Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy (Bram Stoker's the Legend of the Mummy 2)

An Aztec Priest, an ancient evil, and the end of the fifth age of the earth. In this episode, we travel to Mexico to look into Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy from the year 2000. In the UK, this film was instead titled Bram Stoker's the Legend of the Mummy 2.

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Names and Terms

Cihuateteo = Devine Goddesses that haunt crossings and bring misfortune.

Huītzilōpōchtli = A solar and war god. The patron god of the Aztecs.

Mictlan = A hell like place of suffering beneath the earth where the Aztec's believed most people went after death.

Tlachtli = the court in which a Mesoamerican ballgame was played.

Tzitzimime = Deities with skeletal faces, webbed hands and feet, and necklaces of hands and hearts.

Bibliography

Aguilar-Moreno, M. (2006). Handbook to life in the Aztec world. Infobase Publishing

Burland, C, and Forman, W. (1980). The Aztecs: gods and fate in ancient Mexico. Orbis Publishing

IMDB. (2023). Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy. Retrieved from https://www.imdb.com/?ref_=nv_home

Jones, M. (2002). Bram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy 2. Retrieved from https://moviearchive.citizencaine.org/

Pennock, C, D. (2008). Bonds of blood: gender, lifecycle and sacrifice in Aztec culture. Palgrave Macmillan Publishing

Soustelle, J. (1955). Daily life of the Aztecs: on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest. O’Brian, P (Trans). Stanford University Press

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