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dude, thing coyote :: variously proficient in english, spanish, german, nawatl, and yips :: environmental sci. major :: san antonio texas my beloved :: i make music sometimes ΞΈΞ I talk a lot of non-Anglo Texas history but also furry stuff so ymmv 18+β οΈ
Incominciate! The Nordic Opera returns for #NFC2026!
Pawgliacci is an original adaptation of Leoncavalloβs masterpiece, featuring a 20-piece orchestra to debut this furry production at the incredible MalmΓΆ Live Concert Hall stage!
An experience you can't miss!
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took a break from me for 2 years and now i dont recognize the neighborhood
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A screenshot of a Bluesky post, one I wrote but which was too long to post in one go. It reads: I traveled an antique land, deserted in nature I saw, in a distant visage, a vast and crumpled statue, scrawled at its feet were the words "I am Ozymandias, King of Kings, look upon my words ye mighty and despair" Painted over those stone etchings was chicken scratch, proclaiming "I am coyot; look upon my disruption ye mighty and despair"
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Some people celebrate Doevember, I celebrate Yotevember myself
Happis Yotevember y'all π€
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Today, we hope to close the campaign that carried our dream of living with dignity in these hard times.
Samar and I dream of a new start a simple, decent life.β₯οΈ
With love and quiet hearts, stand with us in this final momentβ¦
give what you can, and letβs end it as beautifully as it began.π«
A screenshot on an excerpt from an article about the construction of new two-way bike lanes in downtown San Antonio. The excerpt reads: "This is a push by the anti-car crowd to make it miserable for you to drive, to make you have to stop at all the lights, to make you have less road space, and to snarl up traffic," Hall said.
Were you NOT stopping before ???
Huge, huge thank you to everyone who has supported me and the Dinah doggo and who has shared and reposted to help me out.
There's still a long way to go but every single bit helps!
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They do put their research out in publications and presentations, I presume it's everything they've cataloged and analyzed up to now
shumla.org/research/pub...
shumla.org/research/pre...
That's a great question. I know the Alexandria Project is hosted through Shumla Archeological Research & Educational Center, so I assume they hold the copyright of any data they collect. I don't know what kind of copyright it'd be though.
A screenshot of a presentation, where they are mapping features of the White Shaman Mural to physical landmarks in Texas
The White Shaman Mural (and the Lower Pecos Canyonland Archeological Complex) is so cool
Like this is increasingly believed to depict both an origin of the cosmos and the people, as well as a map of sacred sites from that location, particularly the sacred journey along the springs of Central Texas
Even though the map interpretation of the White Shaman Mural is controversial with some in academia, it is still very popular publically, and the research is still fresh, and is still blossoming into a very interesting lens which to view the pre-European (and post-European) Texas and its peoples
I'm like really fixated on this part of the mural tonight because it was so cool for me to mentally make that connection while viewing it again
They shared sacred sites and the Lower Pecos sites could be a point of pilgrimage and/or meetings for regional peoples, like the Council Oaks in whats now Austin were known to be. Distance from the springs doesn't mean anything necessarily and that's not a great reason to discount this new research.
The pre-European peoples of Texas were also far more interconnected than was assumed. Archeologists have defined a Toyah material culture that was shared among many peoples of the Texas region.
Even though the map interpretation of the White Shaman Mural is controversial with some in academia, it is still very popular publically, and the research is still fresh, and is still blossoming into a very interesting lens which to view the pre-European (and post-European) Texas and its peoples
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
This is a really interesting piece of research (& the first I believe) to posit the interpretation
Also "Land of the Tejas" by John W. Arnn III goes into the interconnectiveness of the regional peoples of pre-European (and even post) Texas, for further reading
Recent theoretical research has suggested the Indigenous peoples of whats now Texas were much more interconnected than people have assumed. This region is a special crossroads, as one academic put it, "the Crossroads of North America", and people shared sacred sites
And I say until consensus swings either way because the research on this is still very fresh, yet very promising; and there will be skeptical established voices in academia about this new interpretation.
I also do not think it is unreasonable to have a ceremonial site of pilgrimage like this either
The article for posterity
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
But I will admit, while reading about the history of studies the complex just now, I found a Texas Monthly article from last month about the academic controversy of the map interpretation. Irregardless, it's still very popular, and until consensus swings one way or the other, I choose to believe it
archaeology.org/issues/novem...
A nice read about the White Shaman Mural in particular
It's been studied since the 1930s by the Witte Museum, but it feels like it's only grown so known in the last decade. I think it's because the work of Carolyn Boyd and her cohort have drawn a lot of attention to the complex, in a good way
(i also added alt text on all the photos of the mural that hopefully can elucidate somethings :3)
ALSO since this is the last comment in the chain (for now)
When I said "northernmost extent of Mesoamerica" I meant POSSIBLY the northernmost extent, for clarification
interjection into my thread, which you should totally read the rest of past this reply, but to add something:
The White Shaman Mural has been interpreted as POSSIBLY the northernmost known reach of Mesoamerica
Crazy how you miss a word and the implication is way different
And who's to say this site doesn't also depict a progenitor cosmology to more peoples than just the Huichol, Nahua, and Coahuiltecans? Those are just the links that appear now, but in time more connections could be made.
The research on this is really, just beginning.
(the site also gets input from Indigenous peoples as part of their study, and one of the people working there, Gary Perez, is part of the Lipan Apache Native American Church, and I believe was actually the one who had the thought of the mural also being a physical map and got that ball rolling)
(this also may mean that Coahuiltecans have shared history with say, the Nahua and vice versa, through an ancestor culture, or perhaps even directly)