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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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[-] john_browns_beard@hexbear.net 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I'm so tired with everything, I don't have the energy to do anything except play video games when I'm not at work and it's killing me. I need like a year off of work to take care of the countless looming DIY house projects that I've allowed to build up since COVID started and reset my brain.

Also my job is still relatively cushy but it's become significantly more annoying in the two years I've been here, I have a good relationship with my boss but the rest of senior management puts up a huge fight any time I try to do my job because it might make their lives 1% more difficult. Like sorry Susan, but I'm not giving you written or verbal permission to do [very bad thing that I'm being paid specifically to prevent] because "that's the way we've always done it" (the worst possible justification to do anything btw) and you don't want to do 10 more minutes of work every week, only boss can override it. Then it escalates to boss and we continue wasting everyone's time, repeat ad nauseum on a weekly basis.

\end_rant

[-] segfault11@hexbear.net 21 points 6 days ago

if it sucks hit da BRICS

[-] Sleve_McDichael@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago

127 Hours situation but instead of my arm it’s my dick

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

This but there's a plot twist, where during the time you are trapped and alone with your thoughts it leads to the revelation that you are trans at hour 126 so the solution is actually not that big of a deal (except for the blood loss)

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[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

https://hexbear.net/post/6314447

Please, everyone, if you can read this, you can leave a comment on the post linked above. Some words of kindness for a family resisting an ongoing genocide.

If your financial situation allows, you can donate to help them survive. If not, please take only a few moments to go to the linked thread and post a comment of solidarity, to let Soliman and his family know that you support them and to lift their spirits in this horrific time!

If not, just leave a comment from the heart, and do what you can to support the cause in other ways. Volunteer, protest, organize by joining local solidarity groups. Solidarity is an act of love, an act of revolutionary defiance of the state of things and they are, and the true basis for progress towards a better world.

Free Palestine! From the river to the sea! End the genocide! palestine-heart palestine-strong

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[-] segfault11@hexbear.net 18 points 6 days ago

actually being unemployed is a revolutionary act since at least i'm not paying taxes that just goes straight to these zionist fuckheads

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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 12 points 5 days ago

Bet he’s thinking about other women

Anyaustin: wonder if that river we saw earlier comes from anywhere.

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[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago

Reading is like exercise where each chapter is a rep and a while book is a set

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I'm just thinking about that meme where a guy with a huge swollen brain is asked "where do you work out?"

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[-] Keld@hexbear.net 15 points 6 days ago

Now that the Italian labour movement has proved to be approximately 2000x cooler than anything most of the rest of the world has achieved, im afraid we have to cool it with the Italian jokes.

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

Mamdani has condemned Hamas.

lmao

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 5 points 5 days ago

ahem.

Social Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism.

[-] Moss@hexbear.net 20 points 6 days ago

I got surgery done on my toe and now I'm in agony and constantly popping painkillers and using a crutch to get around. This is Awesome I'm just like Dr House

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

Fuck, just found out Jane Goodall died. Abdolute fucking real one

[-] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 15 points 6 days ago

George bush flew the planes personally, he just respawned when he crashed.

[-] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 17 points 6 days ago

I think that people overtime have just forgotten that they are part of the ecosystem too

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

Normalize calling sauceless white actors diversity hires - overwhelmingly hired just because they wanted a white guy

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[-] psychoplantkiller@hexbear.net 22 points 6 days ago

I love passwordless logins. I love being forced to open up my email for a temporary 6 digit code, waiting a minute - nothing shows up - clicking resend code, only for it to finally appear, copying and pasting it in my browser, invalid code. Why? because fuck you, that's why. You already requested a new one! Did you really think the old code would work? You have to wait another minute for your email to receive the new one. ahahahha wow thats so much more convenient than having to remember my password! hehehheheh... aaaaaah aaahhhHAHAHAHHA aaaaahahahhaahahahahah hHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA $^%&^#$*#&$&@#^AAAAAAAAAHAHHAHAHHA

I DONT EVEN HAVE THE OPTION TO USE MY PASSWORD ANYMORE, YOU GOT RID OF IT! YOU GOT RID OF MY FUCKING PASSWORD

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[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago

Had a piece of tofu stuck on my teeth, imagine my horror if people knew I'm a soy sucker

It's just bean cheese what's the big deal

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[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago

The economic myth of farter

[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 22 points 6 days ago

I just made a comment in a different thread and think I have a thought that makes sense.

I would wager that a vast majority of people who think chatgpt and LLMs are amazing super tech have never even heard of Wolfram Alpha.

