#Xōchipilli

[adrianainla]

#los angeles #chicana #latina #Xōchipilli #latina brand #brown girl #oaxaca #clothing brand #beauty

[newrealityworld]

Xōchipilli and Tezcatlipoca!

These are two of my favourite Aztec gods! 

#aztec gods #Aztec Mythology #mythology #Tezcatlipoca #xōchipilli #myths #my art #My Design

[rewildandgrow]

#sinicuichi #sunopener #ancientwisdom #ancestralwisdom #heimiasalicifolia #sunherb #solarplexus #herb #memorytravel #oneirogen #oneirogenic #oneirogenicherb #oneirogenicplant #xōchipilli #aztecs #mayans #mesoamerican #mexicanherb #ultrasonic #goldenvisions #fertilitymagic #auditoryherb #vividdreams #luciddreaming #memoryopener #remembering

[songofsonata]

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Hello, hello; A new focus means a new altar, and with it all sorts of new content for you the user to indulge!

Think of this as ‘home base’ for now; I intend to play with a hypothetical extension of Neil Gaiman’s famed STARZ series ‘American Gods’ following the events of the finale that was season three. In no way is this meant to be a canonized work nor is it to infringe upon the pre-built foundation and the amazing dedication shown to us by the actors and writers behind the show.

You can call me Kroh-… the messenger.

@kibbakulture (SISTER BLOG) [old gods]

The muses that I write for here include;

Song of Songs : Song Sonata

Findig or Swipe

Aurora ‘Rhory’ Allen

E-Z

Xōchipilli

Kroh Kobane

Miscellaneous Links

Atrium of Songs

#american gods #neil gaiman #fanon extension #fiction writing #reviving the dead #(fandom) #original characters #self inserts #song sonata #song of songs #findig and finigain #e-z #ezumi #aurora allen #rhory #xōchipilli #kroh kobane

[w-o-r-d-s--f-a-i-l]

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send me a “🍑+ (muse you want me to use)” for a smutty starter

Xōchipilli liked playing around with humans, traveling to various locations and finding hot men to hook up with from all walks of life. His typical type was strong, bigger than him, and willing to fuck him until he screamed, and a good way to find that kind of man was going to shitty dive bars in the heart of the city. Mark wasn’t physically his regular type, but seeing his sort of endearingly dorky look made him think maybe that was something was brewing under the surface. It was always the dorky guys that fucked the hardest, and with that in mind he saddled himself up at the bar next to the man. Not one to hear around the bush, he took a sip of his drink before speaking to him, “Hey, you’re cute. My hotel’s not too far from here, what do you say after our drinks are finished here we have some fun,” he suggested, biting his bottom lip as he touched the other man’s thigh.

#rogerdavis90 #muse: xōchipilli

[talonabraxas]

Xochipilli “Prince of Flowers” Talon Abraxas

It is said that Xōchipilli lives in Tamoanchan, which is the mythical origin for a great deal of Mesoamerican cultures of the Mexican region, in the Late Postclassic period. Tamoanchan was believed by Aztec people, to be a paradise, where their gods lived. There, the gods had created the first ever human — by stealing sacrificed blood, and ground bone from the Underworld fo Mictlan.

[salty-lemon-shark-from-the-sea]

Itotia: Her father is Acan God of Celebration and her mother is Teotihuacan Goddess of Spiders. She’s closer with her father helping him throw parties and eventually going on and hosting her own. Met her brothers cause of her mother who left them in her care. Became a mother to her brothers and her other demi-siblings, only there is so much she can do to protect them from other gods and goddesses. Has so many siblings they now have a small town full of them, which leads to other gods and goddess leaving their demi-children in her care at the village where they can visit their kids. Wears purple to show her status as the leader of the village, but still wears brackets and jewelry that villagers make.

