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open_space ([personal profile] open_space) wrote in [personal profile] ecosophia 2025-04-09 10:11 pm (UTC)

Re: Definition of Genocide

Thank you! Millions is the right power of ten, even though some of us don't look nahuatl enough to satisfy the puritans and tourists. I was actually arranging my tlalmanalli (aztec altar) while I read this and was dumbfounded, given that last weekend I was at a temazcal with fellow participants singing songs from way back in Nahuatl, which is an official language right next to Spanish and other 67 indigenous languages like Zapotec, Totonac, Mazahua, Otomi, Yucatec, etc... It's notable to remember that the strength of the culture and people is so much, that the Catholic Church had to start incorporating the local culture into Mass to bring people in, spawning a great syncretism.

¡Chicahua! (That means, strength, btw). We are not going anywhere, anytime soon.

Here are a couple pics of the inside of the Anahucalli I took last week, a modern Nahua temple created by Diego Rivera dedicated to the four elements, with Our Lady Tonantzin of the Serpent Skirt towering in the ceiling.

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