Originally published at: Mexican president posts photo proving existence of mysterious Mayan elf | Boing Boing
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I’m sure some central american primatologist knows exactly what that is.
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The Tren Maya will be hugely destructive (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/mexico-tren-maya-destruction-archeology/) so it hardly seems like a good idea to be invoking any Mayan spirits.
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That’s just Rob Beschizza.
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It’s a Rhesus monkey wearing a powdered wig.
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I remember when this happened a few days ago the first guess was it was a hack, since the image isn’t hard to find and has been on Twitter multiple times even.
I don’t think any official statement has been made, which is…odd.
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One of the Nine?
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A presidential power grab, and a ludicrous attempt at distraction. Obrador has learned much from his neighbor to the north,
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Or is it a felted model of a rhesus monkey wearing a knitted powdered wig?
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Incredibly reasonable compared to the social media posts of our own former president…
I’m guessing it’s one of the three Ps (or combination thereof): Photoshop, pareidolia or prop, rather than an actual animal.
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That is clearly a picture of one of my sleep paralysis episodes
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At the foot of your bed? Succubus… or incubus?
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No, no, no. I often climb trees, fall asleep, then experience sleep paralysis
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Symbolism there… but of what? The Incubus?!!
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I would say that I’m more of a blunderbus
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True, there is the theory that they are one in the same. Gathering…and sowing
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