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Old Belief
← Cihuateteo
Shallow red clay dish holding two husk-wrapped tamales and a handful of dried maize kernels, set down on bare pale ground in full sun

the offering left at the corner

Offerings were left where the tracks met, on the days that belonged to them. The practice is domestic and the materials are food.

Basis: Recorded offering practice · AI-generated

More of this creature

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 therethe crossroads at dusk →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 →