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Screenshot from the pilot episode of "The Adventures of Danny and Jansen" that first aired on July 6, 1993. The episode was called "Martian Mayhem". During their camping trip in the summer, Danny and Jansen discover a strange coin. Believed to be a souvenir, it turns out to be a trap by two notorious Martians. The boys were abducted in a UFO and on their way to Mars, they were tied to a pole and struggled to break free.
 
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The protagonists from the widely successful and beloved anime-inspired American adult animated action-fantasy comedy show on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, “Tlamauichiuantin” or “Champions” (2005-2008) created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko with South Korean animation studio Studio Mir doing the animation.

The show is based on the mythologies of Mesoamerica, featuring deities of Aztec and Mayan myth, while also making references to the Olmecs. Cartoon Network’s anime block, Toonami would show reruns of all 3 seasons in the early 2010s before DiMartino and Konietzko jointly announce on their YouTube channel, Project Tlalli that a sequel chronicling an alternative take on the fate of Mesoamerica during Europe’s Age of Exploration is being produced (Tlalli being the Nahuatl word for Earth, land, or world).​

The protagonists in the picture above as follows from bottom to top: Eztli the priestess, K'awai the warrior (and main character), the tlachtli playing twins (tlachtli is a Mesoamerican sport) Chimalli & Itzcoatl, K'awai’s mentor and elite warrior/tomboy Cualli, and lastly Nochchel who is a jaguar-like emissary of the god Tezcatlipoca and accompanies K’awai and co. on their quest. All characters in the show are voiced by native Nahuatl and Yucatec Maya speakers who also happen to speak fluent English (albeit with accents) with the exception of Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec god of the Underworld, who is voiced by Steve Blum.

That quest is to end the war between the gods of the Aztec and Mayan Overworlds (Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli, and Itzamná, Lord of the Mayan Heavens and Cosmos, to name the most prominent) and the gods of the Aztec and Mayan underworlds, Mictlantecuhtli and Cizin respectively. This war between the gods started when Mictlantecuhtli and Cizin started to steal blood sacrifices from the other gods, culminating in the great Mayan city of Kalakmul being leveled via a massive earthquake created by Cizin. To these ends, Huitzilopochtli, Aztec god of the Sun and war, attempts to close the gates to the Aztec underworld while Buluc Chabtan, Mayan god of war and violence, does the same to the Mayan underworld, but neither can do the deed due to said gates being made of obsidian, which is toxic against both Aztec and Mayan gods. So instead the gods of both Overworlds wage a destructive war against Mictlantecuhtli, Cizin, and their demonic forces with the mortals getting caught in the crossfire.

The creator gods of the Aztec and Mayan pantheon, Tezcatlipoca and Itzamná decide that though this war has only just started it needs to end now otherwise there won’t be any sacrifices left for any deity.

However, neither creator god actually wants to directly intervene so Itzamná suggests finding a human, "one who has a true spirit and infallible reason to aid us in our mission", and crown them his champion so he will close the gates before all of humanity is wiped out. Tezcatlipoca sends his champion, the jaguar Nochchel as an emissary and protector of Itzamná’s champion.

Itzamná chooses K'awai – a boy who, along with his mentor Cualli, are among the very few survivors of the “Swallowing of Kalakmul” along the way the two gather a group of brave and like-minded friends (Eztli, Chimalli, & Itzcoatl). The show is known for its very mature themes such a human sacrifice, extreme violence, nudity, swearing, homosexuality in the case of Chi’wai (Chimalli x K’awai) as well as its excellent use of authentic Aztec and Mayan traditional music.

It is due to the well done homosexual representation that Tlamauichiuantin is considered the first animated show with proper LGBT representation. Additionally, the portrayal of Aztec attitudes towards male homosexuality is nothing short of terrifying. Finally, the show was for many kids growing up watching Adult Swim, or later on Toonami, an in-depth gateway into Mesoamerican culture with its phenomenal world building as well as the show’s post credits skit, that would premier after every episode, called “Lessons with Quetzalcoatl” wherein the feathered serpent god would teach the audience Nahuatl words, sentences, culture & myths not covered in the show as well as teaching them how to “live like an Aztec”.

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K’awai and Cualli confront Mictlantecuhtli in his true form in the season one finale as their friends fight off the god’s demonic monsters and his human devotees.​
 
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The protagonists from the widely successful and beloved anime-inspired American adult animated action-fantasy comedy show on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, “Tlamauichiuantin” or “Champions” (2005-2008) created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko with South Korean animation studio Studio Mir doing the animation.

