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4 days ago · Like many Mesoamerican peoples, the Aztecs headquartered in Central Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest made extensive use of masks. They were, in other words, what the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss termed a “mask culture.”. Early colonial period writers describe numerous Aztec events involving masks as well as many different ...
5 days ago · A mask was placed upon an ill person in order to direct divine power for their healing, and was not to be removed until they healed or died. A mask could also be placed upon the dead to not only conceal their true identity on the perilous journey to the next world, but also to act as their new identity.
5 days ago · Summary. In A Violent Nature's ending leaves Johnny's fate ambiguous, setting up potential for a sequel. Johnny's motivation in sparing the film's final girl hints at his unique drive. The film's quiet and naturalistic approach underscores the banality of violence in a haunting way. In A Violent Nature's ending is relatively straightforward ...
7 hours ago · Dr. Fauci said on Monday that it was “molecularly impossible” for the taxpayer-funded experiments in Wuhan to have produced the pandemic-causing virus. “It’s just a virological fact,” Dr ...
2 days ago · Patterns of fatality. A nurse wears a cloth face mask while treating a flu patient in Washington, DC, c. 1919. The pandemic mostly killed young adults. In 1918–1919, 99% of pandemic influenza deaths in the U.S. occurred in people under 65, and nearly half of deaths were in young adults 20 to 40 years old.
4 days ago · The act of adding a mask to a mortuary bundle would have animated the latter and granted it (divine) power to continue the soul’s journey to the next world. Indeed, the mortuary bundles of important individuals, adorned with fine masks - on a par with feathered ornaments - may have been displayed in temples, ‘to be venerated as spirits’.
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4 hours ago · HOUSTON — Veronica Robertson said she felt something was amiss shortly before learning early Monday morning that her oldest son was dead. "I couldn't sleep at all," Robertson said. "Then, my ...
