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

GOVERNMENT MACHINE BROKE

[-] 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 5 points 5 days ago

I was flipping through some old video game magazines and I came across a game I either never heard about or completely forgot: Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6: Patriots, which drew from Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Part movement. Here's the beginning of the cover article on the game from Game Informer #224 (December 2011), which was the first (and possibly only) major coverage of the game:

Introduction

Americans are angry.

And why shouldn't they be? With an exponentially expanding national debt, crippling foreclosures, corporate bailouts, degrading infrastructure, dwindling job market, and widening income gap between the haves and have-nots, it's getting harder to believe politicians when they speak of American exceptionalism as if it were a fundamental truth.

In response to gradual erosion of our beloved nation, resentful citizens of all kinds of political backgrounds are rising up in the form of new political movements like the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street. But unlike the 1960s. when protests and activism resulted in the discontinuation of the military draft, the Civil Rights Act, and the sexual revolution, the contemporary bickering government parties have proven largely ineffective at slowing or reversing the downward trajectory.

The media isn't helping matters. Rather than promote discussions about viable differ-solutions moving forward, ad-driven 24-hour media outlets and radio programs are content to stoke the fires and sensationalize political differences. History proves that if leaders don't move swiftly to address these grievances, the political rage can sometimes find a more violent channel of expression. Case in point: the meteoric rise of militias over the past few years.

In 2009, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported a massive resurgence in anti-government paramilitary groups, which have jumped from 43 militias in 2007 to nearly 300 in 2010. The sudden surge has captured the attention of the Department of Homeland Security, NSA. CIA, and FBI, who all view these groups as a real threat to the stability of the nation. Moreover, many of these disenfranchised groups frequently put their members through intense military training exercises — for what, no one knows.

America's volatile political climate serves as the jumping-off point for Rainbow 6 Patriots. This latest game in the storied tactical shooter series eschews the exhausted Russian. Chinese, and Middle Eastern crises so common in contemporary shooters and challenges gamers' perceptions by placing them in the roles of the elite tactical unit. the homegrown terrorists, and the civilians caught in the crossfire. Do you have what it takes to pull the trigger on a fellow citizen?

Later in the article, they describe the farcical scenario used in what they describe as a "live game demo" but I'm pretty sure is just this concept trailer, where the terrorists break into the home of a real estate investor and...here, just read it for yourself:

Scenario

Our live game demo doesn't start with Team Rainbow seated in the back of a chopper or outside a facility surrounded by police. Instead, our first glimpse comes from the perspective of a well-to-do real estate investor sitting in his idyllic American home. Judging by the polished wooden floors, large HDTV, and the iPad-like tablet sitting to his right, this guy is living the good life.

In walks the the man's wife, dressed only in a skimpy nightie. She turns off the TV and saunters toward him with a lit cupcake.

"Happy birthday. Go on, blow it out," she says.

Like a scene out of Heavy Rain, the player is given the option to blow out the candle or stroke his wife's cheek. The developer controlling the demonstration does both.

"You know what I wish for?" the man asks.

"Well, the baby is asleep," she replies seductively.

"Wishes do come true."

Suddenly, the doorbell rings. The woman sighs. "That's probably Dave from next door," she says. "Hold 60 that thought."

The wife gets up to see who rang the bell, but just before she reaches for the doorknob the door bursts open. A group of men swiftly enter uninvited, knocking her to the ground.

"Get away from her!" the homeowner cries. He gets up to defend his wife but doesn't stand a chance against these rugged men. He's easily knocked out cold. When he awakens, a bearded man in a military jacket who looks to be the leader of this group walks over and puts his knife to the wife's neck. You can hear the baby crying faintly from upstairs.

"Rise and shine, birthday boy," the intruder says with a wake-up blow. "You have a very nice place here. Seems you cashed in on everyone getting foreclosed. Today, you are going to make up for that."

The True Patriots' concept of restitution? Strapping him into a vest lined with explosives and going on a field trip. The scene transitions to the back of a van stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. The ringleader of this operation hands the birthday boy a trigger and warns him that if he doesn't hold the detonator button down, he'll go up in flames. If he doesn't make it to Times Square before he releases the button, his family is dead.

...because of course, they can't just be anticapitalists, they have to be cartoon villains. The devs talk about how they want to have a complex narrative and how there will be points where you get the terrorists' perspective, but when they do stuff like this it kind of defeats the purpose.

[-] 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.

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

yea it's been rough out here. Temp agency I joined has at minimum 19 people fighting for one job

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

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

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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

elite tagline chefs-kiss

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

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[-] wombat@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

it is september 29 and stalin saved the world from fascism

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

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

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[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 6 points 6 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

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

Eating an entire fortune cookie in one bite.

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[-] 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.

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

apparently there is a new age of mythology expansion they added the japanese civ japan-cool , im going to play it tomorrow

also there is a pack with the base game and 2 expansions (japan plus the chinese civ) at 50% off

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

The Amelia Earhart files???

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

If anyone's in the mood for a bloomer pick-me-up, I can recommend the short (~30 minute) documentary Maestra which consists mostly of interviews with women who volunteered for the Cuban literacy campaign in 1961 when they were just teenagers. Shows how amazing things are possible in a short amount of time and how fulfilling public service can be bloomer Check to see if your local library offers a video streaming service like Hoopla/Kanopy, since you may be able to watch it there for free.

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

finally got my first paycheck from my new job holy shit what a load off my shoulders. still working two others for the foreseeable future to catch up on the debt I incurred while being unemployed but at least I know I won't be evicted or lose my car/phone both of which I need to keep making money.

I am not rescinding my jihad upon evgo and its payment processor nyx. They are still holding 110 of my dollars hostage a full week after I charged at one of their stations (a charge that only cost $3). Nor am I rescinding my jihad upon Trader Joe's until they pay me the agreed $300 for contract work I did for them last week.

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

You're talking to the robbery expert

Step into your wake with your blood on my shirt

Umm, I question your robbery expertise Mr Smalls

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[-] whatdoiputhere12@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago

I just learnt that my flight back home has me landing in 40mph gusts of wind and it’s raining

what’s the chances of me making it, should I just skip it? Kinda scared ngl

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

Pilot's probably done that landing and worse a hundred times

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

vote for the fattest bear it's the final day

https://hexbear.net/post/6294726

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

Yo how come Japan is the horniest country and yet nobody is having sex there? Is this dialectics? I think Hegel wrote about this theory-gary

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

Now that I am a reader I have to find new phrases to relate to things I can't just use things like "this is just like dark souls" or "this reminds me of Yakuza". I got a relate this back to books like if something is unfair I gotta think of a comparison but I'm having trouble finding one 19

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

This is giving very hungry caterpillar

Thoughtful nodding

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

Well, got the most donations in the entire office today. This autistic communist is beating the neurotypical capitalists at their own game

[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Get tired of libs saying leftists are too stubborn to compromise when the overton window shifted so much fucking nixon approving the EPA would be seen as far left and purity testing jfc i-cant

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

Isn’t it amazing to know that Obama was farther to the right than Reagan?

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

Listening to the CTH podcast and now I know about the sperm-racing company and the company that wants to put a cross on the Moon. How can I ever sleep again with this information?

[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago

We will goon to the moon
Not because it is easy
But because we are very hard

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

All I know about Aztec mythology is that they have a god of twinks (Xochipilli), and I appreciate that.

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

hank green appears to be packing

i have witnessed his whole body in slacks

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