The show is based on the mythologies of Mesoamerica, featuring deities of Aztec and Mayan myth, while also making references to the Olmecs. Cartoon Network’s anime block, Toonami would show reruns of all 3 seasons in the early 2010s before DiMartino and Konietzko jointly announce on their YouTube channel, Project Tlalli that a sequel chronicling an alternative take on the fate of Mesoamerica during Europe’s Age of Exploration is being produced (Tlalli being the Nahuatl word for Earth, land, or world).​

The protagonists are from bottom to top: Eztli the priestess, K'awai the warrior (and main character), the tlachtli playing twins (tlachtli is a Mesoamerican sport) Chimalli & Itzcoatl, K'awai’s mentor and elite warrior/tomboy Cualli, and lastly Nochchel who is a jaguar-like emissary of of the god Tezcatlipoca and accompanies K’awai and co. on their quest. All characters in the show are voiced by native Nahuatl and Yucatec Maya speakers who also happen to speak fluent English (albeit with accents) with the exception of Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec god of the Underworld, who is voiced by Steve Blum.

That quest is to end the war between the gods of the Aztec and Mayan Overworlds (Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca, Huitzilopochtli, and Itzamná, Lord of the Mayan Heavens and Cosmos, to name the most prominent) and the gods of the Aztec and Mayan underworlds, Mictlantecuhtli and Cizin respectively. This war between the gods started when Mictlantecuhtli and Cizin started to steal blood sacrifices from the other gods, culminating in the great Mayan city of Kalakmul being leveled via a massive earthquake created by Cizin. To these ends, Huitzilopochtli, Aztec god of the Sun and war, attempts to close the gates to the Aztec underworld while Buluc Chabtan, Mayan god of war and violence, does the same to the Mayan underworld, but neither can do the deed due to said gates being made of obsidian, which is toxic against both Aztec and Mayan gods. So instead the gods of both Overworlds wage a destructive war against Mictlantecuhtli, Cizin, and their demonic forces with the mortals getting caught in the crossfire.

The creator gods of the Aztec and Mayan pantheon, Tezcatlipoca and Itzamná decide that this though this war has only just started it needs to end now otherwise there won’t be any sacrifices left for any deity.

However, neither creator god actually wants to directly intervene so Itzamná suggests finding a human, "one who has a true and infallible reason to aid us in our mission", and crown him his champion so he will close the gates before all of humanity is wiped out. Tezcatlipoca but sends his champion, the jaguar Nochchel as an emissary and protector of Itzamná’s champion.

Itzamná chooses K'awai – a boy who, along with his mentor Cualli, are the sole survivors of the “Swallowing of Kalakmul” along the way the two gather a group of brave and like-minded friends (Eztli, Chimalli, & Itzcoatl). The show is known for its very mature themes such a human sacrifice, extreme violence, nudity, swearing, and homosexuality in the case of the Chi’wai (Chimalli x K’awai) as well as its excellent use of authentic Aztec and Mayan traditional music.

It is due to the well done homosexual representation that Tlamauichiuantin is considered the first animated show with proper LGBT representation. Finally, the show was for many kids growing up watching Toonami or Adult Swim as an in-depth gateway into Mesoamerican culture with its phenomenal world building as well as the show’s post credits skit, that would premier after every episode, called “Lessons with Quetzalcoatl” wherein the feathered serpent god would teach the audience Nahuatl words, sentences, culture not covered in the show as well as teaching them how to “live like an Aztec”.
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K’awai and Cualli confront Mictlantecuhtli in his true form in the season one finale as their friends fight off the god’s demonic monsters and his human devotees.​
So this is basically of Onyx Equinox was created earlier and took the spot of Avatar as the main American anime-like cartoon?
 
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Representatives of the Lithuanian gentry at the Zemsky Sobor in 1641-1642.
In 1624 (during the Thirty Years' War), after the short reign of King Ludwik Valeza (the first and only "elective" monarch of Poland and Lithuania), Tsarevich Alexander Andreyevich Shuisky of Russia became the new Grand Duke of Lithuania. Three years later, he was crowned in Moscow as Tsar Alexander the Fourth. The new monarch initiated a number of processes that, on the one hand, were supposed to accelerate the Westernization of Muscovite Russia, and on the other hand, bring Lithuania closer to the Kingdom. In particular, "shlyakhta" began to actively participate in the life of the Russian state, to send their representatives to Zemsky Sobors. The tsar organized joint meetings of estate-representative bodies of Lithuania and Russia. On the borders of the two states, customs were destroyed, the Russian ranks were equalized with the Lithuanian ones, the Kyiv and other metropolises became part of the Russian Church.
However, for a long time, the Lithuanian nobles began to resist the centralization aspirations of the Central Authorities. They were also frightened by the growing influence of the Cossack elders and the Ruthenian petty nobility, which was used in confrontations with the magnates. In the end, a prominent part of the top of the Lithuanian magneteria tried to break the union during the seven-year war of 1665. The result was the liquidation of the Russian-Lithuanian autonomy, and the unification of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Tsardom of Russia into the Russian Empire.
 
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