• ours@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 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.

    • cerement@slrpnk.net
      4·
      7 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@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 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.

        • cerement@slrpnk.net
          3·
          7 months ago

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

        • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
          1·
          7 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.