Children bring their own kind of Love
- bexpressa2003
- Dec 12, 2021
- 1 min read
Updated: Nov 18, 2022
I am going to stretch a saying my old buddy Pete Sullivan said to me recently. Children bring their own kind of love and I would add… naturally and almost effortlessly sprinkling it around. How awesome is that!?!
The Mexican Sunflower symbolizes faith, loyalty and adoration but for the Mexica (Aztecs) it was a symbol and metaphor for war, the shape of the flower itself like a shield. Sunflowers were a key offering to the war god. Seems to me that love is also is a kind of shield and how fiercely we become in protecting our children with it!
These images are on page 5 in Atzi’s Flowers.
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"The name Aztecs was actually coined by explorer and geographer Alexander von Humboldt during his extensive travels through Latin America, observing the cultures of its indigenous people. He took this name partly from the word Aztlán, which according to the Mexicas was their northern homeland. Jonathan Kendall in his book La Capital writes that the Aztecs were actually a wandering, nomadic tribe who, opposed to popular belief, arrived at the Valley of Mexico starving and looking for a place to settle. They worked as warriors for hire in the many inter-tribal disputes among the people already settled in the area, until using that unrest to their advantage to become the ruling tribe of the area."
https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/mexico/articles/the-untold-story-behind-how-mexico-got-its-name/?amp=1
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