• @ours
    3•2 months ago

    That’s one polyvalent god: agriculture, spring, metallurgy and war to name a few. In the context of skin wearing, the god of war role might be more relevant.

    • @[email protected]
      4•2 months ago
      • the skin wearing was a representation of the husk of corn
      • the “god of war” was more adjacent – the “formal” god of war was Huitzilopochtli, “Hummingbird on the Left” (Aztec saw the hummingbird as a blood drinker)
      • @ours
        3•2 months ago

        That’s some hardcore agriculture! They really put the agro in agriculture.

        And the actual god of war represented by a bloodthirsty hummingbird. Fantastic.

        Thanks for the Aztec facts.

        • @[email protected]
          3•2 months ago

          check your local nursery or garden center – you’ll find blood and bone meal in the fertilizer section

        • Mister Neon
          1•2 months ago

          So butterflies and hummingbird wings were considered in the realm of war due to “Aztecs” observation that the beating of their wings look like the flickering of fire.