A Monstrous Morality: Tzitzimime and their Relatives as Enforcers of Social Control
The tzitzimime – as reflected in central Mexican ethnohistorical sources and precolumbian imagery – represent a diverse array of mostly female divinities associated with fertility. Under Spanish influence, they were re-conceptualized as malevolent, mostly male agents of the Christian devil. Related...
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2021
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