down, or put in a book.

"Christ is beyond all of that."

"In every atom of your body is the fire of life, and that is Christ."

"The energy that gives you the capacity to think is Christ."

"The energy that flows in your emotions is Christ."

"The energy that gives you the power to see, to feel, to think, to receive, to experience, is Christ."

"The energy in the sun, the energy that spins the Earth, the energy that forms a butterfly, the energy that allows the clouds to float in the sky, is Christ."

"When you think of Christ, do not limit your thought to one man who lived two thousand years ago."

"Do not limit your thought to a statue, a scripture, a quote, a concept, or an idea of what Christ is."

"Instead, open your eyes and look around you."

"Look within you."

That is where you will find Christ.

Christ is in your breath, in the pumping of your heart, in the sensations which reach all of your senses in every moment.

There is a transformation of energy happening right now, and that is Christ.

The true yogi, the true aspirant, the true practitioner, does not think of Christ as an idea, a concept, something that is limited in the mind.

The true devotee of Christ looks for Christ in every instant, in every face, in every eye, in every word, in every image, in every animal, in every plant.

The true devotee of Christ is always seeking to perceive and witness that energy in action in the universe right now.

That is how you find Christ: right now. In your breath, through your eyes, through your ears, through touch, through taste and through smell, Christ is there in everything, without limitation.

Everything that exists is a modification of Christ, and everything vibrates with that energy..

~ Victory.

Happy Winter Solstice, everybody!

Image: Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent Artwork by Mahaboka

[nowaytoheaven2]

Can all Christians (or people in general) just drop the idea that native and meso Americans were Caninites who migrated to America and spread the "evil" religion their God was trying to "wipe out" , please? It's such racist bullshit.

[amphiptere-art]

Hum just reminds him again. Warning that Envy would get the same scolding as a child if he speaks those words around them. If he can't control his tongue then he's going to be an example. Stating that he really should learn how to do it around his own child.

Zip grumbles a little bit at Envy's stab of his own family's group size. Quietly stating that he's only met so many. Although it does feel like there's a whole family freaking gathering happening.

Zips face does sour as envy explains there are many many more versions of TF. Asking why the hell are there so many versions of him that are just pure up assholes. Sure if he looks at it it kind of.. sounds normal. He's just surprised it got that far.

Xolo happily explains to greed that it's a nice hot drink. It's made with crushed cocoa, cornmeal and chilli pepper. It's super super yummy in his opinion. Hum quietly sighing that it tastes like somebody mixed the bitter part coffee, chocolate, and hot sauce into a drink.

Ooh! Even better idea, Zip meeting a fucking Stockholm Traveler and seeing the parallels with how Stockholm acts towards TF Monty and how Hum acts towards Eclipses.

OH.. OHHH THAT WOULD BE AMAZING >:D

Because he DOES act like how Hum acts towards eclipses just with Monty’s! He 100% does, and that would fuck with Zips head so much. And I love it

@amphiptere-art

[queenofzan]

i've been thinking lately about how people will say "europeans think 100 miles is a long distance, and americans think 100 years is a long time" and how that's like. actively erasing the colonial and genocidal efforts of settlers in the americas

like even ignoring the very obvious "we burned down native american settlements and forced them to move ever further west and then onto ever smaller reservations" there's still like

the canals in phoenix are based on indigenous canal systems that predate european settlement. buildings like montezuma's castle are hundreds of years old. (in double checking my facts for this post, i found that both were abandoned/stopped being maintained around 1400-1450 "for unknown reasons", and now I'm very curious about the exactitude of those dates because that sure is within a hundred years of europeans poking our noses into shit)

but okay, the stone-based architecture in meso- and south america is not what people are talking about, those are easily recognizable as "evidence of habitation". they're also harder to dismantle or bulldoze than, say, the mounds. which yeah okay some of them remain today and are classed as national monuments, but how many people are aware that those are man-made structures? that those are evidence of a society that was flourishing during the medieval period and was the largest city in north america until eighteenth century Philadelphia finally surpassed it? how easy was it/is it to flatten, dig through, or ignore smaller mounds as "just hills"?

how many people are taught that the abundance of easily-walkable, safe woods with easily-forageable food for humans is the result of dedicated indigenous silviculture? that our idea of natural parks that are navigable and pleasant has more in common with native american agriculture pre-contact than our tilled monoculture fields?

we think of america as having "very little history" because a: it was destroyed in order to justify european conquest of "savage" "undeveloped" people and b: we are still not taught to look for the evidence of how people here lived before colonization. we are still told the only way to date a place is by the brick and mortar and stone buildings, and not by the easily-walkable paths that have been maintained through beautiful areas for centuries, or the waterways that were carefully maintained as both water sources and highways, or the campsites that are "surprisingly clear" and ready for humans to set up there because humans have been keeping that clearing clear for centuries

like. hey. soil quality in much of europe sucks, because the agriculture practiced there was not thoughtful or sustainable. whereas the "new world" was hella fertile, and europeans decided (sometimes despite evidence to the contrary) that the native americans living there didn't "really" do agriculture, because they had adopted across much of the continent(s) much more sustainable practices that didn't leech the nutrients out of soil and leave big old scars on the land

and we're still saying this today? that european history is more impressive because the buildings are older? that it sucks to be a history buff in america because things don't get that old?

open your eyes. look at the outreach programs for your local native groups. listen to their version of history.

look at a beautiful park and think about how much human labor goes into maintaining a park that is both pleasant and safe for humans, and then think about how much early european settlers and explorers in the americas talked about how beautiful the land was.