Mexicoloreさんのイラストまとめ

'To dismiss the #Aztec realm as a "#cannibal kingdom" displays a woeful ignorance of their sacrificial rites which served more complex ends' (Nigel Davies).
Read our latest feature, by Prof. Kay Read, on the Aztecs and Cannibalism https://t.co/ljyG026Pij
(Florentine Codex Bk 4)

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Numbers were sacred in ancient #Mesoamerica. FIVE - in the shape of a #quincunx - refers to the structure of the human body (4 limbs + trunk), of towns/cities, of the world, of the universe: 4 cardinal directions and the World Tree at the centre, linking heavens and underworlds.

We're 40 today! @mexicolore first ran a school workshop on April 2nd. 1980, at #Ethelburga Primary School, Battersea, London. We've since clocked up over 3,500. Still going strong - but right now sadly on hold...
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If an #Aztec/#Mexica slave could escape from their owner, exit the market, run to the palace AND - crucially - step on human excrement (!), (s)he was congratulated and formally given freedom. The (ritual) poo bit is explained by Alfredo López Austin here -https://t.co/hGjfVCl9sq

The European dichotomy good/evil was a concept #Mesoamericans found hard to comprehend. To them the world at heart was good ('cualli' in Nahuatl); with no notion of '(d)evil', these could only be translated as 'amo cualli' (not good). As for 'sin' - 'what the hell is that?'!

Tobacco - picietl ('little perfume') in #Nahuatl - was not just smoked by #Mesoamericans, it was used medicinally: ground up to treat diarrhoea, poisonous snake/spider bites, gout, headache, and as a rubdown to relieve fatigue. Image from Florentine Codex.
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In Mexico today 4 festival dates have roots far back in history, linked to key moments in the #maize cycle: Feb 2 (beginnings), May 3 (petitioning for rain), Aug 15 (praying for growth) and Oct 30 (harvest thanksgiving/offerings for the Days of the Dead). https://t.co/ZYwL9WOFuj

On this day in 1896 the great Mexican #muralist David Alfaro #Siqueiros was born in Chihuahua. Along with #Rivera and #Orozco, he established 'Mexican Muralism'. An ardent communist, he believed art should be public, educational, and ideological. Here: his 1944 mural at Tecpan

Guess which #Aztec/#Mexica herbal medicine recipe was a success in Europe for 200 years? The cure for HICCUPS! It was a chest rub, a juice made up of ground and cooked herb stalks (inc. this one, 'papaloquilitl'), leaves, pine bark, grass and honey...
(Pic: Badianus Manuscript)