@miles-hentrup.bsky.socialAccording to Cecelia Klein, the Aztecs called gold "'yellow sacred excrement,' and tonatiuh icuitl, 'the excrement of the sun.' Tonatiuh, the sun, was a god, and gold represented the traces of the body wastes that he deposited during the night as he passed through the underworld."
@bobfry.bsky.social“A Mosaic of Different Worlds – Maya, Aztec, Mexico!”
In the Aztec pantheon,
Quetzalcoatl is the
God of life, light, and wisdom, lord of the day and the winds.
However this 1982 shlock horror film takes terrible liberties with Aztec mythology.
youtu.be/L6pjaZu5Pec?...
@wyrdwednesday.bsky.socialWyrdlings!
Grito de Dolores rang out to kick off Mexican Independence on 16 September 1810 and, accordingly, we give you:
“A Mosaic of Different Worlds – Maya, Aztec, Mexico!”
As this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic! Ven, siéntate, cuenta una historia, of the old days and of modern México!
@wyrdwednesday.bsky.socialAnother great #WyrdWednesday on the high seas! Thank you for all of your posts today.
Our next topic will be announced on Monday. Have a great week!
@bsrg1.bsky.social#WyrdWednesday recommendation, 'Remember Me' on ITVX, truly strange, unsettling and at times downright scary (even if I realised I'd seen it before after 10 minutes). An otherworldly Palin and a young Jody Comer excellent. Exquisitely shot too.
@mccartneyjoe.bsky.social"It's the whole foundation of Viking life! And you are going to be a Viking before long! So you see the World must be FLAT."
Fatherly advice from Hägar the Horrible to his innocent son Hamlet.
#WyrdWednesday
[🎨Dik Browne]
@crystalponti.bsky.socialMjölnir has an unusually short handle because Loki, disguised as a fly, interfered while the dwarven smith Brokkr worked the bellows. The flaw didn't stop Thor's hammer from becoming one of mythology's most powerful weapons. Even divine craftsmanship has mishaps. #WyrdWednesday
@wunderkammertales.eurosky.social“I warn thee, Father,
See to thyself;
Stern the strife
That is in store”
(Richard Wagner “The Valkyrie”)
🎨 Arthur Rackham “Brünnhilde” (1910)
@neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: `An opaque white glass bead decorated with applied purple coloured glass trails. The hole drilled through the centre of the bead enables it to be strung on a necklace.
Found at Gerston near Halkirk, the bead was originally imported […]
@neu-kelte.bsky.social#WyrdWednesday Wyrd Wednesday #Celtic: `An opaque white glass bead decorated with applied purple coloured glass trails. The hole drilled through the centre of the bead enables it to be strung on a necklace.
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@david-castleton.bsky.socialThe official launch for my book 'Atlas Gothica: an Alternative Guide to the World's Most Curious Destinations' (Hachette) will take place at 1B Books, #Newcastle, Thursday 17th September, 6.00 pm. You can check out the book online here: mybook.to/atlasgothica #books #wyrdwednesday #gothic #folklore
@crystalponti.bsky.socialViking-age burial mounds became deeply supernatural places in later tales. Heroes entered them seeking treasure and sometimes found the dead owner still inside, very much unwilling to share. Grave robbing becomes considerably riskier when the corpse fights back. #WyrdWednesday
@pietersender.bsky.socialRatatoskr the squirrel lives amongst the branches of Yggdrasil, running messages from its branches to its roots. Sometimes, however, the squirrel’s quarrelsome nature takes over and it laces its news with “slanderous gossip”, causing discord between the denizens of the World Tree.
@neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: `Rathlin Island, from the Irish word Reachlainn, is the "L" shaped island that lies 10km from Ballycastle. Rathlin was the site of the first Viking raid on Ireland, according to the Annals of Ulster, which took place in 795AD.`
Source: Infoboard at Fairhead carpark
@neu-kelte.bsky.social#WyrdWednesday Wyrd Wednesday #Celtic: `Rathlin Island, from the Irish word Reachlainn, is the "L" shaped island that lies 10km from Ballycastle. Rathlin was the site of the first Viking raid on Ireland, according to the Annals of Ulster, which took place in 795AD.`
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@wyrdwednesday.bsky.socialFollowing the #WyrdWednesday prow beast further North in the wake of @cwreeve.bsky.social
and Sam for more of your tales is
@wunderkammertales.eurosky.social !
Westward Ho, you Wyrdlings!
@manuelabennet.bsky.socialAlvissmol, Henry Adams Bellows.
@ghirlandia.bsky.social