I hate this timeline.

I hope the nightmare fuel is enough to get Megaman built before 2040.

So the “Aztec” (Mixtec Pueblo culture) had two major calendars The Tonalpohualli (count of days or days count) and The Xiuhpohualli ( year count or fire count). The Tonalpohualli is a spiritual calendar used for ceremonies and augury, it consists of 20 signs each given a thirteen day week. I’ve heard it speculated that it has something to do with the observable time that a human takes to gestate during pregnancy, but that’s pure theory. The Xiuhpohualli is a 360 day count calendar with five extra days added to the end of the year (which were considered very unlucky). It was divided into 18 months that ran through the 20 day signs that the Spanish called a Veintena. This was used for feasts, holidays, and the planning of agriculture or war during the two major seasons (wet season and dry season). The two calendars would align every 52 years that culminated into a huge celebration called Toxhiuhmolpilia (New Fire Ceremony).

The birds (and technically one butterfly) refer to the actual numeric days one through thirteen in each given day (count the red dots). Not to go too much into details, but the birds were anthropomorphized into character traits that were associated with a person depending on which day they were born. The cultural context is pretty esoteric, but an example would be a person born on 13 would be wise because Toznene (parrot) looked bald. I have also read that the birds would act as a psychopomp on the occasion of one’s personal death (apparently having corresponding red dots as their day) to fly off and deliver the part of the soul that leaves the mortal realm to a designated after life determined by circumstances of one’s death.

Bolts of cotton too. Or maybe some jade or obsidian.

It’s part of one of the more complete codices. It’s post-conquest but anything from around that time that survived is precious.

Oh this is my jam. So in Nahuatl the beginning of the Trecena is Ce Ollin which is one movement/quake which ends in Mahtlactli Omei Atl thirteen water. Teteoh are assigned to Ihiyotl ( with a day bird to present) and Teyollia soul designations for management. These designations are assigned through the holy 260 day calendar year via patterns in the calendar. I love this stuff.

Consume nutrients to reproduce.

Then make sure that whatever you do, execute it well.

Yuck.

No matter how old I get I still love PB&J.

Metal.

Trying not to think about life and the future while being mostly isolated.

Oklahoma is going to get wrecked by another tornado that will be so bad that the tornado measuring system will have to be updated, again.

Texas lost the right to secede in The Civil War.

This is a respectable pursuit.

Living in the future is weird.

I’m almost 40, can’t I just have a juice box?

European executions could be excessively cruel. Being burned alive, drowned, stoning, crucifixion, being eaten alive by rats escaping hot coals, or being locked in a cage to die from exposure is on the same level as having one’s heart cut out or being shot with arrows. Europeans would impale men on pikes and the Tenochca would rack skulls, apples to oranges but it’s all the same fruit.

I think the nation/tribe that were the Spanish collaborators you’re referring to was Tlaxcala which were the target of habitual Flower Wars for captuered warrior sacrifice. The pleas of the Tenochca, the residents of Tenochtitlan, fell on deaf ears to the only other major power in the region the Purépecha Empire.

While Aztecs valued human sacrifice to a great extent it was due to the benefits it’s bestowed in Mixtec-Pueblo culture. It was a source of not only spiritual reverence, but also military and economic superiority. It also had non domestic function as a diplomatic tool to visiting nobles and bounty haulers / tax collectors. Not to mention it served as a form of community entertainment in a similar fashion to European public executions.

As far as saying Europeans tried to slow down to make the Americas a vassal state is a misconception. Disease wiped out an apocalyptic amount of people. Following the fall of Tenochtitlan small pox ravaged the Valley of Mexico and all along the Gulf Coast. This nearly wiped out all infrastructure and Spain tried to subjugate the rest. Hilariously trying to impose a 30% tax written in Spanish and using that as a legal justification for military actions.