Kukulkan Chan: Named after the serpent god Kukulkan with the last name Chan means “small”. He was named by his mother Teotihuacan Goddess of Spiders and his father Kukulkan the Serpent God. Knows he can't live up to his father so he made a casino to steal the mortals money and make his own fortune his way. Casinos weren’t really a thing back then so as time passes he does become more powerful, but still stays the weakest of the three. Uses his sister's party knowledge and his younger brother’s drugs to lure people in. Has a human disguise to go and gamble in the human world. When treated he will puff his hood up and use the face on the back to try and scare them off. Most of the time he needs Itotia to get involved. He’s their mother's favorite because she knows he doesn't have the power to over run her.

Xōchipilli: The Mayan god of sex, drugs, and music. He’s the more carefree one always somewhere getting high. The mushroom pours all over his body releasing a gas that can get anyone within the vicinity as high as a kite. He does find some fine music and forces his siblings to join him in a mini band that plays at his brother’s casino and some of his sister’s party. Loves his mother Teotihuacan Goddess of Spider, but not even Itotia knows who his father is. Once the drugs wear off he’s left in a drowsy hungover state that makes him look dead. (In my Au he also embodies withdrawal). He owns a sex club and has beautiful humans and creatures of all kinds, though his siblings do avoid the area as much as they can. Has colored flower and marijuana tattoos all along his arms with flowers and mushrooms growing out of his hair. Once he’s in his second state though the flowers and mushrooms fall off.

#my ocs #maya and the three #maya and the 3

[rebellum]

Thank gods I'm trans. Thank you Aphrodite. Thank you Hermaphroditus. Thank you Dionysus. Thank you Hathor. Thank you Inanna/Ishtar. Thank you Oshun. Thank you Astarte. Thank you Nanaya. Thank you Pan. Thank you Xōchiquetzal. Thank you Xōchipilli. You guys are the real ones this fucking rocks.

#thanked gods i feel any sort of connection to gender and sexuality wise #why dionysus? i associate him with gender fuckery. #why pan? hes a protector of trans men and trans mascs (according to me)

[cassowariess]

Finished Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend and wanted to check out the reviews on Goodreads to see what other people thought of it. There I encountered this white supremacist and homophobic garbage of a reviewer who has his head shoved so far up Hernan Cortes's arse I'm surprised he can read in the dark.

Dude, no one is saying the ancient Mexica were perfect angels, but stop uwuing Hernan like he did no wrong.

The biggest hilarity in his review (to me, anyway) is where he says the section on homosexuality can't be true because wikipedia says the Aztecs tortured homosexuals. If you check that particular citation, the source is from the Spanish, who were actually the ones torturing who they considered "deviants." The source in Camilla Townsend's book is from the writings of Indigenous peoples displaced by the Spanish.

But sure, dude. A culture that had two whole gods of homosexuality* tortured gay people, sure.

*Huēhuecoyōtl and Xōchipilli

Serves me right for reading Goodreads I guess.

#I don't know what I expected #aztec #mexica #racism #homophobia #hernan cortes

[shoggothkisses]

there's a lot going on with the moon, how does it tie in with music?

HOKAY so for context: I wrote this big honkin' response to an anon who wanted only a breakdown of lore on the Moons in Genshin. In that post, I briefly discussed the names of the three Moon Sisters - Aria, Sonnet, and Canon - but didn't go into detail about what the Sisters actually have to do with music.

So let's do that now!

We've had lots of evidence so far to demonstrate that music has a real, tangible effect on Teyvat. More specifically, singing and music are very closely related to Dendro:

Singing to Glaze Lilies in Liyue causes them to bloom

Chanted prayers (and prayers are related to music, as I'll address shortly) play a major role in the cleansing of the Sacred Sakura in Inazuma

Singing the "Great Songs" of Khvarena is believed to stop the Withering

The korybantes / kory drums awaken Rashnu the Pari from her slumber

The Aranara songs on the Vintage Lyre (which is specifically from Mondstadt, or so says the description) allow you to communicate, bring things to life and even transcend realms

The first Aranara was created after Rukkhadevata sang to the ley lines, causing the Ashvatta Tree to grow and produce the Aranara as fruit.

