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Mis entrevistados en este episodio son Anny Gabriela Ventura Puac y Jairo Chamalé Lemus. Anny es ajquij(guía espiritual), politóloga e investigadora, actual curadora en jefe de Espacio/C. Nacida en Chuwila, Chichicastenango, Quiché, Guatemala. Es mujer Maya Kiche con identidad diversa, sanadora y contadora del tiempo. Tiene estudios en Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, Relaciones Internacionales y una especialidad en ODS para Naciones Indígenas. Es confundadora de Espacio C, en dónde se ha desempeñado como gestora cultural desde 2013 y curadora en Jefe desde 2023.En Guatemala su trabajo está presente en diversos espacios sociales, políticos y culturales, como consultora independiente para organizaciones no gubernamentales, trabajando con niñas, mujeres y adolescentes mayas y no mayas a nivel nacional, en temas concretos como empoderamiento político, salud (diabetes / VIH) y sanación desde la Cosmovisión Maya.Jairo es persona disidente, del territorio Poqomam de Mixco, viajero e investigador se la religiosidad popular, las expresiones culturales y la espiritualidad de su contexto cercano. Es guía de turismo y estudiante de antropología.Notas del EpisodioAnny y Jairo y el Cristo NegroEl camino de peregrinacion entre Mixco y OaxacaQuirio Catano y las origines del cristo negroLas diversas formas de sacrificar y bailarLas colonizaciones de EquipulasEl base de cristo negro en el mundo maya/mexicaEl crisis climatico y la falta de ofrendasLas consecuencias de la perdida de hospitalidadLa memoria vivida del intercambio intercultural antiguaTarea Abisaí Navarro María Jacinta Xón / Proyecto Tux Cocina Gourmet de OrigenHoja de Pacaya - InstagramLos Cofrades Chichicastenango - Instagramespacio/C arte+memoria - InstagramTranscripcion en espanol (English Below)S6 - Anny Puac & Jairo - Peregrinacion a EsquipulasChris: [00:00:00] Bienvenida y bienvenido al podcast El Fin del Turismo Annie y Jairo. Gracias a ambos por acompañarme hoy. Me encantaría que pudieran contarles a nuestros oyentes desde dónde llaman y cómo aparece el mundo ahí para cada uno de ustedes.Anny: Muchas gracias, Chris y buenos días a quienes nos escuchen o buenas tardes o buenas noches, dependiendo su zona horaria.Mi nombre es Anny y yo le saludo desde el territorio maya K'iche' de Chuwila, K'iche' Guatemala específicamente.Jairo: Buenos días a ambos, para mi un gusto estar por acá. Sawe ta inteer winaq (Buenos días a todas y todos) mucho gusto desde el territorio pues Poqomam de Mixco y también desde las cercanías a la ciudad de Guatemala, pues gracias por esta [00:01:00] oportunidad para compartir conocimiento.Chris: Y gracias a ustedes dos. Yo estoy aquí en Oaxaca y el mundo parece obviamente un poco raro. Bueno, quizás no es obvio, pero parece más raro día por día. Estamos aquí hoy para hablar de Esquipulas en Guatemala. Y Esquipulas es el lugar de varias iglesias que han abergado al cristo negro de la ciudad, que es famosa por sus supuestos milagros durante los últimos cuatro siglos.De manera similar, la peregrinación al santuario es la más grande de América Central y la segunda más grande de las Américas, con lo que leí, 5 millones de personas que lo visitan cada año. Ahora, para empezar, ¿Estarían dispuestos a explicar que impulsó a cada uno [00:02:00] de sus intereses o relaciones con este lugar y la práctica de la peregrinación?Anny: Sí, por supuesto Chris. Pues, yo desde como mi relación, digamos personal o individual como familia, yo tengo, digamos, como clara la idea de cuando inician estas peregrinaciones, de pronto, cuando yo ya tenía unos siete u ocho años de edad, así, para decirte que yo tengo claridad, pero cuando yo retrocedo a los archivos de la familia, pues veo que el tema de peregrinar a Esquipulas, pues comienza con mis abuelas.Jairo: Entonces yo te podría decir que dentro de mi familia, la peregrinación a Esquipulas , así quizá llevará mínimamente unos 80 años presente en la familia, sobre todo del lado de [00:03:00] mi abuela materna. Que ella es de un territorio K'iche' de Quetzaltenango, en donde pues empezaban el viaje, en conjunto, allá fuera un viaje de barrio organizado por el barrio, o era un viaje familiar, entonces se iban uno o dos buses en aquel tiempo cuando no había tanto transporte, verdad? Era un lujo también irse por alguna ruta en donde hubiera paso para bus. Y pues, lo que no se pudiera transitar ya en bus, pues se hacía caminando, se hacían burros, pero, más o menos por ahí viene un poquito la historia de de cómo inician estas rutas de peregrinaje en mi familia, digamos. Con el caso de nosotros, yo no tengo conciencia de pequeño de haber, pues, llegado a Esquipulas. Bueno, hay un dato bien interesante, cuando yo cumplo 40 días de haber nacido, mi familia decide llevarme a [00:04:00] Esquipulas, eso pues está en el archivo fotográfico de la familia como agradecimiento, porque al final nací con... nací bien.Jairo: Y entonces la familia decide peregrinar es el dato más cercano que tengo de la personal de las idas a Esquipulas. Claro, esto siempre lo he tenido muy familiarizado dentro de mi contexto cercano, puesto que la gente pues de mi municipio suele ir justo organizada en excursiones de las diferentes organizaciones religiosas que hay en mi municipio.Estas, pues designan fechas y son buses llenos de aproximadamente 50 personas. Cada bus suelen llegar hasta tres, de acá de Mixco, pues que se van para para Esquipulas. Y ese es algo bien interesante porque es pues, parte de la modernidad, digámoslo ir en bus, pero hay muchas anécdotas de las personas de acá del pueblo que [00:05:00] cuentan cómo, pues iban de una forma más rústica, verdad? Que podía ser, pues en peregrinaje caminando, que no era la única peregrinación, de hecho la del cristo negro de Esquipulas. Hoy puntualmente, vamos a hablar de ella.Pero pues están también las peregrinaciones Antigua Guatemala que está aquí cerquita, aquí detrás de nosotros hay un cerro que es el cerro Alux. Este cerro se cruzaba, pues caminando, todavía lo hace la gente caminando porque detrás del cerro está, pues la bajada para llegar a la Antigua Guatemala.Chris: Gracias. Gracias a ustedes. Pues así, por conocer un poco más de sus historias, como de peregrinación, me gustaría saber un poco más si se podrían ofrecer algo de la larga historia de Esquipulas, del cristo negro y pues, ¿Cómo se originó la la peregrinación? ¿De donde viene esa historia?.Jairo: Bueno, como lo mencioné antes, diciendo algunas [00:06:00] palabras en el idioma poqomam. Es el idioma que se hablaba, pues en nuestro pueblo. Lo voy a decir nuevamente más despacio para, pues, describirles que es lo que dije, técnicamente es:Sawe' ta inteer winaq, kiroo wilkee' chipam ma' q 'oriik taqee, reh ma' ojeer winaq reh qatinimiit Mixko' buenos días a todos. Qué gusto pues poder compartir estas palabras y también un poco de la historia de la gente antigua de nuestro pueblo. Porque pues, la verdad es que el peregrinaje a Esquipulas está muy relacionado e intrínseco con la gente de Mixco y justamente también con el territorio oaxaqueño. Mi nombre, pues es Jairo, Jairo Andrés Chamale Lemus. Yo pues pertenezco a este territorio, a la gente maya poqomam. De acá es la mitad de mi familia de mis antepasados. Y , pues me dedico al turismo. Yo soy guía [00:07:00] de turistas de hace aproximadamente ocho años ya desde que me gradué muy joven. Y, pues me he dedicado justo a peregrinar para que las personas conozcan también el contexto histórico de Guatemala y de las diferentes expresiones culturales, religiosas y también de resistencia de la gente en el territorio de lo que ahora conocemos como Guatemala.Pues también, soy estudiante de la carrera de antropología, de la licenciatura específicamente en antropología, y pues me he dedicado también a estudiar el caso del idioma maya poqomam en Mixco, que es una comunidad muy cercana a la ciudad de Guatemala, que hemos tenido pues un impacto, demográfico y social, pues bastante fuerte, pues debido al crecimiento del área metropolitana de la ciudad de Guatemala. Es algo a lo que me he dedicado a estudiar durante los últimos años. Y también, pues, a [00:08:00] documentarlo, porque tenemos muchas prácticas culturales y espirituales en nuestro pueblo, que han ido desapareciendo conforme este avance demográfico de la ciudad, muchísimas gracias. Rontyoox aq'oo taAnny: Bueno Chris. En realidad hay un registro, digamos histórico, donde dice que el primer peregrinaje que se inicia a Esquipulas, fue en Marzo 1595, cuando la imagen sale del taller de este señor escultor Quirio Cataño, que sale hacia Esquipulas, hacia Chiquimula. Esto está al oriente de Guatemala. Nosotros lo conocemos como la zona caliente de de Guatemala. Pero es la zona, digamos, como caliente árida. Es un territorio en donde hay comunidad Xinca, Popti', si no estoy mal Chortí también. Y pues, la producción que se [00:09:00] tiene por las tierras de por allá, estamos hablando de frutas de algunas plantas, de algunos tubérculos más o menos, pero más que todos se dedican a la fruta, verdad.Esta primera peregrinación la documenta y la registra el cronista, que se llama Miguel Álvarez. Y él dice que, cuando cuando salióó del taller y se dirigió hacia Esquipulas la imagen iba haciendo diferentes milagros en todo el recorrido hasta llegar a la basílica. Entonces habían personas que le pedían justamente que, que por favor que la imagen pasara por lo menos una noche dentro de la casa de las personas para, bendecirlo. Y Y más o menos se calcula cada año, digamos en la actualidad, ahora en Guatemala y en alrededor de 300 mil personas de todo el mundo, más que todo entre México, Centroamérica, países del sur, por ejemplo de Perú [00:10:00] de Ecuador de Ecuador, Bolivia, si no estoy mal, es como mucha la cantidad de gente que llega, más o menos entre noviembre, que ahorita es como una fecha de noviembre y diciembre y todo enero, digamos, esas son como los tres meses de muchísima más afluencia de personas que llegan llegan a la basílica, verdad? Entonces se le puede llamar romerías, se le puede llamar una peregrinacion que peregrinación, usualmente, pues ahí si que las personas que visitan puede ser que hagan así como un día de visita nada más o puede ser que pueda prolongarse una visita hasta por 10, 15 días, verdad?De la ciudad de Guatemala, hasta Esquipulas hay una distancia más o menos como entre unos 220 a 250 kilómetros y se recorre, si vas como en romería, pasando por lugares como muy puntuales de toda la peregrinación, en promedio [00:11:00] cada día tú vas haciendo un tramo de 40 kilómetros, al día, digamos si tu intención es ir en peregrinaje así. Entonces eso es más o menos como más datos históricos y el relato, verdad?Chris: Y estoy un poco curioso, dentro de las estancias, al llegar a Esquipulas, si yo fuera peregrinando, por ejemplo, ¿ Qué haría? ¿Se van parando para hacer sus rezos? Me gustaría saber por alguien que nunca ha hecho una peregrinación, como aparecía esos días antes de venir.Anny: Bueno, yo te voy a contar un poquito el relato de de mi familia porque mi abuela materna, ella sí era una señora, pues muy católica, no? Entonces, pues ella, su peregrinaje, digamos para ella, era su sacrificio, verdad? En el año, decir bueno, por agradecimiento [00:12:00] a mi salud, a los milagros que me concedió, porque era como muy devota. Era el hecho de salir en ruta de peregrinaje. ¿Qué implicaba esto? Inclusive, preparar comida para no digamos como perder el tiempo, tú pensando en qué comer durante el camino, porque la idea para ellos y para ellas era, pues, ir en como en recogimiento, en rezo constante, en oración, digamos en petición, ir como parando cada cierto tiempo, verdad? Cada 40 kilómetros, porque que ya dentro de la comunidad, católica-cristiana, hay puntos que están como marcados dentro de la ruta en donde tú puedes ir parando con cada familia, porque puede ser que tengan una réplica de la imagen del cristo negro, porque de hecho, cuando fue la primera peregrinación, puede ser que esta familia haya sido una de las [00:13:00] familias que recibió por primera vez el cristo negro.Entonces se convierte como en ese punto de de parada, verdad? Entonces, cuando hacen ese punto de parada, pues ya bajan. Bajan a hacer oración, bajan a platicar y a convivir con las personas de pronto, a compartir un alimento. Ya sentir, pues, así que también como su fé, su devoción, pero al mismo tiempo su convivencia, su alegría en este, en este tramo de compartir no?.Entonces eso digamos, es lo que usualmente, pues se ve. Yo también he visto otras personas que, por ejemplo, ya cuando quedan unos, son los últimos 20 kilómetros de recorrido por ejemplo, descienden de sus vehículos y caminan de rodillas esos 20 kilómetros hasta llegar a la basílica. Entonces, pues, los ves, ya puede ser que sea solo el papá con con el hijo, o el papá y la mamá, o pues la diversidad de personas que puedan llegar, que van y que pues hacen su penitencia, y [00:14:00] entregan digamos, pues su sacrificio de esta forma. Así como hay personas que puede ser que, que durante toda su ruta de peregrinaje, hay un ejemplo de unos, de unas personas cercanas a nosotros que tienen un conjunto de marimba, de música, y pues lo que hacen es que van con un vehículo y van ejecutando música todo el trayecto hasta llegar a Esquipulas, y ya cuando llegan a la basílica, bajan con sus instrumentos y se dedican a cantar ya sea una canción, un tiempo, verdad?Ahí, entonces, pues yo creo que depende, varía mucho de lo que te puedas tú dedicar o el agradecimiento que tú quieras pues dar, o a lo que, pues, lo que tu corazón salga, no? En mi caso como muy puntual, pues nosotros hacemos el recorrido completo los 220 kilómetros en vehículo hasta llegar a Esquipulas. Y luego, pues ahí ya, o sea, nos establecemos [00:15:00] y como nuestras dinámicas son un tanto como diferentes porque yo no soy católica. Yo soy de la cosmovisión maya, y pues ahí he crecido buena parte de mi vida. Mi concepción como de ver esta ruta de peregrinaje es diferente, porque si bien es cierto el que el cristo negro, pues es una figura de un cristo crucificado cristiano, Jesús, nosotros aprendimos a ver cómo la historia del pueblo Poptí y Chorti y Chortí, en cuanto a que esta ruta de peregrinaje es bien interesante, porque durante toda tu ruta más, más o menos, me atrevería a decir que tal vez un 70 de la ruta, tú vas encontrando montañas de obsidiana, entonces es una ruta que en sí es una ruta de sanación y para nosotros, digamos dentro de la cosmovisión maya está muy relacionada con el Nahual Tijax, que es la obsidiana y para [00:16:00] quizá buena parte de Oaxaca o de su Istmo o de la cultura Náhuatl, por ejemplo, está relacionado con Tezcatlipoca que era justamente esta veneración de esta mujer que decían que era brillante y color de cobrizo y de nigriso verdad? Y por tanto, Y pues tú sabes que ambas piedras o estos relatos que nos cuentan, pues es justamente sanación y de ahí que nosotros creemos que por eso el cristo negro es tan milagroso cuando se trata de temas de salud.Jairo: Desde nuestro lado, por así decirlo, forma parte ya de un peregrinaje que no solamente se hace el 15 de enero. Claro, el 15 de enero es el día establecido para hacer el peregrinaje de cristo negro de Esquipulas. Pero pues, muchos de los grupos que les comentaba que son bastante diversos acá en Mixco, grupos religiosos principalmente católicos, o pues sincretizados de [00:17:00] alguna forma, establecen también estas visitas como parte de su organización dentro del grupo de personas que inciden.Y entonces si, justamente dentro del bus, también se suele, pues, ir rezando el rosario, que es esta práctica de ir rezando las novenas con un orden establecido con cantos y la gente, pues suele ir desde que salen de ciudad de Guatemala o desde que salen de acá desde Mixco, que hay que cruzar la ciudad y luego la ruta hacia el oriente de Guatemala, la gente va haciendo estas oraciones cada cierto tiempo, pero depende mucho del grupo y de qué tan católico sea de alguna forma, porque hay grupos que solamente lo hacen como una excursión claro. El fin principal es de la visita, pues a la basílica del cristo negro y la veneración de cristo negro como tal.Y, pues solamente llegan en en el bus hasta la basílica y algo que caracteriza mucho a la cultura de [00:18:00] Mixco, es el, la quema de pólvora. A nosotros nos fascina la pólvora y cuando llegamos a Esquipulas justamente esa es la premisa, no? Llegar a quemar bombas de sonido, de sonido estridente en aviso que la gente de Mixco ya llegó.Y también fuegos pirotécnicos de colores. Es bien curioso porque depende mucho del grupo y a lo que el grupo, pues aunque sea católico o sincretizado con lo maya, a lo que este grupo religiosamente se dedique, encaminado a eso va la actividad que se va a realizar allá.Tengo conocimiento de un grupo que, de hecho, ya se documentó a gracias al CECEG, al Centro de Estudios Culturales de la Universidad de San Carlos, de Guatemala, es el grupo El Baile de Moros de los Seis Toritos, que es básicamente un grupo de danza tradicional que nace en la aldea Lo De Bran que está acá en Mixco siempre dentro [00:19:00] del área metropolitana y ellos, pues se dedican a bailar El Torito. El Torito es básicamente la representación de una danza que se hace en alusión a dueños de una finca y el trato hacia los animales. Entonces los animales tienen una especie de de revelación contra este dueño de la finca, una historia bien, sutilmente contada desde lo maya también. Y entonces van a hacer esta representación de la danza a Esquipulas. Esto lo hacen justamente para la fiesta del cristo negro. Bailan todo el día, durante tres días seguidos frente al atrio de la iglesia de Esquipulas, mientras millones de personas visitan la basílica de cristo negro y en ese momento ellos están bailando ahí.Chris: Qué fascinante. Me encanta ese sentido, esa onda que, que hay tanta diversidad, en la forma, los caminos, las celebraciones que se niegue un poco [00:20:00] ese sentido occidental que es como de siempre asumir o buscar una sola respuesta, una sola historia, una sola manera, de actuar, de entender.Y así fue sorprendiente para mí por leer, por investigar las historias de Esquipulas y de las peregrinaciones porque encontré muchas historias diversas. Entonces voy a leer un poquito de lo que encontré y me gustaría escuchar de ustedes, si se podrían comentar un poco de si hay sentidos de "eso es como puro chisme o es un rumor" o si hay capas y capas dentro de las historias de Esquipulas y las peregrinaciones.Entonces, pues la primera va que "en la ciudad sagrada de Copán se celebraban grandes fiestas en honor [00:21:00] a dios maya Ek-Kampulá que significa: 'el que empuja las nubes', pues se le atribuía el poder de alejar las lluvias y permitir los días del sol necesarios para preparar la siembra.Ek-Kampulá que era de color negro, estaba rodeado con una antorcha en la mano izquierda. Su figura se puede apreciar en las graduadas de uno de los templos de Copán." Ahora, el segundo."Algunos relatos dicen que la figura del cristo negro fue ordenada por los conquistadores españoles en Guatemala en ese momento para facilitar la conversión de los pueblos locales al cristianismo."Ahora, el próximo. "Las leyendas piadosas afirman que la imagen se oscureció debido a los misioneros españoles que deseaban convertir a los [00:22:00] nativos que adoraban a la deidad nebulosa pagana Ek-Kampulá en el área que también era representada como una figura oscura." Entonces, supongo que mi pregunta es como, ¿Cuántas de estas historias han escuchado Y ¿Cuáles historias son las meras meras verdaderas según ustedes? O si hay capas y capas y capas de historias en qué todas merecen su lugar.Jairo: Yo creería que, Copán tiene un papel bien importante dentro de lo que estamos hablando. Ahora es un sitio arqueológico del área residencial o el castillo, por así decirlo, y los templos de la gente maya de ese tiempo, recordemos que es el clásico. Y pues esta ciudad fue colonizada por otra ciudad que se llama Quiriguá, que está siempre en las riberas del Río Motagua, un río muy [00:23:00] importante que comunica toda la parte de las montañas de Guatemala con el Caribe. Y en Copán si hay muchas expresiones espirituales. Seguro, Anny nos va a ampliar un poco más de esto. Pero lo que yo he visto son muchas expresiones, rituales espirituales y también, un centro de peregrinaje como tal ya fungía Copán. O sea, ya era una capital política, religiosa y cultural muy importante que está muy cerca de Esquipulas. Es increíblemente como un sitio maya tan importante del clásico está tan cerca a una ciudad, que es tan importante para todo el área mesoamericana. Es decir, desde México hasta Costa Rica, conocen al cristo negro de Esquipulas. Y pues también algo que a mi me llama la atención relacionado a lo que acabas de decir es como, Esquipulas, pues si es un referente para la gente pues católica, la gente católica que no es maya va [00:24:00] también a Esquipulas como una forma de peregrinaje, pero, a mi me llama mucho la atención, la práctica también de la espiritualidad maya y otras espiritualidades que se llevan a cabo en Esquipulas, no?quizás no es tan directamente relacionado con la figura que acabas de mencionar, que yo he escuchado como Ek-Chuah, sino que es esta figura de la piedra de los compadres, que es una leyenda, no? Una leyenda de adulterio, por así decirlo, en el cual hay dos piedras que están pegadas en alusión a dos amigos que llegan al peregrinaje de cristo negro de Esquipulas y en un acto sexual, estos compadres se quedan pegados como castigo por haber cometido el adulterio. Esa es la leyenda. Y en esa piedra, pues se practica la espiritualidad maya, es decir a pocos ni siquiera un kilómetro de la de la basílica del cristo negro de Esquipulas, puedes ver esta piedra donde la gente coloca, [00:25:00] pues, sus candelas, su incienso y hay altares dedicados completamente a la espiritualidad maya dentro del mismo pueblo.Entonces esto va un poco aunado a lo que nos decía Anny no? Como la figura de cristo negro, también es muy representativa y es la reminiscencia de algo que se practicó muy fuertemente durante la época prehispánica.Yo no descartaría del todo, pues el valor de Ek-Chuah dentro de estas prácticas espirituales y que sí, definitivamente los españoles, trataron de tomar elementos de la de la espiritualidad maya que ya eran importantes para imponer la religión católica. Pero la gente maya, yo siempre lo digo, fue muy estratega y lo es hasta la fecha para continuar resistiendo, practicando, pues la espiritualidad tamizado con elementos católicos y con este significado profundo.Anny: Sí, yo también voy a coincidir un poquito en el [00:26:00] tema de no descartaría la relación que se tiene con Ek-Chuah, porque está asociado con la deidad Chortí. El otro punto que tú hablabas del tema, un tanto político, sí hay algunos historiadores, políticos que justamente, enuncian este uso de figuras que está asociada con el trabajo y sobretodo, digamos a la carga y explotación laboral de los campesinos, y cómo también estas zonas fueron como fuertemente impactadas durante el tiempo de la colonia. Entonces eso, yo tampoco lo, lo descartaría y tampoco diría que es un mito. Por ejemplo, yo, sé que la antigua población de Esquipulas, fue una de las ciudades en este punto incendiadas por los españoles durante la invasión aquí a Guatemala el 1525 verdad?[00:27:00] En el centro de la plaza de Esquipulas, según cómo lo relatan, decía que habían, cuatro árboles de de pochotl que es la ceiba, que la ceiba pues ahí si que para nosotros es un árbol sagrado, verdad? Porque bajo sus sombras, siempre se han realizado ceremonias vinculadas con prácticas agrícolas, que duraban desde el solsticio de invierno hasta el equinoccio de primavera.Entonces se iniciaban más o menos también en esta zona por el 21 de diciembre, pero tenían ritualidades más unciosas, por ejemplo, como el 15 de enero. Y de ahí que parte que una de las fechas propicias para visitar Esquipulas sea 15 de enero. Entonces, las otras fechas de celebración que iban entre el equinoccio y el solsticio.Del 15 de enero al 25 de febrero, más o menos 40 días. Porque en 40 días estábamos viendo que se operaba el paso del sol por el cenit en la otra banda del [00:28:00] trópico, en un punto en donde estaba hasta cierto punto equidistante del círculo máximo de la tierra, donde según la posición del sol, se tomaba la medida del tiempo en que se produciría el fenómeno de la tierra que ya fuera el fenómeno del niño o de la niña, como se le nombra, verdad?Exactamente, se hacía esto dentro de los días comprendidos del 20 al 31 de enero, que es cuando se operan como los fenómenos en los hemisferios, y de ahí es como de donde viene esta creencia de las cabañuelas, de cuando muy va iniciando el año más o menos por ahí, entonces hay como una relación también ciclo-agrícola y por eso es que a mí no se me hace como un mito el hecho que está asociado con Ek-Chuah porque Ek-Chuah de hecho está asociado con en este, no me gusta llamarlo Dios, pero con la energía del trabajo, verdad? Porque me parece que esa es como la expresión correcta. En cuanto a lo del señor de Esquipulas, la [00:29:00] relación de las ceremonias con la natividad de cristo, digamos, así como el establecimiento de la festividad del señor de Esquipulas el 15 de enero, pues si siguen teniendo continuidad con las formas religiosas prehispánicas en el área maya guatemalteca, los antiguos habitantes de Esquipulas, si hay un relato, de Castañeda que lo mencionan en lo en el 55 que se dice que , "adoraban a un Dios que era el protector de las siembras de la cosecha y del trabajo."Esto lo dice, este historiador "que seguramente él dice no pertenecía a las deidades mesoamericanas, especialmente al panteón mexica, universado en momentos previos a la llegada de los españoles. La representación antropomorfa de las deidades no era desconocida en Mesoamérica, por el contrario, era abundante y generalizada desde Sinaloa hasta Honduras. [00:30:00] Además, 'del Dios principal,' el comenta fray Diego Durán, 'él hace como una alusión, con Tezcatlipoca, que él dice era una piedra muy relumbrante y negra como azabache obsidiano. Piedra de la que ellos hacen navajas y cuchillos para cortar.' Además, ciudades era de palo entallada en una figura de un hombre todo negro de las sienes para abajo con la frente, narices y boca blanca, de color de indio bestia" dice él, "de algunos atavíos galanos a su indiano modo a lo primero que tenía era unos ojeras de oro y otras de plata. En el labio bajo tenía un bezote de laverde cristalino en el que está metida una pluma verde y otras veces es azul, que después de afuera parece esmeralda o rubí. Era este bezote como un geme de largo encima de coleta de caballos que tenían la cabeza. Entonces, lo que se puede apreciar en esta descripción [00:31:00] de Tezcatlipoca corresponde casi literalmente a lo que se pudo percibir como la primera figura del cristo negro, especialmente en la representación de las imágenes talladas en madera que se veneraban en las ciudades periféricas del imperio mexica. La diferencia en el atuendo de ambas deidades radican las connotaciones religiosas de cada una de las culturas, materias, simbologías, espirituales y atributos, pero en esencial es parecido e indescutible indiscutible.Recordemos que la celebración principal, digamos de la obsidiana de Tezcatlipoca y de lo que tú mencionabas relacionado con el tema de las lluvias, pues era justamente esto, la petición para que lloviera, sobre todo por ser tierras en este punto, muy áridas, muy secas . Y bueno, yo me quedo por aquí.Chris: Bueno, muchas gracias Anny y Jairo, para explicar un poco de eso. Entonces, [00:32:00] así, me gustaría preguntar cómo dar los cambios en los objetos de los mayas a los cristianos y la naturaleza de la peregrinación, hacia el turismo. Es una pregunta rara, pero, ¿Ustedes creen que los viejos alimentos, o energías, o antepasados todavía se alimentan?Es decir, para vivir en un lugar ya una década que tiene una sequía, que también saqueo, que va empeorando y empeorando, poco a poco me voy pensando si hay una falta de rezos de conocimiento, de recuerdo, de memoria, de ofrendas. Anny: Bueno, yo es en realidad esta sequía saqueo, esta crisis climática y toda la crisis alrededor de la tierra, a mí, en lo [00:33:00] personal y tanto en lo comunitario, a mí me parece que es una crisis a nivel comunitaria, nacional, mundial en donde todos los territorios, se han visto afectados. Por ejemplo, así como aquí en Guatemala, que tenemos zonas como muy áridas, muy secas, que por su propia condición geográfica en donde han estado, sin duda se ha intensificado en estos últimos años, derivado del saqueo del recurso natural, sobre todo en estas zonas del oriente de Guatemala que son montañas que están, pues ahí si que dedicadas a la explotación de material para la construcción. Hablemos de piedra, hablemos de arena, hablemos de cal, por ejemplo, y de otros elementos que son para la explotación minera. Así como hay otros aquí en Guatemala, donde pues la zona es bastante húmeda, pero sus montañas son [00:34:00] propicias para el oro, para la plata, para el cobre, para el zinc y para otros elementos. Entonces, yo si siento que aparte de que falte de repente un toj, un pagamento, o un Xukulem, como nosotros decimos, dar la gratitud a la tierra que sin duda, pues es evidente cuando, y eso es evidencia no solo en la explotación de la tierra, sino que es evidencia en el sentir de las personas, porque usualmente, se piensa que un peregrinaje únicamente es ir a ver una figura, verdad? O una persona, una deidad, un cristo, ir a esa energía y sentir la energía para yo recargarme, sin considerar que yo al momento que también me voy a recargar de esa energía, estoy siendo un tanto extractivista muchas veces con mi práctica. Pero mi práctica también va más allá de enajenarme de qué está pasando, porque si bien es cierto, tengo ahí al cristo negro frente a mí y soy muy devota, pero entender que el cristo negro también puede estar [00:35:00] presente en las montañas, en los ríos, en los valles, en los lagos, en las cuencas y en todo eso que a mí me da de comer, en todo eso que a mí me permite vivir. Entonces, yo creo que más allá de que falta un rezo, yo sí creo que falta mucha conciencia, mucho trabajo espiritual de hacerle ver a las personas, a los peregrinos, a las peregrinas que mi ruta de peregrinaje, o sea, por donde yo paso, existe porque hay un territorio, un territorio que es ajeno a mi territorio, pero que aun así yo paso porque voy a ver algo en específico, pero que eso también tiene un impacto y que eso también tiene una responsabilidad. Preocuparme por todo lo común que pasa alrededor de de mi territorio, de mi país, del mundo, por ejemplo. Entonces, Mas allá de yo decirte si mira, Chris, falta que la gente reze, falta que la gente ofrende para que ya no haya sequía, que si bien es cierto, tiene una parte súper importante, es muy espiritual y que nosotros que [00:36:00] hemos visto que es verdad. O sea, no es un mito, no es una mentira, sino que es verdad, pero tiene que ir de la mano la ritualidad con mi práctica, tiene que ir de la mano mi discurso con lo que yo estoy haciendo y con los enunciados y los postulados que yo tengo en mi compromiso con la tierra, verdad? Osea, para mí ese es como, como el punto focal, verdad?Jairo: Sí, Chris y Anny pues, también he de añadir que, mucho de la modernidad y la facilidad para poder llegar a establecer una ruta de peregrinaje, también, pues influye dentro de las prácticas sociales y culturales, y pues si de tal vez, una ofrenda o un rezo, también estoy de acuerdo con Anny en ese sentido, es la conciencia de las personas, no? Y no se trata en el caso de la gente, pues católica de ser anticuados y de decir, bueno, vamos a irnos callados todo el [00:37:00] camino, aunque eso es una práctica que hacía la gente antes, verdad? Lo nombro como la gente antigua de Mixco lo dice. Ya no se tiene el respeto, dice la gente, por llegar y ir en una ruta de oración y de pedir o de agradecer. Y pues, por tanto, llevar una actitud de respeto, sino que ya se toma como un viaje de excursión y puede llegar a pasar, cualquier cosa dentro de ese viaje a excepción que se visita a la basílica y se visita a cristo negro. Pero dentro de ese viaje también de muchas personas ya no toman en cuenta el significado, o siquiera la ruta en la que están atravesando, verdad?Creo que es parte de la influencia occidental, de alguna forma de los medios también, que no han difundido pues, esta historia, porque esto que estamos hablando no te lo cuentan en los medios de comunicación. Ni siquiera dentro de la iglesia católica. La iglesia católica te dice que está cristo negro de Esquipulas, que es un día reconocido [00:38:00] dentro de la espiritualidad, por así decirlo, guatemalteca, religiosidad popular, como querramos llamarlo, pero no te hacen este trasfondo histórico que hay dentro de él, verdad?Pues la iglesia católica se encarga de lo litúrgico si vamos a llamarlo de esa forma, se hace una misa, se participa dentro de las misas. Pues hay frailes franciscanos que están constantemente bendiciendo lo que se compra como souvenir dentro del lugar. Pero que más que una oración que haga falta, creo que si hace falta entender un poco más que es lo que estamos haciendo, pero pues es parte del cambio socio cultural influido, como digo por lo occidental de alguna forma, que está permeando pues esta memoria histórica en cuanto a la visita del cristo negro. No digo que deje de ser fuerte porque esto tiene muchísima fuerza todavía dentro del contexto mesoamericano.Chris: Claro, claro, [00:39:00] gracias a ustedes dos. Pues la mayoría de las pláticas en el podcast, son críticas, de lo que falta, lo que no hay, en en el mundo, en la cuestión del movimiento de viaje de devoción también, y agradecimiento.Bueno es obvio como las dinámicas transaccionales o capitalistas, etc afectan los movimientos de la gente. Cómo se proceden, como llegan, como piensen en sus movimientos, también queremos pensar en otros mundos, y parte de eso, tiene que ver con lo que algunos llaman la hospitalidad radical. Es decir, como lo más básico, según yo, la hospitalidad local, enraizado, para el extraño o extranjero o extranjera, etc. Entonces, tengo curiosidad por saber ¿Qué tipo de hospitalidad [00:40:00] radical ustedes han encontrado en Esquipulas o en la peregrinación, si es que han encontrado algo.Anny: Bueno, no te voy a hablar como mucho de esto, porque no tengo como una experiencia, porque no ha sido mi búsqueda también, como encontrar esto. Siento que es como un paso como más personal individual, quizá de de soledad, pero de de sentirte bien en el, así que solo, en el buen sentido.Te puedo decir que hay gente que tiene como muchas experiencias, verdad? De de encontrarse con las personas que abren las puertas de su casa para que estén, para que visiten, para que entren. Claro, ahorita pues mucha situación ha cambiado. Siento que la seguridad ya no es la misma. La situación que atraviesa Guatemala. La conflictividad que se ha ido acrecentando en estos últimos años con estas [00:41:00] miradas fascistas también, con la división entre iglesias, por ejemplo, entre protestantes fascistas, radicales, y protestantes neopentecostales. Y todavía medio que la iglesia evangélica presbiteriana, que es la que intenta mediar entre ambas y la iglesia católica. Todo esto, además que el oriente de Guatemala está catalogado como zonas de bastante menudeo de narco, corredores de narcotráfico también. Entonces, todas estas situaciones políticas y geopolíticas han ido modificando mucho el hecho de que tú busques tu propia protección y que la gente también, cuando no son épocas de de peregrinaje, no tiendan a abrir sus casas, sino que quizás las abren más como para cuando hay un poquito más de afluencia, pero ya es como muy poco ver este tipo de dinámicas. Lo otro es que mucha gente mayor, digamos de la zona ya ha [00:42:00] fallecido. Y pues ha quedado como gente joven, inclusive gente que no es ya de Esquipulas, sino que por tema laboral ha migrado ahí, entonces ya va perdiendo como un sentido de pertenencia, verdad? De como ese sentido de comunidad. Pero si algo yo puedo rescatar de hace como mucho tiempo y que nos queda de repente el bonito recuerdo y la historia que quizá Jairo quiere hablar ahí un poquito, es de cómo se fueron tejiendo ciertas rutas comerciales entre por ejemplo, Oaxaca, Mixco y la gente de que aprovechaba para ir a Esquipulas. Y también como pensar cómo fueron cambiando también los productos de consumo, porque ahora, pues, vemos una invasión de productos plásticos, verdad? Provenientes de China, de estas grandes pirámides de estafa que y de explotación de mano de obra en Malasia, que te viene producto chino también de por allá o de la india, por ejemplo. Vemos como la entrada de mucho de este, [00:43:00] de este producto, verdad?Entonces tampoco es que podamos estar hablando como de esta comunidad, o de encontrar como redes de comunidad en cuanto a la economía o en cuanto a la producción, porque es ahí si que tú sabes que el capitalismo es voraz y la globalización y todos estos factores que están pasando en este momento son muy crueles con las dinámicas y las formas de vida de acuerparnos, de querernos, de apapacharnos y que se intensifica cada vez más.Creo que ahí si que lo importante es, nombrarlo para que si alguien quizá no se había dado cuenta de cómo se han ido afectando las dinámicas. Pues ahora lo, se se pueda ver, verdad? Y que a veces también es un poco como egoísta de mi parte, porque ves ahí vamos al hecho de que, como yo solo lo voy una vez allá, pues no me importa al final, como si tejo o no tejo, verdad? Puede ser que sea el pensamiento de alguien, verdad? Bueno, yo [00:44:00] solo voy una vez, yo voy a lo que voy y no me importa pues si hay alguien ahí que me pueda acuerpar, recibir o lo que sea.Entonces también como estas dinámicas, estos pensamientos frívolos que también por la misma dinámica de la vida, de la economía y demás, se intensifican no? Entonces, pues yo pues yo, eso te podría decir.Jairo: Si, dentro de como el capitalismo, el sistema capitalista, ha influido también dentro de estas dinámicas. Yo puedo nombrar puntualmente durante las últimas veces que he ido a Esquipulas, justo desde acá de Mixco, como pues lo económico ha afectado, o sea, el nivel socioeconómico también determina lo que vas a llegar a hacer verdad? Porque muchas personas de que vienen de acá, ni siquiera pues ya piensan en hospedarse, sino que van en la noche, madrugada de un día, y se quedan en [00:45:00] el bus o solo van y peregrinan, rezan, dejan sus candelas, no se paga hotel y regresan, verdad? Eso ha sido en un par de ocasiones. Si bien, pues hay ahora opciones de hospedaje digámoslo de diferentes tipos, que se suelen reservar con anticipación. También está esta otra situación, que también deja un poco de lado a lo que se solía hacer de preparar comida, de llevar ya huevos duros, como le decimos nosotros, huevos cocidos con salsa de tomate, eso es muy de viajar en este contexto de Mixco, los tamales de viaje que les llamaban también que es básicamente pasta de maíz cocida con la tusa, que es la cáscara del maíz. Estos tamales, pues servían para eso, para poder mermar el hambre mientras se llegaba a Esquipulas y que ahora esto ha sido poco a poco reemplazado justo lo que nombraba Anny, por productos pre-elaborados, frituras, que no tienen ningún [00:46:00] sustento, ni siquiera enlazan, con la memoria de la cocina, sino que técnicamente es algo que se desecha. Y claro, la basura, también otro papel importante, porque tenemos poca educación o ninguna en cuanto al ambiente y las empresas que nos hacen responsables de sus paquetes, de sus sobrecitos, de sus botellas y todo esto, resulta en los caminos y, pues sí, es una ruta de peregrinaje, pero también hay basura plástica, verdad? Dentro de esa ruta de peregrinaje. Y, pues, nombrar también, este era un poquito la cereza del del pastel que yo quería dejar para esta conversación, porque, como las dinámicas económicas han afectado rutas comerciales y de peregrinaje que puede que lleven alrededor de 2 mil años de existir, verdad? Tu que te desenvuelves en Oaxaca, puedes preguntar sobre cristo negro de Esquipulas y vas a encontrar a mucha gente que es devota al cristo negro de Esquipulas [00:47:00] y que probablemente tengan una réplica, pues en varios lugares de Oaxaca. Sobre todo el área, pues de el Istmo, verdad? En el, en el área también, zapoteca, vas a encontrar mucha gente que es devota y producto, pues de ello eso, ya lo tenemos, pues registrado antropológicamente. Ya no se da, pero gracias a las abuelas de mi pueblo esto sobrevive y es como nosotros, como Mixco estamos en medio de una ruta comercial entre básicamente, el centro de México y el oriente de Guatemala que está hacia allá. Entonces, pues Esquipulas está casi, en un punto distinto a esta ruta, verdad?Pues hay una memoria de de cómo nuestra gente antigua de Mixco interactuaba comercialmente con gente que venía del centro de México. Y esto lo tenemos evidente en el uso de la indumentaria maya del Poqomam de Mixco, que tiene muchísima influencia de la indumentaria que viene del pueblo [00:48:00] zapoteca, y del pueblo mixteca, en Oaxaca y producto de ello, sé que en el audio no saldrá, pero lo voy a describir. Tenemos acá estas fajas, estas fajas vienen de santo Tomás Jalieza en Oaxaca. Las famosas fajas de Jalieza, que se utilizan en Oaxaca y que formaban parte de la indumentaria antigua de Mixco. Esto cambió más o menos a mediados de los años 60s.Hay memoria, yo escuché de boca de muchas de las señoras antiguas de acá de mi pueblo que decían, venían las mexicanas a vendernos ropa, técnicamente, pero no es la ruta de Tapachula moderna, ahora que se va por la costa, sino que se refieren a textiles. Y esto encontramos fotos, inclusive fotografías del siglo 19, de finales del siglo 19, principios del siglo 20 en el que vemos el uso de estas fajas, y las reconocemos técnicamente por esta figura que seguro, pues ya la, la verás más representada en en Oaxaca. [00:49:00] La gente acá en Mixco le dice a esto los bailadores, en Oaxaca les tienen un nombre, ahora específicamente, no lo recuerdo, pero es gracias a este danzante o bailador que reconocemos las fajas que vienen de ese lugar porque en Guatemala no encuentras ninguna otra faja que sea de este material, porque es lana, o bien puede ser bastante grueso el tejido en telar de cintura con estos diseños.Entonces, gracias a Abisaí Navarro, que ojalá pueda escuchar este material, es un amigo que es de Oaxaca, quien conocí por las redes sociales, en quien básicamente se ha dedicado a documentar las expresiones culturales también de Oaxaca y de la espiritualidad en los pueblos mixteca y zapoteca. Y él me envió estas fajas desde Oaxaca. Osea, yo ya no puedo decir las compré con señoras oaxaqueñas. Yo como mixqueño, no las compré con ellas porque ahora vienen en bus, la dinámica comercial cambió y además en Mixco ya no se usa la [00:50:00] indumentaria maya, de uso diario. Este es por un lado, y por el otro lado, también tenemos a este otro lugar que se llama Yalalag, que es gente zapoteca también, en el cual usan esta prenda sobre la cabeza, ellos le llaman tlacoyales o rodetes, que consiste pues en lana cruda, de de oveja teñida, colocado sobre la cabeza, que es la emulación, pues a una serpiente. Esto, pues, tampoco esto no lo traje de Oaxaca, esto lo conseguí pues gracias a una historiadora justamente de Chichicastenango que Anny conoce, María Jacinta Xón, ella pues su papá se dedicó muchísimo tiempo, y ella también se ha dedicado, pues a la elaboración de hilos y a la obtención de la seda, y el papá de ella que ya descansa, pues fue con quien pudimos investigar un poco de dónde venía esta lana. Esta lana ya no se produce ni siquiera en Chichicastenango, en el contexto de Anny, sino [00:51:00] que básicamente esta es la última que él tuvo la oportunidad de teñir, pero es exactamente la misma lana que inclusive él desconocía su procedencia sin pintar, de dónde venía.Y ahora esto ni siquiera aquí en Guatemala se consigue, entonces es la evidencia de cómo Mixco en medio de una ruta comercial entre básicamente todo el área de el Istmo y la costa sur hacia el oriente de Guatemala, que es otro mundo que, de no haber llegado la invasión española y de no haber este sistema que de alguna forma ha ladinizado decimos nosotros, o sea despojado de su identidad a la gente maya. Y, pues, tendríamos una gran diversidad también de personas en aquel territorio. Y pues es un poco de las dos prendas que acá en Mixco se utilizan todavía por las mujeres que participan en las cofradías, pero los nos hace pensar en las mujeres de Oaxaca también. Es bien curioso. Tengo un video que lo describe, si gustan lo pueden ver allá en mis redes sociales, [00:52:00] aparezco como "hoja de pacaya" y hay un video donde hablo de esto del tecoyal justamente.Anny: Si, Chris y algo que yo, quería como agregar nada más a la conversación. Es el hecho de que, en medio de esta forma de turismo que muchas veces es gentrificador y que también como que estas dinámicas de ir y venir hace que justamente todo alrededor de lo que sucede en Esquipulas pues cambie su dinámica Si bien es cierto, ahora cuando vas tú a Esquipulas, ya hay hoteles de repente, tal vez no de cadena, pero si de cinco estrellas. La gente ha intentado mantener hoteles que sean como de su familia. Pero eso no quita, por ejemplo, que ya haya más lugares de recreación, de consumo, de compra y de intercambio comercial.Porque pues tú sabes que al final, la situación económica, creo que a nivel mundial no es del todo buena para ninguno, [00:53:00] verdad? Entonces, pues siempre se busca la manera como de irte agenciando de ciertos fondos. Pero, ahora que lo pienso mejor, digamos en esta conversación, yo si puedo ver algo muy especial. Por ejemplo, aquí en Guatemala, hay dos lugares más en donde hay peregrinación a ver a cristo negro, que no tienes que ir a Esquipulas y que lo encuentras, aquí, de de donde yo vivo más o menos es a una hora, se llama Chinique de Las Flores. Y luego de Chinique de Las Flores a más o menos como unas tres horas, puedes llegar a Cunén. Cunén, también aquí en K'iche', que son estas, rutas de peregrinación para ir a ver también, réplicas del cristo negro de Esquipulas, pero que entonces ahí si te puedo decir que estamos encontrando aquello que una vez encontramos en Esquipulas [00:54:00] hace más de 400 años por así decirlo, 300 años.Entonces, lo estamos volviendo a encontrar ahí porque, claro, son zonas todavía de pronto un poco más pequeñas, en donde todavía el ambiente es más, comunal, comunitario, en donde, pues todavía es de pueblo, le decimos nosotros, todavía sí que está la esencia conservada de un pueblo. Entonces no se convierte en un lugar para ir a quedarte y pasar ahí una semana, que sé yo, sino que se convierte en un lugar de visita, de recogimiento de sí, ir a hacer tu tu peregrinaje, tu oración, tu penitencia.Entonces, a mí me parece que ahí todavía es en donde, donde se encuentra una esencia muy, muy rica.Chris: Pues, gracias a las energías, a los dioses y dioses que todavía hay lugares y gente que honran esas, esas tradiciones y las de también como Jairo [00:55:00] mencionó, que pues la memoria también está pegado dentro del textil, de tejido, justo tambien he visto como una una bebida chocolatosa tradicional aquí en Oaxaca que, según algunas personas tiene su origen en en el K'iche'. Aunque, se dice que ese proceso, esa receta no existe en el K'iche' ahora, pero todavía la memoria existe dentro de esas prácticas no? Entonces la cuestión de la hiper movilidad y el sentido de guerra constante en muchos sentidos en el el mundo contemporáneo, ¿Cómo piensan que, la peregrinación o las posibilidades de peregrinar pueden ofrecernos una manera, o maneras, o caminos a [00:56:00] socobar, la hiper movilidad, a la guerra, la comida chatarra como mencionaron, estas dinámicas y estructuras económicas que, pues nos están matando poco a poco? ¿Qué clave puede tener la peregrinación en un mundo donde queremos vivir?Anny: Pues yo creo que la responsabilidad de cada uno de nosotros que, que vamos con llevar también mensajes de esperanza, o sea, siempre hay rutas no? Está la ruta migratoria, está la ruta de la mariposa monarca. Está que esa peregrinación que hacen, van y vienen, y estas peregrinaciones que nosotros también hacemos como personas humanas, independientemente de si seamos cristianos o no, pero siempre hay una ruta que tú buscas de peregrinaje para sanar tus [00:57:00] dolores, tus enfermedades, tus traumas, tus miedos, así sea que tú vayas a peregrinar a una montaña, un volcán, un cerro, a una iglesia, a una basílica a donde sea.A mí lo importante, y lo que me parece a mi súper esperanzador es que tú tengas como también ese compromiso de compartir una luz con quienes tú te vayas encontrando en el camino. Puede ser que también tu peregrinaje entonces no parta desde el hecho de, ah voy a ir pensando solo en rezos, no, sino que, ¿Qué también puedo yo compartir en el camino?O sea que otras rutas también puedo ir yo dejando, mencionando, creo que esto lo hemos logrado con bastante efectividad cuando pensamos en las rutas migratorias y como podemos echarle una mano a les compas migrantes verdad?, Entonces a mí me parecería que una estrategia pues muy parecida, podría ayudar bastante, a ver esto con otros ojos y a ver esto, pues más allá de, [00:58:00] o sea, que que siempre podemos hacer varias cosas, cuando tenemos de repente solo una finalidad, pero al final podemos ir haciendo como mucho, entonces yo creo que como mensaje yo, eso te dejaría, o sea que, pues al final en medio de toda esta hiper movilidad, pues que la aprovechemos, no solo para quemar codos, sino para ir dejando otros mensajes a la gente, verdad? De cómo también nos vamos moviendo, movilizando, qué vamos pensando y qué está pasando alrededor del mundo. Jairo: Sí, bueno, entender que nuestras dinámicas han cambiado con el tiempo, que somos una generación que nos tocó ver cambios abismales dentro de las dinámicas de como nos hemos relacionado con otras personas, cómo aprendemos incluso porque ahora pues gracias a la hiper movilidad también, inclusive, pues a la tecnología conocemos nuevas cosas, pero no dejar de lado el en el caso, pues de la gente que peregrina, verdad? Las [00:59:00] reflexiones que hacíamos, el por qué se hace, un poquito, y también el que hacer de nosotros cuando vamos a un lugar y cuando nos movemos, verdad? El hecho de verdad estoy comprando con las personas que son de allí o me estoy yendo a meter un supermercado, de verdad esto beneficia la comunidad o esto beneficia a una empresa, pues que al final explota personas y que les compra super barato y regateado el producto, verdad? Creo que se ha mantenido, pues al menos en Esquipulas esa dinámica de consumir, pues lo que es de allí, la gente, pues esfuerza mucho porque saben que hay, personas de muchos contextos que vienen a ese lugar, por lo menos una vez al año. Entonces, entender estas dinámicas, creo que es un reto también dentro de nuestro contexto y entender también que el humano siempre se ha movido. Gracias a las personas [01:00:00] antiguas que se movieron hace 3 mil años hacia acá es que nosotros tenemos estas evidencias históricas y aprender de esas movilidades también, cómo nosotros generamos un buen impacto cuando nos estamos moviendo, pienso.Chris: Que vamos aprendiendo y recordando a la vez, cómo movernos con respeto y agradecimiento y devoción a lo que nos da vida. Vamos a asegurar que las imágenes de esos textiles hermosas, van a salir con el episodio, en el sitio web web de El Fin del Turismo. Y también los nombres y contactos si quieren de los compas que mencionaste Jairo. Y pues ha sido como un gran conversación, y me dan muchas ganas de seguir con esa [01:01:00] cuestión de peregrinación.Y en el nombre de de nuestros oyentes, me gustaría ofrecerles mis a agradecimientos más sinceros a ambos ustedes por acompañarnos hoy, y estar dispuestos a enfrentar y luchar con algunas de las contradicciones y pues también las colonizaciones que han afectado al acto y al arte de la peregrinación en nuestros tiempos. Si los oyentes tienen ganas a conocer más de lo que ustedes hacen en la vida, ¿Hay una manera de comunicar o conectar?Anny: Sí, por supuesto, en nuestras redes personales, yo soy la curadora en jefe actual de Espacio C, en Chichicastenango, entonces pues por ahí pueden , encontrarme en Instagram, o en Facebook, se escribe [01:02:00] ESPACIO/C ARTE+MEMORIA. Y luego en mis redes personales, por si alguien pues también desea buscar. Yo me encuentro en Instagram como "Anny Puac," así me pueden encontrar a mí también en Instagram para que pues vean, de pronto un poquito también de, de mi trabajo y, luego en nuestras redes comerciales como Los Cofrades Chichicastenango, así me pueden, nos pueden ir encontrando y pues ahora Jairo.Jairo: Gracias. Yo he tratado de crear contenido no de lleno, tampoco tan comercial. He hecho reflexiones en cuanto a estos elementos, ahí sí que de ambos lados, verdad? De la espiritualidad en Guatemala en general, tanto de lo católico como de lo maya, y cómo esto tiene un punto medular, es un poquito lo que ha sido mi [01:03:00] premisa durante los últimos años, evidenciar que no es netamente todo católico, cristiano y que hay elementos pues de la espiritualidad maya que prevalecen como lo que hablamos hoy.Me pueden encontrar pues, como Hoja de Pacaya en las redes sociales. La hoja de pacaya es la que se usa para decorar en las puertas de las fiestas acá en el contexto pues de Guatemala. La pacaya es una palma. También se come la flor durante los viajes, justo durante los peregrinajes. La flor de la pacaya se envuelve con huevo y se le pone salsa de tomate encima y es algo muy para viajar. Y pues, a la hoja de pacaya le dicen dentro del contexto guatemalteco a las personas que les gusta la fiesta y que no se pierden ninguna.Entonces es un poco la premisa de mi usuario, porque pues sí, me gusta documentar las fiestas, pues que se llevan a cabo en Guatemala con trasfondo, quizá de análisis [01:04:00] y de reflexión. Y pues, gracias por el espacio. Estoy muy agradecido por ello, a ambos. Chris: De nuevo, muchísimas gracias a ustedes dos por sus tiempos hoy, por sus reflexiones y sus compromisos en el mundo, en la vida. Anny: Qué gusto conocerte también. Y pues ahí estamos siempre en comunicación. Yo te de con un fuerte abrazo y no haber un fuerte abrazo a tierra que de Oaxaca también.English TranscriptionChris: [00:00:00] Welcome to the podcast The End of Tourism Annie and Jairo. Thank you both for joining me today. I would love for you to tell our listeners where you are calling from and what the world looks like there for each of you.Anny: Thank you very much, Chris, and good morning to everyone listening, or good afternoon or good evening, depending on your time zone.My name is Anny and I greet you from the K'iche' Mayan territory of Chuwila, K'iche' Guatemala specifically.Jairo: Good morning to both of you, it's a pleasure to be here. Sawe ta inteer winaq (Good morning to all of you) a pleasure from the Poqomam territory of Mixco and also from the outskirts of Guatemala City, thank you for this [00:01:00] opportunity to share knowledge.Chris: And thank you both. I'm here in Oaxaca and the world seems obviously a little weird. Well, maybe not obviously, but it seems weirder by the day. We're here today to talk about Esquipulas in Guatemala. And Esquipulas is the site of several churches that have housed the Black Christ of the town, which is famous for its supposed miracles for the past four centuries.Similarly, the pilgrimage to the shrine is the largest in Central America and the second largest in the Americas, with, from what I read, 5 million people visiting it every year. Now, to start, would you be willing to explain what prompted each of [00:02:00] your interests or relationships with this place and the practice of pilgrimage?Anny: Yes, of course Chris. Well, from my personal or individual relationship as a family, I have, let's say, a clear idea of when these pilgrimages began, suddenly, when I was about seven or eight years old, so, to tell you that I have clarity, but when I go back to the family archives, well, I see that the issue of going on pilgrimage to Esquipulas, well, it begins with my grandmothers.Jairo: So I could tell you that within my family, the pilgrimage to Esquipulas, well, maybe it has been present in the family for at least 80 years, especially on my maternal grandmother's side . She is from a K'iche' territory in Quetzaltenango , where they would begin the trip, together, there was a neighborhood trip organized by the neighborhood, or it was a family trip, so one or two buses would go at that time when there wasn't much transportation, right? It was also a luxury to go by some route where there was a bus stop. And well, what couldn't be traveled by bus, well, it was done on foot, they used donkeys, but, more or less that's where the story of how these pilgrimage routes began in my family, let's say.In our case, I was not aware of having arrived in Esquipulas when I was little. Well, there is a very interesting fact, when I was 40 days old, my family decided to take me to [00:04:00] Esquipulas, so that is in the family's photo archive as a thank you, because in the end I was born with... I was born well.Jairo: And then the family decides to go on a pilgrimage. This is the closest information I have about the person going to Esquipulas. Of course, I have always been very familiar with this within my immediate context, since people from my municipality tend to go organized in excursions from the different religious organizations that exist in my municipality.These, well, designate dates and are buses filled with approximately 50 people. Each bus usually arrives up to three, from here in Mixco, well, they go to Esquipulas. And that is something very interesting because it is, well, part of modernity, let's say going by bus, but there are many anecdotes from people from here in town who [00:05:00] tell how, well, they went in a more rustic way, right? It could be, well, on a walking pilgrimage, which was not the only pilgrimage, in fact that of the black Christ of Esquipulas. Today, specifically, we are going to talk about it.But there are also the pilgrimages to Antigua Guatemala, which is very close by. Here behind us there is a hill called Alux Hill. This hill was crossed on foot, and people still do so on foot, because behind the hill is the descent to get to Antigua Guatemala.Chris: Thank you. Thank you all. So, to learn a little more about your stories, like the pilgrimage, I would like to know a little more if you could offer something about the long history of Esquipulas, of the black Christ and well, how did the pilgrimage originate? Where does that story come from?Jairo: Well, as I mentioned before, saying some [00:06:00] words in the Poqomam language. It is the language that was spoken, well, in our town. I'm going to say it again more slowly to, well, describe to you what I said, technically it is:closely related and intrinsic to the people of Mixco and also to the Oaxacan territory.My name is Jairo, Jairo Andrés Chamale Lemus. I belong to this territory, to the Poqomam Mayan people. Half of my family and my ancestors are from here. And, well, I am dedicated to tourism. I have been a tourist guide for approximately eight years , since I graduated very young. And, well, I have dedicated myself to pilgrimages so that people also learn about the historical context of Guatemala and the different cultural, religious and also resistance expressions of the people in the territory of what we now know as Guatemala.Well, I am also a student of anthropology, specifically a bachelor's degree in anthropology, and I have also dedicated myself to studying the case of the Poqomam Mayan language in Mixco, which is a community very close to Guatemala City, which has had a very strong demographic and social impact, due to the growth of the metropolitan area of Guatemala City. It is something that I have dedicated myself to studying during the last few years. And also, well, to [00:08:00] documenting it, because we have many cultural and spiritual practices in our town, which have been disappearing as the city's demographic advances, thank you very much. Rontyoox aq'oo ta Anny: Well Chris . In fact there is a record, let's say historical , which says that the first pilgrimage to Esquipulas was in March 1595 , when the image left the workshop of this sculptor Quirio Cataño, heading towards Esquipulas, towards Chiquimula. This is in the east of Guatemala. We know it as the hot zone of Guatemala. But it is the zone, let's say, like hot arid . It is a territory where there is a Xinca, Popti' community, if I'm not mistaken, Chortí as well . And so, the production that is [00:09:00] They have in the lands over there, we are talking about fruits from some plants, some tubers more or less, but most of them are dedicated to fruit, right ?This first pilgrimage is documented and recorded by the chronicler, who is called Miguel Álvarez. And he says that, when he left from the workshop and headed towards Esquipulas, the image was performing different miracles along the way until reaching the basilica . Then there were people who asked him precisely that, please, that the image spend at least one night inside the house of people to bless it. And more or less it is estimated every year, let's say currently, now in Guatemala and around 300 thousand people from all over the world, mostly between Mexico, Central America, southern countries, for example from Peru [00:10:00] from Ecuador from Ecuador, Bolivia, if I'm not mistaken, it is like a lot of people who arrive, more or less between November, which right now is like a date from November to December and all of January, let's say, those are like the three months with the greatest influx of people who arrive at the basilica, right? So you can call it a pilgrimage , you can call it a pilgrimage, what pilgrimage, usually, well there if the people who visit can do like a day's visit only or it can be that a visit can be extended for up to 10, 15 days, right?From Guatemala City to Esquipulas there is a distance of approximately 220 to 250 kilometers and if you go on a pilgrimage, you go through very specific places along the entire pilgrimage, on average [00:11:00] Every day you are doing a stretch of 40 kilometers, a day, let's say if your intention is to go on a pilgrimage like that . So that's more or less like more historical data and the story, right?Chris: And I'm a little curious, inside the estancias, when I arrive at Esquipulas, if I were on a pilgrimage, for example, what would I do? Do they stop to say their prayers? I would like to know from someone who has never made a pilgrimage, how it looked those days before coming.Anny: Well, I'm going to tell you a little bit about my family's story because My maternal grandmother, she was a lady, very Catholic, right? So, for her, her pilgrimage, let's say, was her sacrifice, right? In the year, to say well, out of gratitude [00:12:00] to my health, to the miracles that she granted me, because she was very devout. It was the fact of going on a pilgrimage route. What did this imply? Even preparing food so as to not say waste time, thinking about what to eat along the way, because the idea for them was, well, to go in a kind of contemplation, in constant prayer, in prayer, let's say in petition, to stop every so often, right? Every 40 kilometers, because within the Catholic-Christian community, there are points that are marked within the route where you can stop with each family, because they may have a replica of the image of the black Christ, because in fact, when the first pilgrimage was, this family may have been one of the [00:13:00] families who first received the black Christ.So it becomes like that stopping point, right? So, when they make that stopping point, they go down. They go down to pray, they go down to talk and to socialize with people, maybe, to share a meal. And to feel, well, like thei

