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Meredith Rose@mrose.ink |
Apparently the government of the Yucatán recently erected a Poseidon statue on one of their major beaches. It’s a very heavily Mayan area, where people still pray to Chaac, the god of rainfall. They’re now being slammed with 3 hurricanes and significant flooding, leading to memes like this
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Lennie
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Why would they even do this?
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Stephen Cox Author only more so
@stephencoxauthor.bsky.social
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Bloody immigrant gods, swimming around here, taking our sacrifices
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Cathy W
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I remember on a visit to Mexico City being told a story about a statue of Tlaloc that did not want to be relocated to a museum, thankyouverymuch, and made it rain until they took it off the truck and set it up on the side of the road.
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Mark Blacknell
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They should tie whatever consultant came up with that to the statue.
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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻🥦💥🏠♫
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i love this
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Xander Sable
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Hmmmm. Always consult your local Gods before invoking a divine punch-up. Especially where pluvial forces get brought in on the equivalent of 'Give him the chair! THE CHAIR!!!!'
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Spoonbill Reducks
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Honestly, do people not check in with local deities before setting up a statue of a competitor?
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Luis 🦝🐦⬛🤖
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fuckin lmao
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Becca's Mullet
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Oh, my! I don't know what startles and enchants me more! The international meme, the idea of the statue, or the indigenous power this shows! How lovely!
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CTPhipps
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Hey, the Greek Gods were never territorial! Why can't you pray to both?
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Jawn Gyatti
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Cities that erect giant Poseidon statues have this weird history of disappearing into the sea....
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Jonathan
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Why would anybody think that was a good idea
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Neurocysticercosis 🇵🇸🍉
@neurocysticercosis.bsky.social
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Smite players know this was the natural outcome. Chaac rules
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Lots42
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Stuff like this is why I think twice when planes and boats are named things like 'Zeus' Folly' or 'Fairyland Adventure'. You're just asking for trouble.
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Meredith Rose
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The offending Poseidon statue and a “charge Area 51”-style Facebook event calling for its destruction
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Gabriel S. Jacobs
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Just going to drop this here.
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Christinn
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If that is the greatest problem they have, I am moving.....
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John Smith Of the Smiths of Smithtown by the village smithy
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They need some one to give them a copy of Gaiman's Anazazi Boyz
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Jen Ebbeler
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As a Classicist, I appreciate the meme. But man, I’m sorry to hear they are in Beryl’s path.
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Liz 🏳️⚧️
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This is what happens when you don't show respect to the local gods
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AstraTheKobold
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Wait I got to google who Tláloc is
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Arthur Mandal
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too funny!
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Professor Furious
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The old gods have no sense of humor about this kind of thing.
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Dirty Biker
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When I was in Tuluum 15 years ago there was basically zero acknowledgment of Christmas but NYE was like the 4th of July on steroids.
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El Doc Logan
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🦬 AudeS, Wrath Month is upon thee
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Do not fuck with Chaac, guy caused so much rain when our teacher called his name from a pyramid.
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