Oh you did not just abbreviate "Jaguar God of the Underworld" as "JGU"
archive.org/details/bloo... "The blood of kings: dynasty and ritual in Maya art" by famed Mayanists Drs Linda Schele & Mary Ellen Miller
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![This sketch was wildly-and pejoratively-inaccurate in just about every detail. Haudenosaunee men did not have multiple wives, although, to be sure, Seneca women might take more than one husband at their pleasure. In addition, the lodge in question would have belonged to the longhouse Clan Mother, not any man. Then again, Parkman's presentation of all Native men as "warriors" was militaristic jingoism, part of the nineteenth-century projection of the warlike disposition of the Europeans onto the Native Americans. In fact, Haudenosaunee men's important socia] roles existed outside of warfare, with their careers in war occurring as the earliest and lowest step of their social and political advancement
Furthermore, Haudenosaunee men would never have dreamed of beating their wives. They were appalled by this European custom and intervened on behalf of abused settler women whenever they dared. Mary Jemison (1742-1833), the famed Seneca adoptee, recalled that her second husband, the Seneca Hiokatoo, "exasperated at the sight of so much inhumanity" when he saw a settler violently beating his wife, stepped in and threatened the man with his tomahawk, forcing him to desist.4 The large number of female adoptees who, like Jemison, flatly refused to return to "civilization" made their choice in no small measure due to the safe, secure, and gentle lives they led with their Native husbands.
Most importantly of all, Haudenosaunee men never, ever raped, contrary to Parkman's snide insinuation of a quid pro quo deal: "I won't beat you as long as you spread your legs for me." The no-rape policy of the Haudenosaunee is well documented, and was even in Parkman's time James Fenimore Cooper learned as much from John Heckewelder, and emphasized it in his popular Leather-Stocking Tales; the suffragettes knew as much, and publicized it in their critique of Christian European sexism, and modern historians are also perfectly aware of the fact. 4l
The moral slap that Europe felt … (clipped)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t4g4hojrzykgzp55h34fpy3t/bafkreid2kyzmhjntdafpj7chk6nf5uomet5ggtwmiltlc3hbafejxi2fsq)
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![(The Tale of the Supernatural Marriage at Dongting)
by Li Chaowei translated by Meghan Cai
During the Yifeng reign (676–679), there was a scholar, Liu Yi , who failed the imperial examination and was going to return to the shores of the Xiang [River]. He remembered that there was a native of his township who was sojourning in Jingyang [County], and so he went there to bid him farewell. When he had gone six or seven li [two or three miles] a bird flew up and frightened his horse, which galloped off to the left of the road. Only after another six or seven li did it stop.”
There are nine footnotes in this segment! There are also original Chinese characters for several proper names (embedded as images 😒)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t4g4hojrzykgzp55h34fpy3t/bafkreidqeatqawghx4fm3nhcp25slynrz5dkj5saupp2yn2r37cacvfzrq)