Lapin est perturbé par un bruit mystérieux qui provient de quelque part dans la laverie ; il mène l'enquête.La Chute de LapinvilleLapin, pervers narcissique en fin de droits, raconte son retour à Lapinville et sa décision de faire un podcast pour se venger de ses anciens camarades d'école. Il est bientôt rejoint par Chloé Bloomington, star de cinéma qu'une énorme shitstorm oblige à revenir dans sa ville natale pour jouer dans une fiction quotidienne à la con. Puis, on suit l'enquête de Spiruline, astucieuse stagiaire à la mairie, qui dévoilera des scandales insoupçonnés dans les plus hautes sphères de Lapinville… Tour à tour, les Lapinvillois témoignent pour essayer de comprendre comment, une chose en entraînant une autre, ils ont fini par provoquer la destruction de la Terre. Leurs destins entremêlés forment une pelote visible de l'espace dont cette série, cinq minutes par jour, va dérouler le fil. Fresque épique et palpitante, chronique de la catastrophe en cours et de ses ramifications les plus inattendues, La Chute de Lapinville a pu être décrite comme une variante des Simpson à la sauce rond-point ou un jumeau maléfique de Plus belle la vie. Enregistrements décembre 2023-2024 Scénario et dialogues Benjamin Abitan, Wladimir Anselme, Laura Fredducci Direction artistique Benjamin Abitan Conseillère littéraire Noémie Landreau Réalisation Benjamin Abitan Assistante réalisation Alexandra Garcia-Vilà Musique originale Samuel Hirsch Narrateurs Aurélien Gabrielli (Lapin) Flore Babled (Chloé) Charlotte Corman (Spiruline) Comédiens Juliette Plumecocq-Mech (RFM) Samuel Roger (Sarkis Mikaëlian) Philippe Vieux (Christian) Comédiens silhouettes Hortense Monsaingeon Silvain Gire Antoine Kobi Voix générique Clementine Aussourd Flore Babled Production ARTE Radio ARTE Studio Virginie Lacoste Sahar Pirouz Jacques Falgous Illustration Roxane Lumeret

