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    Post by Dragon Thu Nov 09, 2023 12:43 am

    There are many different methods of catoptromancy. Some practitioners use a single mirror, while others use multiple mirrors or even crystal balls.

    Some people look into the mirror in a dark room, while others prefer to do it in natural light.

    Some practitioners focus on their own reflection, while others look for visions of other people or events.

    There is no one definitive interpretation of the images seen in catoptromancy.

    Some people believe that they are literal representations of the future, while others believe that they are symbolic or metaphorical.

    Ultimately, the meaning of the visions is up to the individual practitioner to decide.

    Catoptromancy continues to be practiced today, although it is not as widespread as it once was.


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    Post by Dragon Thu Nov 09, 2023 1:37 am

    Mirrors in Mesoamerican culture

    The use of mirrors in Mesoamerican culture was associated with the idea that they served as portals to a realm that could be seen but not interacted with.

    Mirrors in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica were fashioned from stone and served a number of uses, from the decorative to the divinatory.

    An ancient tradition among many Mesoamerican cultures was the practice of divination using the surface of a bowl of water as a mirror.

    Early mirrors were fashioned from single pieces of iron ore, polished to produce a highly reflective surface.


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    By roseandsigil - John Dee's Aztec Scrying Mirror

    Aztec mirror that passed into the possession of Elizabethan court alchemist and astrologer John Dee.

    Now in the collection of the British Museum

    Far from being a personal cosmetic accessory, mirrors in Mesoamerica were divinatory aids and also formed a part of elite status costume.

    Mirrors were viewed as metaphors for sacred caves and as conduits for supernatural forces; they were associated with fiery hearths and pools of water because of their bright surfaces.

    Mirrors were also closely associated with the sun.

    Mirrors were often used in pre-Columbian Mexico to reveal a person's destiny through divination.

    Among the Maya of the Classic period mirrors were a means of communication with otherworld entities, as depicted in scenes painted on ceramic vessels


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    Four-petalled flower-mirror from Teotihuacan, with feathered rim.[

    Mirrors were associated with fire in Mesoamerica, and representations of mirrors could take the form of flowers and be combined with representations of butterflies.

    Both butterflies and flowers were associated with fire in central Mexico from the Classic to Postclassic periods, with butterflies representing flames.

    The Olmecs of the Preclassic period fashioned concave mirrors that were capable of lighting fires.


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    Palacio de Quetzalpalotl, Teotihuacán. Courtyard: Pillar with Quetzal bird. The eye is made of Obsidian


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    Headress with central mirror from a mural at Teotihuacan, Mexico.

    Representations of mirrors in art from Classic period Teotihuacan and Guatemala's Pacific coastal region depict the mirror face using a glyph in the form of a reptile's eye, the meaning of which is not clear.

    In the Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España, the Nahuatl word tēzcatl is used to refer to both the eye and mirrors.

    This association also existed among the Maya, the Tzotzil Maya phrase nen sat is used for the pupil or eye and means literally "mirror of the face" or "mirror of the eye".

    This association of mirrors with eyes may derive from the highly reflective eyes of the jaguar. Mirror stones were used to represent the eyes in sculptures from many Mesoamerican cultures.


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    Aztec mirror carved from obsidian, on a modern wooden base. Museum of the Americas, Madrid.


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