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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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[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Top of the food chain devouring the competition

Abort misson cause it's the bomb like nuclear fisson

To go against them Communists now that's a bad decision

Cause we steadily droppin shit like a flock of pigeons

So listen as I paddle up your ear canals, torrential

Waters on instrumental, feeding you vitamins and all essentials

Potential's monumental when it comes to hip-hop

Makin the terror stop is like holding back a triceratops

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

I start posting again on this website.

Intermittent server problems for weeks.

I am too powerful, of course. jeb

[–] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] PowerLurker@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

spilling my guts loser-style to the interneti will never entertain another romantic relationship where toxic jealousy is an issue, that’s a promise. that shit makes me feel sick and evil just for existing and living my life. if i get a whiff of it and it’s not something that person has done copious previous work on, im fucking out. everyone has their hurts and their trauma that isn’t their fault, i get it, but i will not stick around for this kind.

ha ha no, a text altercation with my most recent ex did not make me cry today at work, why r u asking that?

ah shit sorry. i forgot i promised to quit posting. maybe after this one, i’ll do it for real. fr fr.

[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

Sorry friend, I'd offer more words, but I think I'd be closer to their situation than yours.

[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

Funny how Microsoft sharepoint lets you see files other people worked on, like billing structure document and proposals that get sent out, so i know exactly how much they're charging for work.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

Davey Havoc on the way to the studio to record Black Sail "Im gonna song like the Tazmanian Devil was in a hair metal band and no one is ever gonna comment on it"

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago (10 children)

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 8 points 3 days ago

Link for context pls

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[–] Buptendo@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

No you fucking idiot its like this:

If your favorite band stops making music but the record label keeps releasing music under their name with totally different band members, youd know immediately and its bullshit.

But when your favorite game series is made by soulless co. And made by totally different people with no connection to the original and the artists who made that game are gone, its no longer that game. No matter what they call it.

Even if its a good game!

Honestly discord is trash, a bunch of idiot losers im glad i really dont use it.

Its so whack you wanna make me feel like an idiot, and then when i explain myself you suddenly "dont care anymore" because my reasoning is fucking sound.

I promise im not that invested in this it was just so jarringly stupid its hard not to feel the whiplash

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

I would really like to do something unpleasant to whoever decided cell phones should have like 8 volume settings and no one can change that

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 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.

[–] jjsandwich8@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

I feel bad today sadness

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago
[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] wombat@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

it is september 30 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My lighter's missing, are the LaRouchites or stay-behind networks to blame?

[–] acab_means_cop_Dva@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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!”

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

“Devoid of ideology”

The best part of this type of nerd is how they think saying "Actually, I stand for nothing at all" smuglord makes them look good.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 9 points 3 days ago

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

[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

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

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 8 points 3 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.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 10 points 3 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?”

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 8 points 3 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."

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

Pure cinema ninth inning holy shit

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] miz@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Awesome pics. Great size. Look thick. Solid. Tight. Keep us all posted on your continued progress with any new progress pics or vid clips. Show us what you got man. Wanna see how freakn' huge, solid, thick and efflorescent you can get. Thanks for the motivation.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago
[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

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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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 6 points 3 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

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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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[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

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

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)
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[–] HexaSnoot@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

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.

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