Mictecacihuatl, Lady of the Dead, is the link between the living and the deceased. She holds our teyollia, the spirit of our personality and our creativity, and purifies it so it can return to the Earth in the shape of a new being. Also called Mictlancihuatl, she is the ruler of the land of the dead. She is honored on Dia de Muertos, and is a manifestation of La Santa Muerte. A work of nahua (or Aztec) tradition.

Mictecacihuatl is the female deity associated with death in many of Mexico’s indigenous cultures. In addition to welcoming us into the afterlife, she is the protector of some and the source of countless legends related to the underworld. Learn about her history, her powers, and the fate of those who encounter the powerful lady of Mictlán.

Known as the lady of the dead, the lady who cuts the umbilical cord, or simply the lady of death, Mictecacihuatl is the goddess who rules the other world and to whom some will have to answer sooner or later.

Together with her husband, the lord of death Mictlantecuhtli, Mictecacihuatl welcomes souls who died naturally to Mictlán, to watch over their bones and watch over their sleep for all eternity.

Furthermore, her power extends throughout the land of the dead and even into the world of the living, as she is capable of sending blessings, curses, and messages from her dimension in the afterlife. Of the two rulers of the underworld, Mictecacihuatl seems to be the more flexible of the two deities, as she is the one who gives the deceased permission to return from Mictlán, a gesture that does not go unnoticed on the earthly plane, as the celebration of the dead in pre-Hispanic cultures was an honor to this goddess.

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  • anonochronomus [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    20 days ago

    So I’m struggling to get a computer working, I would love some help with direction on this project.

    So I have a desktop PC that the hard drive died in, which used to be my work computer with windows on it. And I have a hard disk drive from my laptop (windows machine, smashed by my partner, harvested HDD) and a HDD that I previously installed mx Linux studio on.

    I put the Linux drive in the computer and tried to start it up. It returned an error: error no such partition grub rescue

    I saw somewhere that I can fix this with a fresh Linux install, so I’m gonna try that later. But my bigger question is how do I use this laptop SSD in a desktop? Is the pin out some sort of micro or mini SATA? I MEED HELP 🥺

    • blipblip [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      20 days ago

      Hard to say without more info on the ssd. If it’s a standard 2.5 inch drive it should just work with a normal sata cable. If it’s an nvme drive it plugs directly into the mobo somewhere. If it’s some weird proprietary thing you might need to find a part number/model name and do some googling

    • ComradeLove [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      20 days ago

      Its been awhile since Ive done anything like this, but you can get a SATA to USB connector. There are powered ones that use A/C and otheres that just run of the USB power. You’d need to change your boot drive in bios too, maybe. Hopefully my suggestion isnt 10 years out of date.