By Kirby Vickery on the June 2020 Edition [Many children’s stories from the Aztecs are copied from the Toltec, Mayan, and other older civilizations within Mesoamerica. This is one of them, although somewhat cut down because of space constraints.] Once when the rabbit, also known as ‘The Mayor,’ still had his antlers, he met a deer. At […]
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By Kirby Vickery on the May 2020 Edition There were two powerful gods within the Aztec pantheon whom sometimes fought and sometimes didn’t. As it happened, they met on a very windy, high plain one day. This would stand to reason, as one of them was Tezcatlipoca, the sky god, and the other was Quetzalcoatl, the god […]
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By Kirby Vickery on the April 2020 Edition When you hear the word “Aztec”, what comes to mind are some painted warriors all decked out in their feathered fighting garb, carrying lances and clubs, while climbing and fighting others dressed like them on the sides of large and very ornate pyramids. Or a whole bunch […]
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By Tommy Clarkson on the February 2020 Edition I love Mexican food. I have always loved Mexican food. Not so much all the Southwestern American versions, but good Mexican food. I was surprised as a child that the food I got in Barcelona, Spain, didn’t come close to what I thought it should be after growing […]
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By Kirby Vickery on the January 2020 Edition When people talk of the Mesoamerican Societies and their culture, we have a tendency to skim a little (actually a lot) and for-get what was here in Mexico and further south before Sr. Hernán Cortés took it over in the name of the King of Spain and […]
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By Kirby Vickery on the December 2019 Edition As with all civilizations, the Mesoamerican people played a variety of games. Some had religious connections and even others were used by the better competitors to gamble and make a living. One such game of skill resembled bowling. There is very little information on it except that […]
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By Kirby Vickery on the November 2019 Edition To use the word, ‘witchcraft’ with any of the Mesoamerican cultures could almost be called a misnomer. Witchcraft, by its nature and conceptual origins, is purely Old World. The meaning of the word is so broad-based that to try to fit it into a single category of Mesoamerican […]
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By Kirby Vickery on the October 2019 Edition Let’s say that you’re a Mayan farmer, from any time period from the ancient Mayan Empire that we are still finding to be larger than we thought, to, even today or tomorrow, for that matter. Your chief crop wouldn’t have changed through all this time. It is maize […]
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By Kirby Vickery on the September 2019 Edition A lady Zorrino (Skunk) had a small son named Tak Zóachil, which he shortened to ‘Tak’, and an even smaller daughter named Ti’ Tu’. As luck would have it, this young skunk was baptized by his mother’s good friend and compadre, a gentleman Báalam (Jaguar). One day, it […]
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By Kirby Vickery on the August 2019 Edition I found, according to one internet site, there are thirteen different kinds of snakes in Mexico. Then I went to another and found three more. After that, I found some additional varieties. But, I’m not really sure how many varieties there are altogether. Of the seventeen I was […]
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