Blood

• Blood is used in Offerings.

  Some offerings open a body. Vedic, Greek, and Nahua gifts that use blood are still different gifts.

  used in · interpretive · culturally specific

• Blood is associated with Red.

  Blood is the ordinary reason red is the color of a wound. The material fact is not a festival code.

  associated with · interpretive · documented

• Blood is used in Medicine.

  Blood is the craft’s oldest measure of what still lives. In medicine it is taken, staunched, and read — the closed body’s river turned to a sign the healer must answer.

  from SHOE.BLUE · SHOE.BLUE, 2026

  used in · interpretive · modern interpretation

• Blood is used in Incense.

  Blood used in Incense. The fluid of a closed body. Aromatics burned as offering or perfume. The Atlas keeps their meeting local, without dissolving either into a single meaning.

  from SHOE.BLUE · SHOE.BLUE, 2026

  used in · interpretive · modern interpretation

• Iron is associated with Blood.

  Blood tastes of iron because bodies use the metal. Later correspondences that join Mars, iron, and blood are a craft overlay on a material fact.

  associated with · interpretive · culturally specific

Nahua tradition

• Blood is used in Nahua tradition.

  Sahagún’s record treats blood as a costly offering in Mexica religion. The gift is local as his collaborators told it.

  from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577

  used in · sourced · culturally specific