A Luchador Superhero, an evil Scientist Gangster, and an Aztec Mummy—it's all here in "The Curse of the Aztec Mummy." Join us as we review this Mexican masterpiece and use it as a jumping-off point to discuss some fascinating Aztec history. Email: mummymoviepodcast@gmail.com Patreon: Mummy Movie Podcast Link to Film: The Curse of the Aztec Mummy (1957) BibliographyAguilar-Moreno, M. (2006). Handbook to life in the Aztec world. Infobase Publishing. Bassett, M. H. (2015). The fate of earthly things: Aztec gods and god-bodies. University of Texas Press. Clendinnen, I. (2010). The cost of courage in Aztec society: Essays on Mesoamerican society and culture. Cambridge University Press. Conrad, G. W., & Demarest, A. A. (1984). Religion and empire: The dynamics of Aztec and Inca expansionism. Cambridge University Press. IMDB. (2023). The Curse of Aztec Mummy (1957). Retrieved from https://www.imdb.com/?ref_=nv_home León-Portilla, M. (2006). The broken spears 2007 revised edition: The Aztec account of the conquest of Mexico. Beacon Press. Jansen, M., & Jiménez, G. A. P. (2017). Fifth Sun Rising. In Time and the ancestors (pp. 358-430). Brill. Miller, M. E., & Taube, K. A. (1997). An illustrated dictionary of the gods and symbols of ancient Mexico and the Maya. Thames and Hudson. Olivier, G. (2003). Mockeries and metamorphoses of an Aztec god: Tezcatlipoca, "lord of the smoking mirror". Pennock, C. D. (2008). Bonds of blood: Gender, lifecycle, and sacrifice in Aztec culture. Springer. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's season finale time!! This week on The Nemeton Podcast, listen as Meghan, Erin, and Avalon rewatch the season finale of season 4, Smoke and Mirrors. In typical Teen Wolf fashion, it doesn't disappoint, the pack travels down to Mexico to rescue Scott and Kira, and all hell breaks loose at the temple of Tezcatlipoca on the night of a full moon. Derek and Stiles help Liam to control the shift, Kira earns her first tail, Mason and Lydia team up against a berserker, and Scott finally stands up to Peter. ---Music: Climb by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com-Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thenemetontwpod/Email- thenemetontw@gmail.com

Journey into the heart of Aztec mythology with our podcast as we unravel the multifaceted tales of Tezcatlipoca, the enigmatic deity known as the "Smoking Mirror." Explore the intricate web of myths and legends surrounding this complex figure, from his role as the god of destiny and sorcery to his influence on Aztec cosmology and culture. Delve into the symbolic significance of Tezcatlipoca's obsidian mirror and its reflection of the human soul, as well as his connections to warfare, rulership, and cosmic balance. Through storytelling and scholarly insights, we'll illuminate the mysteries of Tezcatlipoca and his enduring legacy in Mesoamerican spirituality. Join us on a journey of discovery as we peer into the Smoking Mirror and uncover the soul of Aztec mythology.Read more at https://mythlok.com/tezcatlipoca/

Mini Myth Alert!Out 1st mini episode of Season 4 is here, and this week listen as Erin and Meghan talk dive deep into Tezcatlipoca! Erin out mythology expert has brought the insight this week, and at the end of the episode we each find out each of our Nagual sign! --To Find your Nagual Sign: https://jademaya.com/collections/maya-day-signor https://www.mayanmajix.com/TZOLKIN/index.php#result--Music: Climb by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com-Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thenemetontwpod/Email- thenemetontw@gmail.com

Hey there! Welcome to this awesome episode of the Unrefined Podcast, where we will be taking you on a wild ride through the world of genetic engineering, Mayan lore, and corn. Buckle up!So, in this episode, our fabulous hosts Brandon, Lindsy and BT are diving deep into the fascinating world of corn. And no, we're not just talking about your average corn on the cob here. We're talking about the genetically engineered corn that has some seriously cool ties to Mayan mythology. How cool is that?We kick things off by discussing this mind-blowing book called "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" by Charles Simon. This book takes us on a journey to explore the origins and unique characteristics of corn. Who knew corn had such a rich history, right?But wait, there's more! Lindsy and Brandon also delve into the mystical figure of Quetzalcoatl in Aztec and Mayan mythology. This dude is seriously symbolic and has been depicted in ancient Mesoamerican art. We're talking about some seriously cool visuals here, people!And of course, no mythological discussion is complete without touching on creation stories. Our hosts explore various creation stories in Aztec and Mayan mythology, giving us a glimpse into the historical changes in religious beliefs. It's like a rollercoaster of ancient awesomeness!But hey, we're not just here for the myths and legends. Lindsy and BT also touch on the potential health effects of corn in our diets. It's always good to know what we're putting into our bodies, right?To wrap things up, your hosts are kind enough to recommend additional resources for all you curious listeners out there who want to dive even deeper into Mayan and Aztec culture. We've got your back!So there you have it, folks. Get ready to have your mind blown by the incredible world of genetic engineering, Mayan mythology, and corn. It's gonna be a wild ride, so let's get started!https://unrefinedpodcast.com/(see bottom for links mentioned in show)Timestamps:The Book "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" (00:02:01) The hosts discuss the book by Charles Simon, which challenges previous beliefs about the population and civilizations in the Americas before Columbus.Quetzalcoatl and Mesoamerican Mythology (00:09:21) The hosts explore the figure of Quetzalcoatl in Aztec and Mayan mythology, discussing its connection to the feathered serpent and its presence in ancient Mesoamerican art.The Feathered Serpent and Creation (00:12:17) Discussion on the symbolism of the handbag-like object in Mesoamerican art and its connection to creation.The Origins of the Feathered Serpent (00:12:52) Exploration of the earliest depictions of the feathered serpent in Olmec and Maya art and its association with conjuring and ancestor worship.Quetzalcoatl and the Maya (00:14:37) Explanation of the different names and influences on the figure of Quetzalcoatl in Aztec, Maya, and Toltec mythology, and the presence of the feathered serpent in Maya artwork.The creation of different suns (00:27:53) The hosts discuss the Aztec and Mayan belief in different eras with different suns, each representing a new attempt at creating something like human beings.Survivors of the flood turned into dogs (00:33:21) In the legends of the sun, two survivors of a flood are turned into dogs by the gods after they offend them by smoking up the heavens while cooking fish.Quetzalcoatl stealing the bones from the underworld (00:34:36) Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent, is sent into the underworld to steal the bones of the previous people destroyed in the flood, possibly the bones of giants.The Origins of Corn (00:38:13) The hosts discuss the creation of the first humans from the blood of the feathered serpent and the bones of the ancient giants, and the introduction of corn as the sacred food.Symbolism of Corn in Mesoamerican Mythology (00:41:39) The hosts explore the interconnectedness between all life symbolized by the creation of man from maize, and the significance of corn as a staple in our diets.The Process of Preparing Corn (00:44:59) The hosts discuss the ancient process of using lime to wash corn in order to make it edible, and the secret knowledge behind the discovery of this method.The Feathered Serpent and Quetzalcoatl (00:47:49) The hosts discuss the figure of Quetzalcoatl in Aztec and Mayan mythology, and its connection to the feathered serpent.The Hero Twins and Defeating the Monster (00:50:23) The hosts explore the story of the hero twins defeating the monster, Seven Macaw, and the significance of this common theme in Native American mythology.Creation of Humans from Corn and Serpent Blood (00:57:27) The hosts discuss the various attempts to create humans, including the mixing of corn dough with the blood of a serpent deity, and the repudiation of the line of Noah.Quetzalcoatl and his origins (00:59:59) Discussion on the figure of Quetzalcoatl, his miraculous birth, and his role as a Toltec priest king.The dark mirror image of Quetzalcoatl (01:03:45) Exploration of the contrasting figure of Tezcatlipoca, also known as Tescatlipoca, who works against Quetzalcoatl and takes part in the creation.Quetzalcoatl and the morning star (01:05:06) Connection between Quetzalcoatl and the morning star, as well as the interpretation of ancient Mesoamerican art depicting Quetzalcoatl leaving on a raft of snakes.The Dresden Codex (01:13:01) The hosts mention the Dresden Codex, a codex that listeners can find out more about in relation to Mayan mythology.History and Mythology of the Aztecs (01:13:31) The book "History and Mythology of the Aztecs" by John Beer Horst is mentioned as a source for the legends of the sun.Cultural Appreciation (01:14:14) The hosts discuss the importance of cultural appreciation and learning about other cultures, celebrating uniqueness.History and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex Chimalpopocahttps://a.co/d/dVWYesZhttps://www.mesoweb.com/publications/Christenson/PopolVuh.pdf1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbushttps://a.co/d/5TH6hhvThe Gospel of the Toltecs: The Life and Teachings of Quetzalcoatlhttps://a.co/d/7oywa0aThe Discovery of Cornhttps://bit.ly/3R2L310The Empires of Atlantis: The Origins of Ancient Civilizationshttps://a.co/d/74Qc7SUThe Myth of Quetzalcoatlhttps://a.co/d/6ekcbpsMaize for the Gods: Unearthing the 9,000-Year History of Cornhttps://a.co/d/6P0QUzCThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4656375/advertisement

What's good world, we back from the crypt with some more of that hood philosophy shit, and for my first episode back in two months, I wanted to share with ya'll some of the reflections that have come to me in meditating with our sacred Tezcatlipoca. I'm talking finding meaning on this slippery earth Tlalticpac, navigating the trauma that keeps us from doing so, Asian foos who rep Chicano culture, and everything in between. Stay woke fam...

Our demigods are known for their swordplay, so it's only natural that we devote an episode of the podcast to the arts of war and battle! Epic fights have played a role in so many amazing stories from mythology through the ages, from the poems of Homer to modern movies. In this episode, we talk about the key PVP fight of the Trojan War, between Hector and Achilles, as well as several other major fights from Egyptian, Aztec, and Chinese mythology. This week's interview features Laine Flores, who works for Hermes as a logistics coordinator for Plato Learning, making sure that all our demigods get their swords and shirts every summer! But elsewhere in life, Laine is an expert in stage combat! Learn all about what that means in this episode. If you'd like to submit a story or artwork to be featured on Myths & Muses, use this form (with a Mortal Guardian's permission!). [Transcript for Episode 5] Stuff to Read: The Battle of Hector and Achilles:  Read the original story from the Iliad! Hector of Troy: Legendary Hero of the Trojan War Hector vs Achilles: Comparing the Two Great Warriors More about Horus and Set More about Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl Aztec creation story More about Nuwa Stuff to Watch:  Our YouTube Playlist for Episode 5, featuring more on the Trojan War and the Aztec myth of the Five Suns, as well as some of the epic mythological battles we didn't get the chance to talk about in this episode. Please note: Because of the subject matter of this episode, there are some depictions of bloodshed in the context of ancient warfare. Mortal Guardians may want to watch first to make sure it's suitable for their demigods! Cool Images:  Achilles Slays Hector, painting by Peter Paul Rubens (c. 1630) Eric Bana as Hector and Brad Pitt as Achilles in Troy (2004) From the throne of a statue of King Sesostri I, showing Horus and Seth binding together the symbolic plants of Upper and Lower Egypt. ca. 1961 -1917 BCE.  Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca, art reproduced from the Codex Borbonicus (c. 1500)  

Your Generals couldn't stay away from one of the finest Justice League runs ever any longer. Find out what they thought about the end of Grant Morrison's JLA run in this exciting episode. Sincere apologies for any misgendering of Grant Morrison in this episode Support Zac's Patreon: www.patreon.com/ThumbsJ Check out all earVVyrm podcasts at www.earvvyrm.com Email us at generalnerderypod@gmail.com

Quetzalcoatl (Serpente emplumada) é o caminho da sabedoria e da purificação da alma. Quetzalcoatl é um místico rei de Tula, que na legendária Idade de Ouro, governava com justiça seus súditos, do interior de seu palácio templo com colunas de serpente. “Nunca era visto em público, vivia em silêncio nas sombras de seu templo”. Mas um dia o mago Tezcatlipoca, com um espelho de dupla face o enfeitiçou. No espelho mágico o rei viu seu reflexo material, ou seu lado feminino (Quetzlpetalt, a borboleta de asas multicoloridas), por quem se apaixonou e manteve relações sexuais após embriagar-se. Perdida a inocência, deve laboriosamente convertê-la em pureza mediante uma série de trabalhos, que incluem uma descida aos Infernos e a recuperação das tradições mágicas do passado. Finalmente, em uma pira construída com suas próprias mãos, é imolado e sua alma transforma-se na estrela Vênus, “o precioso gêmeo da Terra”. Para as astecas, a busca da verdade não é simplesmente a busca de imagens mentais que possam parecer mais ou menos reais, mas a busca do Ser, da raiz última daquilo que traz estabilidade. A palavra “verdade” em nahuatl (neltiliztli) tem a mesma etimologia que “raiz” ou “fundamento”. ________________________________________________________ Siga a #NovaAcropole: Site: https://www.acropole.org.br/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/novaacropol... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/novaacropole... Twitter: https://twitter.com/novaacropolebr Telegram: https://www.t.me/novaacropolebrasil ______________________________________________________________ Nova Acrópole é uma organização filosófica presente em mais de 50 países desde 1957, e tem por objetivo desenvolver em cada ser humano aquilo que tem de melhor, por meio da #Filosofia, da #Cultura e do Voluntariado. #nuevaacropolis  Assessoria: brasilia@acropole.org.br

Today we talk about the Aztecs main bad guy, and good guy! Because hes everyone! You should give it a listen and let us know what you thought here! https://linktr.ee/Mythologicast

Woodie Bonds really wants to be the third member of our band! Bonds, along with co-owner Elliot Ivory and Director of Operations Annie McGinnis invited Nigel and Nick out for a sneak peak at the soon-to-be-opened Vine Street Brewing located in the historic east side of Kansas City. Also joining the show is Jerry Richard, host of the Modern Brews + Beats podcast. In this special episode we talk about Jerry's entry into the world of craft beer and catch up on one of the midwest's most anticipated brewery opening.  Just for you, Junior, here's this act's mystery beers: Hibiscus Milkshake IPA, Grains & Taps; Beer Karma - chocolate mint, Transparent Brewing & Beers with Nigel collab; and Tezcatlipoca, Diametric Brewing.

Una vez mas les traemos una version regrabada de nuestro primeros audios y esperando que estaba se escuche mejor :p Ahora llegamos para hablarles de Tezcatlipoca, si eres mexicano tal vez hayas escuchado de él pero no estés seguro sobre su historia o importancia en la antigüedad y si eres extranjero pensarás: ¿Tezca... Qué? No te preocupes, también nos hace falta unas clases de náhuatl 😅pero nos defendemos con lo poco que sabemos de pronunciación. En fin, que Tezcatlipoca blanco era Quetzalcóatl, ese obviamente si has escuchado o conoces, así que si quieres saber a qué nos referimos y aprender con nosotros... Acompáñanos a descubrir que la mitología mexica, ES HISTORIA😉 . . La música de fondo del genio de Kevin MacLeod: River Fire by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4294-river-fire License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ¿Quieres anunciarte en este podcast? Hazlo con advoices.com/podcast/ivoox/1005501

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Hay muchos mitos y legendas de como se creo el universo y este mundo en el que vivimos. ¿Pero has escuchado la leyenda de la creación de acuerdo a los antiguos Aztecas? Embarcate conmigo en esta fascinante historia de traición, rivalidad, infidelidad y trabajo en equipo. Expande tu mente con estos 4 dioses creadores Quetzalcóatl, Tezcatlipoca, Xipe Totec, y Huitzilopochtli. Lee un poco más sobre la rivalidad entre Quetzalcóatl y Tezcatlipoca. https://arqueologiamexicana.mx/mexico-antiguo/tezcatlipoca-frente-quetzalcoatlSígueme en redes sociales

The Pro-Abortion domestic terrorists firebombing pro-life groups and pregnancy resource centers announce a “Night of Rage” for the evening that Roe v. Wade falls. The group “Jane's Revenge” calls for followers to carry their “anger out into the world” by “expressing it physically.” As the high places begin to crumble, we begin to realize that this culture war was always a proxy war for the spiritual war. The rage of Moloch, Tezcatlipoca, and Huitzilopochtli is only beginning and their disciples will do their master's biding. Time to wake up! Date: 06/16/22 To help UnAborted create more pro-life content and take our content to the streets, become a Patron of the show at https://www.patreon.com/unaborted To help Seth educate and expose culture to the evil of abortion so that every person has a right to be born, become a monthly supporter at https://unaborted.com/donate

The trickster deity (or archetype) is instrumental in the progress of most cultures and essential for inner transformation. We get acquainted with the primordial force of alchemical change, including his aspects of Hermes, the Coyote, Loki, Set, Prometheus, and Tezcatlipoca. Is the Trickster just Jung's Shadow or an alien shitposter? How do we harness this archetype's psychic gifts and avoid its cosmic pranks? You'll find out, and for good measure, we'll include some of HP Lovecraft's dark jokes as a bonus.Astral Guest – Jeffrey Lang, author of The Trickster Gods and Their Influence on the Development of Human Culture.This is a partial show. For the second half of the interview, please become an AB Prime member: http://thegodabovegod.com/members/subscription-levels/  or patron at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aeonbyteGet the simple, effective, and affordable Red Circle Private RSS Feed for all full showsMore information on Jeffrey: https://jeffreylangcounseling.com/Get the book: https://amzn.to/3LsOA2ABecome a patron and keep this Red Pill Cafeteria growing: https://www.patreon.com/aeonbyteSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/aeon-byte-gnostic-radio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

La antigua mitología arroja una metáfora útil sobre el entorno en el que nos encontramos, si tuviésemos la valentía que no tuvo Quetzalcóatl durante su resaca. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fernando-dworak/message

The name of the deity Quetzalcoatl comes from the Nahuatl language, and it means "Precious Serpent," which is a reference to the serpent that is associated with the god. Quetzalcoatl was a prominent deity in the Aztec pantheon, as he was related to various phenomenon such as the planet Venus, the wind, and the sun and was also the patron of the Aztec priesthood. Aside from these, he was also associated with other gods such as Tlaloc, Huitzilopochtli, and Tezcatlipoca.In ancient Mesoamerica, Quetzalcoatl was one of the most important gods. He was known for his role in the creation of the world and its inhabitants. His name combines the Nahuatl words coatl and quetzal. From 1200, Quetzalcoatl was regarded as the patron deity of merchants and priests in Central Mexico. He was also known for inventing the calendar and was associated with various animals, such as the opossum and also the Morning Star Venus. He also discovered a mountain full of seeds and grains.Following the arrival of Nahua-speaking tribes in the north, Quetzalcoatl's cult underwent significant changes. During the Toltec era, his temple was the centre of ceremonial life in the city of Tula and the culture emphasises war and human sacrifice.Read more at https://mythlok.com/quetzalcoatl/

Eddie brings the heat!!! Eddie comes back to the show to tell us an old Toltec legend. An Evil Aztec Wizard named {Smoking Mirror) Tezcatlipoca! Who comes to terrorize Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl!  Ce Acatl interestingly died 52 years after he was born. "Tezcatlipoca tricked Ce Acatl into drunken behavior that shamed him so he fled east, reaching the edge of the sea. There, dressed in divine feathers and a turquoise mask, he burned himself up and rose into the sky, becoming the morning star." Lots of interesting mythos here that associate Ce Acatl to Thoth/Hermes/Mercury. Interestingly enough in this story Quetzalcoatl is the good guy and Tezcatlipoca is the black magican tormenter. Thank you Eddie for bringing us this story. Go check out his book The Lucifer Mystery Revealed and check out his YouTube channel Esoteric Eddie Tv for more videos and the upcoming documentary about this Toltec Legend.  RFTA Links: Email: risingftashes@yahoo.com  http://www.linktr.ee/risingftashes  http://www.patreon/risingftashes 

The term nagual, also spelled nahual, refers to the guardian spirit of some Mesoamerican Indians. In some areas the nagual is the animal into which certain powerful men can transform themselves to do evil; thus, the word derives from the Nahuatl word nahualli (“disguise”), applied to the animal forms magically assumed by sorcerers.The person who receives his nagual typically goes to an isolated spot and stays there until he awakens. According to some cultures the nagual becomes associated with a person while he is a child and the first animal to cross over the ashes of the child is his nagual. The belief in nagualism varies from region to region. In some areas it is believed that only the most powerful leaders (usually men) possess naguals. In others, all or most people have personal animal guardian spirits.Naguals are born with a strong and weak side. The traits of these animals are linked to a person's birth day. For instance, a person born on Dog Day would have both a strong and weak side of a dog. In Mexico, it is believed that a person who receives a nagual must make a pact with the devil in order to be considered as an offering. At night, this animal can transform into a wolf, dog, or a bird.The nagual is a normal person, usually male, in their physicality while in the human form. They transform into a jaguar according to some records while other say that they start displaying only a few characteristics of the sacred animal.The word nagual is derived from the word nahualli that translates to "transforming witch." In English, the term is often translated as "shape shifter." In many English writings, it is also spelt nahual.Naguals are believed to be as powerful as werewolves due to their ability to fight on equal footing. They are also considered to be the creations of the god Tezcatlipoca. Unlike werewolves, a person can easily transform into a nagual at will. However, just like humans, these creatures require special skills and mental strength to overcome their curse. Naguals typically shift when they are threatened, under immense stress, or when they are in the presence of evil although that depends on what sort of person has been cursed into a nagual.Read about the Nagual at https://mythlok.com/nagual/

El día de hoy reflexionaremos sobre “La teoría de la materia y la forma”. “Todos somos seres creadores, pero no todos saben enfocar ese poder para conseguir lo que quieren. Este poder siempre está presente”. – Aarón Alberto Beltrán Rodríguez La teoría de la materia y la forma de Aristóteles es uno de los aspectos más importantes e influyentes de su filosofía. Sin embargo, es una doctrina sutil y no siempre bien entendida. En esencia, fue un intento de explicar el mundo natural antes de los avances de la ciencia moderna. Episodio #20 Tezcatlipoca enlaces --> YouTube --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MILEN7i3E0&t=180s Spotify --> https://open.spotify.com/episode/5bVAui0yCLFWXxyi6FC1zg?si=8be742b86e964745 Me puedes enviar tus recomendaciones o cometarios a https://nona-bienestar.com/contacto/ Sígueme en Facebook y en Instagram Este podcast está disponible en YouTube, iTunes, Spotify, y Stitcher. Puedes escuchar más episodios en https://nona-bienestar.com/podcast Y recuerda…” Sólo te puedes conocer a ti mismo, como realmente eres”.

