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Old Belief
← Cihuateteo
Round hide shield seen from above on a woven straw mat, a wooden spindle weighted with a clay whorl lying upright beside it

the shield and the spindle

The honours given to these women were the honours given to warriors — the same funeral treatment, the same vocabulary.

Basis: The warrior framing in the sources · AI-generated

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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 therethe crossroads at dusk →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 →