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🗓️ 22 January 2025
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In this episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses Thiuime, the goddess of war of the Tabasco people of southeast Mexico…
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0:40.5 | Hi, my name is Robert Lamb, and this is The Monster Fact, a short-form series from Stuff to Blow Your Mind focusing on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time. |
0:54.0 | In the Stuff to Blow Your Mind core episodes, we recently returned to a favorite topic of listeners, |
1:00.0 | that is, the topic of squirrels, which prompted me to finally cover a mythic squirrel from Meso-American |
1:06.2 | traditions here on The Monster Fact. |
1:09.0 | This entity stems from the traditions of the Tabasco people of |
1:12.4 | Southeast Mexico, whose roots go back thousands of years to the Olmec civilization. Teuemay is described |
1:19.8 | in the Encyclopedia of Religion, second edition, as a goddess presiding over women who died in |
1:25.1 | childbirth within the region of Uruchal or place of women. |
1:29.6 | And indeed, in contrast to some of the emaciated death entities of the Mayans and the Aztecs, |
1:35.2 | to UMA takes on the form of a black squirrel. |
1:39.0 | You'll find a captivating modern interpretation of this goddess by Mexican engraver and painter Echo in the |
1:45.6 | 2020 book, A Pre-Columbian Bestiary, by Elon Stavans. |
1:50.9 | A black squirrel perched upon a human skull, a traditional Makwai'it weapon toothed with |
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