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3. 🦃 Turkeys came from Mexico. Mexica/Aztecs served turkey at funeral feasts and used it as burial offerings.

There was also a plague god named Chalchiuhtotolin, which translates to PRECIOUS NIGHT TURKEY
🌙🍗✨🦃✨

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2020-11-27

15/ First KoS rubber product is balls? Same goes for humanity.
Evidence suggests the first application of rubber was for balls used by the Olmecs in their sports. Later, Mayans and Aztecs used it to make containers and turn textiles waterproof.

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2020-11-16

Pre-Columbian Murals and Norse Sagas Suggest Vikings Met the Aztecs, and the Outcome Was Not Pretty https://t.co/KztEwRVt1Y

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2020-11-09

Amazing watercolors from the 16th-century Tovar Codex at , attributed to Jesuit Juan de Tovar but likely based on an earlier Nahuatl source by Christianized Aztecs: https://t.co/fUzwTDF31H

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2020-10-31

'Blaze' I love the way this fine art print turned out with the fibres of the paper becoming part of the image.
If you are interested in purchasing work please DM me.
Interesting fact: Dahlia tubers were grown as a food crop by the Aztecs 🍴🥣

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2020-10-30

The penultimate set of day sign illustrations; Ocelotl(Jaguar), Mazatl(Deer), and Tochtli(Rabbit)

So later today at 7:30, we will be working on the final illustration live on stream. Come check it out, it will be a great time!

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2020-10-08

Commission for aztecstar on Fiverr. How gratefull I am having this cutie for my comeback commission ❤️ for commission info, visit my gigs on https://t.co/022xnr7aPE

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2020-10-06

Next is Cipactli, just like Archard, he was created to be a warrior
Based on the creature of Aztec myth of the same name

Unlike with most other societies, Mythos weren't seen as just tools by the Aztecs, and were respected members of the community

Art by

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2020-10-04

The last Saturday in September is & the feast of (400 deities of sacred drunkenness suckled at the 400 breasts of goddess of Thus said: "He's as drunk as 400 rabbits!"

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2020-09-25

Quiahuitl (Rain), Ollin (Movement), Calli (House).

13 down, 7 more to go. Catch the Instagram Livestream tomorrow at 9:30am!

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2020-09-26

Here's another three. Cuetzpalin (Lizard), Cuauhtli (Eagle), Itzcuintli (Dog).⁠

Hope you all have been enjoying watching the livestreams of me making these illustrations. Many more to come!

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2020-09-22

First time drawing of Aztec lady.
Advices are welcome before I drawing an Aztec warrior for Character Design Challenge😊

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2020-09-12

Day 23 of The Stone of Destiny readalong
I knew I needed some antagonists in the story but wanted to avoid the whole Scottish-English rivalry. Instead, I used the vikings for inspiration, then I crossed that with the aztecs to create the Avalogians.

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2020-08-27

To the Ancient Aztecs, Chaneques were tiny humanoid creatures, protecting nature. Attacking intruders with fright, so the soul would leave the body! If the victim didn't recover their soul in a specific ritual, they would die & the soul would be forever trapped!

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2020-08-13

'To dismiss the 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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2020-06-11

The dahlia, a beautiful flower of many and vivid colors, is native and representative of 🇲🇽. 35 out of its 43 known species are endemic to Mexico. The Aztecs domesticated, cultivated, crossed, and reproduced them until creating an amazing diversity admired around the globe.

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2020-05-21

For Tenochtitlan, relation of a graphic novel: Malinalli, la polémica interprete / Malinalli, the...
Blog about the making of a graphic novel about the Conquest of the the comic book.
https://t.co/j5xYBAvCzr

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2020-05-10

In my one-episode-a-day watch through I've reached the wonderful Aztecs!

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2020-04-19