Chalchiuhtlicue - Blog Posts

BTW! In my deleted account was this drawing. This is Hatsune Miku × Chalchiuhtlicue

Made some merms

Tecciztecatl— Longfin Damselfish

Yauhqueme— Toro/Atlantic Bigeye

Opochtli— Flowerhorn Cichlid

Chalchiuhtlicue— Queen Parrotfish

SHEEEEEEEEE

Chalchihuitlicue is my fave, protect her at all costs 💕

PUNTS THEM /VPOS

☀️The five suns ☀️

Well technically 5.5 ,but who counts?

Very cute all but more than a half of them (mostly tez) are responsable for the worst cosmic catastrophed

Oh and there's a cute little dog over there idk what's he's doing here but his name its xololt and has crooked legs 😁

Wait I didn’t see this

Oh yeah, Tlaloc and Chalchiuhtlicue are considered to be Tecciztecatl's parents! (page 622)

Im okay I can read this without getting angry

Don’t buy Aztec Myths by Jake Jackson there’s a bunch of blatant mistranslations and misinformation

This is just for the gods. There’s also like culture misinformation and it’s just bad

I need to stop reading at midnight I read that as “Quetzalcoatl, the rain god’s wife” and I was thinking double congrats on the transition and the marriage Quetzalcoatl

I feel like some wholesomeness is needed

(the second one is an older one I forgot to post lmao)

Names mispelled by auto captions on the five suns: sacred history of Mexico that made me giggle in some capacity

Us as Chalchiuhtlicue

Chalchiuhtlicue, "Jade Skirt", is the goddess of lakes, rivers, and the sea. She's known for being the second wife of the rain god Tlaloc, and she's most commonly the Fourth Sun in the five sun legend.

Chalchiutlicue will often be depicted sitting on a throne with a stream of water flowing from her skirt.

Now, water looks like this in some Aztec codices. These are taken from Codex Mendoza, I was able to find these and the glyphs further down this post in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs online!

So water is parted like this, and it has these circle and tear-drop shaped shells on each end.

Here are some representations of Chalchiuhtlicue with water illustrated in the same way. Note that she also tends to have people swimming in there, and other objects.

I thought the strands of water looked similar to Us' tentacles from their bioship. They also use these tentacles to hold the others' ships in ep3, much like Chalchiuhtlicue has people inside her streams of water.

The way their limbs look in their physical form resembles the way the goddess' water flows, too

Another reference to water could be the design of Beebs' guitar. It has an ocean wave on it.

Beebs' god is Xipe Totec, and as far as I know he has no relation to the sea or water, but Us' does! The guitar belongs to Beebs, yes, but it's the fact that he uses it to communicate with Us, and the instrument becomes associated with Us, that it makes me think it's a reference to Chalchiuhtlicue, since she is the goddess of bodies of water.

Speaking of, in Beebs' post I said his guitar could be a reference to Xipe's rattlestaff, the chicahuaztli. This is an object that both Xipe and Chalchiuhtlicue can be seen carrying, along with a couple other gods.

Us makes a certain sound in Scratch's flashback, like that of a rattle (21:00) But it might be me going crazy.

I also considered Them to be designed to resemble a chicahuaztli, but that is a stretch, too.

Another important element of Chalchiuhtlicue's iconography is that she has a pair of tassels on the sides of her head, and her dress is also adorned with small tassels. This can be seen in codices as well as in statues of her.

Us has these drops of a black liquid beneath their cap, hanging by on the sides of their head. This is because they're based on an actual mushroom, the inky cap mushroom!

These drops could be a reference to the tassels perhaps?

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Next I wanna talk about this symbol on the cap of Us' bioship

This is an example of a quincunx, it's a geometric pattern consisting of five elements: four of them form a square, and the fifth one is placed in the middle.

Symbols like this one appear in monkey wrench, from subtle places like the dice in the casino

To the decorations in the bar and the restaurant, as well as the inside of Beebs' arm!

Why am I bringing this up? The Mexica used the quincunx a lot, in a variety of ways, but also with circles like we see in the show, so we're gonna focus on those here

They also used very similar circles for a couple of glyphs, such as these

I wanna bring attention to that fourth one. Chalchiuhtlicue's name consists of two words: chalchihuitl, "jade", and cueitl, "skirt". The symbol for jade looks the most similar to Us' eyes, with the texture of a jade in the middle.

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Lastly there is one more thing that Us and Chalchiuhtlicue have in common, thematically.

In the Legend Of The Suns, Chalchiuhtlicue is the Fourth Sun (although other versions exist). The way that her era ended was that Tezcatlipoca accused her of faking her love for humans to get praise. She cried for hundreds of years, flooding the whole world, and the humans that lived there turned into fish.

Us is the first and so far the only character to cry in the series, in a non-comical way. It's in this scene that the show takes a more serious tone.

Us is, arguably, a somber and sad character, especially after the loss of Them. Both Us and the goddess also seem to have strong reactions to their circumstances, seeing how Us was willing to join Them when they accepted that there was no help for their friend.

It is also worth mentioning that their bioship and their phantom form move like a jellyfish, like a sea creature.

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Aztec mythology headcanons two!

Nanahuatzin uses mobility aids

Tecciztecatl plays with the children in Tlalocan (this is actually based off of something I found in mexicolore)

(So cute)

Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl used to drag Xipe Totec into their fights when they were little to ask who was in the right (I was Xipe Totec to my niece and nephew. So much chaos)

Quetzalcoatl doesn’t pick up the cues that he’s being an asshole

Tezcatlipoca has had a chair thrown at him before

Tecciztecatl has a plushie snail somewhere. He denies it when you ask. But it’s there.

Chalchiuhtlicue gives great hugs

Last list here!

Random Aztec mythos headcanons because why not

• The moon (Tecciztecatl) controls the tides because the Tlaloques begged Acuecueyotl/Chalchiuhtlicue to give him a job so that he wouldn’t feel useless. Also because they wanted their “brother” to stay in Tlalocan.

• Xolotl could absolutely devour a chicken salad BLT. I have no evidence for this. He just seems like a BLT guy.

• Tezcatlipoca drops into the animal baby voice when he thinks no one is around.

• Nanahuatzin is undiagnosed autistic because he kinda reminds me of lil undiagnosed me when I didn’t understand why I never really fit in :(

• Quetzalcoatl created Olms (olm pic for reference) and Xolotl hated them so much for copying his style that he put them all in Europe.

• Tonatiuh and Huitzilopochtli flip a coin on who wants to drive the sun that day

• Tecciztecatl is just the dad and dog meme with the moon rabbit

A lil test I did since I haven’t experimented with editing in a while

WOOOO

IN THE BEGINNING (there was the void)

/EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM

A contemporary retelling of the Mexica creation myth of the Fifth Sun. The Five Suns is a Mexica creation myth. There were four suns before our own and different deities served the Sun at different times.

Produced at De Anza College in collaboration with Kukul Estudio

Based on the poem by @reyynas

Original soundtrack by ‪@adrikoapatzco909‬

themarianaac.com/shortfilm

Welp. That's the last of my aztec wb doodles