I love that game and started playing it about a week before the controversy started. Gerard’s face as the carpenter was eerie in a biblical way. It looked like something from a RPG set in the Bible.
Hahaha, that’s actually “tecolotl” the great horned owl. That’s the day bird for day mahtlactli (ten) which is the day bird of Tezcatlipoca (Smoking Mirror). See what I mean this stuff is complicated, kinda why I love it. Check it out the owls are day six and day ten on the border of this page/plate.
Another tragedy because I basically only know remedial information. I’ve done what research I can on the Nahuatl word chicuatli because I was born on the sixth day of a trecena. Went down a rabbit hole trying to figure out which owl it refers to. Information online about Mesoamerica is either sparse, inaccurate, or purposely repugnant so I buy physical books for my research on “Aztecs”. Not the most efficient way of learning.
I’ve thought about doing an article, but the idea of me being fundamentally wrong about a subject about another culture fills me with dread. Even if I did my best work with earnest intentions the byproduct may still come out evil.
Best to obsess over Aztecs, read your obsession with owls, and root for my screech owl to win.
The tragic fact is there were probably quite a few legends, morals, fables, and stories about Mesoamerican animals. Most of those were violently erased.
I do know this, owls were considered a portent of death, in fact chicuatli (be it barn or screech) is the day bird of Mictlantecuhtli (Lord of the dead lands) assigned on chicuacen (six) day of any trecena (13 day week) of the Tonalpohualli (sacred calendar / count of days).
I am a programmer. It’s like riding a bike, the training wheels are follow along projects on Udemy and YouTube. Don’t try to start with massive projects for dream ambitions, make a button fetch some data when clicked then move on from there.
I wish I could speak Spanish fluently. Formal, immersion, and independent study got me nowhere. I REALLY want to go to Mexico City to see ruins and it would be helpful if I could carry a conversation.