No one should doubt that the Mexican culture It is admired all over the planet. Proof of this is that in a corner of Japan there is bar who put on its façade a gigantic representation of the goddess Coatlicue.
The club in question bears the name of King XMHUlocated in the city of sapporoalthough the reasons why they decided to place the mesoamerican deity as the main symbol, it is still a mystery.
Mexica motifs inside the Japanese bar
And not only that, the bar also presents the face of a Mexica woman on the façade, as well as other representations of the same culture inside, according to a Mexican residing in that country on his Twitter account.
The Coatlicue discovery in 1970
It was on August 13, 1970 when, near the Zocalo of the city of mexicothe gigantic was found Coatlicue monolith, three meters high and weighing 12 tons. It was specifically on this depiction that the Japanese King XMHU bar was based on.
Said Coatlicue piece has several symbolic elements such as plants, skulls, shells, feathers and a skirt dressed in snakes. In fact, the head of this deity is made up of two of these reptiles facing each other.
Both represent the duality of good and bad, life and death as well as the masculine and feminine.
Coatlicue is important in the Mexica worldview because she is the mother of the gods. Centzon Huitznáhuac, coyolxauhqui and Huitzilopochtli. And all of them as a whole are part of one of the central myths.
In Mexico we did something similar?
Will the owners of the King XMHU know all this? Let’s hope so. As a funny anecdote, a Mexican who found out about the existence of this Japanese bar with Coatlicue on the façade commented on social networks that we Mexicans did something similar, because in the capital of the country we have the Frikiplaza.
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