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Erotic Mythology 🌹

Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka aka Tuesday 🗡️

For #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth I'm introducing Native American deities 🌎

#Huitzilopochtli is the solar and war deity in Aztec religion. He was also the patron god of the Aztec capital #Tenochtitlan. He wields the fire serpent Xiuhcoatl as a weapon. Huitzilopochtli and Quetzalcoatl created fire, the first humans, the Earth & the Sun together.

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#Aztec by #GaryJennings

(3/n)

Day 16:

...in 2012 (#AztecRevenge.)

Now, the first thing to know is that there were no #Aztecs. This people who, according to legend, migrated to the swamps what later on became #Tenochtitlán, nowadays the historic Center of #MexicoCity, were called the #Mexica. Back then, it was an island in...

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DoomsdaysCW

One of the world’s biggest cities may be just months away from running out of water

by Laura Paddison, Jack Guy and Fidel Gutiérrez, CNN

February 25, 2024

"Alejandro Gomez has been without proper running water for more than three months. Sometimes it comes on for an hour or two, but only a small trickle, barely enough to fill a couple of buckets. Then nothing for many days.

"Gomez, who lives in #MexicoCity’s #Tlalpan district, doesn’t have a big storage tank so can’t get water truck deliveries — there’s simply nowhere to store it. Instead, he and his family eke out what they can buy and store.

"When they wash themselves, they capture the runoff to flush the toilet. It’s hard, he told CNN. 'We need water, it’s essential for everything.'

"#WaterShortages are not uncommon in this neighborhood, but this time feels different, Gomez said. 'Right now, we are getting this hot weather. It’s even worse, things are more complicated.'

"Mexico City, a sprawling metropolis of nearly 22 million people and one of the world’s biggest cities, is facing a severe #WaterCrisis as a tangle of problems — including geography, chaotic urban #development and leaky #infrastructure — are compounded by the impacts of #ClimateChange.

"Years of abnormally low rainfall, longer dry periods and high temperatures have added stress to a water system already straining to cope with increased demand. Authorities have been forced to introduce significant restrictions on the water pumped from reservoirs.

"'Several neighborhoods have suffered from a lack of water for weeks, and there are still four months left for the rains to start,' said Christian Domínguez Sarmiento, an atmospheric scientist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

"Politicians are downplaying any sense of crisis, but some experts say the situation has now reached such critical levels that Mexico City could be barreling towards 'day zero' in a matter of months — where the taps run dry for huge swaths of the city.

Historic lows

"Densely populated Mexico City stretches out across a high-altitude lake bed, around 7,300 feet above sea level. It was built on clay-rich soil — into which it is now sinking — and is prone to #earthquakes and highly vulnerable to climate change. It’s perhaps one of the last places anyone would choose to build a #megacity today.

"The #Aztecs chose this spot to build their city of #Tenochtitlan in 1325, when it was a series of lakes. They built on an island, expanding the city outwards, constructing networks of canals and bridges to work with the water.

"But when the Spanish arrived in the early 16th century, they tore down much of the city, drained the lakebed, filled in #canals and ripped out #forests. They saw 'water as an enemy to overcome for the city to thrive,' said Jose Alfredo Ramirez, an architect and co-director of Groundlab, a design and policy research organization."

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yahoo.com/news/one-world-bigge

Yahoo News · One of the world’s biggest cities may be just months away from running out of waterBy Laura Paddison, Jack Guy and Fidel Gutiérrez, CNN
#WaterIsLife#ClimateCatastrophe#Overdevelopment
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" The Aztecs chose this spot to build their city of #Tenochtitlan in 1325, when it was a series of lakes. They built on an island, expanding the city outwards, constructing networks of canals and bridges to work with the #water.

But when the Spanish arrived in the early 16th century, they tore down much of the city, drained the lakebed, filled in canals and ripped out forests. They saw “water as an enemy to overcome for the city to thrive.” "

#MexicoCity
cnn.com/2024/02/25/climate/mex

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Thomas Kole

During the period around the winter solstice the sun illuminates the southern side, the Huitzilopochtli side, of the Huey Teocalli in #Tenochtitlan from sunrise to sunset.

From the back of the platform you would see the sun rise from behind Iztaccihuatl, quickly flooding the basin with sunlight and reflecting of Lake Texcoco

In the evening it sets again over the outer tip of the Moyotlan quarter.

tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl

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