Gay Pri 2022 – Xochipilli, Flower Prce | Richard Balthazar

Contents:

• XōCHIPILLI: AZTEC GOD OF LOVE, FLOWERS, POETRY, GAY MEN, MALE PROSTUT, DANCG, AND FERTILY
• GAY PRI 2022 – XOCHIPILLI, FLOWER PRCE
• XOCHIPILLI, EL DS AZTE LOS PROSTUTOS GAY
• BARON VON STBEN, WASHGTON’S GAY GENERAL AND FRIEND

XōCHIPILLI: AZTEC GOD OF LOVE, FLOWERS, POETRY, GAY MEN, MALE PROSTUT, DANCG, AND FERTILY

The Aztecs were known for their many unique i, but one of the most fascatg is Xōchipilli, the Aztec god of flowers, love, art, and fertily, as well as patron of homosexualy.

In particular, Xōchipilli is nsired a patron of homosexualy due to his affiliatn wh male prostutn. Many of his worshippers were male prostut and gay men who sought the god’s strength and healg for health and relatnship matters. Though Xōchipilli is heavily associated wh male prostutn and homosexualy, he was often paired wh Xochiquetzal, the godss of love, fertily, bety, pregnancy, and childbirth.

Xōchipilli: Aztec God of Love, Flowers, Poetry, Gay Men, Male Prostut, dancg, and fertily.

GAY PRI 2022 – XOCHIPILLI, FLOWER PRCE

But what brgs here is that acrdg to the soclogist David Greenberg – his book “The nstctn of homosexualy” of 1990 – Xochipilli would have also been the y of homosexuals. Not much is known about homosexualy pre-Hispanic Ameri, but general, we n say that, as now,  was rejected by some societi and accepted by others.

Although Spanish rmants such as Bernal Díaz l Castillo and Hernán Cortés have said that Mexi’s people Tenochtlan practiced homosexualy, they have also e to ntradict some other chroniclers such as Bernardo Sahagún, who says was a very punished suatn. So the value of the ttimoni of one and the other n be qutned regardg the issu, so we n not say if homosexualy was accepted, tolerated or punished pre-Hispanic Mexi.

That is to say, Cortés assur that Tenochtlan homosexualy is a mon practice and, what is more, generalized for the populatn. To add to the nfn, one more ttimony, om the “Historia Ecliasti Indiana”, by Fray Jerónimo Mendieta, tells about the daily life of homosexualy tim before Nezahualpilli, son of Nezahualcóyotl:. If we take to acunt Cortés’ ment on homosexualy, then we mt assume that male prostutn also existed.

XOCHIPILLI, EL DS AZTE LOS PROSTUTOS GAY

That is, was a transvte, sce homosexual as such is translated to Nahuatl as “cuiloni” or “chimouhqui”. Therefore, Greenberg duc, homosexualy was accepted, but through transvtism. Greenberg pots out then that, beg the same Xochipilli reprented as a man, but wh the attribut of a prostute (tattoos, flowers) or a transvte who practiced prostutn (xochihua), may have also had a homosexual aspect.

And here the most tertg: that homosexual aspect would have been hered directly om the Toltec worldview. However, wh the legacy that the Toltecs left to the peopl that veloped later were, addn to their language and art, their worldview and, as part of , their i, among whom is Xochipilli as regent of art, the gam, the pleasur, the poetry and the flowers … and homosexualy?

BARON VON STBEN, WASHGTON’S GAY GENERAL AND FRIEND

Xochipilli, the Aztec god of homosexualy, on procsn at Mexi Cy Pri. LGBT is still a popular term ed to discs genr and sexual mori, but all GSRM are wele beyond lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who nsent to participate a safe space.

As a ntrast today I’ll celebrate the arrival of May flowers by brgg you what appears to be a transsexual flower god of who was also a patron y of gay sex. What is appropriate is that the Spanish word for butterfly, mariposa, is often ed the Spanish-speakg world (cludg Mexi) for a gay man.