#tonantzin

[fuckyeahmexico]

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[weepingwidar]

Ivan Montoya (Mexican, 1995) - Tonantzin/Coatlicue (2022)

[misspjsuperior]

Tonantzin Guadalupe 🌵🌹

The original \/u| \//\ goddess I created in 2013 is Maria Rosa. Her design was inspired in major part between the miracle of La Virgen de Guadalupe and the concept of Mary Queen of Heaven.

I was recently commissioned to create a new (\/) Goddess inspired similarly between Guadalupe and Tonantzin by my chingona hermana Janet Bella Rosa who also knew Mi padrino Antonio 🙏 I felt his spirit guiding me to connect our visions! 💞

Tonantzin is an enduring Nahuatl title for the maternal aspect of any Aztec goddess, much like “Our Lady”, rather than the name of a particular goddess. I chose a blue background to parallel Her starry mantle of heaven and also represent Lake Texcoco since the eagle, snake, and cactus from its story of the founding of ancient Mexico there are present. 💙🌵 

Tonantzin in various forms is frequently depicted with eagle feet so I thought it appropriate to have the legendary golden eagle clutch the silvery moon below Her in place of Guadalupe’s cherub 🦅 🌙 Tonantzin is often known, by many names, to wear a skirt of snakes- the celestial Aztec earth mother Coatlicue’s particular name translates to “She of Snake Skirts”. So I couldn’t help but see the snake emerge from the opening in Her folds here. Frequently in Aztec art snakes emerging from or replacing body parts represents blood so I feel a menstrual element from how the snake manifested in this vision 🐍 🩸

Many believe that the apparition of La Virgen de Guadalupe on Tepeyac Hill unto St. Juan Diego, an Indigenous peasant originally named Cuauhtlatoatzin meaning “Talking Eagle”, was a vision of a new form of Tonantzin. Her local temple had formerly been on that very site, destroyed by conquistadors. When Cuauhtlatoatzin received these holy visions, the Goddess spoke to him not in Spanish but in his native Nahuatl language even though She identified Herself as The Virgin Mother of God. Even the Church documents testify that The Holy Mother assured him in his moment of doubt, in his Indigenous tongue, “Am I not here who am your Mother?” Indeed Tonantzin Coatlicue herself is said to have had her own divine conception via a feather 🪶 

The miraculous vision of Guadalupe that appeared upon Juan Diego/Talking Eagle’s tilma is often seen as a self portrait by Her and there are many analyses of the visual element’s encoding of Aztec symbolism. I took these theories and insights into consideration while creating this vision.

Even within the suppression of Spanish colonization ancient indigenous Mexican Curanderismo healing practices were able to persevere and often in the name of La Virgen de Guadalupe, under the protection of Her image.

Choose-your-goddess prints now include Tonantzin Guadalupe!

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“At home, on the evening of December 12th we may light a candle and place offerings of flowers, copal and chocolate in front of her statue or painting. In the public square, those who follow the Mexica spiritual tradition will join brothers and sisters for an all-night vigil of prayer, Danza, offerings, and songs to her, who is Tonantzin Tlalli Coatlicue, who was always honored at the hill of Tepeyac. As we salute the Four Winds and dance in the ceremonial circle, we honor those who have gone before us, the courageous people who kept traditions alive through the centuries despite the threat to their life if discovered. The feathers in the copilli, the ceremonial headdress worn by the dancers, will draw down the energy of the cosmos into Mother Earth, our beautiful Tonantzin Tlalli Coatlicue to help her heal from the many ways she is dishonored.

Nearby, children will play and laugh, faces smeared with the traces of candy and the cinnamon of churros, the delicious deep fried pastry covered with sugar and cinnamon while the sound of mariachi music adds to the feeling of a fusion of cultures and beliefs. If you wander the crowded street you will see a handful of Catholic pilgrims on their knees on the hard pavement slowly make their way to the entrance of the church in gratitude for answered prayers.

And, in spite of quiet official church disapproval, the local parish priest will invite Indigenous ceremonial dancers to participate during the special December 11-12 mass for Our Lady of Guadalupe. Inside the church, for a few moments, Mayan copal will blend with European frankincense, quetzal feathers will dance on the air, and elders with bundles of aromatic rosemary plants will cleanse the People’s spirit. The two cultures, reconciled at this moment, acknowledge their bond of love for the Woman Who is Cloaked with the Sun; a bridge of Light between peoples.”

- Maestra Grace via Curanderismo.org

[maekar76]

The legend states that the Virgin appeared to an Indian, Juan Diego, with a message for [Bishop] Zumarraga. The bishop did not believe what the Indian told him, until a series of miracles forced him to believe. As a result, and under direct instructions from the Virgin, a chapel was built at the place of the apparitions. Historians have searched in vain for any indication in the records of Zumarraga and his contemporaries that any part of this story is true. Furthermore, an early Christian chronicler declares that the place where the Virgin supposedly appeared was the very hill where the Indians worshipped the goddess called Tonantzin, the “mother of the gods,” and that the Indians simply continued worshipping the old goddess under a new name.

