Teochan.org has got another update! The site is a WIP, but it's slowly coming together: https://teochan.org/
#Chicano #ChicanoSpirituality #LatinAmerica #MexicanAmerican #MexAm #LatAm #Aztec #Indigenous #Huehuemexicayotl #Teotecayotl #Mexicayotl
#mexicayotl #teotecayotl #huehuemexicayotl #indigenous #aztec #latam #mexam #mexicanamerican #latinamerica #chicanospirituality #chicano
There is now one week left of the Mexica "month" of Toxcatl, whereupon the Confessionary will be closed for another year.
https://rotwork.wordpress.com/services/confessions/
My confession-taking practice is in honor of Tlazolteotl, She Who Devours Our Transgressions, the Great Mother always listening, hearing, healing. It's also in honor of my ancestors, all of whom took too much with them to the grave.
#pagan #polytheism #Indigenous #Chicano #Xicano #mexicayotl #huehuemexicayotl #teotecatl
#teotecatl #huehuemexicayotl #mexicayotl #xicano #chicano #indigenous #polytheism #pagan
Tlazolteotl, Goddess of transgressive sexuality and desire, She Who inspires lust and She Who heals our excesses. A WIP.🙏
She is traditionally depicted by black paint around the mouth, a symbol of her role as Filth- or Sin-Eater.
Inspired by this post, which is about Eros but I feel describes Her in its description of gravitational force between people: https://mas.to/@Palpapeen@calckey.social/110481744331499526
#pagan #polytheist #huehuemexicayotl #Indigenous #Chicano #xicano #pride #LGBTQ #ArtistOnMastodon #art #QueerArt
#queerart #art #artistonmastodon #lgbtq #pride #xicano #chicano #indigenous #huehuemexicayotl #polytheist #pagan
Part of my ancestor and devotional practice for the past 3 years has been to provide a pagan/polytheist confessionary, now open for 20 days annually and inspired by a historical tradition. Starting today, it's open!
You don't need to worship my Gods, it's open to anyone who needs it, and who can participate respectfully.
https://rotwork.wordpress.com/services/confessions/
#pagan #polytheist #spirituality #ChicanoSpirituality #Huehuemexicayotl #Mexicayotl #Tezcatlipoca
#tezcatlipoca #mexicayotl #huehuemexicayotl #chicanospirituality #spirituality #polytheist #pagan
Having some laughs in the discord server about secret Toltec masters and Aztlan bullshit again.
#Aztec #Toltec #Mexicayotl #Huehuemexicayotl #Chicano #ChicanoSpirituality #PlasticShaman #NewAge #CulturalAppropriation #Indigenous
#indigenous #culturalappropriation #newage #plasticshaman #chicanospirituality #chicano #huehuemexicayotl #mexicayotl #toltec #aztec
Updated my blog and Comics for Monks together today:
https://monks.bone.blue
https://rotwork.wordpress.com/2023/03/26/thoughts-from-this-years-fast/
#pagan #polytheist #spirituality #huehuemexicayotl #DevotionalPolytheism #zen
#zen #devotionalpolytheism #huehuemexicayotl #spirituality #polytheist #pagan
Comics for Monks updated! https://monks.bone.blue
#pagan #polytheist #monasticism #contemplation #fasting #spirituality #huehuemexicayotl #mexicayotl #chicano #ChicanoSpirituality
#chicanospirituality #chicano #mexicayotl #huehuemexicayotl #spirituality #fasting #contemplation #monasticism #polytheist #pagan
Today begins my annual 13-day #fast in preparation for the Nemontemi, the last 5 "lost" or "nameless" days of the civic calendar or #xiuhpohualli before the New Year and spring equinox! (My group uses the Nuttal-Ochoa correlation.)
I'll be giving up meat, alcohol, caffeine, THC, snacking and takeout, and focusing on whole, simple foods prepared at home.
#Chicano #ChicanoSpirituality #mexicayotl #huehuemexicayotl #pagan #polytheism #animism #fasting #SpringCleaning
#springcleaning #fasting #animism #polytheism #pagan #huehuemexicayotl #mexicayotl #chicanospirituality #chicano #xiuhpohualli #fast
Finally uploaded a partial reading list for Teochan! https://teochan.org/further-reading.html
#chicano #ChicanoStudies #ChicanoSpirituality #Indigenous #mexica #religion #spirituality #polytheism #mexicayotl #huehuemexicayotl
#huehuemexicayotl #mexicayotl #polytheism #spirituality #religion #mexica #indigenous #chicanospirituality #chicanostudies #chicano
The conversations here around the risks of storing information and community knowledge on for-profit social media platforms that were never designed to be such had me thinking about what more I can do to safeguard the knowledge my tiny online #mexicayotl community has put together.
