Dékete Moi Sónt ([personal profile] deketemoisont) wrote in [personal profile] jprussell 2023-03-26 01:35 am (UTC)

"If you're looking for stuff on indigenous Mexican religion, open_space might be a good resource." - while I've seen him say interesting stuff, I think what he knows in practice is mostly European/Iberian Christian (which is also my impression regarding even mages of purely Amerindian race in the Andes), which can also at least partly be found in Brazil (e.g. Dogma and Ritual of High Magic in Portuguese is sold on some newsstands here). As someone not terribly inclined to the "hylic normie" ( https://violetcabra.dreamwidth.org/381271.html ) magic of most people (not meaning open_space as "hylic normie", but employers of folk magic in general), or to monotheism, the "reconstructionism" part was doing much of the heavy lifting in that description (I'm also not inclined to "Reconstructionism" in the narrow sense criticized by JMG, but I'd have looked into something clearly polytheistic with whatever philosophy the Mesoamericans had that could still be found). (Thanks, and in comments I just noticed open_space intends to write more about Mesoamerican relgion and thought than he did thus far!)

"the main dude makes me look laconic" - true; from a brief look, I thought he overdid it, while you're well-calibrated (for my taste; but then I'm sure you know how to be briefer in other contexts).

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