But no matter what may be the events behind it, the legend itself is a vindication of the oppressed Indian over against the Spanish bishop. In the end, the bishop had to do what the Indian told him. Ever since, the Virgin of Guadalupe has been more than an object of devotion. She became the symbol and rallying point of Mexican national sentiment against any form of foreign intervention.

Excerpt from, The Story of Christianity Vol. 1: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation by Justo L. Gonzalez

[tzompantli-ink]

-Tonantzin Coatlicue, madre tierra y madre del Anáhuac, el colibrí anunciando la llegada de el guerrero de la voluntad Huitzilopochtli.

Una humilde ofrenda de Maíz, obsidianas (iztetl) traidas del valle del Mezquital y espinas de Maguey 💀🐍

[deja-vu-esoterica]

The Feast Day of La Virgen de Guadalupe

We’re less than a week away from celebrating the shop’s patron goddess, La Virgen de Guadalupe. 🌹 Join us on her Feast Day, December 12, to give gratitude, light candles, make offerings, and donate to local abortion funds. 🕯️ The talented @gordabakes will be selling cake by the slice and the insightful @gem_adler will be hosting card readings to raise additional donations for these great organizations as well. 🍰

The celebration and community altar continues Friday, December 13 with a shop special - receive a free dressed candle with all purchases over $20. ❄️✨

See y’all soon! 🏠🪄

[rockclassics]

Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe (PT)

Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (ES)

Tonantzin Coatlaxopeuh (Náuatle)

[nymphelixir]

Mother goddess

[pecesmudos]

Tonantzin Villaseño, Palomar.

Beto Hernandez

[blogdethemis]

LA TONANTZIN

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las virgencitas del chuco

[misspjsuperior]

December 12th is La Fiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe celebrating an apparition of The Goddess in the guise of Maria Mother of Jesus to an Indigenous man in Mexico named Cuauhtlatoatzin- and dubbed Juan Diego by Catholics. The Holy Mother’s words spoken in native Nahuatl to a humble Aztec man on the slopes of Tepeyac, the very site of the destroyed Aztec temple of Earth Goddess Tonantzin, bolstered the spirit of a brutalized population that yet persists through continued colonization today, allowing original peoples of Mexico to continue ancient traditions and pass knowledge through generations under the mantle of Her protection as a disguise. 🌹

The miraculous vision of Guadalupe that appeared upon Juan Diego/Talking Eagle’s tilma is often seen as a self portrait by Her and there are many analyses of the visual element’s encoding of Aztec symbolism. I took these theories and insights into consideration while creating this goddess vision as commissioned by chingona @sharpsweetbella

I chose a blue background to parallel Her starry mantle of heaven and also represent Lake Texcoco since the eagle, snake, and cactus from its story of the founding of ancient Mexico there are present. 💙🌵 

Tonantzin (a Nahuatl term similar to “Our Lady”) in various forms is frequently depicted with eagle feet so I thought it appropriate to have the legendary golden eagle clutch the silvery moon below Her in place of Guadalupe’s cherub 🦅 🌙 Tonantzin is often known, by many names, to wear a skirt of snakes- the celestial Aztec earth mother Coatlicue’s particular name translates to “She of Snake Skirts”. So I couldn’t help but see the snake emerge from the opening in Her folds here. Frequently in Aztec art snakes emerging from or replacing body parts represents blood so I feel a menstrual element from how the snake manifested in this vision 🐍 🩸

Tonantzin Guadalupe art by @pjsuperior

Shirt modeled by indigenous artist activist @tigerlily.tankgirl 🌟

[sofialuca18]

¿La Virgen de Guadalupe o Tonantzin-Guadalupe? La madre que da identidad al mexicano

Aún sigo con la comida atorada en mi estómago y tengo el famoso "jetlag" pero como ya que he conseguido la fibra para poder liberarme, he liberado este análisis que se tenía guardado por ahí y mi profesor de Etimologías le dio el visto bueno y solamente pensé ¿por qué no lo subo, qué es lo peor que podría pasar? Por lo tanto, es solamente un cúmulo de percepciones, sentimientos y auto-reflexión (os invito a que lo intenten, es bueno para el colon).

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[dragonesdelaemperatriz]

Dios ytlazonantzine

cemicac ychpochtle, cenca timitztotlauhtiliya:

ma topan ximotlatolti yn ylhuicac yxpantzinco yn motlazoconentzin Jesu Christo.

Ca onpa timoyeztica yn ynahuactzinco yn motlazoconentzin Jesu Christo.

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Dark Winds Season 3 Eps2: Náá'tsoh (Big Eyes) Death

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