Aztec Monarch Butterfly Vintage Design Shirts

Among the Aztecs, the butterfly, or papalotl, was a sacred being that symbolized death. It was butterflies who, in their flight, transported the souls of the fallen in battle.
The residence of Xochirnilco represented their god Xochiquetzal, a symbol of fire and the soul, with the body and wings of a butterfly: the representation of love and beauty, it was considered the protectress of plants, painters, and artisans.
Both the necklaces on the giant statues at Tula and the Aztec calendar depict the butterfly as a representation of Eire.
The Mazahua call them the daughters of the sun and, like the Otomis, Matlazincas, and Mexicas, identify them today with the return of the spirits that come back year alter year to visit them during the festivities of the Day of the Dead, around the end of October and the beginning of November, the season when the monarch butterfly arrives in Mexico.
The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is the best known of all the butterflies in Central Mexico. Its orange wings, outlined in black with white specks, dominate the winters in some parts of the dense forests on the border region between the states of Mexico and Michoacán.
An exceptional species, the monarch butterfly is surprised with its astonishing biological adaptability which allows it to migrate with extreme precision every year.
The monarch butterfly's origins date back to more than 200 million years ago when Africa and South America were a single continent.
With the separation of the continents and subsequent ice ages, the monarch migrated in search of the milkweed (Asclepias sp), that it needed to feed its larvae.
Once established in the northern part of the hemisphere, when the temperatures dropped, the butterflies emigrated south to winter in Mexico in the temperate forests of the Transversal Volcanic Axis
in what are now the states of Michoacán and Mexico, where they can enjoy broad biodiversity and a benign climate. This migration is reversed when the temperatures in the south increase.
Gauging by both traditional knowledge and scientific research, the monarch butterfly's migrations date from thousands of years ago.

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