c/historymemes · by flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz · 1y

Strange birds eating snakes on cactuses is no basis for a system of government

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flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz · 47 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Context: The legendary founding of Tenochtitlan (today Mexico City), originally built literally on a lake. The story goes that the spot for the city was shown to a wandering tribe of Mexica by gods - an eagle with a snake in its beak perched on a cactus.

Btw, not my meme it's been around for years in original mexican

kamenlady@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Thanks for sharing this nice peek into Mexican history. It led me to Aztec priests, their razor-sharp obsidian blades and the impressions of Spanish conquistadores, detailing the things they saw, before they started doing what conquistadores do...

I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

It maddens me to no end that the Aztecs had a fairly robust writing and number system with an extensive written history that was almost entirely burned and destroyed by the Spanish.

RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y

Conquist-adoring everyone and everything in sight of course

ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Ah, yes, the founding of Chicago

Draghetta@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Fun fact: in Italian “Chicago” means “I crap in it”. Apt homophone for a city built on a body of water.

Not_mikey@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Another fun fact, there crap actually doesn't go in the lake. They built a canal a while ago to flush it down to st. Louis then down the Mississippi.

Synthuir@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Actually it goes into a tour boat full of people. And it’s Dave Matthew’s poops.

BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place · 1 pts · 1y

omg, how disgusting. how does that even happen?