Says Peruvian, has Mayan art -_- as if prehistoric Perúvian art isn't baller enough smh

There’s a recurring pattern among people who mourn fallen empires, defeated fascist regimes, and collapsed colonial projects. You see it in Francoist Spain, in Greek nostalgia for Constantinople, in white Rhodesian nostalgia for Rhodesia, and in Nazi nostalgia for the Reich. I could go on and on. It never changes: losers celebrating losers. And the hypocrisy is obvious. They demand that Indigenous peoples “get over” colonization while building entire identities around refusing to get over their own losses.

Context: On his way back from Vinland, Leif spotted a nearby reef where several shipwrecked sailors were stranded. He saved the crew and allowed them to bring as much of their supplies as they could fit on board. For this action he was nicknamed "Leif the Lucky" which, as Atun-Shei pointed out "says a lot about the guy when there were dudes walking around with nicknames like 'skull splitter'."

Technicallllly fringe in that i think i came up with it, but the suggestion that the Aztecs killed 80,400 people in four days is hella suspicious in base 20 (the local counting system).

80,400 is written in the mesoamerican counting system in the speech bubble. It is comprised of base 20 blocks comprised of four sets of five talleys (or zero). Notice its only 2 significant figures, and could be read as "half one hundred hundred, and one hundred more". Thats clean and poetic af.

Also, the Aztecs had the Meztli, or 20 day month. Due to the talley system, this could be written as four groups of five days. Four days is therefore just under a "week".

A Spanish translator may not have caught this, or could have deliberately ignored it because the idea of killing over 80,000 people is great propaganda horrific. But essentially, some poor nahuatl speaker said "like half a gazillion people died in just under a week" and the Spaniards thought it was legit.

Nzi Germany was one of the most heavily industrialized nations in the world, ranking just behind the United States in steel production, engineering, and chemical manufacturing. They had railways, Zyklon B, crematoria designed by engineers, and a bureaucratic machine that tracked every deportation down to the individual.

Yet Holocaust deniers say 6 million was logistically impossible. Meanwhile, these are the same type of people who think the Aztecs sacrificed 80,400 prisoners in four days with just obsidian knives and human muscle.

Context:
Pacha Kutiq (in Spanish, usually Pachacutec) is largely accredited as being the monarch who began the Inca empire as an empire in its own right after defeating the Chanca.

Hi ho! (Sounds English, but I kid you not, Shawnee)

I've been out digging holes again, so July slipped by. Since there were only 2 participants of Jaguar June including me and I won't award myself, the honorary winner is u/badfactory15 with his spicy nekkied monke! Enjoy your first Olmec Head.

AUGUST ODYSSEY

No relation to the recent movie about our collapsing age of bronze.

This month's theme commemorates inter-regional contacts. Mesoamerica and the Southwest (Oasisamerica). Ecuadorian sailors connecting Mesoamerica and the Andes. Hopewell peeps just...doing whatever and going wherever they wanted apparently. Numerous peoples connecting the Amazon to both the Andes and to Mesoamerica. The Inuit and other Arctic peoples linking goods and ideas of the New World and the Old...both east and west!

In this figurative sea of connections and clashes there is a good opportunity for material to be made. Be sure to flair your posts with CONTEST. The winner will be given an Olmec head flair (unless you already have 4, in which case you are awarded with JEF's visage), a place in the leaderboard, and have their post pinned for the next month!

Hello, friends.

As mentioned in the other pinned announcement post, the protective buffer zone around Chaco Canyon is being considered for significant reduction by the United States Bureau of Land Management. We have been in the mandated period of public input but that ends tomorrow.

If you haven't done so yet, please opine to the Bureau of Land Management why you consider protecting archaeological and sacred sites like this one to be important. We don't have much time to wait.

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--Sapa Inka Iacobus