Ley lines follow the path of Irminsul's growth through Teyvat - and it makes sense that Irminsul would be associated with music, since it's also associated with myths and fairy tales. We learned in Inversion of Genesis that historical fact can be protected from deletion from Irminsul if it's couched in allegory (that is to say, it uses symbolic stand-ins to carry its hidden core message). I bring this up only because music and its creation is associated with the divine in many major world mythologies:

The lyre (in Greek mythology) was invented by Hermes the day he was born, and was at different points given to Apollo (as an apology for stealing his cattle) and to Amphion (his...lover? stepbrother? unclear...to help him build Thebes. Like, the music of his lyre could move stone.)

In Chinese mythology, Fuxi (the half-dragon demigod who also was thought to have molded the first human beings out of clay) invented the yaoqin (now the guqin) after hearing the sound of phoenix song, and bestowed his gift to humanity so they could use it during celebrations.

While not responsible for creating the actual instruments, Odin is believed to have taught humanity how to create music and poetry by introducing them to mead in a less-than-tasty way.

In Aztec lore, the wind god Quetzalcoatl kidnaps musicians from the court of the Sun and brings them to the world of humans so that it may also be full of music. There are also multiple gods who govern the realm of music (Huehuecoyotl, Xōchipilli).

In Vedic (and later Buddhist) mythology, the goddess Sarasvati was the embodiment of music (as well as rivers, knowledge, and "all things that flow.")

The last two points here are especially important, as in them, music is directly tied to flowers (Xōchipilli is the Lord of Flowers; Sarasvati is often depicted upon a white lotus), water (Sarasvati is the anthropomorphization of a river with the same name; Xōchipilli wears a mother-of-pearl talisman shaped like a water droplet), and the moon (pearls are associated with the moon; Sarasvati is often said to "shine like the moon" or "wear the moon in her hair").

There are two figures in Genshin so far that have a close relation to these symbols: Greater Lord Rukkhadevata, and Nabu Malikata (the Goddess of Flowers). As far as the latter is concerned, there's very little we definitely know about her and more that can be implied from information elsewhere.

During the Aranara questline, we learned from Arama that Nabu Malikata is a Seelie who managed to retain her physical form after the calamity that tore the Moon Sisters apart (see moon lore post). While we're still not 100% on the relationship between Seelie and the Moons, we know that the Sisters oversaw a union between a Seelie and an Outlander - so, at the very least, the Seelie defer to the Moons for some manner of guidance or counsel.

We also know that, while Nabu has retained her body, she still seems to be missing...something. This description from Dirge of Bilqis feels very...husk-y.

We know thanks to the Vourokasha's Glow set that the Khvarena (the Seelie-looking energy orbs that respond to the Great Songs and at various points in their lives are the Simurgh, the Pari, and water of the Amrita Pool) originate from Nabu.

Also, in A Drunkard's Tale, Vol. 3, we meet a "pale young maiden" who speaks an unknown language and plays a lute for the Seelie, possibly while sitting by the side of King Deshret's sarcophagus.

(I believed this figure to be Rukkhadevata on first read, but since the maiden refers to the Seelie as "we," it can be better assumed that this is Nabu Malikata playing the lute for her siblings.

If this is true, and it really is Nabu, then it implies that she and Rukkhadevata look alike? Which makes things between the two of them even messier, lore-wise. But that's for another post...hopefully.)

Let's circle back to the Greeks for a second.

The philosophies of Aristotle and Plato (two of the hard hitters when it comes to Genshin inspirations) are based on the theory of animism. The tl;dr of animism is that all living things (and depending on who you ask, non-living things) have a soul, and this soul can be acted upon separately from the physical form. So - that bush? It's got a soul. Water? Soul. Humans? Souls. Umbrellas? Maybe in a hundred years or so.

