{"id":39594,"date":"2023-12-22T16:13:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T22:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=39594"},"modified":"2023-12-22T16:13:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T22:13:42","slug":"word-of-the-day-929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/12\/22\/word-of-the-day-929\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cosmogram<\/em>:<\/p>\n

A\u00a0cosmogram<\/b>\u00a0depicts a\u00a0cosmology<\/a>\u00a0in a flat geometric form.[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0They are used for various purposes:\u00a0meditational<\/a>, inspirational and to depict structure — real or imagined — of the earth or universe. [Wikipedia<\/strong>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not quite what I expected, but that’s OK. Noted in “Magical Mesoamerican Relics<\/em><\/a>,” Ilana Herzig, Archaeology<\/strong><\/em> (January\/February 2024):<\/p>\n

These types of figurines were typically produced from around 500 B.C. to A.D. 680 by the Mezcala people, who were based in an area that is now in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero. In their most sacred space, the Aztecs made the objects their own by embellishing them with paint and placing them in the chest as offerings to their rain god Tlaloc. \u201cTenochtitlan was the center of the Mesoamerican world,\u201d says L\u00f3pez Luj\u00e1n. Objects were brought from all of the provinces of the empire, and even beyond its borders. \u201cThe Mezcala figurines were considered by the Aztecs magical relics from the past,\u201d he says. \u201cMany of these offerings are cosmograms, or representations in miniature of the universe as conceived by the Aztecs. The chest and its contents symbolized a mythic realm known as Tlalocan which was re-created by Templo Mayor, where the rain god kept water and sustenance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cosmogram: A\u00a0cosmogram\u00a0depicts a\u00a0cosmology\u00a0in a flat geometric form.[1]\u00a0They are used for various purposes:\u00a0meditational, inspirational and to depict structure — real or imagined — of the earth or universe. [Wikipedia] Not quite what I expected, but that’s OK. Noted in “Magical Mesoamerican Relics,” Ilana Herzig, Archaeology (January\/February 2024): These types of figurines \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39595,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39594\/revisions\/39595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}