En el episodio de hoy conoceremos la historia de Tezcatlipoca. Hoy es un buen día para empezar. Hoy nos acompañará Tezcatlipoca, el espejo humeante, quien es un dios que nos hace vernos reflejados en nuestros propio ser a través del humo del espejo, contemplándonos con todas nuestras deficiencias y debilidades, con nuestros traumas, prejuicios, falsos orgullos e incluso nuestras bajas pasiones. Y más allá de sentir temor al enfrentar ese reflejo por miedo del que dirán, nos invita a evaluar nuestras acciones con el propósito de mejorar nuestra existencia. Aceptarnos como realmente somos, poner el enfoque en nuestras cualidades innatas de pensar, actuar, ser y existir en congruencia con todo y con todos los seres con los que convivimos para no sentir temor cuando nos veamos reflejados en el espejo de nuestra conciencia. 00:02 Bienvenida 00:40 Introducción 02:14 Relato “Tezcatlipoca: El Espejo Humeante” 14:03 Reflexión 15:30 Meditación 22:47 Final Me puedes enviar tus recomendaciones o cometarios a https://nona-bienestar.com/contacto/ Sígueme en Facebook y en Instagram Este podcast está disponible en YouTube, iTunes, Spotify, y Stitcher. Puedes escuchar más episodios en https://nona-bienestar.com/podcast Y recuerda…” Sólo te puedes conocer a ti mismo, como realmente eres”.

Esta semana en Código Misterio platicaremos de la cultura Azteca.Nuestra investigación comienza con el famoso calendario Azteca, donde se nos cuenta como fue la creación del mundo hasta llegar al quinto sol que es la época donde vivimos.Mucho se ha habla de gigantes en muchas culturas, hoy conoceremos la historia de uno de ellos que ayudo a la construcción de Teotihuacán y de la pirámide de Cholula, la más grande del mundo.Hablaremos de sus dioses, entre ellos Quetzalcóatl y su eterno enemigo, el dios Tezcatlipoca, quienes se dice habían llegado a aquellas tierras a través del mar en barcos que no tenían remos, y que creían se movían por arte de magia.Conoceremos algunos vestigios de la cultura egipcia que están presentes en la cultura azteca como la cruz de Ankh. Qué representa el mercurio encontrado debajo del templo de Quetzalcóatl en Teotihuacán, será una puerta al Mictlan o inframundo?Todo esto y más en este episodio de Código Misterio, búscanos en Facebook e Instagram como código misterio y descarga el podcast en tu plataforma de audio favorita y pasa la voz.

Esta semana en Código Misterio platicaremos de la cultura Azteca. Nuestra investigación comienza con el famoso calendario Azteca, donde se nos cuenta como fue la creación del mundo hasta llegar al quinto sol que es la época donde vivimos. Mucho se ha habla de gigantes en muchas culturas, hoy conoceremos la historia de uno de ellos que ayudo a la construcción de Teotihuacán y de la pirámide de Cholula, la más grande del mundo. Hablaremos de sus dioses, entre ellos Quetzalcóatl y su eterno enemigo, el dios Tezcatlipoca, quienes se dice habían llegado a aquellas tierras a través del mar en barcos que no tenían remos, y que creían se movían por arte de magia. Conoceremos algunos vestigios de la cultura egipcia que están presentes en la cultura azteca como la cruz de Ankh. Qué representa el mercurio encontrado debajo del templo de Quetzalcóatl en Teotihuacán, será una puerta al Mictlan o inframundo? Todo esto y más en este episodio de Código Misterio, búscanos en Facebook e Instagram como código misterio y descarga el podcast en tu plataforma de audio favorita y pasa la voz. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Trigger Warnings below the script, below. Two girls in very different times and places both make their way to the top - One finds exaltation, the other merely death. Cast List Tess - Beverly Poole Teza - Lyndsey Thomas Mom - Kris Keppeler Markie/Malque - Julie Hoverson Doctor/Trainer/Priest - Mathias Rebne Morgan Music:  Kevin MacLeod (Incompetech.com)         Josh Woodward (JoshWoodward.com)         Philippe Mangold [Music of Woodward and Mangold used under a Creative Commons license and available through Jamendo.com] Editing and Sound:   Julie Hoverson Cover Photos: Chris Gilbert     (courtesy of Stock Xchange.com)   "What kind of a place is it?  Why, it's a mother's heart.  Can't you tell?" **************************************************************** LONELY AT THE TOP Cast: Tess (F/16) Teza (F/16) Markie/Marquay (F/16) Mom (F/40) Priest/Trainer/Doctor (M/40)   NOTE:  the roles are deliberately doubled to present the same “people” in both girls' lives.  The “mom” speeches apply to both at the same time.   OLIVIA     Did you have any trouble finding it?  What do you mean, what kind of a place is it?  Why, it's a Mother's heart, can't you tell?   MUSIC MOM's MUSIC MOM    Darling, this is wonderful.  You can't imagine how proud I am of you!  I've always known you were special, but it means so much to have someone like that see what I have always seen! MUSIC OUT AMB MODERN MARKIE    I totally can't believe it!  You made the cut? TESS    It's not set in stone yet - It's just the semi-finals, but mom's about to wet herself, she's so excited. MARKIE    But Miss Modern Teen Model 2009!  I mean, even if you wash out on the semi-finals, that's still soooo cool!  I wish I was pretty. TESS    Puh-lease.  You're cute.  Cute lasts.  Beauty fades. MARKIE    Cute.  Yeah, that's my curse.  Not tall enough to be a model, not short enough to walk under turnstiles... [laughs a bit bitterly] TESS    Cute lasts.  I have to make the most of this while I can.  Besides, you have plans for your future - the scholarships are lining up.  MARKIE    Yeah yeah yeah, but brains don't get you dates. TESS    Brains last too. MOM MUSIC MOM    The idea that my daughter - my lovely child - could go all the way to the top.  That you could have the perseverance and willpower to do what has to be done to make it.  It will reflect so well on all of us! MUSIC OUT AMB AZTEC MARQUE    You are one of the chosen? TEZA    [laughs delightedly] Yes!  There is still a long path ahead of me, but I feel - it feels right! MARQUE    You are so fortunate!  I wish I was graced with beauty pleasing to the gods.  TEZA    Everyone's fate is different, my dearest friend.  I hear your parents have found you a husband! MARQUE    He is ... kind.  Not unappealing.  Not too old.  Yes, it is a promising match.  I could certainly do worse. TEZA    So you have as much to look forward to as I do! MARQUE    Could you ... do something for me? TEZA    Anything - you are my dearest friend and I love you! MARQUE    When you ... get there, could you petition the great mother Chalchihuitlicue [chal-chee-weet-lee-cue] to smile upon my first pregnancy?  That say that should you survive the first, the others are not so hard. TEZA    Not even a bride yet, and you worry about bearing?  Silly.  Let your time come when it may.  MARQUE    But-- TEZA    But!  But I will.  I will speak with every goddess in the heavens if it will help ease your burden. MARQUE    I love you! MOM MUSIC MOM    Don't be afraid honey, I won't let you fail.  I know you can reach any goal you set your mind on.  You simply must keep your focus.  Can you do that?  Eyes on the prize, sweetheart.  And you know what that means - giving up the things that don't matter to clear the way for the things that do. AMB MODERN MOM    What are you eating? TESS    What?  Ice cream. MOM    No, no, no!  You know what Mr. Dupree said - these last few days before the pageant, you need to stick to simple foods.  No sugar!  Nothing bloaty.   TESS    Chill mom.  I made it this far-- MOM    It just gets harder, honey.  Every inch of the way is like another huge step up the side of a mountain.  None of these steps are easy, but they're worth the effort, if only because of the view once you get up there. TESS    You're really stoked on this, aren't you? MOM    Yes honey, I'm stoked.  For you.  I want you to be able to get everything you can out of life - a model's life isn't easy, but there are plenty of rewards. TESS    [heard it a million times] and you have to get it while you can, because models are over the hill before they can legally drink. MOM    It's not funny, honey.  It's very serious.  Can't you give it just one year?  How hard is that - to push yourself, for just one year? TESS    I guess. MOM MUSIC MOM    When I heard that you had been chosen, that you were smiled upon out of all the girls, I nearly wept.  I was so pleased.  I've watched your sisters put themselves at the service of husband and children, and I wanted so much more for you.  You are my special, beautiful, darling. AMB AZTEC MARQUE    I'm sorry you will miss my wedding.  TEZA    It is set, then? MARQUE    Not the day, no, but it will be summer next, right after the sowing.  TEZA    A good time.  And I will be with you in spirit.  MARQUE    The midwife thinks I will be old enough, then.  [breaking a little] Oh, I will miss you!  Once you enter the grand temple, we can never speak again! TEZA    You will always be in my heart, as I know I will always be in yours.  I will watch over you and always hear you when you speak to me. MARQUE    It will be in the spring?  For you? TEZA    If I am selected to represent Chicomecoatl [chih-coe-me-coe-ah-tul].  It would be a great honor.  MARQUE    Your mother has been bragging everywhere.  She cannot be quieted.  TEZA    It's as if she was the one being considered. MARQUE    Never mind.  Regardless, we will be together through the winter, while you learn all you must know for the big day.  TEZA    And you learn all you must know for your big day. MOM MUSIC MOM    My dearest child, you don't know how my heart swells with pride when I think about you, up there in front of everyone, beautiful and serene, like a shining star, and knowing, deep inside myself, that I made you perfect. AMB DUAL [Both are speechifying] TESS    I am so pleased to be considered -- TEZA    --to represent our lady of corn on this most sacred of days.  I have always wanted-- TESS    --to be able to find a way to show the world what I have inside, what I have to offer.  And if I could do one thing-- TEZA    --I would like to make my mother, my family, and my people proud of me, for community is everything.  Without the people around us, we-- TESS    --would never have made it this far, this close to becoming the next to represent-- TEZA    --Lady of the corn-- TESS    --Miss Modern Teen Model 2019. AMB MODERN TESS    [crying] MOM    What the hell did you think you were doing in there?  They were laughing at you! TESS    [teary] What? MOM    That judge said you walk like a trucker with hemorrhoids! TESS    I don't know how I walk!  I don't watch me! MOM    [softening] Honey!  Sweetie!  Oh, come here.  It's not over - I promise you.  You were doing so well, I'm sure this one thing won't put you out entirely, as long as you don't give up.  TESS    I want to-- MOM    Shh. Shh.  We'll just find someone to do something about that walk.  No big deal. AMB AZTEC TEZA    [tears] It's all over! I know it! MARQUE    Why? TEZA    The rich merchant from Tenochtitlan - he has requested I marry him! MARQUE    But doesn't he know you are destined for the temple? TEZA    [scornful] Apparently he likes the idea of marrying someone perfect enough for the gods. MARQUE    That is - he is asking for something terrible to happen! TEZA    Well, I haven't been chosen yet - if I tried to step away then, that would be blasphemy.  But to drop out now... what a blow it would be to everyone.  And yet - my mother may consider his offer, since he is very prosperous.  It is not fair! MARQUE    No.   Do not worry.  I think this means as much to your mother - more even - than it does to you.  She wishes you to secure her a place in the high tables of the night.  And there is money from the temple as well - the position is a very prestigious one.  MOM MUSIC MOM    Your dreams are all that matters, my dearest child.  I will never try and stop you from getting everything you deserve.  You know you can count on my support every step of the way.  I will always be behind you to help you face forward, and will push you up every step, if that's what it takes.  AMB MODERN SOUND    VOMITING MUFFLED BY DOOR MOM    Honey?  You doing all right? TESS    [recovering] Just a minute. MOM    Quick rinse, dear - there's someone here to see you! SOUND    DOOR SHUTS, FOOTSTEPS MOM    She'll be out in a minute - fixing her face, you know. TRAINER    Of course.  Why don't work out my fees while we wait-- SOUND     DOOR OPENS TESS    [subdued] Hi. MOM    Oh, come on, show a little enthusiasm!  She's really much more excited than that. TRAINER    Don't worry - I understand.  So this is Tess.  [hmming noises] SOUND    FOOTSTEPS CIRCLE TESS TRAINER    Has she had any formal modeling training? MOM    She's been taking classes since she was nine. TRAINER    [disapproving]  Hmm. MOM    But she also studied ballet, tap, jazz, deportment, and has kept up a 3.7 G-P-A. TRAINER    [dismissive noise] TESS    And I- TRAINER    Shh!  How old is she? MOM    Fourteen.  TRAINER    We're starting it a bit late, but I see potential here.  Show me this walk... MOM MUSIC MOM    Think on this.  Think of the great ones - the ones we all idolize and hold in great regard.  Now picture your face there, among them, gracing the rest of us below.  Can't you see yourself?  Your perfect self? AMB AZTEC MOM    [whispered]  Don't they look grand in their feathers?  They hold our future - your future in their very hands. TEZA    Mother.  You will make me tongue-tied.  They are wise and all-knowing.  They will know if I am the one-- MOM    That you are the one-- TEZA    --the minute they lay eyes upon me. MOM    [gasp] Was that your name?  Did they call your name? TEZA    Yes, mother it was my name.  Pray for me. SOUND    ECHOING FOOTSTEPS PRIEST    You, child.  You aspire to represent the great lady of the corn? TEZA    [awed and respectful]  Yes, if it please the gods. PRIEST    You are lovely, but are you pure? TEZA    Yes, sire.  My mother can swear to it. PRIEST    Remove your shawl, show us your body.  Do not hesitate, child - nothing untoward will happen.  Your mother is right there watching. SOUND    HEAVY FABRIC FALLS TO THE FLOOR MOM MUSIC MOM    It's just skin, honey.  You have nothing to be embarrassed about.  You're lovely.  Think of yourself as a work of art, and they are objective observers.  They wouldn't be interested in you that way, anyway - you know that.  And I'm right here.  Tell me if you get nervous, and I'll make them stop.  All right?  You know every girl who has gone  before has been through this same thing. AMB MODERN TESS    [nervous, jittery]  Well, they haven't said no, yet. MARKIE    That's good. TESS    I guess.  I mean, I'm starting to wonder whether it's all really worth it.  I'm supposed to get good sleep, be rested, so I can look my best, but half the time I'm too damn nervous, or hungry, or...something.  I'm always trying not to think of things, like food, or having time to myself - I mean, what is it all for? MARKIE    Wow.  Maybe you should just tell your mom you want to stop. TESS    Tell my mom?  [laughs almost hysterically] Tell my mom?  Are you high?  She would toss me out on my ear.  She's got so into this - and besides, she's spent all this money - mucho dinero, you know - to get me this far.  How can I let her down - make her waste all that? MARKIE    But you have to think of yourself, right? TESS    I promised her I would do this for one year.  Just a year - I can do it.  [affirmations] I have the willpower to maintain, and the serenity to--[breaks into a sob] MARKIE    Have you eaten anything today? TESS    I can't!  The pre-judging is tomorrow. MARKIE    I have some tic-tacs-- TESS    No!  Don't tempt me!  Shit, Markie, you're supposed to be helping me! MOM MUSIC MOM    It will all be worth it, you know it will.  The purging, the special oils.  You will always be the most lovely one in the place - caught in that one special moment, when you shine above all others.  No one will ever forget you after that! AMB AZTEC TEZA    great and reverent master, what if I have doubts? PRIEST    Doubts?  What doubts, child? TEZA    I fear that I will not be worthy.  That I will falter in my steps and dishonor the crown of corn. PRIEST    I can look into your heart, child, and I see that you have the strength within you to bear this burden - to rise to the heights, and carry the name of Chicomecoatl with dignity and grace. TEZA    Do you? PRIEST    It is always the way of men and women to doubt themselves.  To worry that they will lose themselves in fear, or to ponder what life would be like had they not stepped out upon the path to greatness.  Ever and always. TEZA    But what can I do? PRIEST    Fast and pray, child.  I know you will see the correctness of your choice.  And when your day of glory comes, you will never know fear or doubt again. MOM MUSIC MOM    A boy?  What do you mean a boy?  You don't have time for - you're too young for boys.  All the boys you could possibly want will be at your feet, when the time comes, but right now - [hissed] it will ruin you.  AMB MODERN TESS    But Corey's on TV!  He could help my-- MOM    He could get you on the covers of a bunch of sleazy tabloids-- TESS    But you said publicity is good-- MOM    Not that kind - that will make sure everyone knows your name, but you will never be high class again!  Save that kind of exploitation for when your looks start to fade. TESS    Yeah, like when I'm 17. MOM    You knew going in this was a short hard run, missy.  There is no free ride.  You wanted this as much as I did! TESS    Well I don't want it any more!  I want to have a normal life! MOM    Fine.  We can go back to living a normal life.  You and me and your dad - oh, wait.  Where should we live, hun?  We sold the house when we came on the road with you - to finance your headshots and your spa treatments.  I suppose if you quit school-- TESS    [muttered] I can't concentrate anyway. MOM    --and get a job in fast food, we three between us could make enough to [ramping up, each statement a dagger] live in a crappy little apartment and eat junk food all the time and get enormously fat and covered in  acne, and then as soon as you're old enough, you can run off with some high school drop out who wants to start a band-- [sliding down, into her own misery] but of course you love each other and he ends up driving Greyhound and you lose the last vestige of your waist when you have the first three children, but the fourth child - your fourth child, she might just be perfect enough to live the good life - the beautiful life - at least until she ruins it! TEZA    You gave me the choice mother, and I accept my fate. MOM    I always knew you were just too good to live.  You are an angel, honey, a perfect angel. TESS    Yes, mother. MOM    Sweetie.  [all business] Now here's your pills from Dr. Gustavson - he said don't take them on an empty stomach, so go grab a cracker and some diet soda. MOM MUSIC MOM    There is nothing wrong with wanting more for your child than you had.  Wanting to guide her and make sure she gets the advantages instead of making the same stupid mistakes you made.  Is there?  Isn't all of life - at least the lives of parents - the effort to make a better life for your children? AMB AZTEC MARQUE     And is he very handsome, the chosen vessel of Tezcatlipoca? TEZA    Don't be silly - he is perfect.  They wouldn't have chosen him otherwise.  [sigh] but of course, we are set upon different paths. MARQUE    Perhaps you will meet later.  Beyond the sun. TEZA    Perhaps.  But he has been given four wives who are all perfect as well.   MARQUE    And you are the Lady of Corn - none can shine brighter than a candle in the sunlight when you are in the room.  I swear you get more beautiful every day.  This suits you. TEZA    Thank you - my mother says so also.  [beat]  We are to meet at another function - what if he talks to me again? MARQUE    Talk is all well and good, but do not be alone.  It is so humiliating to prove that you have not fallen into temptation. TEZA    ugh [shudder]  I could go my whole life without ever feeling that again.  [bucks up] And I shall.  I may talk to him, but I will never step out of the sight of the priests.  We will both remain perfect. MARQUE    Very good. TEZA    I wish you could have come with me...but the temple handmaidens are devoted even earlier than we. MARQUE    Well, I have news for you as well.  My husband to be, [pleased] who has meals with my family more often than custom requires -hmm? - is really quite an amusing man.  And very fond of me.  I may not have my moment in the center of the universe, but I will have a good life. TEZA    I am so pleased.  And I will remember to   petition for you. SOUND    [hug noise] MOM MUSIC MOM    Unhappy?  How can you be unhappy?  You have everything you could possibly want - your face in front of everyone, men at your beck and call, and attending all the best celebrations!  What could you possibly be missing?  [wheedling] you know I'm only doing this for you!  You want this as much as I do!  You've finally made it, honey, what more could any girl want?  Every girl out there looks at you and cries herself to sleep wishing she could trade lives with you.  That is enough to make anyone happy, isn't it?  To be envied?  How could you possibly be unhappy enough to do this? AMB MODERN DOCTOR    Now take two of these every eight hours, to prevent infection, and change the dressings every 4 hours or so.  MOM    I'll keep her on schedule, don't you worry.  And...this won't get out? DOCTOR    It's hardly likely that people won't notice the change, even with the recuperation period, but I certainly don't keep in business by revealing personal info about my clientele. TESS    Mom? MOM    Don't worry, dear.  Momma's right here. TESS    You said I wouldn't feel it. MOM    Does it hurt, honey?  Here, doctor, can she have something for the pain? DOCTOR    That's in the bag too, but do go light on them - you don't want to become dependent.  MOM    And when the scars heal, and everyone sees  how lovely you are, with your new curves, you will be the envy of even more of the world. TESS    [dully] Of course, mother. MOM MUSIC MOM    Even perfection can be improved on.  Beauty is pain.  That which is prized most is always hardest to come by.  If it was easy to be beautiful, everyone would want to be ugly instead.  You cannot be special if everyone can easily achieve what you have.  You must stand out.  You must shine.  Look into that mirror, dearest child, and tell me you don't love yourself even more each day as you come closer and closer to perfection. MUSIC - BOTH TEZA    Life is pain TESS    Beauty sucks. TEZA    I am being remade in the image of the goddess.  TESS    Who decides what I should fucking look like? TEZA    Painted and pierced.  Smoothed and scented.  I am treated like a queen. TESS    If I have to have one more operation, I'll pee stitches. TEZA    I bite the stick and let the pain carry me away as they mold my flesh. TESS    I cry all night, silently, so my mother won't come and comfort me. AMB AZTEC TEZA    See my new ear plugs?  They made them larger again, and heavy.  They almost touch my shoulders now. MARQUE    Don't they hurt? TEZA    Of course, but pain won't last forever.  I rather coveted a nose piercing as well, but that is not suited to the lady.  I am being remade in her image. MARQUE    I really admire your hair.  Such elegantly styled coils and plaits! TEZA    Smell!  Only the finest oils must touch me.  Everything is moving so quickly - such a short time left before the day I ascend to the top of the sky. MARQUE    Too bad it is not sooner - my sister will start her labor soon, and she could use a blessing from the lady of rivers.  TEZA    I can still burn offerings, like anyone else. MARQUE    True, but I can't help but feel the word of the corn lady will be heard so much louder than mere mortals such as we. TEZA    [laughs ruefully] I can ask any one of a legion of priests to guide me in my prayers, and they will gladly help - for it is goodly for the lady of the corn to look after those with child.  MARQUE    Would you? TEZA    Yes.  And the priests - well their voices will carry as far as they need to go. [they laugh] MOM MUSIC MOM    The day is set, my child.  You have reached the height.  This can never be undone and leave you a nobody ever again.  Everyone will see your face, and know - they will know - that you are the center of the universe. AMB MODERN TESS    Who the hell am I? MOM    What?  Sweetie, you're-- TESS    I used to know!  I used to be Tess, a pretty and I dunno - slightly talented, maybe - high school student, and now--[sob catches] MOM    Now, you're the most beautiful woman in the world - the magazine said so.  It showed your absolute perfection-- TESS    Not my perfection, mother - that's complete crap.  I'm like - I'm like Mr. potato head, and you stuck hair and makeup and a pair of boobs on me - None of this is me!  Who the hell am I?  Did you ever ask?  Did you ever care? MOM    Honey!  It's just icing on a wonderful  cake.  You like cake, don't you?  [ingratiating] And isn't it better with frosting? TESS    [through gritted teeth] I don't GET cake, mother, not unless I want to taste it both ways [eating and throwing up].  I don't even know if I could hold it down if I tried. MOM    What the hell has got into you?  TESS    You couldn't even leave me my own name, could you?  "Tess" just isn't supermodel material.  And you didn't even choose it - you let a marketing firm do a survey and took their suggestions. MOM    You got to pick one of the three they came up with-- TESS    There isn't any me left under all this, mother!  Nothing.  I'm hollow.  Empty. MOM    Where are you going? TESS    To find something to fill me. MOM MUSIC MOM    Purpose.  Purpose is enough, isn't it?  You are moving forward, ever forward.  The search for perfection is a road, not a destination.  There is nothing wrong with embellishing the beauty you were born with. AMB AZTEC MARQUE    [crying]  It was horrible. TEZA    I'm so sorry.  I did what I could. MARQUE    I know.  She is with the gods, now, but it was so awful.  I - I'm so scared. TEZA    Why? MARQUE    Watching her - watching the blood and the pain, hours and hours of it - and the baby died too!  How can I ever choose to go through that? TEZA    It is what women do. MARQUE    You won't ever have to. TEZA    [teasing a bit] I have to give life to the whole world.  [serious] But I feel for you.  And for your sister, and her baby.  It is a tragedy. MARQUE    Is there anything in life that doesn't hurt? TEZA    Flowers.  Chocolate.  Love. MARQUE    You know what I mean - important things. TEZA    What is more important than Love? MARQUE    [sniff, then a tiny sad uh-huh] MOM MUSIC MOM    Only a few more days.  Nothing must go wrong.  You must be so very careful not to harm yourself, even a scratch or a nick will show.  Only the most skilled may come to do your hair, massage, and dress you in the most beautiful garments.  Nothing is left to chance.  Nothing.  Do you hear me?  Nothing will go wrong, even if I have to hurt someone. MODERN AMB MOM    I see you're feeling a little better? TESS    [dull] Yes I took my medicine. MOM    Good.  Nothing like seeing a smile on my little girl's face again.  And there's nothing wrong with using science to combat unhappiness. TESS    Yes mother. MOM    Unhappiness isn't natural.  Especially for beautiful people. TESS    Beautiful. MOM    Dear.  Don't frown.  You don't want to get wrinkles! TESS    Why don't I just lie here like a blob?  That way I can't break a nail. MOM    Are you sure you took your pills? TESS    [sigh] MOM MUSIC MOM    It is always darkest right before the dawn.  And it is always tensest the night before the main event.  You hold your breath and pray for dawn, the watch the shadows crawl across the ground, feeling like the final moment will never come.  And once it arrives?  Pfft.  It is over.  AZTEC AMB TEZA    I'm happy you could sit vigil this night with me, mother. MOM    How could I do otherwise, my darling chosen one? TEZA    [teasing] You must relinquish your claim to me, since I am now the Corn lady. MOM    [fondly, almost in tears]  My lady of corn.  I will never forget that I was able to contribute to the glory you represent. TEZA    Without you I would not be here - would not be able to bring life to the crops for another year. MOM    And yet it is a melancholy time as well.   Knowing that the great lady will ascend to heaven tomorrow. TEZA    I told Marque I will watch over her.  I can watch you both.  I have two eyes. MOM    Can Teza give her mother a final kiss before the Corn lady must take her walk? TEZA    Of course.  [kiss noise] MOM MUSIC MOM    And this is it.  The end.  What we have worked so hard for.  I know it is a sad time.  I feel sad too, but the triumph, the glory, the joy will outweigh the sorrow.  MODERN AMB MOM    What the hell do you mean, she's gone?  TRAINER    She was here for the opening - the talent portion is about to start, and she's not in the dressing room.  MOM    Have you checked the bathroom? TRAINER    I asked every girl in there, and between yarks they said they hadn't seen her. MOM    How could she do this to me? TRAINER    Worse - her opening number gown is gone too, and it was a rental. AMB - MIXED [Tess is down, Teza is filled with joy] TEZA    I gaze up the endless stairs TESS    Knowing this will be my last trip BOTH    I feel my sandals shift beneath my feet as I take the first step. TEZA    With each step, the roaring grows louder TESS    The voices in my head just won't shut up! TEZA    I must go slowly, for while I cannot falter, neither can I look down. TESS    My head is so heavy TEZA    My crown is so weighty. BOTH    I feel all those eyes upon me. TESS    [shriek] They won't leave me alone! TEZA    [ecstatic] They love me! TESS    They hate me! TEZA    Each step takes me higher.  Closer to the heavens. TESS    I haul myself up, one step at a time. TEZA    My ears still ache - the pain reminds me of what I leave behind. TESS    The pain of what I have become will never leave me. TEZA    The scent of a thousand flowers, thrown by the crowd, surrounds me. TESS    The hallway smells of puke. BOTH    Only a few more steps.  TEZA    I thrill with fear and longing, yearning for the gods. TESS    Please god don't let me fuck this up. TEZA    The priests await me, stern and welcoming. TESS    I see a face and don't recognize myself until I realize it's a mirror. TEZA    The name me Chicomecoatl, and I know I have become the Lady of the corn. TESS    I stare into the eyes in the mirror and have no clue who she is. BOTH    I take up the cup. TEZA    The drink warms me, and I love everyone. TESS    I drink slowly, timing the pills - too fast and I'll barf it all up before it can work. TEZA    My mind floats. BOTH    I can't feel anything anymore. TEZA    They gently lay me on the altar. TESS    The bathroom tile is cool under my cheek. TEZA    The knife above me catches light from Huitztipotchli's glory. TESS    Everything is getting dark TEZA    The knife falls and I transcend. TESS    Everything goes black. OMINOUS SILENCE CLOSING MUSIC SLOWLY CREEPS IN **************************************************************** T R I G G E R W A R N I N G S   [TW - mature language and situations, extreme dieting, non-gender related body dysmorphia and modification, depression, suicide, human sacrifice]