So I made a wiki: http://amoxtli.teochan.org/
#pagan #polytheism #chicano #Chicanospirituality #huehuemexicayotl #MexicanAmerican #nahuatl #Mexica #Indigenous
#indigenous #mexica #nahuatl #mexicanamerican #huehuemexicayotl #chicanospirituality #chicano #polytheism #pagan #mexicayotl
Celebrating two birthdays today - one for my partner, one for my God*! Needless to say, I dropped way too much money at the grocery store in offerings for both lol.
*Not His birthday per se, but it *is* funny to think that He has a birthday every 20 days.
#DevotionalPolytheism #polytheism #polytheist #pagan #mexicayotl #huehuemexicayotl #chicano #ChicanoSpirituality
#chicanospirituality #chicano #huehuemexicayotl #mexicayotl #pagan #polytheist #polytheism #devotionalpolytheism
Wrote a quick piece on seeing my body as my #nawal, my spirit companion, through the process that is life:
https://rotwork.wordpress.com/2023/01/14/my-body-my-nawal/
#Chicano #Xicano #Chicanismo #ChicanoSpirituality #Mexicayotl #Huehuemexicayotl #TransMan #trans #transition
#transition #trans #transman #huehuemexicayotl #mexicayotl #chicanospirituality #chicanismo #xicano #chicano #nawal
Putting together a #xiuhpohualli resource for teochan.org this morning, and discovering that there are a few common translations of cempoalhuitl ("month") names that make NO sense!
#Tititl, for instance, is constantly said to mean "stretching", or on the other hand, "shrinking". But "titi-" actually means "belly". Another one is #Izcalli, which is commonly reported to mean "rebirth". There's no attestation for it; "iz" means "here" while "calli" is "house"!
#huehuemexicayotl #chicano #nahuatl #izcalli #tititl #xiuhpohualli
I have a book about #Malinche with this painting by Alfredo Ramos Martínez from 1940, and I've begun to use her as the face of all my women ancestor workings since I don't have any good photos of my great-grandmothers. I set up a small little shrine for my first #MothersNight last night, using the book, lighting a candle, and offering some cranberry beer.
CW for eye contact.
#huehuemexicayotl #mexicayotl #mexico #syncretism #polytheism #AncestorVeneration #AncestorWork
#ancestorwork #ancestorveneration #polytheism #syncretism #mexico #mexicayotl #huehuemexicayotl #mothersnight #malinche
I have a book about #Malinche with this painting by Alfredo Ramos Martínez from 1940 as the cover, and I've begun to use her as the face of all my women ancestor workings since I don't have any good photos of my great-grandmothers. I set up a small little shrine for my first #MothersNight last night, using the book, lighting a candle, and offering some cranberry beer.
CW for eye contact.
#huehuemexicayotl #mexicayotl #mexico #syncretism #polytheism #AncestorWork #Chicano #Xicano
#xicano #chicano #ancestorwork #polytheism #syncretism #mexico #mexicayotl #huehuemexicayotl #mothersnight #malinche
Sunday I will actually make a papier mache cactus solstice decoration... a full on "tree" is probably too ambitious, so I'm thinking a wreath made of #nopal paddles 😍
#yule #christmas #solstice #Huehuemexicayotl #Mexicayotl #Chicano #Xicano
#xicano #chicano #mexicayotl #huehuemexicayotl #solstice #christmas #yule #nopal
Someday I will actually make a papier mache cactus solstice decoration... a full on "tree" is probably too ambitious, so I'm thinking a wreath made of #nopal paddles 😍
#yule #christmas #solstice #Huehuemexicayotl #Mexicayotl #Chicano #Xicano
#xicano #chicano #mexicayotl #huehuemexicayotl #solstice #christmas #yule #nopal
In much #indigenous #mesoamerican #spiritual thought, there is no enemy of the Gods, no enemy of creation. Every agent of #teotl, every being, lives in conviviality with every other being and has a purpose that serves creation.
#Mexicayotl #Huehuemexicayotl #Aztec #Chicano #Xicano #polytheism #pantheism #animism
#animism #pantheism #polytheism #xicano #chicano #aztec #huehuemexicayotl #mexicayotl #teotl #spiritual #Mesoamerican #indigenous
@khthoniaa In #Huehuemexicayotl we've decided that the term "working with" is reserved for people with especially intimate, long-term relationships with the #Teteo who perform a specific community function, or people who have been trained in an indigenous lineage to do "work" with Them. If your relationship with the Teteo is one of self-betterment, that's not enough to claim you are participating in co-creation with Them. We require that everyone in the community has the baseline humility to 1/
Just getting this out there before the idea has much of a chance to take root here, but:
#Ometeotl is not a God, it is not even a historical #Aztec #Mexica concept. It is a word invented in the #ColonialEra to try and get the Nahuas to warm up to #monotheism. #Omeyocan, "Place of Duality" exists, but it is home to two named deities, #Omecacihuatl and #Ometecuhtli. Ometeotl might be used in liturgy to refer to creation, but it is not a thing to pray to.
#mexicayotl #huehuemexicayotl #ometecuhtli #omecacihuatl #omeyocan #monotheism #colonialera #mexica #aztec #ometeotl