Ringtones Aztecs. Bashny.Net

During the long nights of December's cold north wind howling over the highlands of Mexico. The Aztecs called it Mictlampa Ehecatl, the wind of the Dead Earth. According to their beliefs, there is, where it goes dead on the fifth level of the Dead Country, constantly blowing winds of obsidian, stuffed
sharp stone blades. These blades pierce the flesh of the dead, and to protect them, along with relatives of the deceased were burned their clothes so they could take her with him.
"It's an ice cold wind - says archaeologist Arnd Adje Both, the museum in the Reiss-Engelhorn Mannhayme.- same icy and piercing, like the sound of a small flute with her face is depicted on the dead man's soul and freezing." The Aztecs believed that through this flute, speaking voice Deadwind, you can communicate with the departed.
The Aztecs loved grim. otherworldly sounds. They used human skulls and bones to extract tunes and sinking into a trance during their terrible rituals.
Studying music Aztecs - the science is quite young. Therefore, many of the findings were classified as toys and is now gathering dust in various museums and private collections. In addition, only a tiny fraction has been found intact.
Arnd Adje Both regained some of the musical instruments of the Aztecs and was able to extract from each sound.

1. & quot; Flower Drum & quot;





2. Bird Ocarina.



3. Flute, copying the contours of the male body.



4. Flute-eagle.



5. The double flute. The Aztecs believed that a person's breath - a kind of wind.



6. Dudka bird. The Aztecs did not say "to play an instrument, and" sing through it "



7. The vessel-pipe. Until now unraveled the mechanism of occurrence of sounds in it.



8. Tykva- "Rattle & quot ;. The Aztecs ispolzavat virtually any material to create their musical instruments - wood, stone, bone, animal skins, plant ...



9. ... and seashells.



10. Triple flute. This tool emits still quite harmonious sounds, compared to ...



11.vot this, the sound of which can lead to horror.



12. Flute "Totenkopf". The Aztecs made every effort. the instruments sounded as possible "otherworldly».



13. Flute Frog. Some tools are its sound justifies the name.



14.Etot tool represented just two gods, the ruler of the underworld Mictlantecuhtli, and the god of the wind Ehecatl



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