An Aztec Priest, an ancient evil, and the end of the fifth age of the earth. In this episode, we travel to Mexico to look into Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy from the year 2000. In the UK, this film was instead titled Bram Stoker's the Legend of the Mummy 2.
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Names and Terms
Cihuateteo = Devine Goddesses that haunt crossings and bring misfortune.
Huītzilōpōchtli = A solar and war god. The patron god of the Aztecs.
Mictlan = A hell like place of suffering beneath the earth where the Aztec's believed most people went after death.
Tlachtli = the court in which a Mesoamerican ballgame was played.
Tzitzimime = Deities with skeletal faces, webbed hands and feet, and necklaces of hands and hearts.
Bibliography
Aguilar-Moreno, M. (2006). Handbook to life in the Aztec world. Infobase Publishing
Burland, C, and Forman, W. (1980). The Aztecs: gods and fate in ancient Mexico. Orbis Publishing
IMDB. (2023). Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy. Retrieved from https://www.imdb.com/?ref_=nv_home
Jones, M. (2002). Bram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy 2. Retrieved from https://moviearchive.citizencaine.org/
Pennock, C, D. (2008). Bonds of blood: gender, lifecycle and sacrifice in Aztec culture. Palgrave Macmillan Publishing
Soustelle, J. (1955). Daily life of the Aztecs: on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest. O’Brian, P (Trans). Stanford University Press
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