Context: The legendary founding of Tenochtitlan (today Mexico City), originally built literally on a lake. The story goes that the spot for the city was shown to a wandering tribe of Mexica by gods - an eagle with a snake in its beak perched on a cactus.
Btw, not my meme it's been around for years in original mexican
Thanks for sharing this nice peek into Mexican history. It led me to Aztec priests, their razor-sharp obsidian blades and the impressions of Spanish conquistadores, detailing the things they saw, before they started doing what conquistadores do...
It maddens me to no end that the Aztecs had a fairly robust writing and number system with an extensive written history that was almost entirely burned and destroyed by the Spanish.
Conquist-adoring everyone and everything in sight of course
Ah, yes, the founding of Chicago
Fun fact: in Italian “Chicago” means “I crap in it”. Apt homophone for a city built on a body of water.
Another fun fact, there crap actually doesn't go in the lake. They built a canal a while ago to flush it down to st. Louis then down the Mississippi.
Actually it goes into a tour boat full of people. And it’s Dave Matthew’s poops.
omg, how disgusting. how does that even happen?
"Did I stutter?" - Tenochtitlan's founder
And it was kinda epic tbh
What more could you want? The whole thing to be full of salt?
What could possibly be better? The fucking west coast or some shit?
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