This little character caught my eye on the walk home for a bland lunch. It's Huehueteotl, an old god of the Aztecs, from the fire and sacrifice era. Try to resist bric-a-brac, but it spoke to me.

Amazingly we *just* completed a 52 year cycle of the Aztec calendar! 27th Sept was the start of the 5 unlucky days, and right now we are in a short period of renewal, "somewhere between winter and spring, something wakes in the dreaming heart which endures across the span of the cycling age".

https://www.azteccalendar.com/date/2026/10/6

A good time to welcome Huehueteotl into one's home :)