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Transvolcanic Alligator Lizard (Barisia imbricata), family Anguidae, Mexico

Photograph by Oscar In Nature

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Jaguars rescued from Mexican cartels Photograph: Steve Winter

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Turquoise-browed Motmots (Eumomota superciliosa), family Momotidae, order Coraciiformes, Yucatán, México

photograph by Lenora Gutiérrez Zamora

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~ Perra con Mazorca entre los Dientes. (Dog with cob in her teeth)

Culture: Tumbas de tiro

Style: Comala

Place of origin: Colima

Period: Late Preclassic-Early Classic

Date: 300 B.C.- A.D. 600

Medium: Modeled, incised and burnished clay.

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Wall painting

Mexico. Teotihuacan. 650-750 AD

The work is a portion of a frescolike wall painting from an apartment compound in the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan. In the first millennium A.D., residents of Teotihuacan lived in large apartment compounds, many of which were extensively decorated with wall paintings. The current example is probably one of at least three like images that made up one wall of an interior room in one such compound known as Techinantitla. The fragment shows a highly abstract depiction of what may be a deity, or perhaps even an elaborate, undeciphered hieroglyphic logogram (a sign representing a word). The symmetry of the figure and the location of a toothed mouth and clawed hands suggest a stylized anthropomorphic being. From the mouth emerges scrolls covered in images of flowers, perhaps a visual representation of “flowery speech” or benevolent oration. The figure is covered in circular and ovular shapes painted green—mostly likely images of jade beads—and fringed with green feathers; both greenstone and green feathers were luxurious imported materials. The green color evokes water, maize plants, and agricultural fertility. A similar fragment is in the collections of the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, and a fragment of the same mural series in the Ethnological Museum in Berlin includes a border that repeats the jade and feathered motifs. Not all aspects of the mural’s central character is flowery and green, however: the fearsome claws at the center of the image hint at the threat of potential violence by natural forces, divine power, or the mysterious military regime of Teotihuacan.

The Met

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Mexico City Vice

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The walls, floors, textures and colors... OAXACA!!

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Fotografía del Palacio de Gobierno de Tlaxcala, México.

Fue la casa de Hernán Cortés, su construcción se inició en 1545 y ha albergado la Alcaldía, la Alhóndiga y las Casas Reales.

Fecha: 1898

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“Old God, c.500 A.D.

Cultura Zapoteca

Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico”

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📍Tulum, Mexico 🇲🇽

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Intervienen con bandera de Palestina símbolo turístico de Morelia en el Centro Histórico

El objetivo de esta actividad, señaló Lenin Contreras, integrante del Comité en Solidaridad con Palestina, es continuar con las labores de sensibilización sobre la violaciones a los derechos humanos de la población sobreviviente de los ataques de Israel desde el 12 de diciembre de 2023, algo en lo que dijo confiar que se está avanzando.

“Ser madre en Gaza es bajar la mirada de penoso dolor ante los ojos perdidos, del rostro desesperanzado de alguna hija, sorda por las explosiones. Es sufrir por el llanto de algún hijo o hija que perdió a su madre, que implora a los cielos, a lágrima viva, que termine la barbarie. Es mirar y escuchar sin poder dar protección o consuelo a algún huérfano que jura ante su dios que tiene miedo y que no puede más ante el sufrimiento”.

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Jaguarundis (Herpailurus yagouaroundi), family Felidae, found widely across the Americas, from far South TX and SE Arizona, through Mexico, Central America, and much of South America

This cat is very secretive and elusive, and rarely seen.

While working in Ecuador, with the Quichua people, I was told that they use magical portals at the base of Kapok trees to travel from one tree to another... or to the other side.

photograph by @lucas.18photos

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For years now, this wild grey whale has come to this boat captain to have its lice removed at the calving lagoon of Ojo de Liebre, Baja California, Mexico.