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 314, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Creation Stories 1: According to the gospel of St. John, in the beginning was this and it was God. The word. 2: This scientific theory suggests everything goes back to a single primeval event. Big Bang Theory. 3: In Eskimo lore, this black bird is a trickster-creator. Raven. 4: The oldest Greek myths feature Gaia, as Mother this. Earth. 5: The creation myth of these people involves Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl tearing Coatlicue apart. Aztecs. Round 2. Category: It's A Mystery! 1: The title of this 1939 mystery by Raymond Chandler is a slang term for death. The Big Sleep. 2: This detecting couple whom Dashiell Hammett introduced in "The Thin Man" had a dog named Asta. Nick and Nora Charles. 3: The V.I. in this hard-boiled detective's name stands for Victoria Iphigenia. V.I. Warshawski. 4: Some editions of this Dickens novel begin, "An ancient English cathedral town..."; others say "tower"--it's a "Mystery"!. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. 5: "The Mystery of" her is Poe's sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". Marie Roget. Round 3. Category: Cooking Equipment 1: Waffles are made in an iron and muffins are made in an implement named for this metal. tin. 2: Used to keep food warm, this "dish" is a container with a pan of hot water beneath it. a chafing dish. 3: Special round cutters are made to slice these Italian pies. pizzas. 4: A double one of these is often used to melt chocolate. boiler. 5: The mandoline, resembling a washboard, eases this process of cutting potatoes into matchlike strips. julienning. Round 4. Category: We Predict The Future! 1: On Jan. 20, 2009 this man will lose his $400,000-a-year (plus 50 grand in expenses) federal government job. George W. Bush. 2: On March 1, 2022 we'll be celebrating "Fat Tuesday", this celebration, y'all. Mardi Gras. 3: By Dec. 31, 2010 this Bureau will have submitted state population totals to the president (well, it better have). the Census. 4: On July 20, 2010 this S. American country will kick back with some good coffee to celebrate 200 years of indep.. Colombia. 5: On July 27, 2012 the Summer Olympics will open in this world capital. London. Round 5. Category: Let's Play A Game! 1: You can apologize (as the name says) when you send someone back to the start in this Parker Brothers board game. Sorry!. 2: Boggle is a word search game; you make words using wood tiles in this classic board game. Scrabble. 3: Collect pieces of cheese and build a zany contraption to try to catch your opponents in this board game. Mouse Trap. 4: The name of this game in which you stack hardwood blocks into a tower comes from a Swahili word for "to build". Jenga. 5: Find out which of Mr. Boddy's guests murdered him in his own mansion and with what weapon in this classic mystery game. Clue. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

Tezcatlipoca, "El espejo que humea" -que llevaba puesto el espejo en lugar de un pie-- era la energía suprema, el que estaba en todas partes, el que regalaba bienes y luego los quitaba. También traía dificultades. problemas, enfermedades. Era positivo y negativo, caprichoso y voluble. Era #tezctlipoca

  Preserved From the Beast (22) (Audio) David Eells - 11/28/21 Jesus is Coming; Hop Into the Boat! Adriana Santoro - 9/24/21 (David's notes in red)   I dreamed I was with my mom by a wharf and we were waiting for a boat to dock. I was freaking out because I knew that it was the 'end of the world'.  (Adriana's mom represents the original Church and the original gospel which we've heard from the beginning. The boat represents the Psalm 91 refuge in Christ; our Secret Place of the Most High; our Ark of safety. The ‘end of the world' is the end of this age when the 7 year tribulation storm begins. It's the 'end of the world' as we've known it.) It was just us two standing there and I was asking her, "Why mom? Is this really it?" She said, "Yes, He (Jesus) is coming. Just hop into the boat." Shortly after she said this, a medium sized, wooden boat appeared and my mother asked me to hop in. Pro. 18:10 The name of Jehovah is a strong tower; The righteous runneth into it, and is safe. We walked into the second deck and I can only remember looking out of this little port-hole window which was above the water. (The second deck is where the spiritual man abides in heavenly places in Christ. When we abide in Christ, our Strong Tower, by faith, then we walk above the curses of this world and judgment. Psa. 91:8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, And see the reward of the wicked.) I cannot tell you why we walked onto the second deck but there was not one other person on this boat. (This is because Adriana and her mom represent a corporate body of believers which are many.) I don't even recall seeing a captain, (The Captain is our Heavenly Father who is invisible to us, but He is Sovereign and in complete control of the Ark and the storm.)  All I remember at that point was being in fear. Then I woke up. (I hadn't understood God properly back when I had this dream but I feel differently now that I understand His promises for His elect better.)     Taking Back the Media / Shaking Storm of the Serpent Coming William Steenland - 11/20/21  (David's notes in red)   I had a short dream that the entire internet was completely censored from all non-DS controlled alternative media news sources.  (The communist DS has done this to  conservatives. Now the military is planning to run the Starlink Satelite System and will have the ONLY news soon.  They will cut out the DS MSM just like they did to us. The military is taking out the DS satellites.  They say it will be safe on the new internet which is coming up now as we speak.  No Dark Net or Porno, etc.. We need to pray against what Bill saw and for the Alliance's success.) In the second dream, I was just waking up and I spoke in my sleep saying, “Massive hurricane; East Coast”. I woke up immediately and thought how silly it was to dream of a hurricane warning because it's so late in the year. But, maybe the hurricane is symbolic.  (The Etymology of the word ‘Hurricane' means 'shaking of the serpent', I believe.)  (According to Act for Libraries : There are two possible origins of the word “hurricane.” According to one source, the word “Hurricane” is derived from the Spanish word “huracn”, the origin of which is the Carib term for “God of Evil”. Other sources, however, postulate that the word is derived from the name of the Mayan storm god, “Hurakan.” According to the Popol Vuh, which recounts the Mayan Creation story, Huracan (from the Mayan word Jun Raqan) is the ancient Mayan weather god of wind, storm, and fire. Hurakan is “the one-legged”, and one of three creator deities, collectively called “The Heart of Heaven,” that participates in three attempts at creating humanity first from mud, and then wood. The final and successful creation resulted in the creation of mankind from maize. Their Creation story also reveals that Hurakan caused the Great Flood after the first humans angered the gods. According to the myth, he lived in the windy mists above the floodwaters and repeatedly called forth the earth until land came up from beneath the seas. His “one legged” appearance refers to one of his legs having been transformed into a snake. His appearance features a snout-like nose, resembles that of the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca. Hurakan can also be spelled Hurrican, Huracan, & Harakan.)     The Fast Approaching Storm; Grid Down Causes a Great Falling Away Marie Kelton - 12/22/20 (David's notes in red) I had a dream that Vanessa and I were in an all white classroom like the ones from when I was in college. (The classroom represents that we have been in training for the times to come.) There was a big virtual map that Vanessa was looking at on the white board because a wind storm was coming. It was showing the wind patterns all over the world. (Well, we know that an economic storm and a plague storm and a political storm from the DS is in play now all over the world.)  Vanessa was trying to figure out what was going to happen in our area which was in the northern part of Africa by Egypt and Israel. (We are spiritual Israel; currently enslaved to Egypt as a type of America and the Babylonish world system.)  Vanessa couldn't figure out how to reverse the progress of the storm. So I reversed the progress of the storm on the map by hitting an undo button  so it would go back to where it would show us what would happen now, instead of in the future, because the progress of the storm on the map was moving too fast. (Representing intercessory prayer that will undo or hinder the progress of the enemies plans against us. ) The present wind movement wasn't that bad on the map now, but it picked up and got worse in our area as time went on. (Trump has said in the past, “The Storm is Upon Us”, but now it is getting worse.) Then David said that the wind storm would cause the power grid to go down and that many in UBM local and larger UBM would be tested with the idea of being lost or reprobated. He said it's because, that's what satan does and that God would use it to see who would fall away. (We have a spiritual power grid of the promises to us in the Word of God as well as a power grid in the natural. Many are already falling away because of these tests of discouragement, doubt and unbelief caused by the MSM disinformation as well as satan's fiery darts of disinformation.) I knew it was because we could no longer get the teachings and broadcasts due to the grid being down and no internet. The ones that were not in local UBM couldn't communicate with the ones that were. I knew that it was a great falling away and not just local but around the world. (There is a planned shutdown by the Alliance that should be relatively short to enable them to better capture DS criminals. We should pray for their success and that this shutdown does not last. Also, people are capable now of copying teachings and audios from the site for the coming days. People could be demoralized by a physical communications disruption and possibly more lock downs when a worse plague is released on the populations of the world by the DS.)   DS Smashes the Phones to Avoid Exposure  Andrew Gelinas - 7/10/21 (David's notes in red) In this dream it was night time. (Representing the spiritual darkness that is covering the earth and will get increasingly darker.) I watched a small news crew approach a leftist DS man on the walkway of his home. The news crew's equipment cases were levitating and following right behind them. (The Alliance is about to take over the media from the DS who have lost all their main satellites.)  As I observed this curiosity of the levitating equipment cases, I thought to myself, “This technology would've been unbelievable for me or anyone else to imagine only a little while ago. Now it's just a normal part of every day life.” (The Star link Satellite network is run by the Trump military and is present with everyone and it is highly technical. It will be linked to smart phones and will follow us by GPS .) Then one of the reporters held up a smart phone to the man and asked, “What do you have to say about this?” They were showing him irrefutable proof about everything he and the DS had been doing in the shadows all along. (Trump and the Alliance have been slowly leaking and dripping out information to the public for about a year now and more and more of the DS evils are being exposed to the masses who are finally waking up and beginning to take a stand against the DS in protests and law suits.) The man leered at the screen, scanning it in irritation for a few seconds. Then he abruptly ripped the phone from the reporter's hand, and angrily hurled it down at the concrete in dramatic fashion as he stormed back into his house and slammed the door. (The DS is furious and desperate that they are losing their witchcraft grip on the people and they are planning a worse attack or plague to be unleashed on the masses in order to regain control and carry out their de-population plans for humanity to completion. Mike Adams has an  interesting podcast on the possibilities of DS distractions in order to avoid the exposure of their evils.) After this, the scene changed and it was now bright and sunny. (Representing the coming of the Man-child at the beginning of the 7 year tribulation period. “Those who sat in darkness have seen a great light.") I was standing next to my Father in his yard. (Representing our Heavenly Father)  He was kneeling down on one knee beside a tree stump. He had placed the wooden butt of a rifle on the center of the stump and was using a hammer and chisel to carve it up into wood chips. (The Father will destroy the stump of Babylon. Dan. 4:23-26 And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of heaven: and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him; 24 this is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which is come upon my lord the king: 25 that thou shalt be driven from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and thou shalt be made to eat grass as oxen, and shalt be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee; till thou know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. 26 And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule.) I then held up a piece of wood chip and sniffed it to see if it would work well for smoking meats. Then I woke up. (This represents the wood, hay and stubble that are burnt up in the  fiery trials to purify God's people and cleanse the Church of Babylonish impurities.  Mat. 3:7-12   But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said unto them, Ye offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance: 9 and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.  10 And even now the axe lieth at the root of the trees: every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 11 I indeed baptize you in water unto repentance, but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire: 12 whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor; and he will gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.   The Beast Devours Communications; Apostasy Reveals Too Much Flesh Claire Pienaar - 6/30/21 (David's notes in red) I dreamed I was in a large body of water. (Representing peoples, nations and tongues.)  I needed to lure a polar bear (Representing the Beast)  out of the water. (We bait the Beast in people by being wise as serpents and harmless as doves.) I looked down into the murky water all around me. It was like a lake or dam. Then I realized I was in open water, but there was no polar bear there. He'd already been caught and put into an Olympic sized pool. In the next instant I was in that same pool. (Father is sovereign over the Beast and already has him contained to do His will in the earth among the nations and peoples. We are in the world but not of it.)  It was my job to give the polar bear my phone to chew on. (This represents sacrificing our fleshly communications of the Beast whether it's from our own mouths or our devices.) The bear LOVED phones! (The DS Beast in the waters of mankind loves phones so that they can keep track of everybody and have all intelligence to control everything.) I was now quite fearful as I thought maybe the bear was getting hungry. I swam towards the bear, and my phone flipped out of my hands and I thought “Oh no! How will I find it?” The concern was not for my phone, but that, without it, the bear would want to eat me instead. (The DS beast has no intelligence to control us, rob us, make war against us without their  brain box with us and in losing this they have decided to depopulate us. Through their intelligence they are able to decide who they want to purge from society. On another vein, t he Beast of our flesh will devour us without us sacrificing our fleshly desires upon the altar. The corporate body of the Beast will devour all those who are not sanctified from the world and its ways and fleshly communications. I've often joked about throwing my GPS connected phone onto the back of a passing semi going south.) But then I clasped the phone between my knees and gave it to the bear very quickly. (A new phone is coming out pushed by the Alliance because it is connected to the military's new satellite system. The DS made money off the old phones, but the new phones will free us from them. On another vein, We capture our flesh and its communications by humbling ourselves in prayer and intercession.)  He spoke to me in a Russian or European accent and thanked me. (I believe it's European because the Russians are allies in this war against the DS. T he US military is hunting down the DS elite, they are fleeing the country and many are going underground as you will hear.) I swam all the way back to the entry point of the pool with this bear happily chewing on my phone, swimming behind me like a puppy... Then I woke up. (We need to pray for the success of the new satellite/phone system which in the short run will help us and in the long run it's all going back to the Beast mid-trib.) I asked the Lord for a word by faith at random for this dream and received, Psalm 126:1 with my finger on “the LORD”. (In context 1-2)  When Jehovah brought back those that returned to Zion, We were like unto them that dream.  (Our Cyrus is making it possible with our prayers for us to return to Zion and rebuild.) 2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing: Then said they among the nations, Jehovah hath done great things for them. I asked about the polar bear and the iPhone and I received by faith at random, 2 Ch 20:20, 20 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: believe in Jehovah your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.  (The instructions that Jehoshaphat received was to send the praisers out first which divided the enemies armies so that they killed each other off and left the Bride Jerusalem alone.)  I also received by faith at random, Micah 3:2 with my finger on “flesh”. (In context, 1-4)  And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not for you to know justice? 2 ye who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. 4 Then shall they cry unto Jehovah, but he will not answer them; yea, he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings.”  (The Beast will destroy the apostate leadership except those who repent.) All is vanity, it seems. But those who run after the Lord and confess Him will be protected in the secret place of the Most High.    Large Trees Taken Out By Storm Winnie Osegueda - 8/2/21 (David's notes in red)   Chuc's alarm woke me up at 5 am and I decided to get my verse by faith at random for the morning prayer meeting and I opened to  Deu. 25:19 Therefore it shall be, when Jehovah thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget.  (Notice that standing in the Land of Promise brings rest from our enemies.) I went back to sleep and dreamed there was a storm outside and quite a few trees had fallen. Chuc told me that they had to be moved off to the side so that we were able to drive through, and we went to go look. (Trees represent people or corporate bodies of people in the Bible; In this case the evil leadership in the DS Government and the apostate church.  Zec. 11:1-3   Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars. 2 Wail, O fir-tree, for the cedar is fallen, because the goodly ones are destroyed: wail, O ye oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest is come down. 3 A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! for their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! for the pride of the Jordan is laid waste. I was surprised because I thought they were strong trees that were able to withstand the storm. I don't remember the storm being that bad at all, however, some of the trees were so broken that there were huge pieces of wood laid out on the road, including the large, bottom portion of the trunks where the trees were cut off. They were moved to the sides of the road, so that we would be able to drive through the middle which was narrow. Father is sending the storm to move these ‘trees' out of the way so that God's people can pass through on the narrow path of righteousness again.  Zec. 11: 4-6  Thus said Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of slaughter; 5 whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty; and they that sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich; and their own shepherds pity them not. 6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah; but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king; and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.  There were different types of trees with different color leaves that most people might consider to be beautiful. The leaves were very bright and some were even pink. They looked like the trees in a Dr. Seuss book, which made me think of the worldly philosophical "wisdom" that Dr. Seuss books usually contain. (Many people are in love with their beautiful church buildings and the ear tickling doctrines of the apostate church leadership, but Father is weary of them and He is about to cut them off. Zec. 11:7-9  So I fed the flock of slaughter, verily the poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock. 8 And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me. 9 Then said I, I will not feed you: that which dieth, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let them that are left eat every one the flesh of another. This reminds me of Brandy's dream of a remnant of apostate mega-church leaders who will be humbled and return to the true gospel message of the Sons of David in the Davidic Man-child ministries in these end times.) The scene changed, and I was in my home and had a huge baby boy wrapped in a sky-blue colored blanket that I was caring for and sheltering from the storm. He began to cry a bit when I tried to lay him down, so I picked him up to console him. (Winnie represents the first fruits Bride who gives birth to the huge baby boy representing the corporate body of the Man-child in whom Jesus will epiphany or 'shine forth from.' We must not grow weary of carrying the Man-child and be tempted to lay Him down and lose our fruit by grieving His Holy Spirit. Gal. 6:7-10  Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life. 9 And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. 10 So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith.) Our home was inside a HUGE tree that was not affected by the storm in any way. This tree was hidden amongst all the other trees, so you wouldn't think there was a house inside. We had a door on the right side of the tree where we were able to enter. (The huge tree is our true family tree, all the saints or sanctified ones of God. The righteous enter this house through the Door which is Jesus. When we abide in Christ who is the secret place of the Most High we are hidden from the storms of the enemy and of judgment.) I had other children at the home with me, my nephews Izzy and Junior. They were outside with umbrellas and I ushered them into the house. Izzy was in his undergarments and needed to put more clothes on. (Izzy is a common nickname for Israel meaning, " God contends, or one who struggles with God."  Or also Isaac which means “One who laughs”. I believe Junior represents Judah meaning “Praise”. He is fully clothed with the garments of praise. He is a Junior because He looks like the Father. Izzy represents the Northern 10 tribes of Israel that factioned away from David's kingdom. They are scoffers who laugh and contend with God. Izzy represents a remnant of modern day Christianity who need to put on more clothes or the robes of righteousness. They are under an umbrella because they have not yet received the rain of the Holy Spirit. They will repent in order to come into the true house of God. God has promised to restore them after their chastening.) I woke up with the song "The Lion of Judah," playing in my spirit, specifically on the verse "Who can stop the Lord Almighty?” (Only we can stop the Lord for He has said, "what we bind on earth is bound in heaven". Jesus could not do many mighty works in his own town because of their unbelief.) When I woke up, I shuffled my playlist of scriptures by faith and asked Father for a word for this dream and received, Proverbs 21:2-3 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes; But Jehovah weigheth the hearts. 3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.  I inquired again of the Lord and opened my concordance by faith at random to, Jer. 22:9  (In context 8-10)  And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this great city? 9 Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them. 10 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him that goeth away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.  (A great falling away has happened and all must repent and cling to scripture to be saved.)   The Factious House Swept Away   Brandy Arney - 4/4/16 (David's notes in red) I was driving downhill on a dirt road in the mountains and I stopped to wait for a following car that was full of friends to catch up.  I looked below and further down the road I saw a group of 9 cars that were stopped in a gully headed towards me. It was 3 rows of 3 cars. (As we will see, these 9 cars represent the factious Esau's who hate their brethren. They make no progress to climb the mountain and live in the gully. Their final storm of judgment is coming and will be swift. In general, the  number 9  is the largest and last digit correlating “finality” and completeness. The number of finality or judgment is committed unto Jesus as “the Son of man” (John 5:27; Acts 17:31). It marks the end and issue of all things pertaining to man and the judgment of man and all his works.  There were 9 judgments of God in Haggai 1:11 are enumerated as follows: “And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.” Further insight into the Number 9 emerges from the 9th commandment: “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” There were 9 people mentioned in the Bible who were stoned and also 9 instances mentioned about people being blind or blinded.) I looked up to the left and noticed that there was a flow of water headed down towards the cars through the trees. (As we have seen, God will use the plans of the Leftist DS criminals to bring judgment on the apostate factious leaders and their reprobated followers who live in the gully.) I looked back quickly to see if my friends were coming and then looked back to the 9 cars and saw that the back 6 cars were completely washed away and the remaining 3 in the front were threatened by the growing water.  (In our morning prayer meeting for 11-14-21 we received this text by faith at random concerning the faction house being swept away: Luk 6:46-49  And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?  47  Every one that cometh unto me, and heareth my words, and doeth them, I will show you to whom he is like:  48  he is like a man building a house, who digged and went deep, and laid a foundation upon the rock: and when a flood arose, the stream brake against that house, and could not shake it: because it had been well builded.  49  But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that built a house upon the earth without a foundation; against which the stream brake, and straightway it fell in; and the ruin of that house was great.)    I looked at my phone to call emergency services for a rescue but my phone had a black screen and a large white triangle and exclamation mark that told me it was not working. (In the natural, the DS plans to take down the grid for their own evil purposes as part of their “Dark Winter” and we have heard that the Alliance also has plans to take down the communications to disable the DS and to bring online a new internet that is purged of the grossest evil. Either way, the wicked will not be able to be saved from this judgment that has been ordained upon them by God.) I realized that it was too late to help the ones that have been washed away anyway. I looked back to the scene and saw the last three cars were gone as well.  I looked back up the hill where I had come from and saw that there was water going down the opposite side of the hill exactly as it had done further down the road. I knew I didn't have time to even get back into my truck and turn around or I would be taken too.  So, I started to run up the hill to the apex to safety. Then I woke up. (We also received in the morning meeting that same morning Nah 1:6-8  Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.  7  Jehovah is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that take refuge in him.  8  But with an over-running flood he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.)    Dead Black Bears Winnie Osegueda - 9/8/21 (David's notes in red) This morning in a quick vision or dream I saw several dead black bears laying on the grass. (These black bears represent our old beastly nature that once ruled over the flesh which is the grass. They are lying on top of the grass representing that these people are overcomers who have crucified the beastly nature which is what the beasts in the world take advantage of. According to the Word, “All flesh is as grass.") They were behind a couple of red lawn chairs. (Representing entering the rest through the blood of Jesus that conquered sin and death 2000 years ago.) I was observing from in front of the lawn chairs. The lawn chairs were facing me and the dead bears were behind them.  Then I woke up. (Once we have entered into the rest by faith in the past-tense promises of God we realize that everything we need for every form of salvation has already been accomplished for us at the cross. The chairs facing Winnie are saying enter into the rest through faith which is where all our provision lies.) I asked the Lord for a chapter after I woke up and I received Ephesians 4:32, however I believe it's the whole chapter because that is what I specifically asked for. After the Wednesday Bible study, I again asked the Lord for a chapter, and again received Ephesians 4, and it reminds me of Vanessa's dream regarding Ephesians 4. (Located in: Obey and Love or be Separated 1 & 2 )   Eph 4:1-32  I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, 2 with all lowliness and meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in love; 3 giving diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all. 7 But unto each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. 8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, And gave gifts unto men.  9 (Now this, He ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He that descended is the same also that ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) 11 And he gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ: 13 till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: 14 that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; 15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ; 16 from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in due measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.  17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18  being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart; 19  who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20  But ye did not so learn Christ; 21  if so be that ye heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus: 22  that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit; 23  and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24  and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth. 25 Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another. 26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: 27 neither give place to the devil. 28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need. 29 Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear. 30 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice: 32 and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.    There is Safety From the Storm in the School of Death to Self Marie Kelton - 7/26/21 (David's notes in red) I dreamed I was in a school walking with three white girls down some stairs.  (Representing humbling ourselves to the Word and going down the stairs of death to self with the righteous.) I was telling them about my experience with anorexia, how I would weigh myself a lot and that if I weigh even a little bit over I would not eat. (Spiritually, this represents starving the flesh man and feeding the spirit man. We must constantly weigh our choices in living the crucified life and be careful not to make choices to feed the flesh man so that he continues to live.) While we were walking down the stairs, we were with a large group of people. We walked past a large window pane that had three windows. I saw three orange, velcro chords hanging from the windows. All I saw were the cords, but when I asked the people around me about the cords they said that there were three dead bodies hanging from them. (It's interesting all the 3's that have been mentioned in this dream. According to bible study.org, Jesus prayed three times in the Garden of Gethsemane before His arrest. He was placed on the cross at the 3rd hour of the day (9 a.m.) and died at the 9th hour (3 p.m.). There were 3 hours of darkness that covered the land while Jesus was suffering on the cross from the 6th hour to the 9th hour. 3 is the number of resurrection. Christ was dead for 3 full days and 3 full nights. There are 27 books in the New Testament, which is 3 x 3 x 3, or completeness to the third power.) The people around me started taking pictures of the dead bodies hanging from the windows. (The people around us see our physical witness of the crucified life and they are impressed and take note.) As I looked a second time, while continuing to walk down the stairs, I still couldn't see the dead bodies, only the cords. (Because we only see and understand the method which is submission to the Word of God. We don't see the bodies because we understand that this is a school of spiritual death to self.) I walked into the library which was a dark brown color because everything was made of wood. (It made me think of the library that was in my high school) (The library is made of wood because we are studying the Way of the cross.) I went looking for a sister in the library because I wanted to tell her what the Lord did for me by not allowing me to see the three dead bodies hanging from the windows. When I found her, I told her what the Lord did for me, but she didn't want to hang out with me because she was hanging out with other people. (We aren't supposed to focus on our old dead nature in the mirror. When we focus on the Word and His promises, the Lord helps us to see Him in the mirror by faith. Many times people who are caught up in worldly lusts will reject our testimonies because it would convict them of their sins and they would have to repent and give it all up.) The scene changed, and we were in this room that was all white with a lot of people. There were some other people playing outside of the school.  I saw an Asian guy whom I knew this sister was dating. The Asian guy (Representing satan the dragon and the harlots who worship him) opened the doors, to the outside. (When there are idolaters in our midst they open the doors for judgment to threaten us.)  Then he roared like a lion and a big cloud streamed out of his mouth. I knew there was a storm coming from that cloud. 1Pet 5:8  Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.  Rev 12:15  And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman water as a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream. It started to rain really hard and the people who had been playing around outside of the school started to run toward the all white room we were in to get out of the rain. (This represents the judgments that God is bringing will cause many to repent and turn towards the safety of sanctification and a great revival will come.) Then, all of a sudden, it became sunny and I saw Obadiah  (Meaning: servant or worshiper of the Lord) who was in the room run outside with the other little children to go play in the sun/Son. Ecc 11:7  Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.  (This represents Mat.4:16, speaking of the appearing of Jesus in His man-child ministers during the former and latter reign outpouring, The people that sat in darkness saw a great light, And to them that sat in the region and shadow of death, to them did light spring up.) I saw Angelica (Representing the angels) and I knew she was watching Obadiah and the other little children. Then I woke up.  (Heb. 1:13-14  But of which of the angels hath he said at any time, Sit thou on my right hand, Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet? 14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to do service for the sake of them that shall inherit salvation?)   Looking at the Cross Heals Our Double Vision   Marilyn Klinke - 11/16/21 (David's notes in red) I had the following dream early this morning. I wasn't sure if it was just for me or not. When I cast lots about sending it in, I received 3 heads, so here it is. I dreamed that I was living in the state of Massachusetts (Taken from the Native American language, meaning "at the great hill”, representing Mount Zion. Massachusetts is on the East coast. Eze. 44:1-3 speaks of Jesus entering through the Eastern gate of Jerusalem when He returns). I was attending a university there. (Representing studying the meat of the deeper spiritual truths that lead to greater maturity in Christ).  I was driving a car with Barry (representing Jesus, my spiritual husband) sitting in the passenger seat. (In real life, I have not driven in over 20 years because of double vision and other visual weaknesses.) (There are a lot of people with spiritual double vision. Distractions to draw them away for the purpose of God for them. It's a good exhortation to seek first the Kingdom and all other needs will be met.) As I was looking out the windshield, straight ahead, I saw a huge cross that was about 50 feet high  (Representing Pentecost - filled with the Spirit and Jubilee - freedom from bondage.) in the sky and the clouds behind it. The cross was bright, shining and very thin, like it was made of 2 very straight knife blades. (Heb 4:12 For the Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.) As I was looking at the cross, I realized that I could see almost perfectly, and there was almost no double vision. (Mat 6:22 The light of the body is the eye, if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be light). End of dream. I received by random Acts 9:18 And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales and he received sight forthwith and arose and was baptized.   Also last night before falling asleep, I was listening to the one hour UBBS Humility Brings Faith and Power: Part 1. I have listened to this series on humility a number of times through the years, but it really hit home last night, as Father has been dealing with me so much about not judging or criticizing anyone for anything. This study focuses so much on pride and I know that criticism and judging are rooted in pride.    Removing the Threat of Death from God's Chosen Vanessa Weeks - 10/14/21 (David's notes in red) I dreamed that I was in a large room and some of the walls were light blue. (Representing some Christians who abide lightly in heavenly places in Christ Jesus?) This was a gathering place for a seven day Trump rally and this was the seventh day. (A day to cease from the works of man.)  I saw many white tables set up with a few people sitting at them. I realized that as the week had gone on, there were less and less people attending. President Trump's table was at the front. He was sitting there facing his supporters and speaking to them. I was standing to the right of his table and looking at some flower bouquets wrapped in cellophane. These were all different colors and types of flowers. I asked the Lord for a word about the flowers and received by faith at random Lam.1:15. (In context 14-15) 14  The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; he hath made my strength to fail: The Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand. 15  The Lord hath set at nought all my mighty men in the midst of me; He hath called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men: The Lord hath trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah. (My thought on this is that flowers are placed where people die, as in "crush my young men”.) President Trump was telling his supporters what would turn things around in this country. He was encouraging them and telling them what they could do. As I heard this, I was thinking that it was not enough and there needed to be 100 times the people to overcome the DS. (Or the Man-child can push the Trump agenda through.) (The 100 fold fruit of the Man-child ministry will bring authority. Mat.13:23 And he that was sown upon the good ground, this is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; who verily beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.) While he was still speaking, I sat at his table to his right and there was a space between us. (Trump is getting separated more from his constituency as time passes.) (There should be a separation between us and the political world). On the table in front of me was a cardboard table tent with some words written in black ink and a black spot in the middle. (Barry: These are the cardboard triangle shaped advertisements which are often used in restaurants. The black spot reminded us of an old pirate movie, Treasure Island, in which, if a man was handed a paper with a black spot, he was destined to die. So this sounds like a death threat.) (Trump's constituency is under a death threat by the DS plagues.) Then President Trump moved to the right to be right next to me. (Moving closer to his constituency.)  As he did this, he thumped with his right hand the table tent with the black spot, away from me. (This saving the constituency from the DS death threat.)  This reminds me of Isa 45, because God called President Trump as a Cyrus, [to save his people from DS Babylon] for the sake of Israel His chosen. 1 Thus saith Jehovah to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him, and I will loose the loins of kings; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut: 2 I will go before thee, and make the rough places smooth; I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron; 3 and I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that it is I, Jehovah, who call thee by thy name, even the God of Israel. 4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me. All this time, He continued speaking to his supporters, and then he looked directly at me and said, "But that's your job, isn't it?" I said, “Yes.", but I did not know what he meant or what my job was. Then I woke up. (We have been told that the Man-child is coming to help push Trump's agenda through and we should pray and do warfare for this to happen.) I asked the Lord what my job was and received by faith at random Mat. 12:11 And he said unto them, What man shall there be of you, that shall have one sheep, and if this fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out? My finger was on sabbath day and in this dream it was the seventh or sabbath day.  (This is an exhortation to cease from our works on God's Sabbath and pray Trump's agenda through.) I asked the Lord what He wanted to say about this dream and received by faith at random 2 Ch. 17:17 (In context 17-19)  And of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield; 18 and next to him Jehozabad and with him a hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for war. 19 These were they that waited on the king, besides those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.  (Again, this is an exhortation for the faithful people of God to do warfare to strengthen the King and bring this to pass.) My finger was on Benjamin in verse 17. I looked up the meaning of 17 in the Bible on the internet. It means "overcoming the enemy" and "complete victory." Also, Benjamin means, "The son of the right hand.” After I had this dream, on the same day in that morning prayer meeting, Don received by faith at random Jer. 48:10  Cursed be he that doeth the work of Jehovah negligently; and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.  (The people of God are being negligent in spiritual warfare to bring down the forces of satan and bring back the King. Let everyone stop their trivial lifestyles and immediately begin to fight and intercede for the promise of Cyrus to come to pass.) Father I ask you to help us do our warfare by your Spirit so you will turn things around in this country. Thank you that you remove the threat of death the enemy has for your chosen through President Trump, in Jesus name, Amen.   The Lord is Teaching Us How to Fight Marie Kelton - 11/1/21 (David's notes in red) During the meeting at night I had a vision that the Lord was teaching my spiritual man how to fight. While I was looking at the vision, I asked the Lord about spiritual warfare and the Lord turned from teaching my spiritual man and smiled and said, "Put on the whole armor of God." Eph 6:11  Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.  (And then after we're armored up go to fight in this battle. Decree the victory of Cyrus over Babylon. Send the destruction of satan's DS kingdom as per Jer. 50 & 51.)   All Things are Possible to Them That Believe Deb Horton - 8/1/21 (David's notes in red) Verse for morning meeting given through faith at random on 8/1/21: (Mat.12:44) Then he saith, I will return into my house whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. (45) Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this evil generation.  (Just as these people lost everything that they gained through the ministry of Jesus because they didn't continue in faith and repentance to fill their temple with Him so it could be now. We must continue to fight the good fight of the faith until the end.) I dreamed all night that I was in Jeff & Sandy's house but only recall a snippet. David was sitting on a plain wooden chair at a plain, medium-sized wooden table and David was studying a book that was opened on the table, taking notes, writing on a pad. There was a mellow, comforting light in the room but I don't know where it was coming from and the room doesn't exist at the house in real life.  I walked into the room and just sat down in a chair next to David without saying anything and waited. After a while, he looked up over at me and asked me a hypothetical question based on what he was studying. I can't recall the entire question, but it began, "Do you think it's possible that" or "Do you think it's possible to”) ... I thought about it for a bit, and then I happily answered "Yes.” (Mar 9:23  And Jesus said unto him, If thou canst! All things are possible to him that believeth. Mar 10:27  Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for all things are possible with God. So we must exercise our faith and believe in the prophecy of Cyrus among others.) When I woke up and looked at the clock, it said 4:44 a.m. (Jesus came in the fourth watch.)(Gematria equivalents in Hebrew for 444 are "God came to earth" and “The time has come” and “Iesous” [Greek for Jesus] and “The snake has been beheaded”. meaning DS Babylon has already been conquered.)  My bedroom clock automatically adjusts itself with every clock change, but gains a minute each time and it's currently seven minutes fast. So then I went into the kitchen to write this down at the table, and after I was done, I looked at the clock on the microwave, which also said 4:44. That's two witnesses. By random computer, Lord, would You please give me a verse for this dream? 1Jn.5:12 He that hath the Son hath the life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life.     Select LanguageAfrikaansAlbanianAmharicArabicArmenianAzerbaijaniBasqueBelarusianBengaliBosnianBulgarianCatalanCebuanoChichewaChinese (Simplified)Chinese (Traditional)CorsicanCroatianCzechDanishDutchEsperantoEstonianFilipinoFinnishFrenchFrisianGalicianGeorgianGermanGreekGujaratiHaitian CreoleHausaHawaiianHebrewHindiHmongHungarianIcelandicIgboIndonesianIrishItalianJapaneseJavaneseKannadaKazakhKhmerKinyarwandaKoreanKurdish (Kurmanji)KyrgyzLaoLatinLatvianLithuanianLuxembourgishMacedonianMalagasyMalayMalayalamMalteseMaoriMarathiMongolianMyanmar (Burmese)NepaliNorwegianOdia (Oriya)PashtoPersianPolishPortuguesePunjabiRomanianRussianSamoanScots GaelicSerbianSesothoShonaSindhiSinhalaSlovakSlovenianSomaliSpanishSundaneseSwahiliSwedishTajikTamilTatarTeluguThaiTurkishTurkmenUkrainianUrduUyghurUzbekVietnameseWelshXhosaYiddishYorubaZulu Powered by Translate Printer-friendly version      

