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I am once again here to point out the sacred koshari clowns (summer clowns) of the Pueblo people

I'm a fan of the Hindu creepypasta god who predates the entire religion, looks nothing like any other member of the pantheon, and whose name translates to "Lord of the Universe"

Ancestral memory of Yahweh post-Babel among the earliest Hindus

This indie Chinese short film has some of the most mesmerizing animation I’ve seen in a while 😭 and it was made by ONE animator

Por ocasião do aniversário da morte de Sebastião Salgado (1944-2025), ocorrida em 23 de maio de 2025, tuitamos 10 belas fotos publicadas então pela BBC Brasil (tinyurl.com/yaripo). A matéria divulgava o livro e a exposição resultantes do projeto "Amazônia". Sigam o fio! 🧵

Happy Birthday to my grandmother, we are blessed to celebrate her 95th birthday today. That is a photo of her when she was 17 walking into her dad’s igloo.

happy mother’s day 🌹

our race

I follow Mesoamerican history/archeology I agree there's a superficially similarity between Bronze age Chinese and Maya art, but for people seriously proposing they had contact, remember they existed in totally different time periods Distinctly Maya art doesn't show up till around ~400BC, which as far as I know is many centuries after Bronze Age China produced this kind of art. There's also no reputable evidence of China (or Europeans, or Africans etc) having contact with Mesoamerica prior to the 16th century It's really just a coincidence, you can draw similar comparisons IMO between Maya and Khmer architecture, or Minoan (pic 1 and 2) and Aztec or Teotihuacano (pic 3 and 4) architecture (the timeline doesn't match up for those either, FYI) (Also, "Central America" in an Anthropology and Archeology context generally refers to the area BELOW Mesoamerica, and art from that region doesn't really resemble Bronze Age Chinese art, it's Maya art and some other Mesoamerican art that does)

I’m an Amerindian academic by trade technically. Many of them were. The Spanish were in open awe of the stuff they made. The ace against natives was diseases, and for the U.S. mass importing people by the millions to make any native victory unable to be sustained.

@nobleguanche @griefofppl Mexicans want to talk down to Chicanos about being uncultured like how Europeans talk down to Americans. Mexicans just somehow forget that Chicanos can drive down to Mexico in a shitty beater meanwhile an American has to cross the Atlantic to experience Europe.

@griefofppl Mexican infighting is so funny. To Americans you're all spics, doesn't matter if you were born north or south of the rio grande.

Mexican is when abuelita taco chimichanga huepa cumbia corridos. Ustedes nunca han experimentado el sufrimiento del pueblo mexicano en carne propia y ya se quieren llamar mexicanos NEXTTTTTT

@briftcanon @AQSouroboros @griefofppl doesn’t really hold up when you guys consider wealthy European/Arab immigrants exponentially more Mexican than a poor Chicano kid that was pooped 2cm from the border

@AQSouroboros @griefofppl es un privilegio no vivir la precariedad que muchas familias viven aquí, por eso mismo de van para allá. quieras o no todos aquí sufrimos por una u otra cosa, gente que nunca ha pisado estas tierras no tiene ni idea de que es vivir realmente como mexicano :/

everyone used to be dripped out back in the day... now we wear a shirt and some pants and think we did something

yo soy indio otomí puro de sangre

Something about very early dynastic China reminds me of Central America in aesthetic. Looks right out of something you'd find in Mexico

Me gusta mucho como Ricardo Martínez evoca el arte prehispánico con un lenguaje pictórico súper moderno. Aparece por ejemplo en la cromática, que alude a la cerámica, o los rostros que recuerdan a las máscaras teotihuacana, pero nunca es un indigenismo obvio

"Nah I don't believe in superstitious stuff like communal visualization and tonal chanting and symbolic mudras" well that's why you can't fly supersonic stealth dragons buddy

Niños Jaguar pidiendo lluvia para la montaña. Acatlan, Chilapa, Guerrero, México. 📷: Lenin Mosso.

Not really, because the "Aztec" stuff you posted is really more pop culture visual tropes and stereotypes of Aztec and Mesoamerican fashion It's not really what their actual fashion, ornamentation etc looked like. (Image credits listed within pic 1 and 3, pic 2 by @Zotzcomic , pic 4 by @ohs688 )