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Mictecacihuatl, Lady of the Dead, is the link between the living and the deceased. She holds our teyollia, the spirit of our personality and our creativity, and purifies it so it can return to the Earth in the shape of a new being. Also called Mictlancihuatl, she is the ruler of the land of the dead. She is honored on Dia de Muertos, and is a manifestation of La Santa Muerte. A work of nahua (or Aztec) tradition.

Mictecacihuatl is the female deity associated with death in many of Mexico's indigenous cultures. In addition to welcoming us into the afterlife, she is the protector of some and the source of countless legends related to the underworld. Learn about her history, her powers, and the fate of those who encounter the powerful lady of Mictlán.

Known as the lady of the dead, the lady who cuts the umbilical cord, or simply the lady of death, Mictecacihuatl is the goddess who rules the other world and to whom some will have to answer sooner or later.

Together with her husband, the lord of death Mictlantecuhtli, Mictecacihuatl welcomes souls who died naturally to Mictlán, to watch over their bones and watch over their sleep for all eternity.

Furthermore, her power extends throughout the land of the dead and even into the world of the living, as she is capable of sending blessings, curses, and messages from her dimension in the afterlife. Of the two rulers of the underworld, Mictecacihuatl seems to be the more flexible of the two deities, as she is the one who gives the deceased permission to return from Mictlán, a gesture that does not go unnoticed on the earthly plane, as the celebration of the dead in pre-Hispanic cultures was an honor to this goddess.

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[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

A Second dprk-soldier has hit the Hexbear Servers

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[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago

A well-meaning coworker called me a liberal Patrick Bateman. I'm cooked, pay your respects here, I can't recover from this

yamcha

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago

Isn’t Patrick Bateman liberal Patrick Bateman?

[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yea, guess he wanted to stress that part. It was meant in a friendly ribbing way, said coworker is libbed up to begin with.

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[-] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago

I'm feeling really down, stressed and burned out.

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[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago

Lol Lindsay Ellis came out as a liberal Zionist. I had a bad feeling about her when she went all in on defending Hillary after 2016.

[-] spectre@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago

Link for context pls

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago
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[-] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I really feel bad for those kids who love to cook so much it becomes they’re whole personality. They love making their friends and family happy with some yummy meals. So they thug it out in the low end kitchens and get treated like absolute garbage by their drunk supervisor. They quit on the spot and then guess what? The next restaurant is the exact fucking same. After multiple firing and quits, they finally get a job at a higher end restaurant and guess what? They still get treated like a teenager with no trust at age 25. Everytime they contact an employer whos offering a higher paid position, they ask them for references to contact, all their references are bunk because every restaurant is trash. These kids dreams are dead.

Anyways I cant wait to start X-ray school next year

[-] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

Human history is an almost endless cascade of people making shit up and other people going along with it.

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago

It’s really funny how the conservative project has been rolling unabated for over 40 years and conservatives talk like they’ve been held back. I’m imagining behind closed doors they’re just doing the opening of Rambo 2 where som3 christofascist pedophile is like “are we allowed to win this time?”

[-] Euergetes@hexbear.net 18 points 6 days ago

are christians stupid? why would you fabricate a geneaology of jesus making joseph a descendant of abraham & david, when joseph did not put that baby in mary? the text literally says he didn't sleep with her till that baby was born. jesus' patrilinial geneology starts and ends at Holy Spirit.

easy fix, do a matrilinial geneaology picard-annoyed

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[-] Carl@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

dog-screm

see flamin hot cheeto on floor

eat it

delicious

thirsty

go outside

drink from water bowl

go inside

jump on dirty laundry pile

sleep

such is the life of a dog

[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago

Ngl when I heard the term performative male I was like "oh no is that me" scared before I realized who gives a fuck and wait is this just the word hipster rebranded? This whole if you do this your fake and cringe gets on my nerves I'm cringe and got no game and I can't help it. Hearing it from left/progressive leaning channels I see doesn't help

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago

It’s like white knight or male feminist rebranded. And idk, this stuff always takes on too many assumptions about the person’s intentions. Like I agree performative feminism from men is bad if it’s only to get laid, but how do you know that’s the case? It’s basically a pseudowoke way to find a way to be judgemental about people you barely know.

