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Here's the skeletal form of the serpent form of the word "kan" in the Mayan language. I got it mostly right, except for getting mixed up and putting too many fangs in there. Must have been thinking about crocodiles.
Anyway, "kan" is the word for sky, serpent, and the number 7, if I remember right. Mayan, like many languages, would seem to be ripe for word play. They weren't all like the way they were depicted in Apocalypto (that is, decadent).
This is an earthenware tile, tinted with iron oxide powder, about 4"X4."
Anyway, "kan" is the word for sky, serpent, and the number 7, if I remember right. Mayan, like many languages, would seem to be ripe for word play. They weren't all like the way they were depicted in Apocalypto (that is, decadent).
This is an earthenware tile, tinted with iron oxide powder, about 4"X4."
Category All / All
Species Snake / Serpent
Size 773 x 713px
File Size 145.9 kB
Apocalypto has its pluses and minuses, which are really big pluses and minuses.
Minus: Mel Gibson made it. Plus: if it weren't for him and his weird fundamentalist Catholicism, it would never have been made by anybody.
Minus: It has a basket-of-puppies scene in it. In an old version of 3 Musketeers, somebody hands Cardinal Richelieu a basket of puppies, which he admires and pets. No further reference is made to the B.O.P.; why were they in there? Same with the children left behind on the riverbank in Apocalypto.
Plus: It's the first movie evar in Mayan.
Plus: It's the first movie evar to show a Mesoamerican city in a reasonably convincing way. Except for the occasional boo boo, the skyline is perfect.
Minus. WHERE'S THE QUETZAL? Mayas didn't wear fucking horsehair plumes. They didn't have fucking horses. They wore QUETZAL AND JADE and some gold too.
Minus: OOPs one-thousand-year time slip! And mixing up Maya and Aztec...ooPS OOps oops
Minus: The few glyphs visible look all roundy and Preclassic. Classic looks a lot more square-roundy.
In summa, I watch the movie every once in awhile while drunk, and really get off on the brief bits of architecture. And the human sacrifice.
Minus: Mel Gibson made it. Plus: if it weren't for him and his weird fundamentalist Catholicism, it would never have been made by anybody.
Minus: It has a basket-of-puppies scene in it. In an old version of 3 Musketeers, somebody hands Cardinal Richelieu a basket of puppies, which he admires and pets. No further reference is made to the B.O.P.; why were they in there? Same with the children left behind on the riverbank in Apocalypto.
Plus: It's the first movie evar in Mayan.
Plus: It's the first movie evar to show a Mesoamerican city in a reasonably convincing way. Except for the occasional boo boo, the skyline is perfect.
Minus. WHERE'S THE QUETZAL? Mayas didn't wear fucking horsehair plumes. They didn't have fucking horses. They wore QUETZAL AND JADE and some gold too.
Minus: OOPs one-thousand-year time slip! And mixing up Maya and Aztec...ooPS OOps oops
Minus: The few glyphs visible look all roundy and Preclassic. Classic looks a lot more square-roundy.
In summa, I watch the movie every once in awhile while drunk, and really get off on the brief bits of architecture. And the human sacrifice.
I avoided it because the thought of Gibson with a license to do all the human sacrifice he desires really creeped me out!
Whee!
I have a feathered serpent character I've wanted to get drawn up for the LONGEST time - both human form in full regailia, and in feathery snake form.
- Would love a picture of a lovely indulgent quetalcouatle -regalia'd woman! Oooh yus!
Whee!
I have a feathered serpent character I've wanted to get drawn up for the LONGEST time - both human form in full regailia, and in feathery snake form.
- Would love a picture of a lovely indulgent quetalcouatle -regalia'd woman! Oooh yus!
Is like... you tell to some guy from Paris "cool you live near the Paris tower!" and proably he will say... "yea, it doesnt let me watch a girl's apartment" xD NVM just joking x3 Yea they are amazing but right now... we have several problems with the government >L<
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