Cipactli is one of the major characters in Aztec mythology. In Aztec cosmology, the crocodile represents the earth floating in the primeval waters. This animal was named after a survivor of the flood, Tecocipactli or the Divine Crocodile who lived in a canoe and later repopulated the earth.The Cipactli is also quite heavily featured in Mayan mythology and it is also considered to have heavily influenced the much later civilizations of the region.Cipactli was a primeval sea monster, part crocodilian, part fish, and part toad or frog, with indefinite gender. Always hungry, every joint on its body was adorned with an extra mouth. The deity Tezcatlipoca sacrificed a foot when he used it as bait to draw the monster nearer. He and Quetzalcoatl created the earth from its body.In the Maya tzolko'in, the name Cipactli translates to Imix. In the Popol Vuh, the earthquake demon Sipakna is named after Cipactli. In Migan, Cipactli is Quanai.This animal had an insatiable hunger which threatened to devour ever creation on earth. The existence of multiple mouths also ensured that this consumption was at a rapid pace.To counter the effects of this beast, the gods then decided to kill it and use its body as land. Tezcatlipoca lured the monster in and lost a foot to its insatiable appetite before the gods were able to defeat it. They pulled Cipactli's body in four directions and freed the universe from its body.Then Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl created the heavens and the Earth from the remains. The thirteen heavens were made from the head, its tail became the underworld and it's midsection the Earth. Its four legs became the four rain gods, Tlāloc, Chalchiuhtlicue, Huixtocihuatl, and Chicomecōātl.Despite this, Cipactli was still alive and the gods promised him/her regular blood sacrifices. When these sacrifices were disrupted, it is believed that the beast expressed his displeasure via earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.Read about the Cipactli at https://mythlok.com/cipactli/

Began folding orange paper flowers and stewing the mole because the veil is getting thin, Abuela's ghost is drunk on tequila and she's going to be mad if you mess up the recipe because tonight we are celebrating Dia De Los Meurtos, the Day of the Dead!Special thanks to Dae and Heka Astra for providing the research and notes for this episode.Hosted by: h4ckrabbit, Mari Sama, Darth Dingus, Malachor V and Heka AstraOn this special episode we discuss:-Catholic Invasion!-The Relationship to Halloween-Trick or Treating-Ancestor Worship-The Mexican Flag-Skull Candy-Marigolds-Offerings to the Dead-Pulque-Human Sacrifice-Mexican Hot Chocolate-The Jaguar and the Sun God-Calaveras-Day of the Innocents-Butterfly Migrations-Papel Picado-John Dee and Tezcatlipoca's Obsidian Mirror-Quecholli Tamales- Mixcoatl, Itzpapalotl and Mictēcacihuātl-How to pack a banana in the lunch-Xolotl, Mexican HermanubisIn the extended episode available at www.patreon.com/thewholerabbit we discuss:-How to Make an Ofrenda-What is a Cholo?-The Xoloitzcuintli-Pan De Meurto-Salt in Ritual-The Afterlife-The Copal Tree-What is Mole?-Pazole-Ass Toast-Tapeta De Arena-Comparasa-Alebrijes-La Danza de los Viejitos-La Katrina and José Guadalupe PosadaMusic by: Spirit Travel Plazahttps://open.spotify.com/artist/30dW3WB1sYofnow7y3V0YoWhere to find The Whole Rabbit:Online Emporium: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/thewholerabbit/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0AnJZhmPzaby04afmEWOAVInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_whole_rabbit_/Sources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mictl%C4%81nhttps://mythopedia.com/aztec-mythology/gods/mictlantecuhtli/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tezcatlipocahttps://www.azteccalendar.com/god/Itzpapalotl.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Calavera_Catrinahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Dayhttps://nahuatl.uoregon.edu/content/quechollihttps://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2015/05/lettuce-and-kings-the-power-struggle-between-horus-and-set-2/https://buchanansplants.com/the-meaning-of-marigolds/#:~:text=Known%20as%20the%20Flower%20of,the%20souls%20of%20the%20dead.&text=It%20is%20believed%20during%20Dia,the%20living%20during%20the%20celebrationSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewholerabbit)

En este episodio aprenderemos sobre el culto a Tezcatlipoca, los rumbos y el uso del yautli o flor de pericón. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/patricia-mej355a/message

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The Mayan god Tezcatlipoca dared the Underworld to face the chaos each night, only to arise in the dawn. With him was an obsidian mirror, used to peer into the truths of the world. In our times of crisis and turmoil, we can use obsidian to peer into our smokey truths. And then bring forgiveness to our human flaws, restoring our collective soul s balance. Join Doc Martin and Dr Pat to talk about how we can own our shadow sides and heal them with forgiveness. An energy practice with obsidian will be shared.Watch live on Facebook. www.facebook.com/transformationtalkradio/

The Mayan god Tezcatlipoca dared the Underworld to face the chaos each night, only to arise in the dawn. With him was an obsidian mirror, used to peer into the truths of the world. In our times of crisis and turmoil, we can use obsidian to peer into our smokey truths. And then bring forgiveness to our human flaws, restoring our collective soul s balance. Join Doc Martin and Dr Pat to talk about how we can own our shadow sides and heal them with forgiveness. An energy practice with obsidian will be shared. Watch live on Facebook. www.facebook.com/transformationtalkradio/

Garabatos en la Libreta es una sección preparada para La Dosis Diaria, programa de Incónica Urbana Radio. En esta ocasión hablamos sobre la divulgación arqueológica y mitológica de un proyecto derivado de Arqueólogos en Apuros, con Jaime Delgado Rubio. Tezcatlipoca tiene un blog habla de cosmovisión, mitos, dioses del mundo prehispánico. Icónica Urbana es una plataforma de contenido de audio en streaming. Disfruta nuestra amplia gama de programas: musicales, históricos, de opinión, cine, sobre el medio ambiente y más. ¡Únete a nosotros! Disfruta nuestros podcast, suscríbete y dale like. Escúchanos en vivo por: https://iconicaurbana.wixsite.com/iconica Síguenos en nuestras redes sociales: Facebook: Icónica Urbana Twitter: @iconica_urbana #LiberaTuMente #TrascenderLaRadio #ReconstruyendoCultura Síguenos en nuestras redes sociales Libreta Negra Mx TW: https://twitter.com/LibretaNegraMx FB: https://www.facebook.com/LibretaNegraMx/ Apóyanos para continuar con la labor de difusión y divulgación cultura Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/LibretaNegraMx Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/libretanegramx #Garabatos #IncónicaUrbana #LiberaTuMente

Topics: the rage of the colonized, Bad Jerry, Musical Break (l'chaim), fish vs jellyfish, #seamonster #girlboss Cw: discussion of colonization, slavery, human sacrifice, drawing and quartering, brief mention of teeth drilling (cosmetic) Spellings: Ometecuhtli, Huizilopochtli, Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca, Xipe Totec, Cipactli Aztec History Mexico Lore

El espejo de obsidiana puede considerarse como el más importante en el culto a la deidad Tezcatlipoca, cuyo nombre se traduce del náhuatl como "espejo humeante". En numerosos códices la imagen de un espejo de obsidiana circular reemplaza uno de los pies de Tezcatlipoca. Conoce de al mano de nuestros panelistas los secretos de este códice. No olviden seguirnos en nuestras redes sociales: https://www.facebook.com/radioi2 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3IeeQ1xC61xyoaDNzwgsJw https://www.instagram.com/radioi2/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/radioi2oficial/message

CAPITULO 6 NUEVO ENVÍO DE PRESENTES Y LA APARICIÓN DE TECATLIPOCA EN LAS CERCANÍAS DEL POPOCATÉPETL (La reacción de los conquistadores al recibir el oro) (Tzihuacpopoca finge ser Motecuhzoma) (Motecuhzoma envía más hechiceros) (La aparición de Tezcatlipoca) (Abatimiento de Motecuhzoma) Visión de los vencidos es un intento por recopilar algunos de los principales escritos indígenas de los primeros años después de la caída de Tenochtitlan. La idea es presentar un panorama amplio del modo en que los mesoamericanos vivieron la Conquista de México. Bajo esa premisa, León-Portilla acude a varias fuentes escritas en náhuatl, algunas de ellas traducidas al español por Ángel María Garibay Kintana. Entre los documentos más importantes recogidos por León-Portilla se encuentran el Códice Florentino, los Anales de Tlatelolco y los Cantares Mexicanos Con Visión de los vencidos León-Portilla rompe con la historia conocida, ya que hasta el momento los textos universalmente difundidos sobre la conquista eran los escritos de fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Diego Muñoz Camargo y algunos de otros españoles. En el libro se incluyen episodios de Texcoco, Chalco, Tezozómoc y Tenochtitlan. El libro consta de varios apartados, que abarcan el período comprendido entre el primer avistamiento de los españoles por parte de los mesoamericanos, en las costas del Golfo de México (1519), y la derrota final de los tenochcas en 1521.

The religion of the ancient Mexicans was a polytheism or worship of a pantheon of deities, the general aspect of which presented similarities to the systems of Greece and Egypt. As a matter of fact, the Nahua displayed a theological advancement quite on a level with that expressed by the Egyptians and Assyrians which were rather more nuanced and complicated. Tezcatlipoca (“Fiery Mirror”) is a sort of equivalent of Jupiter of the Nahua pantheon. He carried a mirror in which he was supposed to see reflected the actions and deeds of mankind. Originally the personification of the air, the source both of the breath of life and of the tempest, Tezcatlipoca had all the attributes of a god who presided over these phenomena. He was the tribal god of the Tezcucans who had led them into the Land of Promise, and had been instrumental in the defeat of both the gods and men of the previous people they dispossessed. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://martinifisher.com/2018/11/09/how-to-destroy-an-empire-the-rise-of-tezcatlipoca-and-the-destruction-of-tollan/

Presentan: Antonio Espino López (vídeo), Rafael Rodrigo, Julio Alberto Robredo, Pau Crespo y Asociación Española de esgrima antigua. Participan: Desperta Ferro, 31 Enero Tercios y Tercios Viejos. Hace cinco siglos, el 13 de agosto de 1521, caía Tenochtitlán, la otrora esplendorosa capital del Imperio azteca y ahora tan devastada como sus habitantes, exterminados por la guerra, el hambre y la viruela. Un mundo, el de Moctezuma y Cuauhtémoc, el de Huitzilopochtli y el Tezcatlipoca, se extinguía, y otro, el de Cortés y Malinche, el de Cristo y la Virgen de Guadalupe, nacía. Un hito en la historia universal, que supuso un bocado de león en la conquista española de América y que marcó el nacimiento del país mestizo que es México. Un hito doloroso, pero que cinco siglos después sigue asombrando: ¿cómo pudieron Cortés y su puñado de españoles, prácticamente incomunicados, en medio de un mundo que les era totalmente ajeno y extraño, conquistar un Imperio que se enseñoreaba sobre una vasta parte de lo que hoy es México? ¿Cómo pudieron escapar en la Noche Triste y vencer a los guerreros águila y jaguar en Otumba? Antonio Espino, catedrático de Historia Moderna en la Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, y que respondió a una pregunta similar en Plata y sangre. La conquista del Imperio inca y las guerras civiles del Perú, aborda en Vencer o morir. Una historia militar de la conquista de México la aventura de Hernán Cortés y su reducida pero extraordinaria hueste, para resaltar la poderosa personalidad del líder hispano y el papel de las armas y mentalidad europeas en contraposición con las de sus enemigos mexicas, pero evidenciando también la importancia de las alianzas tejidas con los indígenas, sin cuyo concurso la conquista habría sido imposible. Un visión renovada presentada desde el prisma de la nueva historia militar, que analiza un periodo tan fascinante como complejo libre de prejuicios y tópicos con la intención de dotar al lector de instrumentos lo más objetivos posibles para que pueda formarse su propia opinión de cómo se produjo y significó la conquista de México. COMPRA EN AMAZON CON NUESTRO ENLACE AFILIADO https://amzn.to/3gDTmfV

Long before Cortés and his men invaded the Aztec empire, they studied their enemy's religious beliefs and myths to take on the vestiges of the white god, or feathered serpent, Quetzalcoatl. The Aztecs saw this god as the vanquisher of Tezcatlipoca, god of human sacrifice, darkness and chaos. However, Cortés essentially came in the name of the latter and the Aztecs were decimated instead of saved. Eugenicists effectively operate in the same manner, being careful to conceal their desire to kill the elderly as useless, to brainwash and brain damage the children for future control, and to slowly kill the middle-population. Instead of open declaration, they kill the old, brain damage the children and control the rest of the population by convincing them that it was their decision to participate in widespread, otherwise illegal, medical experimentation known as mandated vaccine/gene therapy shots that are documented to cause prions disease. Otherwise, without consent, this experimentation is a violation of the Nuremberg Code which says “the voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.” Eugenicists would also want to prevent future births by sterilizing and making infertile young men and women, the original aim of the Birth Control Society or Planned Parenthood, officially. It is now estimated that by 2045 ‘most men may no longer be able to reproduce', according to Politico, and Shanna Swan, leading expert on reproductive health, estimated that sperm counts in the West have fallen 59% from 1973 to 2011. Interestingly, this is the start date of a WHO, World Bank, Women's Health initiative to create antifertility vaccines, according to a report called ‘Fertility Regulating Vaccines' published in 1993. The report says the research began “two decades ago”, or roughly 1973! Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg from the EU also documented that these vaccines would “prevent the formation of a placenta which would result in vaccinated women essentially becoming infertile.” None of this is a coincidence, but instead the successive waves of what amounts to an alien invasion.

Long before Cortés and his men invaded the Aztec empire, they studied their enemy's religious beliefs and myths to take on the vestiges of the white god, or feathered serpent, Quetzalcoatl. The Aztecs saw this god as the vanquisher of Tezcatlipoca, god of human sacrifice, darkness and chaos. However, Cortés essentially came in the name of the latter and the Aztecs were decimated instead of saved. Eugenicists effectively operate in the same manner, being careful to conceal their desire to kill the elderly as useless, to brainwash and brain damage the children for future control, and to slowly kill the middle-population. Instead of open declaration, they kill the old, brain damage the children and control the rest of the population by convincing them that it was their decision to participate in widespread, otherwise illegal, medical experimentation known as mandated vaccine/gene therapy shots that are documented to cause prions disease. Otherwise, without consent, this experimentation is a violation of the Nuremberg Code which says “the voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.” Eugenicists would also want to prevent future births by sterilizing and making infertile young men and women, the original aim of the Birth Control Society or Planned Parenthood, officially. It is now estimated that by 2045 ‘most men may no longer be able to reproduce', according to Politico, and Shanna Swan, leading expert on reproductive health, estimated that sperm counts in the West have fallen 59% from 1973 to 2011. Interestingly, this is the start date of a WHO, World Bank, Women's Health initiative to create antifertility vaccines, according to a report called ‘Fertility Regulating Vaccines' published in 1993. The report says the research began “two decades ago”, or roughly 1973! Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg from the EU also documented that these vaccines would “prevent the formation of a placenta which would result in vaccinated women essentially becoming infertile.” None of this is a coincidence, but instead the successive waves of what amounts to an alien invasion.  Support this podcast

FELIZ AÑO NUEVO 26-Feb-2021 inicia el Calendario de Veintenas. Debido a que trituré los nombres de las veintenas y de lxs diosxs... les dejo aquí la lista. Veintena 1 - Atlcahualo (26Feb - 17Mar) - Ritos a los tlaloques Veintena 2 - Tlacaxipehualiztli (18Mar - 06Abr) - Sacrificio de prisioneros de guerra. Festejo a XipeTotec Veintena 3 - Tozoztontli (07Abr - 26Abr) - Celebración de cosechas y maíz. Festejo a Coatlicue y Tláloc Veintena 4 - Huetozoztli (27Abr - 16May) - Ritos al maíz. Festejo a Tláloc y Chicomecóatl - Cinteotl Veintena 5 - Toxcatl (17May - 05Jun). Época de Sequía. Festejo a Tezcatlipoca Veintena 6 - Etzalcualiztli (06Jun - 25Jun). Época de Abundancia. Festejo a Tláloc, Quetzalcóatl y Xólotl Veintena 7 - Tecuilhuitontli (26Jun - 15Jul). Gran Fiesta. Festejo a Huixtocíhuatl, Quetzalcóatl, Cintéotl, Ixtlizin Veintena 8 - Hueytecuihuitl (16Jul - 04Ago). Gran Fiesta. Festejo a Xilonen, Xochipili, Xipe Totec y Cinteotl Veintena 9 - Tlaxochimaco (05Ago - 24Ago). Fiesta de las flores. Festejo a Cihuacóatl Veintena 10 - Xócotlhuetzi (25Ago - 13Sep). Llamada a los muertos. Festejo a Mictlantecuhtli y Mictecacihuatl Veintena 11 - Ochpaniztli (14Sep - 03Oct). Cosecha. Festejos a Toci, Xicomecóatl y Atlatónan Veintena 12 - Teotleco (04Oct - 23Oct). Llegada de los dioses. Festejo a Huehueteólt (Dios Viejo) Veintena 13 - Tepeíhuitl (24Oct - 12Nov). Fiestas de los cerros,. Festejos a Xochiquetzali, Tláloc y Napatecutli Veintena 14 - Quecholli (13Nov - 02Dic). Fiestas de las flechas. Festejos a Mixcóatl, Tezcatlipoca, Tlamatchincatl, Huitzilopochtli Veintena 15 - Panquetzaliztli (03Dic - 22Dic). Levantamiento de banderas. Nacimiento de Huitzilopochtli Veintena 16 Atemoztli (23Dic - 11Ene). Descenso de las aguas. Festejo a Tláloc y tlaloques Veintena 17 Tititl (12Ene - 31Ene). Resurgimiento de la naturaleza. Festejo a Teteo innan (Dios Vieja) Veintena 18 Izcalli (01-Feb - 20Feb). Surgimiento de la naturaleza. Festejo al dios del fuego - Xiutecuctli Nemontemi (21Feb - 25Feb). 5 días de abstención de actividades Más info: https://www.uaq.mx/ingenieria/publicaciones/calendarios/calazt.html https://arqueologiamexicana.mx/mexico-antiguo/las-fiestas-de-las-veintenas

The Jaguar is the animal embodiment of Tezcatlipoca, the Aztec god of chaos. While the Aztecs fear and celebrate him, their Spanish conquerors brush him off as a pagan myth… until the Jaguar returns to avenge his worshippers with sharp claws and madness-inducing magic.

Todo lo relacionado con esta "deidad" Origen, representaciones, sacrificios y cualidades sobre humanas.