That shit could take my dumb-as-all-fuck interpretation of a math question and interpret what I could possibly mean and show me step by step the answer. No it doesnt understand natural language as well but who cares

No amount of erotic fanfic about bible characters or whatever could impress me after using wolframalpha

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[-] Euergetes@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago

i saw the weirdest thing and i honestly think its so weird it has the possibility to dox me

but FUCK. bizarre in the highest! i can't stop thinking about it!

Instant coffee is a profoundly tolerable drink

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

I look to the future with despair. I think it's going to get real bad

[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago

Really been in the doldrums these past few weeks...gotta snap myself out of it and get back on track.

[-] Arahnya@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago

There are certain days when you are shinji and everyone around you claps and says congratulations! And you get to be like, thanks 😃 im gonna make a sweet quickbread to celebrate.

Also in freeze-gamer news, i played hades 2 after getting beat by the final baddie months ago, surprisingly I still got really far. Now the story elements are fleshed in, im so glad this game is fun to play just like the first one!

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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Starting my campus tour where I give talks about the left denying biology. I talk about how all dogs are boys and all cats are girls for 3 hours

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

Could there be a megathread post on China's hanfu, and the variations that have been made from China's softpower of gifting it as outfits of honor to nobles and others?. For example, I really like the Vietnamnese and Korean variations of hanfu, they're swaggy and beautiful. I've only recently been looking them up. It's so pleasing to me that they made it their own ways.

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

https://hexbear.net/post/6314447

Please go to Soliman's post requesting aid from Gaza for his family. If you can, donate. Otherwise, leave a kind comment in solidarity to let him know that they and their people are not alone.

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

It absolutely sucks how I've been succumbing to doomerism by following the news and how everything has been getting worse and now the american government is shut down. all the while a bubble has been getting progressively worse by the day as money reinvests itself from things that are good into something that make a terrible version of Sega Arcade Cabinet Shooter cutscenes and answers all your questions wrong.

I AM NOT UNREASONABLE, MY JOB RELIES ON GOVERNMENT INFRASTRUCTURE CONTRACTS, I HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE ON THESE THINGS youre-awful

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

Im going to the Renaissance fair for the first time this year comfy-cool

Really hoping my one friend can go because I can get a ride with him

[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago
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[-] Mousy@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

Every liberal is a zionist. No exceptions.

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

Thanks Shitter, I love having the language I speak randomly autotranslated by Grok when I'm scrolling the feed. Switching between Spanish and a broken English translation of something in Spanish definitely doesn't bother medean-neutral

[-] copandballtorture@hexbear.net 5 points 5 days ago

While I bet that is annoying, I love that rednote recently implemented auto generated English subtitles from videos originally in Mandarin/any other language.

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

Importantly, RedNote makes you turn that feature on instead of doing it automatically.

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

it is october 1 and stalin saved the world from fascism

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

A bunch of my schoolwork is very not vegan. This is distressing.

[-] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 days ago

israel used a picture of a sudan here

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

looking up books on kindle is so funny bc half the time if its like a textbook they'll email you a week later like "hey this book we know you really, really liked (looked up once) but was twenty bucks is on sale now for 2 pennies and an apple seed"

[-] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 5 points 5 days ago

All of my dotfiles management is now handled by Guix. It's home services are pretty neat.

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[-] Keld@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The world's largest Hindu temple is in Cambodia (It's Angkor Wat). The second largest is in New Jersey. Or in other words, the largest Hindu temple that serves prinarily as a Hindu temple is in New Jersey.
This isn't useful knowledge, but I just found out.

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

You know they say 'the best thing since sliced bread' it's crazy how some porky-happy hasn't come up with pre-sliced cook at home pizza(probably does exist but I've never seen it)

spoilerPatent pending so keep your hands off of my stack jack blob-stabby

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[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 15 points 6 days ago

Somehow burned trough a pack of 100+ hair ties and can't find any so I'm being forced to rock a bandanna, le sigh

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[-] moonlake@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago

Spooky season is here! I finally made it to my favourite time of the year specter trans-specter hexbear-specter

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

second-plane MR. PRESIDENT, A SECOND FLOTILLA HAS HIT THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA.

https://hexbear.net/post/6286079?sort=New

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

I am inexplicably unsettled by a show or commercial that breaks the 4th wall and makes it look like the streaming UI is getting fucked with. I remember when I was a kid there was an PBS funding commercial that made it look like the TV was shut off for a few seconds and it scared me so much I would actually turn the TV off when it came on.

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

New TAFS just dropped

Mia Khalifa is so gorgeous

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