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Old Belief
← Tzitzimime
Dry valley and bare hills lit as if at midday while the sky above them has gone to near night, a single star showing high in the dark

the sky during an eclipse

The danger in the accounts is attached to a specific event: the sky going dark in daytime, and the stars becoming visible when they should not be.

Basis: The eclipse associations in the sources · AI-generated

More of this creature

Bare adobe room with a straw mat hung from a pole across the whole doorway, daylight showing only at its edges, a clay jar in one corner and a bench with folded cloth in the otherthe household at midday dark →Folded white cloth with a length of twisted cord and a small black obsidian blade laid on it, resting on a round coiled straw matthe midwifes bundle →