Una leyenda con historia

We’re sticking with the Aztecs as we strap in for another crazy ride. This Miff features yet more mischief from Tezcatlipoca as he attempts to disrupt the Toltecs and their utopian world. Also, Matt and Dan discuss Matt’s extravagant new purchase. Hey you! Yes you. Why don't you follow us on social media at @MiffsPodcast. You can email us at MiffsPodcast@gmail.com and we love hearing your correspondence! Why don't you send us an email? Also please give us 5 Stars on ITunes.  Also you can now join our new group collective! Join the Miffs Podcast -The Miffsfits' page facebook group. Either click on the link OR search for it on Facebook. If you're feeling brave - post something on there and start a discussion! Why don't you also check out Matt's stand-up gig listings on his website. None exist right now, but who knows, he may do a virtual one.http://www.matthosscomedy.com/upcoming-gigs-1/ Do you like what we do? Want to help contribute to us? Please donate to our podcast. This helps pay for stuff like trains, smelly National Express coaches and to pay for hosting the podcast. Donate how ever much you would like. If you wanted to do a one-off payment- please use Matt's Ko-fi account (let us know it is for Miffs or else Matt will keep the money for himself, even though he does all the hard-work). DONATE HERE!https://ko-fi.com/X7X6MEG9 If you wanted to sustain the podcast over a duration, we can take regular payments from Patreon (like a dollar a week). The more you give the more we are able to give to the podcast. We do this podcast because we love it, so if you can't pay, don't worry. Just give us a rating and share with a friend. But if you can afford to give us some pocket money, we'd be eternally grateful. PLUS there will be some bonus content for Patreon donators (some of the best stuff). DONATE TO OUR PATREON HERE.

Chris and James return to The Invisibles, checking in on the origin of Lord Fanny and the abduction of Jack Frost. Brodie is an asshole. Sir Miles is hilarious. And Jill Thompson's art is finally appropriate. "I truly believed in Tezcatlipoca. I just didn't ever think he was real."

Ahooo!!! Que tal aprendermos juntos um pouco mais sobre os Deuses e Deusas de todas as culturas? Vamos conhecer Tezcatlipoca, O "Espelho Fumegante". Deseja conhecer o meu trabalho? https://linktr.ee/InstitutoAguiaDourada Fontes de pesquisa: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tezcatlipoca https://www.greelane.com/pt/ci%C3%AAncia-tecnologia-matem%C3%A1tica/ci%C3%AAncias-sociais/tezcatlipoca-aztec-god-of-night-172964/ https://www.facebook.com/1700104010282587/posts/1702043103422011/ https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tezcatlipoca#:~:text=Tezcatlipoca%20%C3%A9%20um%20dos%20tr%C3%AAs,do%20mundo%2C%20vigilante%20das%20consci%C3%AAncias. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tezcatlipoca https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/gods/god-of-the-month-tezcatlipoca Oração: https://nahuatlahcuilolli.wordpress.com/2016/08/17/from-a-prayer-to-tezcatlipoca-in-time-of-plague/ Música: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq5LY8qzwLk Mitakuye Oyasin! Selene de Hekate --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/institutoaguiadourada/support

Sabiduría de los viejos abuelos

Y le dimos un nombre a estos episodios que haremos de vez en cuando, en "Datos extra épicos" nos dedicaremos a hablar de esos pequeños temas que complementan otros de los que ya hemos hablado. Está vez, un poco más sobre Tezcatlipoca, de las consecuencias de las modificaciones corporales con nuestra opinión personal sobre ellas y  la historia que se conoce del soldado Luis Pérez Gómez, un piloto que no fue aceptado en el Escuadrón 201 y que se fue a Canadá para cumplir su sueño de ser aviador. Acompañennos en la aventura para descubrir que la humanidad... ES HISTORIA Nuestras redes sociales en un par de clic's: https://flow.page/epocas.epicas.podcast . . -Slow Burn by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4372-slow-burn License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Tezcatlipoca engaña a Quetzalcoatl

Ahora llegamos para hablarles de Tezcatlipoca, si eres mexicano tal vez hayas escuchado de él pero no estés seguro sobre su historia o importancia en la antigüedad y si eres extranjero pensarás: ¿Tezca... Qué? No te preocupes, también nos hace falta unas clases de naualtl 😅pero nos defendemos con lo poco que sabemos de pronunciación. En fin, que Tezcatlipoca blanco era Quetzalcóaltl, ese ovibiamente si has escuchado o conoces, así que si quieres saber a qué nos referimos y aprender con nosotros... Acompáñanos a descubrir que la mitología mexica, ES HISTORIA😉 . . La música de fondo del genio de Kevin MacLeod: River Fire by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4294-river-fire License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Tezcatlipoca quite the petty bitch sources Wikipedia.org --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Había una vez un mundo aztec donde no había nada. Así, el Dios eterno Ometecuhtli creó a Tonacatecuhtli (hombre) y a Tonacacihuatl (mujer) para que poblaran el mundo. Tuvieron cuatro hijos, en el orden descendente:-Xipetotec; que nació rojo y sin piel.-Tezcatlipoca; que nació negro, con garras y colmillos de jaguar.-Quetzalcoaltl;que nació blanco, con cabello rubio y ojos azules. Más conocido como el “SERPIENTE EMPLUMADA”.-Huitzilopochtli; nació azul, con la mitad de su cuerpo descarnada.Juntos estos cuatro hermanos crearon el fuego, el cielo, la tierra, el mar y el inframundo Al paso del tiempo, los cuatro hermanos se acordaron en crear una obra que los venerase y dignificase como dioses. Crearon al hombre (Huehuecoyotl) y a su mujer, la pareja se llamaba Macehualtin y lesordenaron tener hijos que les rindieran honores como dioses. Después, crearon los lagos, las montañas donde pusieron animales para que el hombre se alimentara por la caza.Finalmente, la obra era completa, exepto que había tinieblas en el Tlatipac, nunca era de dia puesto que no había sol.* Primer sol *Tezcatlipoca fue el primer dios en transformarse en sol, dando como nombre a esa época: Ocelotonatiuh. Fue el comienzo de la era inicial del mundo, en la que los demás dioses crearon hombres gigantes que vivían en la Tierra y comieron bellotas. Tan poderosos eran estos gigantes que arrancaban los arboles simplemente con las manos. No obstante, Quetzalcoatl luchó contra Tezcatlipoca y ganó enviando a Tezcatlipoca al fondo del mar de donde emergio convertido en un enorme jaguar que se comio a los gigantes que habitaban la tierra, y luego subió al cielo y se convirtió en una constelación que hoy conocemos como la osa major. Al final, la tierra se quedó despoblada. Esta época duró 676 años.** Segundo Sol **Luego, Quetzalcoatl se corporeizo también en Sol, el sol del viento, y permitió que las cosechas se dieran en abundancia y que los hombres fueran felices. Todo era idílico hasta que Nahui-Ehecatl, el jaguar, subió a los cielos y derribó a su hermano de un zarpazo. En su caída, Quetzalcoatl provocó un gigantesco vendaval que destruyo todo. Muchos no sobrevivieron y otros, caminando encorvados, aferrándose a lo que tenían, se convirtieron en monos refugiándose en un bosque. Este sol duró 676 años.*** Tercer Sol ***Los dioses pusieron Tláloc por Sol, el sol del fuego, la cual duró 364 años. Pero, los hombres se dedicaron a los placeres malsanos (robo, homicidio…). Harto de tanta podredumbre, Quetzalcoatl, ordenó Xiuhtecuhtli (Dios del fuego), que destruyo a la humanidad así que comenzó a llover fuego del cielo, y los hombres atemorizados les rogaron a los dioses que los convirtieron en pájaros para huir. La ardiente lluvia transformo al pueblo de esta civilización en pavos que volaron. **** Cuarto Sol ****Surgio entonces el cuarto sol. El sol del agua que el regido por la esposa de Tlaloc, la de la falda de jade, la diosa de los riachuelos y de las aguas estancadas. Los hombres poblaron nuevamente la tierra, pero varias lluvias derrumbaron el cielo sobre la Tierra y los hombres se murieron o fueron transformados en peces por los dioses. Llovió tanto que al final los cielos perdieron el equilibrio y se derrumbaron sobre el Tlaltipac. Los dioses deciden reparar su error, avergonzados de haber transformado a los hombres, entonces los cuatro hermanos crearon a cuatro hombres (Atemoc, Itzacoatl, Itzmaliza y Tenoch) que emergieron en los cuatropuntos cardinales, cada uno convertido en un árbol diferente. Juntos, los dioses y árboles, levantaron los cielos y los colocaron las estrellas. Al final, los cuatro hombres se convirtieron en cuatro aves preciosas.Todo fue ordenado, pero no había hombres sobre la tierra, y por eso se creó la versión definitiva de la humanidad, cuyo primer hombre fue llamado Huehuec

This week, Isabel (https://medium.com/@isabel.ahermosillo) and I, Imogen Arate (https://www.instagram.com/imogenarate/), discuss our respective poems, "En el otro lado del espejo no hay nada" ("Nothing on the other side of the looking glass") and "Determined," and examining our heritage. You can read Isabel's poem at: http://www.himenmag.com/textos/en-el-otro-lado-del-espejo-no-hay-nada Here are other ways to follow Isabel: https://twitter.com/Isabelucci_ https://www.instagram.com/issabelucci_/ Check out this episode to also hear about virtual poetry events taking place during the week of June 8th. Photo by Isabel A. Hermosillo. Links to topics we touched on: 1. Amelio Robles Ávila: https://legacyprojectchicago.org/person/amelio-robles-avila 2. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sor-Juana-Ines-de-la-Cruz 3. Tezcatlipoca: https://www.ancient.eu/Tezcatlipoca/ and https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tezcatlipoca 4. Women’s Day March in Guadalajara: https://www.deccanherald.com/international/nazi-salutes-molotov-cocktails-rock-massive-mexico-womens-march-812107.html and https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/english/womens-day-2020-thousands-women-took-over-mexico-demand-justice-and-equality-through-massive#imagen-1 5. Gloria Steinem’s silence over Tara Reade’s accusation against Joe Biden: https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-have-womens-groups-gone-dead-silent-on-biden-assault-accusation 6. Anita Dunn’s role at Times Up: https://theintercept.com/2020/03/24/joe-biden-metoo-times-up/ 7. Native-American history: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Native-American #Poetrypodcasts #PoetsandMuses #ImogenArate #IsabelAHermosillo #Enelotroladodelespejonohaynada #Nothingontheothersideofthelookingglass #Determined #Mexican #Writer #Poet #Translator #Photographer #traveling #surrealism #bendingreality #artasportals #nerd #videogamesasportals #virtualreality #duallanguagepoems #mixedlanguagepoems #Chicanopoetry #LydiaMartinez #ElSacrificiodelasPapas #feelapoem #selfexploration #Nepalesemonastery #comingtotermswithfemaleidentity #lookingbackinhistory #femalehistoricalfigures #FridaKahlo #AmelioRoblesÁvila #firsttransgenderman #SorJuanaInésdelaCruz #Tezcatlipoca #SmokingMirror #LaraCroft #TombRaider #loveofhistory #historicalreferences #ExaminingOurHeritages #violenceagainstwomen #womensrights #genderequality

In this episode explore dialogue with regards to MesoAmerican culture, deities and concepts. Valeria @TheMexicanWitch joins us as a returning guest and sister to Better Work Bitch! She shares personal opinion, tips and insight with astral traveling, the Toltec and Aztec deities, and the Masculine Deity of Tezcatlipoca.    Resources referenced in this episode: https://www.amazon.com/Cosmopolitan-Love-Potions-Magickal-Recipes/dp/1618373064/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 https://www.themexicanwitch.com/book-online https://www.amazon.com/Reincarnation-Beliefs-North-American-Indians/dp/1570672121 https://www.brujasbotanica.com/products/jade-oracle-deck https://www.instagram.com/themexicanwitch/?hl=en www.souliminati.com   

The only scary place to have a mirror is the face.

A Note From Writer Mac RogersI can’t remember now where I read it, but some years ago my eye was caught by a reference somewhere to the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca – the god of night winds, discord, and obsidian – who entrapped a great crocodile called Cipacti and distorted her body to make the land he walked on. I was not only taken by the phrase “the god of obsidian,” but also by the resonance of the image. There are always people who are ready and willing to build their lives upon the energy and captivity of others. God Of Obsidian is a three-part podcast drama based on a play I wrote that my theater company produced in 2017. The entire creative team from that play – director Jordana Williams, producer Sean Williams, my co-performer Rebecca Comtois – have returned alongside our sound designer Bart Fasbender and co-producer Nat Cassidy to bring the story from stage to podcast.It was the first script I wrote after the 2016 election (Steal The Stars was the second), my first fully thought-out reaction to that calamity. I spent a lot of those months grappling the idea that a person with little or no conscience can lie over and over until the sheer force of repetition and confidence give the lie an ugly facsimile of reality in the minds of the people who hear it. I wanted to write about it, but I needed to smart small, at a level I could wrap my mind around. I needed to start with just two people.  What happened next was interesting: while God Of Obsidian started off as a political allegory, by a short ways into the writing process I had largely put that out of my mind. The more I wrote Alice and Nathan, the less I wanted them to function as symbols, and the more I wanted their relationship to feel real in its emotional dynamics, even as it was surrounded by a background feeling of sinister magic. In reading real life personal accounts of many people who had escaped emotionally manipulative relationships, I noticed one common element that many of the escapees emphasized: You will never get restitution or catharsis, you will never your gaslighting partner to admit they did wrong.  All you can do is leave.  I chose to wrap this character drama in a fairy tale because the extraordinary force of gaslighting often reminds me of a kind of enchantment – an enchantment one can never defeat, only escape.It doesn’t feel at all strange to bring this 2017 play into audio in the year 2020. The helpless fury that originally sparked it never fully abated, and has, for obvious reasons, recently blazed back into full conflagration. It’s the angriest I’ve ever been writing a script, but I hope there’s some compassion and hope in there as well. I hope it’s also a story about how you can always hold onto a part of yourself, how even all alone and buckling under lies, you can still make fire.  

A Note From Writer Mac RogersI can’t remember now where I read it, but some years ago my eye was caught by a reference somewhere to the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca – the god of night winds, discord, and obsidian – who entrapped a great crocodile called Cipacti and distorted her body to make the land he walked on. I was not only taken by the phrase “the god of obsidian,” but also by the resonance of the image. There are always people who are ready and willing to build their lives upon the energy and captivity of others. God Of Obsidian is a three-part podcast drama based on a play I wrote that my theater company produced in 2017. The entire creative team from that play – director Jordana Williams, producer Sean Williams, my co-performer Rebecca Comtois – have returned alongside our sound designer Bart Fasbender and co-producer Nat Cassidy to bring the story from stage to podcast.It was the first script I wrote after the 2016 election (Steal The Stars was the second), my first fully thought-out reaction to that calamity. I spent a lot of those months grappling the idea that a person with little or no conscience can lie over and over until the sheer force of repetition and confidence give the lie an ugly facsimile of reality in the minds of the people who hear it. I wanted to write about it, but I needed to smart small, at a level I could wrap my mind around. I needed to start with just two people.  What happened next was interesting: while God Of Obsidian started off as a political allegory, by a short ways into the writing process I had largely put that out of my mind. The more I wrote Alice and Nathan, the less I wanted them to function as symbols, and the more I wanted their relationship to feel real in its emotional dynamics, even as it was surrounded by a background feeling of sinister magic. In reading real life personal accounts of many people who had escaped emotionally manipulative relationships, I noticed one common element that many of the escapees emphasized: You will never get restitution or catharsis, you will never your gaslighting partner to admit they did wrong.  All you can do is leave.  I chose to wrap this character drama in a fairy tale because the extraordinary force of gaslighting often reminds me of a kind of enchantment – an enchantment one can never defeat, only escape.It doesn’t feel at all strange to bring this 2017 play into audio in the year 2020. The helpless fury that originally sparked it never fully abated, and has, for obvious reasons, recently blazed back into full conflagration. It’s the angriest I’ve ever been writing a script, but I hope there’s some compassion and hope in there as well. I hope it’s also a story about how you can always hold onto a part of yourself, how even all alone and buckling under lies, you can still make fire.  

A Note From Writer Mac RogersI can’t remember now where I read it, but some years ago my eye was caught by a reference somewhere to the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca – the god of night winds, discord, and obsidian – who entrapped a great crocodile called Cipacti and distorted her body to make the land he walked on. I was not only taken by the phrase “the god of obsidian,” but also by the resonance of the image. There are always people who are ready and willing to build their lives upon the energy and captivity of others. God Of Obsidian is a three-part podcast drama based on a play I wrote that my theater company produced in 2017. The entire creative team from that play – director Jordana Williams, producer Sean Williams, my co-performer Rebecca Comtois – have returned alongside our sound designer Bart Fasbender and co-producer Nat Cassidy to bring the story from stage to podcast.It was the first script I wrote after the 2016 election (Steal The Stars was the second), my first fully thought-out reaction to that calamity. I spent a lot of those months grappling the idea that a person with little or no conscience can lie over and over until the sheer force of repetition and confidence give the lie an ugly facsimile of reality in the minds of the people who hear it. I wanted to write about it, but I needed to smart small, at a level I could wrap my mind around. I needed to start with just two people.  What happened next was interesting: while God Of Obsidian started off as a political allegory, by a short ways into the writing process I had largely put that out of my mind. The more I wrote Alice and Nathan, the less I wanted them to function as symbols, and the more I wanted their relationship to feel real in its emotional dynamics, even as it was surrounded by a background feeling of sinister magic. In reading real life personal accounts of many people who had escaped emotionally manipulative relationships, I noticed one common element that many of the escapees emphasized: You will never get restitution or catharsis, you will never your gaslighting partner to admit they did wrong.  All you can do is leave.  I chose to wrap this character drama in a fairy tale because the extraordinary force of gaslighting often reminds me of a kind of enchantment – an enchantment one can never defeat, only escape.It doesn’t feel at all strange to bring this 2017 play into audio in the year 2020. The helpless fury that originally sparked it never fully abated, and has, for obvious reasons, recently blazed back into full conflagration. It’s the angriest I’ve ever been writing a script, but I hope there’s some compassion and hope in there as well. I hope it’s also a story about how you can always hold onto a part of yourself, how even all alone and buckling under lies, you can still make fire.  

What it's all about: I have to admit that I wrote this a week before all the event cancellations happened due to the Corona Virus outbreak. I was getting over the flu when I did record this show. Anyway, this week is all about the Aztecs and what it has to do with Paganism. I will talk the history as well as one, not so Pagan, but religious faith where they do worship Aztec gods. The Spirit Guide of the Week is Tezcatlipoca and the Dream Symbol is Death. Songs Featured: 1, Take a Look Around by Cloud 2. Mikrokozmosz Pt. 1 by Moon and the NightSpirit 3. Between the Temple’s Walls by MaterDea 4. The Enchanted Mirror by Monica Richards 5. Spirit Sacrifice by Two Witches 6, Death by Derek Schmidt 7. Sweet Magic by Assembly of the Sacred Wheel 8. Grandmother by Spiral Rhythm Links Mentioned: Events: (Note: Some of these events may be cancelled due to the Corina Virus outbreak) - Vancouver Pagan Pride Day - Hexenfest - Pagan Tribal Gathering Other: - Cloud: Welcome to Pagan Rap - Cloud Rap Wicca Facebook Page - Cloud Rap Wicca on Twitter - Cloud on Instagram - Aztecs - Aztec Civilization - Are there any modern pagans who venerate the Aztec Pantheon? - The Modern Day Aztec-Nahua Religion - Modern Day Aztec Religion? - The Rag-Picker and the Priest - Wolf Charm Coven - Pagan Statement of Solidarity with Wet'suwet'en and Tyendinaga

What it's all about: I have to admit that I wrote this a week before all the event cancellations happened due to the Corona Virus outbreak. I was getting over the flu when I did record this show. Anyway, this week is all about the Aztecs and what it has to do with Paganism. I will talk the history as well as one, not so Pagan, but religious faith where they do worship Aztec gods. The Spirit Guide of the Week is Tezcatlipoca and the Dream Symbol is Death. Songs Featured: 1, Take a Look Around by Cloud 2. Mikrokozmosz Pt. 1 by Moon and the Nightspirit 3. Between the Temple’s Walls by MaterDea 4. The Enchanted Mirror by Monica Richards 5. Spirit Sacrifice by Two Witches 6, Death by Derek Schmidt 7. Sweet Magic by Assembly of the Sacred Wheel 8. Grandmother by Spiral Rhythm Links Mentioned: Events: (Note: Some of these events may be cancelled due to the Corina Virus outbreak) - Vancouver Pagan Pride Day - www.facebook.com/events/john-hend…254234835548225/ - Hexenfest - www.hexenfest.net/ - Pagan Tribal Gathering - www.pagantribalgathering.org.uk/ Other: - Cloud: Welcome to Pagan Rap - moonwillowmetaphys.wixsite.com/cloud - Cloud Rap Wicca Facebook Page - www.facebook.com/cloudrapswicca - Cloud Rap Wicca on Twitter - twitter.com/Cloudrapswicca?s=09 - Cloud on Instagram - www.instagram.com/cloud_moonwillowmagick_/ - Aztecs - www.history.com/topics/ancient-americas/aztecs - Aztec Civilization - www.ancient.eu/Aztec_Civilization/ - Are there any modern pagans who venerate the Aztec Pantheon? - www.quora.com/Are-there-any-mode…paganism-practiced - The Modern Day Aztec-Nahua Religion - pagansofcolor.tumblr.com/post/2998922…-aztec-nahua - Modern Day Aztec Religion? - www.reddit.com/r/pagan/comments/…n_aztec_religion/ - The Rag-Picker and the Priest - www.native-languages.org/aztecstory.htm - Wolf Charm Coven - www.instagram.com/wolfcharm_coven/ - Pagan Statement of Solidarity with Wet'suwet'en and Tyendinaga - dowsingfordivinity.com/2020/02/29/pa…d-tyendinaga/

En esta travesía Juan Pablo y Javier se sienten perdidos en un laberinto, Héctor Trejo continúa en la balsa y la soledad les ha abrazado, lo cual les hace reflexionar sobre la identidad y se cuestionan ¿Qué es ser Mexicano?...Referencias:Chavela VargasOctavio Paz: Laberinto de la SoledadLa leyenda de Ce Acatl Topitziln QuetzalcoatlTezcatlipocaMiguel Leon Portilla: Visión de los VencidosMiguel Leon Portilla: Tonantzin GuadalupeEmilio Uranga: Análisis del Ser MexicanoMúsica de este episodio:Lito Nebbia - La BalsaJorge Negrete - Yo soy mexicano Contactofasmacine@gmail.com PatrocinadorResidencial las Flores: ventas@lasfloresresidencial.com

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! La Toltequidad. ¿Los Toltecas fueron un pueblo o una sociedad iniciática? Los teocallis y el error de traducción. Los distintos tipos de guerreros. "Huehuetlatoli": palabra de los ancestros. La práctica del temazcal estaba prohibida. Los dos Méxicos. La demonización y ridiculización. Las danzas del sol y los Lakota. Palabras del abuelo Tlakaélel. Ejemplos de huehuetlatoli. Ipalnemohuani. Ometéotl. Quetzalcóatl. Tezcatlipoca. Huitzilopochtli. Xipe Tótec. Tonantzintlali. Tlazoltéotl. El gran dolor del hombre y la mujer. El Principio de Correspondencia. La reencarnación. El cuento de la aldea. * Podrás encontrar los enlaces relacionados en la entrada correspondiente de nuestro sitio web: https://alfilodelarealidad.com/Escucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de Al Filo de la Realidad. Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/3844

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! La Toltequidad. ¿Los Toltecas fueron un pueblo o una sociedad iniciática? Los teocallis y el error de traducción. Los distintos tipos de guerreros. "Huehuetlatoli": palabra de los ancestros. La práctica del temazcal estaba prohibida. Los dos Méxicos. La demonización y ridiculización. Las danzas del sol y los Lakota. Palabras del abuelo Tlakaélel. Ejemplos de huehuetlatoli. Ipalnemohuani. Ometéotl. Quetzalcóatl. Tezcatlipoca. Huitzilopochtli. Xipe Tótec. Tonantzintlali. Tlazoltéotl. El gran dolor del hombre y la mujer. El Principio de Correspondencia. La reencarnación. El cuento de la aldea. * Podrás encontrar los enlaces relacionados en la entrada correspondiente de nuestro sitio web: www.alfilodelarealidad.com.ar * * * Próximas Actividades de Gustavo Fernández * * * https://alfilodelarealidad.wordpress.com/2019/08/25/proximas-actividades/

Nostradamus, John Dee, Hermes Trismegisto, Tezcatlipoca y otros grandes místicos y profetas han utilizado la herramienta de los espejos mágicos para penetrar su propia pisque y el mundo de los espíritus. La Luna como espejo del alma es el arquetipo por excelencia que refleja los rayos del Sol o nuestra consciencia Crística que nos comunica con Dios, desgraciadamente el ser humano vive bajo la ilusión del Eclipse del Ego. ¿Qué misterios encierran pues los espejos negros en la magia y el estudio de las facultades del Yo Superior? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/misteriosocultos/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/misteriosocultos/support

Cuando el rey y sacerdote “Tolteca” Quetzalcóatl deja la ciudad de Tula, se dice que la ciudad entró en decadencia. En el epílogo hablamos sobre el posible motivo de su partida, exploramos los orígenes Chichimeca de los Toltecas y presentamos a los Nonoalcas, quienes también hicieron parte de esta historia. Lee la transcripción

The Aztec world, as well as other Mesoamerican cultures, was created in several attempts. Each time the gods disagreed on detail and restarted the world again. In the afterword, we dive into the theories associated with the meaning of this creation myth and how it seems to be a more historical account than a mere story. Read the transcript

El mundo de los Aztecas, al igual que el de otras culturas Mesoamericanas, fue creado en varios intentos. Cada vez que los dioses estuvieron en desacuerdo, el mundo tuvo que ser creado de nuevo. En el epílogo exploramos las teorías asociadas con el posible significado de este mito de creación y cómo esta historia parece ser más un recuento histórico que un simple cuento. Lee la transcripción.

Las mitologías Americanas, al haber estado siempre tan mal tratadas... bueno, como todo el resto, viendo a las Divinidades como si fueran algo malo, desde esa miopía terrible del diabólico monoteísmo, puede llamar la atención Darles el Rango que merecen, que es, precisamente el de Divinidad, que es el que han quitado hasta los monoteísmos a sus supuestos dioses, vamos, una locura, y entonces Nosotros lo que hacemos es dar el Salto para convertirlos en Algo Viviente, y que Viva en un Nosotros cualquiera que fuere, pero siempre VIVO.

Tlillan-Tlapallan «Lugar del negro y el rojo» es un lugar legendario, donde Quetzalcóatl llegó en vuelo desde Tollan con el fin de quemarse y transformarse en la Estrella de la Mañana (Venus). Esta historia se cuenta en un manuscrito del siglo XVI (el Códice Chimalpopoca) que contiene los Anales de Cuautitlán. Esta leyenda también es descrita por Bernardino de Sahagún en su Historia general de las cosas de la Nueva España. El nombre Tlillan-Tlapallan se ha interpretado como una referencia a la escritura y los libros. Quetzalcóatl simbolizaba la INTELIGENCIA, la capacidad creadora benéfica del ser humano. Quetzalcóatl no era una simple serpiente que se arrastraban por los suelos, únicamente en pos de alimento y placer. Quetzalcóatl poseía la orla de la elevación sobre la bestialidad. Lo adornaba el plumaje de la altura cósmica. Era una SERPIENTE EMPLUMADA: Era el vencedor de su naturaleza instintiva, engrandecido por su sabiduría creadora. Quetzalcóatl se dirigió hacia Tlillan Tlapallan, donde fue incinerado y su alma se convirtió en estrella o cometa. En la versión de Sahagún, caminó hasta que llegó al mar, donde hizo una balsa y salió navegando al Tlapallan. Cuando se fue Quetzalcóatl todos sufrían, muchos lloraban. No querían que se fuera. Algunos decidieron seguirlo. Había tornado el camino que conduce al mar. Y hasta allí, pocos lo alcanzaron. -¡Quetzalcóatl! ¿Por qué abandonas a tu pueblo? -Voy a donde abunda la tierra de colores, a Tlapalan, a donde me llama el sol. Ximiximati, “conócete (a ti mismo)”. La toma de conciencia del rey está mitológicamente expresada mediante la secuencia en la que Tezcatlipoca le “da su cuerpo”, es decir, le presenta el espejo en el que se mira y constata la degradación fisiológica de su cuerpo envejecido: Al darle el espejo Tezcatlipoca, le dice: ximiximati, “conócete a ti mismo”. Conocerse es, en este contexto, más allá de la vejez, tomar conciencia de la finitud de la existencia, de la mortalidad del ser y de la necesidad de partir, es decir, de morir. “La negrura” parece haber formado parte de un núcleo conceptual amplio dentro de la religión mesoamericana. Tlillan, “Lugar de la negrura”. Una variante notable en el paisaje son los sitios de carácter acuático, que son también una manifestación de lo oscuro. La combinación de agua y negrura hace referencia a los tiempos primordiales y la gestación. Tlillan tlapalan, la tinta negra, la tinta roja, el negro, el rojo, la muerte, la vida, la obscuridad, la luz. La dualidad esencial de la vida y la sabiduría, el bien y el mal, dos caras de la misma moneda.