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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

Trump II is showing that you absolutely do not need a competent fascist in charge, nor do you need a single competent fascist advising him. Like they’re doing this with the absolutely dumbest people on earth, one of his guys literally has brain worms.

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

It would be a lot harder for them if there was an opposition.

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[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago

Very funny how many NAFO Nazis on Twitter think I'm Russian because I put Leningrad as location in bio.

[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago

Me, the world's smartest aspiring dictator, to the military leaders I just called away from their stations: "you're a bunch of fat pussies. And the ships you're making are ugly, which is more important than making them technologically advanced and modern. Now kill my enemies for me, fatasses."

[-] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago

Windows installation loading screens be like
"Sit back and wait while the magic happens"
"Pour yourself a drink and enjoy the show"
"INCUBATING A MASSIVE TURD TO SHIT RIGHT ON YOUR DESK"

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[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Guess whose lemon tree is putting out buds? Heh, yeahhh, that's right

[-] acab_means_cop_Dva@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I just got my first ad for Jordan Peterson’s version of PragerU and saw peterson-sus went with the tagline “Devoid of ideology” and I couldn’t help screaming in panic at poor Mr. Peterson “Noooo. You fool! You have gripped the Chaos Dragon by its tail! Your rejection of ideology zizek-theory merely proves your enslavement to ideology. You are in the Chaos Dragon ouroboros now!”

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[-] moonlake@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

My latest productivity hack is watching porn at 2x speed in order to save time and maximize efficiency. Subscribe for more productivity tips the-more-you-know

[-] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago

I jammed with a new band this past weekend, and the jam went REALLY smoothly, it also gave me a chance to shittalk my old band, even though we're friendly, they were a pain to work with sometimes. I'm playing bass now, but i dont know if i want to keep at it, i might want to start a whole new band soon.

There's a show coming up and there's no pressure to play, but it sounds fun, so fuck it.

[-] HexaSnoot@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Why does China often limit or doesn't supply toilet paper in bathrooms? I've been to Taiwan and you had to carry TP everywhere. I asked someone who lived there and they're like "That's just the way it is." That's not a real answer to me haha because I am a hyper wiper worried about running out of TP and it made me nervous. I want a satisfying answer.

Also, in the areas I went to, I noticed there weren't many bathrooms on blocks with lots of resteraunts and food stalls. Why's that? Not criticizing, just curious.

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

I think it's just one of those random cultural expectations. Maybe a hypothesis could be made of higher city density making maintaining public bathrooms more expensive and therefore less likely to be done but then again Japan is super dense and I don't remember encountering that problem when I lived there.

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[-] Moonstruck_Theorist@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago

Watching YouTube clips of Family Guy meets the Simpsons. This must be how the chimps felt in A Space Odyssey

[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Back-to-bruncher: "Wow, everyone's been sick lately! Wonder if there's something going around."

Me: (internally): "Yeah, it's not like COVID hit 1.24 million new infections per day in the US last week or anything...and it's not like we know that COVID infections cause immune dysregulation, and long-term sequelae become more likely and more severe with each subsequent infection..." (externally) "Haha, yeah, wild..." lea-tired

[-] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

...i cant even get a job as a door man now??

jokah-messy

actually i applied to this job MONTH ago, i was surprise the listing had be active until now.

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[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago
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[-] cosmosaucer@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago

what do yall read when you want contemporary analysis n effort posting

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[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

I don't get why they thought putting gelatin in chalky mints was a good idea. It does affect me too much since Altoids are garbage anyway but it's still annoying

[-] segfault11@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago

what’s going on with my “gals” and in some cases “boys”?

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Nah I just am straight up telling you that you suck, like I always do to people who suck. Directly and without looking for a positive reaction. Because I view disagreements as disagreements and not social performances. I am the living embodiment of the dialectic tbqh. You just met the world spirit buddy. It's me on Saturday night. On 2cb about to do some buttfuckin. Trust the plan

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[-] wombat@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago

it is september 29 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago

Im prettt sure the kitties in my neighborhood have been talking about me and im some sort of folk hero. While I was just out I heard a cat let out a big shriek and then this lil callico came running from a back yard and hid behind my leg until we'd established the threat was clear and then got some cuddles. I have never seen this cat before. I am pals with a lot of kitties around where I live, I guess word got out.

[-] jjsandwich8@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

I feel bad today sadness

[-] wombat@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

it is september 30 and stalin saved the world from fascism

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