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Old Belief
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Pale dirt track splitting into three in dry scrub country at dusk, agave and a leaning telegraph pole at the verge, the sun low over distant hills, nobody there

the crossroads at dusk

The crossroads is the place and the time is the calendar. Both are specified in the sources, which makes this a belief with an address.

Basis: The crossroads associations in the Florentine Codex · AI-generated

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Shallow red clay dish holding two husk-wrapped tamales and a handful of dried maize kernels, set down on bare pale ground in full sunthe offering left at the corner →Round hide shield seen from above on a woven straw mat, a wooden spindle weighted with a clay whorl lying upright beside itthe shield and the spindle →