>>7256803>>7255704>>7255225>>7254911>>7254896Something to keep in mind is that a lot of the stuff you see in Mexican Catholicism is almost as much Mesoamerican (Aztec, Maya, and all of the other civilizations in the region that were just as complex but nobody seems to know about like the Mixtec, Zapotec, Purepecha, Toltec, Huasttecs, Totonacs, Otomi, etc) in nature as it is Catholic.
Obviously death and skeletal iconography is a big deal in Mesoamerican religion, though less from a DUDE EVIL DEATH CULT perspective like most people think and more because rather duality and cycles were a big thing in a lot of, especially the Aztec/Nahua worldview, and life and death was viewed as such a cycle and dualism, so a lot of the blood and skeletal shit was actually a reflection on their views on the sanctity of life and it's wonder but impermanence.
I talk more about Mesoamerican human sacrifice, cosmology, and themes in their poetry and philosophy here:
https://desuarchive.org/his/thread/5495687/ 
