Marguerite Salt
Oct 14, 2026
The Bone Lord of Mictlan
An account of Mictlantecuhtli, the skeletal Mexica lord who receives the dead in Mictlan, and the Día de Muertos customs that keep a version of his old welcome alive.
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Oct 5, 2026
When the Tecolotl Sings
A field account of the tecolotl, the horned owl long held in Nahua and Mesoamerican belief to be a messenger of Mictlantecuhtli, lord of the dead, and still read as a death omen across much of Mexico and Central America.
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