Since music was given to humanity by the gods, the act of a human creating music was considered a form of divine intervention - or possession.

A third Greek philosopher, who doesn't feature as prominently in Genshin but serves a huge purpose here, is Pythagoras. Much like other Greeks, he believed that music was divine in origin, and that it could be used to soothe or agitate the soul, depending on the tonal harmonies being played. However, Pythagoras took it an extra step by blowing the theory up to cosmic proportions.

Basically, Pythagoras (and his followers) observed that certain objects - like the strings on a lute - moved when they produced sound, and that the size and speed at which those objects moved affected the sounds that were made. Bigger things moved slower, and made lower pitched sounds; smaller, faster-moving objects made higher-pitched sounds. And so Pythagoras extrapolated: the planets and stars in space are very, very big. And they move very, very fast. So they must produce a sound. And this sound is SO loud and has been around for SO long that people were incapable of hearing it. The theory was later picked up and expounded upon by Johannes Kepler, who postulated that the harmonies between planets couldn't be heard, but could be felt within the human soul.

This concept is now known as musica universalis, or music of the spheres.

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OKAY that's a lot of information! So let's break down how it all fits together.

We have three Moons, named after types (or parts) of music.

The Moons are divine in nature, and so is music - suggesting that they're the reason why humans on Teyvat have music at all.

The Moons are related to the Seelie (and the Goddess of Flowers), who for one reason or another are cursed to have their souls split from their bodies.

In Teyvat, music affects the movement and growth of elemental energy - Irminsul, Aranara, Sacred Sakura, other plants, etc.

Music, mythologically, also has an impact on the soul - hence why Seelie and parts of other beings' souls (Khvarena, the Pari) respond to it.

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I don't really know how to end this post so let's wrap it up with some miscellaneous notes and baseless speculation:

Is all elemental energy soul-based? Because it's sure starting to feel that way. (There's definitely going to be a follow-up post about emotions and music. Just wait.)

How close are Rukkhadevata and Nabu Malikata?? Are they two of the three Moon Sisters? Are they parts of the same god?? Will we ever find out for sure??? And when am I going to stop mixing them up when doing my research!?!

In my OG Moon post I mentioned how the Sisters are said to control heroes' fates (see Xiphos' Moonlight lore). If the Moons are related to music, and Irminsul responds to song, this may mean (literally or figuratively) that the feeding of music through Irminsul can affect (or alter) how those heroes are remembered.

Venti knows all songs of past and future. And every day that comment becomes more and more sus.

Anyway thanks for coming along on this journey, hope it wasn't too hard to follow, and feel free to send more asks if you want a clarification or a new post on something!

#genshin impact #genshin lore #genshin #genshin spoilers #anon asks #lore rants

[rubrumales]

Beauty and the Arts :: You are the divine spirit of love, beauty and artistic expression, as well as the intoxication and revelry which often accompany both. Due to your association with pleasures of the flesh, you of all deities are perhaps the most closely enmeshed with the affairs of mortals, and you may even have a bit of mortal blood yourself. Your realm also encompasses the many elements which arouse intoxication, ecstasy, and spiritual transcendence for both mortals and divines—be they substances, music, or other sensory phenomena. Although you are certainly the life of the party, you also embody the spirit of healing, relaxation, and respite from the toils of the harsh mortal realm. Your mythological equivalents are Greece’s Apollo and Dionysus, Scandinavia’s Bragi, Mesoamerica’s Xōchipilli, and Mesopotamia’s Ishtar.

Tagged/found by: @blxsscd-x-fxrsakcn Tagging: anyone

(not surprised, nope)

#♰ dash games ♰

[ancientoriginses]

Los aztecas tenían un panteón enorme de deidades fascinantes, algunas de ellas aterradoras y brutales. Xōchipilli, sin embargo, era el "príncipe de las flores" dios de las flores, la fertilidad, el amor y la prostitución.

