Uploads from Omar Eduardo, tagged mexicocity, with geodata

Minata's Sunset

nobody@flickr.com (Omar Eduardo) — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:11:25 -0700

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Caleidoscópico

nobody@flickr.com (Omar Eduardo) — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:14:17 -0800

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México

nobody@flickr.com (Omar Eduardo) — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:47:10 -0800

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La Bandera de México a través del ventanal de la escalera principal del Castillo de Chapultepec ( Museo Nacional de Historia ) en la Ciudad de México. Detrás el edificio del World Trade Center.

Praise the Sun

nobody@flickr.com (Omar Eduardo) — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:59:35 -0800

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Stone Mexica sculpture at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City .

Huehueteotl

nobody@flickr.com (Omar Eduardo) — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 06:07:32 -0800

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Clay sculpture of the Aztec God of Fire at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City .

Huehueteotl ("Old god"; agéd god in Nahuatl) is a Mesoamerican deity figuring in the pantheons of pre-Columbian cultures, particularly in Aztec mythology and others of the Central Mexico region. He is also sometimes called Ueueteotl. Although known mostly in the cultures of that region, images and iconography depicting Huehueteotl have been found at other archaeological sites across Mesoamerica, such as in the Gulf region, western Mexico, Protoclassic-era sites in the Guatemalan highlands such as Kaminaljuyú and Late-Postclassic sites on the northern Yucatán Peninsula (Miller and Taube, 1993:189).

Huehueteotl is frequently considered to overlap with, or be another aspect of, a central Mexican/Aztec deity associated with fire, Xiuhtecuhtli. In particular, the Florentine Codex identifies Huehueteotl as an alternative epithet for Xiutecuhtli, and consequently that deity is sometimes referred to as Xiutecuhtli-Huehueteotl.

Xochipilli

nobody@flickr.com (Omar Eduardo) — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:19:57 -0800

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Stone sculpture of the Mexica's God of Flowers, Love, Music, Dance and Games, at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City .

Xochipilli was the god of love, games, beauty, dance, flowers, maize, and song in Aztec mythology. His name contains the Nahuatl words xochitl ("flower") and pilli (either "prince" or "child"), and hence means "flower prince". He is also referred to as Macuilxochitl, which means "five flowers".

His wife was Mayahuel and his twin sister was Xochiquetzal. As one of the gods responsible for fertility and agricultural produce, he was associated with Tlaloc, god of rains, and Cinteotl, god of maize.

Chimuelo de Chocolate

nobody@flickr.com (Omar Eduardo) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:14:21 -0800

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Skull decorated with shelves at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City .

Mexica

nobody@flickr.com (Omar Eduardo) — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:27:29 -0700

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This is an approx. 12 feet tall stone sculpture at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City .

The Living Colour

nobody@flickr.com (Omar Eduardo) — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 08:00:04 -0700

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An ancient Rainbow Warrior. Cráneo decorado con piedras semipreciosas y conchas en el Museo Nacional de Antropología de la Ciudad de México

Xipe Totec

nobody@flickr.com (Omar Eduardo) — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:57:14 -0700

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In Aztec mythology, Xipe Totec ("our lord the flayed one") was a life-death-rebirth deity, god of agriculture, the west, disease, spring, goldsmiths and the seasons. He flayed himself to give food to humanity, symbolic of the maize seed losing the outer layer of the seed before germination. Without his skin, he was depicted as a golden god.

Annually, slaves were selected as sacrifices to Xipe Totec. These slaves were carefully flayed to produce a nearly whole skin which was then worn by the priests during the fertility rituals that followed the sacrifice. Some accounts indicate that a thigh bone from the sacrifice was defleshed and used by the priest to touch spectators in a fertility blessing. Paintings and several clay figures have been found which illustrate the flaying method and the appearance of priests wearing flayed skins.

Olvida el Trajín

nobody@flickr.com (Omar Eduardo) — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:04:15 -0700

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Chocolake

nobody@flickr.com (Omar Eduardo) — Mon, 22 May 2006 05:16:13 -0700

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Dreaming on a Trajinera

nobody@flickr.com (Omar Eduardo) — Tue, 09 May 2006 18:55:55 -0700

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Wanna Hug?

nobody@flickr.com (Omar Eduardo) — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 05:15:08 -0700

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Come on, we all have a relative like this.

Lorena

nobody@flickr.com (Omar Eduardo) — Thu, 11 May 2006 07:45:13 -0700

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