
Mas…La Cucaracha: The Green Card – Don’t leave home without it!
PREVIOUSLY IN ANCIENT TENOCHTITLAN:
Mas…La Cucaracha: In Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe meet the neighbors
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Mas…La Cucaracha: In Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe teach modern discipline
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Mas…La Cucaracha: In ancient Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe build a temple
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Mas…La Cucaracha: In ancient Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe use the ATM (toon)
Today’s creature is the tzitzimitl. Tzitzimitl (plural: tzitzimimeh) is a feminine spirit that looks like a skeleton with disheveled hair, sharp talons on its hands and feet, and a vicious personality.
Today’s featured creature is the ahuízotl. In the Florentine Codex, written years after the Conquista, it is described as an amphibious, medium-sized dog with a dark pelt, hands like a monkey, and a long tail with a human-like hand at the end.
The nahual is a human who can shapeshift or manifest in the form of an animal.
Know your history: The Mayans and the Aztecs developed advanced civilizations and eight U.S. states sit on land that used to be Mexico.
Languages around the world share similar characteristics, but how do we know if they are related?
The song started out in 1947 as Quizás, Quizás, Quizás by Cuban songwriter Osvaldo Farrés. In 1964, Doris Day had a hit with an English version Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps. And now we have Doris’ version sung by an Aztec-looking animated head and Monarch butterflies in this new music video The Time Has Come. What a great time to be alive! [Video by Jose Rene Trevino.]
Here’s an alt rock cover by Cake:
Mas…Doris Day Is Aztec? ‘Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps’ (videos)