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9Wind

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3D artist with a BS in Computer Science. Fanatic of Mexican History. I can BS in other stuff too.

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One of the biggest mysteries I am having right now is the

Every or person I ask have either never seen this thing or only seen it shown in Mixtec codices and certain papers call it a sabre.

Mexicolore has a panel of experts and said they know nothing about it.

Codices often represent real weapons in them, but they can also be symbolic of something else.

Does anyone know more about this design of ?

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This is a recreation from a forum post that is now gone. The only image left is the page from Mexicolore, who do have experts but they have been wrong before.

I would love to have ballistic gel and test it out if I had the resources to make this.

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In my study of #film #history to understand the Mexploitation #horror #genre I found a lot of interesting and disturbing information in the #book "Mexploitation Cinema"

These films have a contradictory world view where your identity is under attack by foreigners but you must also delete your identity because its obsolete to be more like foreigners. A theme very similar to Italian futurists and #fascism who wanted the past forgotten and rewritten (1/2)

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It explains further that American or European audiences wouldn't see mexploitation #movies for what they are really saying and think the monsters are just jokes instead of what they represent.

So anyone who tries to apply the techniques of these classic #movies needs to do it very carefully to not alienate the audience but also fall into the same trap old film makers did. (2/2)

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In my research to help form a coherent story for a #mesoamerica web series, #gender and #lgbtq is one of the biggest hurdles because #history and modern perspectives just don't match.

If I took Sigal's interpretation in the #book "the flower and scorpion", if someone asks me if there are LGBT characters I don't really have an answer as they did not call themselves straight, gay, or bisexual no matter who they had sex with. They did have a word for trans though.

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If I took interpretations that did share modern ideas of and which show up the most in pop that opens new problems. These usually apply Christian views onto Nahua culture, completely replacing with the personal views of who is usually a Spanish priest.

This creates even more problems, as these interpretations often apply negative views onto gods and some even try to link some goddesses with the Christian Satan or succubi. Blatant misogyny.

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Speaking of the #history of the #mexican #revolution , this page from "The Mexican Revolution: A Brief History with Documents" on how Pancho Villa tricked a city into capturing themselves reads like its from loony tunes #histodons would like

The sentence where they took the city without firing a single shot, if you ignore the massacre, is just surreal.

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Can any #histodon or #histodons #help me with finding some sources on battles during the #mexican #revolution , hopefully with #maps of each battlefield and the description of how the battles happened with specific troops?

Its so easy to find #historical information on other #history in the #1910s but surprisingly hard here.

I have an idea for 3D modelling and wish to see if its feasible.

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This from the "America's first cuisines" is wild. The entire thing is an old man and a goddess fat shaming some while they sink into the ground for being too heavy. Still, the quote at the end is still profound because old age doesnt have to suck if you live healthy.

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I have plans to 3D model various gods for a web series, and she is going to be the most challenging to get right. The twin snake heads aren't the issue, or her snake arms, its her skirt.

A lot of the gods are hard to illustrate because of their abstract symbolism, but she is the top of the list for difficulty.

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For context, here is the section on the comparing verse and ones.

Maybe my personal confusion comes from the difference in and the translator's own interpretation.

I would need to find my dictionary and try translating it myself some time as practice.

As a side note, ometeotl and omeyocan are something from leon portilla, and are interpretations questioned by newer sources but still show up from time to time. (2/2)

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