C.K. Burch's Blog, page 25
March 20, 2016
Peach Viniq in a skull shot glass.
Peach Viniq in a skull shot glass.
March 18, 2016
1918: Court Refuses to Fine Woman in Man’s Attire
crumblingpages:
“St. Louis, Mo., Dec 14.– Ruling that male attire was not...
tlatollotl:
Chalchiuhtlicue, whose name means “She of the Jade...
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Chalchiuhtlicue, whose name means “She of the Jade Skirt”, was the Aztec goddess of running water, such as rivers and oceans, and was considered the patroness of navigation. She was one of the most important deities, patroness of childbirth, wife and feminine counterpart of Tlaloc, the rain god. In some sources she is described instead as the wife of the god Xiuhtecuhtli. Chalchiuhtlicue was also the protector of childbirth.
According to the Aztec Legend of the Five Suns, Chalchiuhtlicue governed over the fourth world, or fourth Sun. During this era, Chalchiuhtlicue became the sun and the sky became water. A terrible flood hit the world and humans became fish.
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Selected Twitter fiction by Uel Aramchek...
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ahencyclopedia:
BOOK REVIEW: Wu Zhao: China’s Only Woman...
BOOK REVIEW: Wu Zhao: China’s Only Woman Emperor by N. Harry Rothschild
THE Empress Wu Zetian (690-704 CE) is the only female ruler in the history of China. Even though there were many important and influential women throughout China’s history, only one ever became the most powerful political figure in the country. She ruled China with complete authority and no one dared to challenge her when she was in control. As soon as her power began to slip though, and immediately after she died, historians began to criticize her rule primarily because she was a woman holding a traditionally male position of power. Wu Zetian’s reign has been highly controversial ever since because later historians just accepted what earlier ones had written on Wu Zetian without considering the bias which might have been motivating the early historians.
N. Harry Rothschild’s book, Wu Zhao: China’s Only Woman Emperor, is a comprehensive work on Wu Zetian. Wu Zhao was her birth name before she took `Wu Zetian’ (“Ruler of the Heavens”) as her name on becoming emperor. Rothschild does not gloss over the difficult aspects of Wu Zetian’s rise to power but places them in context and explains how and why this woman was demonized by the Chinese historians who wrote about her.
He uses primary documents to show how the members of the court felt that nature had been turned upside down because a woman had assumed a man’s role of ultimate authority. Rothschild tells the story of how, when one of her ministers requested in writing that she step aside because she was destroying the fabric of reality by assuming a man’s position, Wu Zetian had him banished to the swamp lands and continued on with her reign. She refused to be controlled by men or the traditions men forced women to follow and believed she was the equal or better of anyone at court.
Review by Emily Mark on AHE
