kylemittskus
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Fuzzypaws wrote:I know lots of other people are taller than the average used to be due to improved nutrition
This is so unbelievably not true, it's hilarious.
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bhaalfreak
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bpeterson82 wrote:What's sad is this is Aztec and not Mexican, but it is cool so I shall let it pass.
Aztec is mexican...
One to be born from a dragon, hoisting the light and the dark, arises high up in the sky, to the still land. Veiling the moon with the light of eternity, it brings another promise to mother earth with a bounty and mercy.
bhaalfreak
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cuhooliganmaceaunrig wrote:However, not all Mexicans are descended from Aztecs... And technically "Mexican" means a person from mixed Indian and European origins. So I'm thinking it's a same but different kind of thing. Then again. It's just a shirt.
Actually Mexican comes from Aztec origin, they were called the Mexicas and lived were the City of Mexico is now.
One to be born from a dragon, hoisting the light and the dark, arises high up in the sky, to the still land. Veiling the moon with the light of eternity, it brings another promise to mother earth with a bounty and mercy.
fractalhelix
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chrisprender wrote:Quetzalcoatl spoke of a cactus growing on an island in the middle of a lake. Perched on top of this cactus was an eagle with a snake in its mouth. This is where the Aztecs were to found their capital, Tenochtitlan. (Tenochtitlan eventually became Mexico City.)
To this shirt, I say: close enough.
While watching a Rare and Elusive pair of Quetzals in a Costa Rican Used-to-be-rainforest-but-now-is-cloudforest-due-to-that-urban-legend-of-global-warming, someone told me about how Cortez came & stole Quetzalcoatl's beautiful crown of Rare and Elusive Quetzal feathers. Rather than the expected, obligatory expressions of anti-imperialism (which of course came later), my immediate & very unpopular response was, "Wow. How much of a PONYPONYPONY was Quetzalcoatl for stealing all those feathers?!" Well, my own calandar seems to suggest that the end of the world is coming up on Dec. 31st, so, in a typical White People Egocentric Way I shall end this pointless diatribe by failing to distinguish Aztec from Mayan & say that none of it matters anyway because everyone who lives by Gregorian time will be dead by New Year's. I apologize for posting this.
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