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From the Vault: The Invention of the Mirror, Part 2

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Maya Lord of the Smoking Mirror

The obsidian mirror appears in an Aztec account describing a mirror or a tescatl that showed the stars and fire drill a constellation, even though it was daytime. The mirrors role and divination may be linked with astrology because tescatlypoca had numerous astronomical avatars. So it's interesting we see this idea of reflections in the mirror. It's clearly associated with reflections of us, but also reflections of the cosmos.

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