#showing wakanda and showing tlalocan

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watched wakanda forever the other day,,,, and like,,,,, tf you mean that the bad guys were indigenous ppl ????? like they really pit black ppl against indigenous and im like ???? why. when the start of the movie made it clear who the mfs were (white ppl), that they were the source of the problem why did it end up with an unnecessary fight between indigenous ppl and black ppl like it made no fucking sense. they couldve had it all, they couldve destroyed all of them and instead what did we get? unnecessary suffering and deaths. like,, hmnito que wea po obviously the problem was white ppl and they didnt even get a slap or something que rabia

#i mean some cops died so thats good #and like dentro de todo from what i noticed it was actually good mayan rep and a lot of mexicans are really happy about it so thats good #and ig if they were happy with it then its good #cos im no m*rvel fan #pero en fin #la hipotenusa #m #also i feel like it was unnecessarily long #but i really did like the parts that were more about like #showing wakanda and showing tlalocan #and like delving into each culture #and ofc every tribute to chadwick boseman #as well as the family dinamics #but i feel it was so overshadowed by the nonsensical fighting

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Help me, Tumblr! I just saw Wakanda Forever and I am having Impure Thoughts™. You know how Namor is only good for being an asshole and stealing wives...?

So, if Shuri bioengineered a new species of herb that's a mix of the Mayan aloe, what if it gives her modified versions of their powers, too? And if she were to visit Tlalocan, for whatever reason, she could swim with them naturally?

Dude, what if Namor claimed some right to the new herb? Dude, if he's going to go forward with his plans, who is he going to attack, first? Would Namor intentionally leak that Wakanda knew about Tlalocan just to isolate Wakanda further? That would be messed up. Namor's painting of his legendary fight against the Black Panther was pretty cool. I wonder if he'll ever get a chance to show Shuri. Shuri should see it.

I'm just thinking, now. I need help. Make it stop.

Or, enable me.

#Namor #namor the sub mariner #Shuri #wakanda forever #black panther wakanda forever #wakanda forever spoilers #bpwf spoilers #namor x shuri #namuri #Seaprincess

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Some photos from Mexico that vaguely relate to "Wakanda Forever"

Because I am a nerd.

Uxmal. This is a building at the Uxmal ruins, unfortunately I don't have many pictures because I was sick this day so click the link to more on Wikipedia. Uxmal is in good condition and it was also done in a "baroque Maya" style (according to our tour guide) so here it's easy to see a lot of the details of the carvings. In this picture you can see faces of the god Chaac (who is the god who led the Talokanil to the ocean according to Wakanda Forever) on the structure. The elephantine trunks are his nose and the circles are his eyes. But what's cool is that not one carving is exactly the same.

Chichen Itza. Here are some more faces of Chaac (most of the noses are missing) but you can see the eyes and the tusks on an outer building at Chichen Itza. Heeee's watching you.

Of course Chichen Itza is best known for "el Castillo" or the Temple of Kukulcan (what the Talokanil call Namor). It's not the biggest or more elaborate of the Maya temple, so it's kind of annoying how crowded it is there. But the temple still functions as a calendar and at the equinox the figure of Kukulcan appears to move up or down the side of the structure.

Close up of Kukulcan's head at the base of the temple:

The Mexica called the rain god "Tlaloc" (some say this is the same god as Chaac) and he ruled over an underwater paradise called Tlalocan, where those who died by drowning went. This is obviously where the place name "Talokan" comes from.

Here is an image from the Archaeology Museum in Ciudad de Mexico (which I highly recommend). It's a recreation of a mural found at Teotihuacan. The museum says this mural is of Tlalocan and I got a magnet that says it is as well, but wikipedia says there are some that believe it's the Goddess of Teotihuacan, so you learn new stuff every day.

If you look closely you can see puffs of air coming from the human figures at the bottom. That means they are speaking. They are like ancient speech bubbles. That same symbol is also used for wind. The little people are my favorite part. They're all just minding their own business, doing different stuff.

Interestingly (and you can see it here) humans were often drawn having different colors of skin, like blue and red, and some scholars believe they painted themselves (a guide also told us it might be to show differences in tribes). But the blue-skinned Talokanil kind of fit. (I like the idea that it's body paint because it makes me think of all the crazy-colors of people in our Marvel mythology. Green-skinned Hulks, blue aliens, etc. Maybe we have similar imaginings!)

#mexico #real life #wakanda forever #talokan #chaac #tlaloc