#Azteca #México #dioses #religión #prostitución #hongos #alucinógenos

[dxlaflamme-archive]

IF YOU WERE A DEITY...

Beauty and the Arts

You are the divine spirit of love, beauty and artistic expression, as well as the intoxication and revelry which often accompany both. Due to your association with pleasures of the flesh, you of all deities are perhaps the most closely enmeshed with the affairs of mortals, and you may even have a bit of mortal blood yourself. Your realm also encompasses the many elements which arouse intoxication, ecstasy, and spiritual transcendence for both mortals and divines—be they substances, music, or other sensory phenomena. Although you are certainly the life of the party, you also embody the spirit of healing, relaxation, and respite from the toils of the harsh mortal realm. Your mythological equivalents are Greece’s Apollo and Dionysus, Scandinavia’s Bragi, Mesoamerica’s Xōchipilli, and Mesopotamia’s Ishtar.

#we cant believe the result so we retook it #and changed ONE answer #and got Agriculture and Hearth #i can rest in peace now because Art Agriculture and Hearth #are actually brigid's domains #so it would make sense #the one we changed was the food choice #(.i waited for nothing: queue) #(.make these messes matter: dashgames)

[tau-mp]

Home for someone

meme continuation for festival fun with @mpxinvidia

“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.” Orson Welles

A bee sting was a more than upsetting event, and just as much as Invidia knew about what happened to the little creatures after they stung, as did Tau. Though it tugged a frown at the corners of plump lips when he heard what Invidia thought about the whole affair.

Tau wasn't always smart when it came to people's emotions, but he could tell just in that short period of time that the son of Xōchipilli had meant that last phrase in much more ways than just the bee. And the Egyptian demi was in no way shape form or fashion good at offering solace, but at least he could try, no?

"Bee's know they will not live after a sting just as much as we do. But still, they choose to protect what they care for most. In my opinion it is a very gratifying way to go out." While Tau was speaking with his gentle tone and unwavering face, he carefully took hold of the stung hand, assessing the damage. "It is believed everybody has someone that would would care so much for them they would be willing risk their life. Whether we believe so or not." The lanky man didn't think he himself had anyone in this day and age that would do that for him. But back when he was younger... strangers had risked some of their last dimes to help the orphaned kid. Tau knew everyone had someone at some point of their life.

"We are all worth dying for in some way. You included. Every speck of life is worth it in my opinion."

#Thread;home for someone #Thread;Invidia #mp; sunshine festival

[whoreson-prisonblues]

If You Were A Deity, What Would Be Your Domain?

You are the divine spirit of love, beauty and artistic expression, as well as the intoxication and revelry which often accompany both. Due to your association with pleasures of the flesh, you of all deities are perhaps the most closely enmeshed with the affairs of mortals, and you may even have a bit of mortal blood yourself. Your realm also encompasses the many elements which arouse intoxication, ecstasy, and spiritual transcendence for both mortals and divines—be they substances, music, or other sensory phenomena. Although you are certainly the life of the party, you also embody the spirit of healing, relaxation, and respite from the toils of the harsh mortal realm. Your mythological equivalents are Greece’s Apollo and Dionysus, Scandinavia’s Bragi, Mesoamerica’s Xōchipilli, and Mesopotamia’s Ishtar.

Stolen from: @bulwarkbolvirk (I had to find out)

Tagged: anyone!

#xxthebard #// makes sense honestly I expected this or some sort of trickster

[talonabraxas]

Xochipilli “Prince of Flowers”

It is said that Xōchipilli lives in Tamoanchan, which is the mythical origin for a great deal of Mesoamerican cultures of the Mexican region, in the Late Postclassic period. Tamoanchan was believed by Aztec people, to be a paradise, where their gods lived. There, the gods had created the first ever human — by stealing sacrificed blood, and ground bone from the Underworld fo Mictlan.