This week we take a long look at Psychomanteums, Mirror Scrying and their history   Promos Hillbilly Horror House   Mail us something PO Box 941  Hendersonville, Tn. 37077 Patreon https://www.patreon.com/GraveYardTales Do you want GraveYard Merch?!?! WWW.GraveYardPodcast.com to get you some!  Visit DarkMyths.org Thank You Darron for our Logo!! You can get in touch with Darron for art work by searching Darron DuBose on Facebook or Emailing him at art_injector@yahoo.com Thank you to Brandon Adams for our music tracks!! If you want to hear more from Brandon check him out at: Soundcloud.com/brandonadamsj Youtube.com/brandonadams93 Or to get in touch with him for compositions email him at Brandon_adams@earthlink.net   WWW.GraveYardPodcast.com Email us at: GraveYardTalesPodcast@gmail.com Find us on social media: Twitter: @GrveYrdPodcast Facebook: @GraveYardTalesPodcast Sources https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/column.php?id=257269 https://www.controverscial.com/Mirror%20Gazing.htm https://www.ancient.eu/Tezcatlipoca/ https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/john-dees-spirit-mirror https://www.northernrenaissance.org/notes-on-john-dees-aztec-mirror/ https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/john-dee%E2%80%99s-obsidian-mirror.62898/ https://www.gaia.com/article/psychomanteum-mirror-gazing https://www.crystalinks.com/scrying.html https://www.exploringtraditions.com/the-art-of-scrying/  

"The Drums of Tapajos" by Colonel S. P. Meek Reviewed (but not read) by Khaki & K. In which Khaki distracts K to converse directly with the readers at home, and we fall deeper into the madness of arguing passionately about a book we haven't read. We wisely pull the ripcord before it's too late. The spoiler warning is therefore entirely superfluous, but hey, at least it's there! Bookmarked passages: the remains of Decimal Dewey, a Touch o' the Ol' Syphilis, Bill the Pony vs Artax, Gaslighting Our Canadian friend, Tezcatlipoca, Drummer Jokes. Find CoverMyAssCast on Twitter | Gmail | web.

Fecha de los cómics: 8/Agosto/2018 Co-Hosts: Elías, Fede Invitada: Paloma Titulos alternativos: * La Raven está enjaulada * Catwoman haciendo referencia a Catwoman * La abuelita de red hood * Tezcatlipoca (a ver dilo tres veces) _________________________________ Tag inicial INTRO MUSICAL Bienvenida al Podcast “Día de Cómics” / Introducciones Alerta de Spoilers _________________________________ * Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #50 * The Flash #52 * Superman #2 * Supergirl #21 * Sideways #7 * The Immortal Men #5 * Hawkman #3 BREAK - Boom Kitty & HeliXix – Tokyo Takedown * Detective Comics #986 * Titans #24 * Catwoman #2 * Suicide Squad #45 * Red Hood and the Outlaws #25 * Wonder Woman #52 ________________________________ Libro de la semana Compren estos libros Cómics de la próxima semana Preguntas, comentarios y anuncios Despedidas OUTRO MUSICAL ________________________________ Información de contacto: diadecomics@gmail.com @diadecomics https://www.facebook.com/diadecomics/ https://diadecomics.podiant.co/

Gedanken zu Tezcatlipoca, einem aztekischen Gott. Mit Überlegungen über die Bedeutung von Tezcatlipoca in der aztekischen Mythologie, im aztekischen Götterhimmel. Welche Bedeutung hat Gott Tezcatlipoca nicht nur historisch, sondern auch als spirituelles Prinzip?

Gedanken zu Tezcatlipoca, einem aztekischen Gott. Mit Überlegungen über die Bedeutung von Tezcatlipoca in der aztekischen Mythologie, im aztekischen Götterhimmel. Welche Bedeutung hat Gott Tezcatlipoca nicht nur historisch, sondern auch als spirituelles Prinzip?

Once the people had peace and prosperity. However, their fate changes when the kind-hearted god Tezcatlipoca leaves them. In despair, the king turns for help to Mictlantecuhtli, the lord of the underworld. It won’t turn out well in the afterword how this story is related to the later Aztec Empire.Read the transcript here.

Dr. Medina is local to the podcast, residing and working in Chula VIsta, CA.He has 20+ years of experience in education at all levels, elementary to university. In his search for creating a space for all students to have a powerful voice, Dr. Medina earned his doctorate, titled, Sacred Purpose.  Sacred Purpose seeks to connect trauma informed practices and the restorative approaches. In our discussion he frames how teachers see students, using the indigenous story of Tezcatlipoca.  We also intro the episode with some old school Chula Vista history and some discussion of skating/hip hop.  Just what we like at The Educated Guess Podcast.Get at me on Twitter: @czareff aka CESARDUZIT.Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/educatedguesspodcast/?notif_t=page_fan¬if_id=1491187558666099

Episode 4 of 4 - Angel Investor The Many Pennies have completed the Trials, but they aren't done with Miven and the church of Colliesto just yet. Also, Asher burns the leaf from the Tezcatlipoca. Follow us on twitter @AdventureIncPod Like us on Facebook facebook.com/adventureincpodcast Check out our website adventureinc.podbean.com Don't forget to rate/review/subscribe!

¿Cómo veían al mundo los mexicas y cómo lo interpretaban los españoles en la época de la conquista? De eso nos habla el Doctor en Antropología Hugo Lemus, acompañado de Carlos Umbral y Julio. En esta emisión también tratamos los siguientes temas: Nahuales, Mictlantecuhtli, sistemas de creencias, cosmovisión mexica, metafísica, Ometeotl, Omeyocan, Ometecuhtli, Omecihuatl, Dualidad en la cosmogonía azteca, el Tonal y el Nagual, Huehueteotl, Tezcatlipoca, el Templo Mayor de Tenochtitlan, los guerreros aztecas, la resistencia indígena, Malinalco, Malinalxochitl, Chalma, la conquista de México y las bulas papales para repartir los territorios de América entre los conquistadores. Acompáñanos y encuentra nuestras emisiones en video ahora en YouTube.

"n Xochitl in Cuicatl in Shub-Niggurath” by Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas, translated by Silvia Moreno-García (Originally published in Sword & Mythos.) Screams. The sun had not risen yet when the Mexica priests entered the Valley of Toluca, carrying the effigies of their gods. They carried the whistles of death tied around their necks: small clay skulls that produced terrifying shrieks when they blew them. This is how they announced the arrival of war, and with it, of Huitzilopochli and Tezcatlipoca, the lords that the Matlazinca would be forced to worship after being defeated by the Mexica. Šuti spat when she saw the procession coming closer. Those feathered puppets would never be her gods. Nelly Geraldine Garcia-Rosas is Mexican but lives in the UK with her husband. Her stories have appeared in anthologies like The Apex Book of World SF 3 and She Walks in Shadows. She can be found online at nellygeraldine.com or tweeting mostly in Spanish as @kitsune_ng. “Sun Sorrow” by Paul Jessup (Originally... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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And the Blood of Dead Gods Will Mark the ScoreBy Gary KlosterI had a frat-boy stretched out on the table, a pink slab of drunken meat just itching for ink, when Huck blew back into my life and brought the blood trade with him."Dead gods, Woody, this is the shit-hole you crawled into?"  The shop was damn small, Huck was damn big, and the perfectly tailored black ass of his suit pants leaned against my desk before I'd even raised the humming needle from frat-boy's hide."I'm busy, Huck.  Back off."Full transcript appears after the cut.----more----Hello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode 19 for January 5, 2016. This is your host, Keffy, and I'm super excited to be sharing this story with you.It's been a while since I ran a story for you, so I hope you've been well in the past few months. Before we get started today, I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news is that I've decided to shift GlitterShip back to two episodes a month instead of four. This is mostly because with moving, and grad school, and trying to do everything else I need to do, I was having trouble sustaining a 4 episodes per month. The good news is that this means that GlitterShip's funds will last until April 2017 at the very least, and that I will be able to showcase more guest readers.I also have some original fiction lined up to start in April 2016, at which point GlitterShip will finally shift from all reprints. Instead, each month I'll bring you one original and one reprint story.If you're a writer or reader and are interested in getting involved, check out the submissions guidelines at glittership.com/submission-guidelines.Our story today is "And the Blood of Dead Gods Will Mark the Score" by Gary Kloster.Gary Kloster is a writer, librarian, martial artist, and stay at home father. Sometimes all in the same day, but seldom all at the same time. His first book, Firesoul, is out now.And the Blood of Dead Gods Will Mark the ScoreBy Gary KlosterI had a frat-boy stretched out on the table, a pink slab of drunken meat just itching for ink, when Huck blew back into my life and brought the blood trade with him."Dead gods, Woody, this is the shit-hole you crawled into?"  The shop was damn small, Huck was damn big, and the perfectly tailored black ass of his suit pants leaned against my desk before I'd even raised the humming needle from frat-boy's hide."I'm busy, Huck.  Back off.""Busy?"  Huck pursed his lips, made a show of studying the stencil I'd taped across the customer's shoulder blades.  "Gettin you some ink, boy?  A tribal?  Something all spiky and black and awesome to show off to the bitches back home?"Huck's deep voice slowly penetrated my customer's drunken meditations, and his blood shot eyes rolled to blink back my ex-partner's regard.  "Who the hell…"  The young man's voice trailed off, the twitchy edge of drunken belligerence fading as he caught sight of Huck's face.Huck smiled, and his smile stretched the pink rift of scar tissue that ran up from the corner of his jaw, across the twisted pit of his ruined right eye and onto his broad forehead.  Before Nikolai's betrayal, Huck's face had been sternly handsome and the blood tatted into his dark skin had shone like lightning.  That tat's magic had made him beautiful and terrifying, like a storm rolling, and with a look he could make all the world his bitch.  Now, left with just the scar and the spark of rage that still burned in the depths of his remaining eye, he had to be content with just scaring people shitless."Tribals are crap, redneck poser ink.  Do yourself a favor and piss off."Two minutes after Huck banged in and my only customer that whole damn day was sulking out, a black dot of ink no bigger than a pimple hidden beneath his shirt.  "Follow him out, Huck," I said as the door rattled shut and I trashed the ink that I'd laid out for the job.  "We're done, remember?""Woody."  He picked up my sample book, stared at my name splashed across its front in bright red graffiti style.  "Dumb ass name.  Nikolai helped you pick that, didn't he?  Did that cocksucker give you a wooden pecker to go with it?"My teeth clenched, locked back the curse I wanted to hurl at him.  It'd always been so easy for him to control me, to drop a few words and make me flare up in rage.  Or desire.  But those days were gone.  We were different people now.  "Just go.  Whatever it is, I don't want to hear it.""You don't want to hear it?  Don't even want to hear it?"  Huck's big hands flipped restlessly through the pages of my sample book, but his eye was roaming the cheap sample-art posters tacked to the lumpy plaster of the walls.  "You rent yourself some space in a crappy little parlor on Hollywood so you could draw ugly tats with plain ink onto tourists, and so you don't need to hear me out?  You sure you can afford to say that?"Threat growled like distant thunder through his smooth voice, but I wasn't going to let him shake me that way either.  "I can afford to stay out of jail.""Jail."  The scar shifted around his smile.  "What was that to you?  Four years learning to ink and picking out girlfriends.  Jail must have been nothing for you.  Tough guy."Four years being the freak in a cage.  That wasn't nothing, no, not at all.  I rubbed a hand over the rough bristles on my chin, shook my head, so sick of Huck and all those memories that rode his wake.  "They weren't my type."Huck's hands snapped my book shut, dropped it to my desk where it teetered and fell to the floor in a glossy heap.  He pushed himself up straight to tower over me, the bright spot of spite in his eye burning down at me.  "Yeah, and you ain't my type anymore either, are you?"  In his face, I could read the disgust, the anger he still had at me for what I'd done, for the truth I'd carved into my flesh.  Flesh he once thought he had claim to.  "So stop trying to play the big boy.  There's new blood in town, big god's blood, and I mean to have it.  So that means I need me a bloodhound.  I need you.""I ain't your dog, Huck."His hands were on me, yanking me into him, and suddenly all I could see was his bright, furious eye and its ruined twin.  "You are my dog, Woody.  You're my bitch.  Always."  He shoved me away and I hit the table behind me, stumbled and landed on my ass.From the floor I stared up at him, body shaking, anger and fear rattling through me.  We'd been lovers for years before it all burned down, before Nikolai destroyed us.  Years good, bad and chaotic, especially at the end when I had told him what I really was, told him that his pretty girl never believed she was a girl at all.  And that I wanted to change.  Through all of that, in all the twisted grotesquerie of what we had called our love, he had never touched me in anger, never dared name and claim me like that.  "Get out.""No."  He stared down at me, hands twitching, his ill-leashed fury hungry for release, but as I pushed my back slowly to the wall he reined it.  "No.  This isn't just some score.  It's the score, the one that wraps this business up for all of us, you, me and Nikolai.  This pays it all."Nikolai.  I close my eyes and let my head rock back to thump my crew-cut into the wall.  Of course it was Nikolai. Of course he'd come back to LA, blood in his hands and a smile on his lips.  "Oh gods, Huck, just give it up.  He hurt me too, hurt me bad.  Four years of my life are gone because of him.  But I can't steal those years back, and you can't hurt him enough to bring back your tat. Cut your damn losses and move on.  Going after Nikolai, getting back in the trade, it's just a slow bullet through your brain.""You think I can let this go?"  His finger traced over the ruin of his face.  "He burned me.  He set me up and burned me, burned the blood of Zeus right out of my face.  I'm never going to let that go.  My balls won't let me.  How about yours?"A cheap shot and I gathered up my book and stood while I let the pain of its bite fade.  "No Huck.  No.  I don't want your revenge, and I don't want your money.  Find yourself some other dog.  I'm done with the blood trade.""I wasn't offering money."The softness of his voice made me look at him, but he was staring away from me now, through the neon and out at the tourists passing in the garish unnight.  "What?""He has Ungud.""Fuck!"  The book hit the wall, pages flying, the bright wings of butterflies torn away by a storm.  The trap had shut, and I never even saw it coming.  "Fuck me," I whispered, and damn he was smiling at me, sympathy and satisfaction."Not anymore, baby-girl.  Not anymore."I watched them kill a god, once.  My mother took me.She made me wear a dress, and I hated that.  I hated the crowd, the heat and perfume stink of the people around me as everyone pressed close to glass so thickly etched with wards that the altar below seemed to float in a fog of incantation.  I hated it all, but she made me watch.  Mom thought they were saving the world, culling the idols of the infidels.  Even then, I wondered if they were just making a profit.The god looked like a dirty old woman, senile and sick.  It felt obscene, watching the priests stagger to the altar under the weight of their icons of protection, dragging her with them.  While they made their prayers, she drooled and muttered.  I watched, and couldn't believe it would happen.  Couldn't believe that anything so sad, so contemptible, could be a god.  Couldn't believe they were going to kill that wasted old crone.  Then they bent back her head and cut her throat.One quick flash of a knife, and the blood came.  The black blood boiled out of her, writhed and splashed like a thousand snakes and the priests caught as much as they could.  Caught it to seal up in sacred vessels and sell for the glory of their particular truth.  That black essence of belief, sold by the ounce.Truth wins, chaos dies.  My mother pointed to the sacred circle carved into the altar, stained black.  The old beliefs were all going away, and the world would be pure.  I listened, silent and horrified at the thought.  A world where everything fit, just so.  Where no one could be out of place.  She pulled me away, content in her sanctimony, but I looked back and watched the priests trying to gather every last dark drop.  And I saw them fail.It escaped them, slipped past them, ran away.  Some portion of that tainted tincture of everything that the dead god's worshippers had once invested in her ran back into the world.  Escaped, to pool in graveyard shadows and on the wings of crows, in bottles of dark beer and in the eyes of sick children.  No one could contain the blood.  That was a truth I could believe in.So the blood of the dead gods gathered in the dark spaces, the secret places, and of course there were those stupid enough, crazy enough, to seek it out.  We found the dreams of a million souls gathered in the curdled essence of a deity and packaged it into little glass spheres, convenient for sale.  Of course the dealers were all fucked up.  And I had fallen in love with two of them, and my hands had been soaked in the blood of the divine.  It didn't matter that I was a blood hound, one of those dubiously gifted few who could sniff out the blood where it hid, who could resist somewhat the madness it cast in its raw form.  It still tainted my life.  Trying to turn my back on it had been a stupid dream.Stretched out in my narrow bed, I stared at the peeling walls of my tiny apartment, tacked over with diagrams, photos, maps of the hills above LA.  Five years of impotent rage hadn't done much for Huck's temper, but it had honed his cunning, and now my room was a shrine to his dream of revenge.  For the past two weeks he had been force-feeding me every detail of Nikolai's return.  Dead gods knew where he'd gotten it all, or how he'd paid for it.  But now it was my job to know it.  Just like the old days.The good, crazy days.  When Huck planned the scores and I pulled them off, riding his smarts through the job until I hit the point where the information broke down and I would just have to gut it through.  Then Nikolai would line up the buyers and bring in the cash.  That was when we were one tight little family, completely screwed up and seething but together, functioning somehow.  Until it had all blown apart.I had tried to pretend I could turn my back on Huck and Nikolai and everything we had done to each other. Tried to pretend that we were over and done.  A stupid mistake.  We would never be over as long as all three of us still breathed.  Huck was too furious, Nikolai too careful, and me… They both knew me too well to let me go.  They knew exactly how to pull me back in.  Ungud.  The aboriginal god of snakes and rainbows and desire, a god who could be male or female, depending on its want.  Who was what it was, what it wanted to be.  A god whose blood could make me exactly what I was.Three days, and maybe this would really would be over, like Huck said, solved under a sky painted red and black by his rage.  Three days, and maybe I or Nikolai or Huck might finally get what we wanted.  Or maybe again all our dreams would just spill out and be lost to violence, like the blood of that dead god.A helicopter thundered overhead, hauling water east to the fire lines and that finally shut Huck up."I know," I said, before he could start up again when the noise faded.  "I know, and if I don't know it's too damn late to worry about it.  You've done your job, now let me do mine."  I watched his hands tighten on the steering wheel of his Tahoe, remembered how mad this made him.  A control freak, placing his carefully crafted creation into the hands of an improviser.  Five years of obsession hadn't changed that."The fire is rolling in faster than I wanted it too.  They might be thinking of moving.""Yeah, maybe.  So what?  I'll deal with it."  My hands were slapping a quick beat over my body, checking pockets to make sure every piece of equipment was where I wanted it.  "You wanted me, you got me, now let me go.  I've got work to do.""A real tough guy now, ain't you?""Always was."His eye looked me over, and I could imagine him trying to picture me the way I was when we met, to see again the person I'd been when he'd wanted me.  It made me itch, uncomfortable.  "Were you really?""Yeah.  Why do you think you loved me, instead of all the other women you'd screwed?"  And then I was out of the car, slamming shut the door and leaving him with that.  As good a last line as I was going to get, if this all went to hell and I never saw him again.  I started down the street, heading for the bike paths that would take me to the house hidden high in these dry hills where Nikolai and the blood were waiting.  As I walked, I wrapped a black bandana across my face to block out the smell of burning.  And wondered if things had already gone to hell a long time ago.The wards were easy, always were.  My nature makes me slippery, hard to fix with magic.  And I had them marked on a map.  The alarms were harder, but Huck knew my weaknesses and had drilled me on how to handle the ones that were still operating, the ones that hadn't fallen when the fire took out the power and the data lines.  The fire or some hired hand of Huck's, using the fire for cover.  Even the cell nets were almost useless, jammed with the panicked calls of property owners.I pulled myself up onto the bumpy tile roof of the house, giving thanks as I did to the testosterone injections that built the muscle that made it easy.  It was a big place, some old money mansion built out in the wilderness before Santa Clarita had blown up in the valley below.  It must have cost Nikolai a bundle to rent, and I was betting he wasn't going to be getting his deposit back.  If he really had the blood of ten dead gods down there, it didn't matter how hard they warded the spheres that encased it.  Power would bleed out, and the shadows of this house would crawl with nightmares for years.That, though, was the least of my ex-partner's problems.  I found the skylight I wanted and peered down into a room, empty and lit only with the ruddy glow of the approaching fire.  An empty room, except for the brass bound box that gleamed below me.  I frowned down at it.  Clear the ward on this skylight, slip down and gather up the loot, then away.  Just like Huck had planned.My fingers danced around the skylight's edge, pasting in place the twists of iron and hair, spit and paper.  Charms to break the ward without letting it know it's been broken.  Then I worked loose the alarm wire, slipped open the lock and tied off my rope.  All in the plan.  I swung myself in, quiet as a cat, and slid down.  Adrenalin danced in my veins, waiting for the moment the plan went to hell.I could smell the blood, even before I cracked the case.  I'd never been very gifted at sniffing the stuff out, had never been a good tracker.  My bloodhound abilities lay more in my gift at resisting its gnawing effect on my sanity.  But the scent was so strong here I could taste it, and I knew that there must be more blood in the case than I had ever seen before.  With care, I lifted away the soft packing meant to prevent the psychic hell storm that would burst forth if one or more of the globes inside broke.  And that was when the plan burned.Eleven spheres nestled carefully in velvet.  Big crystal globes, and in the heart of each black liquid rolled and stirred, moving in tides that were steered more by my heartbeat than the moon.  Eleven.  Huck had said ten.  Behind me, the door swung open and my job really began."Woody.""Nikolai."  Five years had barely changed him, but he was vain.  Exercise to keep the belly away, dyes to tint the grey that was creeping in, injections and charms to smooth the nascent wrinkles.  Still, he looked good.  He stepped into the room alone, shut the door behind him.  Didn't matter.  The guards would be on the periphery, waiting."I like what you've done with yourself."  His grey eyes roamed me, flicked across my short hair and goatee, the muscles I'd added, lingered on the bulge in the black fatigues I wore.  "You're packing now.""In more ways than one," I said.  But I kept my hands still, didn't try to pull on him.  Nikolai wanted to talk, and I was fine with that."You like the merchandise?""It's interesting.""It's expensive."  Nikolai walked a little closer, stopped.  With the box open, I knew he had to be feeling it, the buzzing edge of distortion that gave normal people the fits and left bloodhounds like me mostly alone.  An advantage, since it kept him back from me.  A little one."South American, mostly.  Huitzilopochtli.  Weet-seal-oh-POACHED-lee  They mix a tiny drop of that with meth and slam it.  Guys do that and they can dodge bullets.  For a little while.  Tezcatlipoca. Tez catly pouka Put a trace of it in the ink of a jaguar tattoo, and no one will ever lie to you again.  And nine more.  The trade's been good to me, lately.""I see."  Good.  Eleven full globes, each the size of a damn softball, each one a pure god, each of them worth a fortune.  We'd risked our lives for a globe of mixed blood a tenth the size of these in the old days.  That case cradled more money and power than I'd ever seen in the trade.  Power enough that I could feel it gnawing at my inborn protections."I'm glad Huck persuaded you to come.  I've been wanting to see you.  I owe you an apology.""You don't owe me anything."  Friends, lovers, family, they hurt each other and had to apologize.  Nikolai had been all of those to me, once, but he wasn't anymore.  Burning out Huck's tat had been a too clever attempt at assassination, and if I hadn't gotten spooked and ditched the blood I was carrying down a storm sewer, I wouldn't have been doing four years for breaking and entering.  Transporting even that little bit of unsanctioned blood would have kept me in a cage for life.  Nikolai had tried to take both our lives when he decided to stop freelancing and left us to join the east coast family that was muscling in on the LA blood trade. When he betrayed us, he stopped being anything but an enemy.  And enemies, they never need to apologize.Nikolai read the thread of my thought in my body's tension.  He nodded, and I knew he never expected any other answer.  "I always thought I was the clever one.  But you both were smarter than I thought.  But this isn't really smart at all."  He waved a hand at the spheres.  "Who do you think fed Huck all the info that led you here?  Who do you think his informants were really working for?  And why do you think I made sure that he knew that I had Ungud?  I wanted you to come, Woody.  So I brought you a gift."The spheres gleamed, shining soft in the red fire light.  I reached down, slow, and plucked up the odd one out.  In its depths, the black blood moved and flashed, brightened.  There were colors there, every color, vibrant as a rainbow, and they twisted together into the form of a serpent, into a woman, into a man.  Ungud.  "A gift.  Or a payment?""What is he to you, Woody?  What did he do when you told him what you really were?  When you told him that his girlfriend wasn't really a girl at all?  He would have driven you out, thrown you away.  I was the one who understood, who let you be what you are.  Who loved you as you really are.  Who let you stay.  That was me."  He looked at me, blue eyes so sincere, and my hand gripped the sphere so tightly I wondered if it might crack.  "Take my gift.  Then lead me to him.""So you can finally finish with him?"  And here it was again, the real sick heart of our little family.  It had always been about the struggle between these two, to find out who was really in charge, who was really the alpha dog.  And I had always been a marker, part of the score.  That's why he hadn't just let me take the stuff and followed me back to his ex-partner.  He had to know that I was betraying Huck.  That he had won, finally.  "Fuck you.""What other choice do you think you have?" Nikolai always sounded so sad when he had you right where he wanted you.  When he thought you were his bitch."What choice?  Did I ever have a real choice, pinned between you two?"  I looked out the broad windows at the distant hills, at the bright flames that stretched up into the darkness.  Ungud's sphere was tight in my hand.  "Here's my choice.  Everything breaks, and everybody dies."Nikolai was smart, but slow, too damn slow.  He didn't even have time to wipe that sad, smug look from his face before my hand was wrapping around the velvet, yanking it free from the box.  In the air the dead god's blood shone in their clear cages, beautiful.  Then they slammed into the floor and shattered.  I only heard the start of Nikolai's screaming as the air broke around us, filled with ten thousand dreams of gods, dead and howling.  In my head, I denied them, walled them out and fumbled through their passions for the rope that hung beside me.  It was in my hand, the black nylon harsh against my skin, when they broke through and the whole world began to burn.Around me, the ash fell like snow.  Smoke rose, black columns that made the sun a sick pale circle rising slowly in the east.  Closing my eyes blotted out that grey light, but the visions that had been burned into the darkness behind my eyelids gave me no comfort.  I opened them again and watched the fires crawl across the distant hills until Huck came for me."Woody."  He swung himself out of his truck, hand hidden beneath his suit jacket, waiting for an ambush.  "What happened?""What do you think?"  I wiped my bandana across my face, tried to blink away the smoke and visions.  In the ruins of his face, colors ran and danced like a broken rainbow, making my eyes burn.  "It was a setup.  It all went to hell.""You didn't get the blood?"I opened my hand, let the wan sun shine on the glass orb it still held.  "Ungud.  Only Ungud.  I dumped the rest."He grunted.  "You dumped them?""I broke them all.  Broke them and crawled out through the chaos.  It was the only way to get past the guards.  And Nikolai."  I watched him twitch when I spoke the name.  "I smashed them at his feet."Huck stared at me, his one eye red and burning.  "Then you did good."I'd spilt out hell in that house and run away, and the screams of Nikolai and his men had echoed behind me until the fire finally swept over them.  I'd bought a new life and Huck's vengeance with the blood of dead gods and the screams of damned men.  My dreams were going to be tainted with both, forever."Good.  Yeah."  In the globe, the blood trembled, stirred by the tremor in my hand.  "I always do my best when your plans fail, and when chaos rules."    Holding the glass sphere tight, I made myself go on.  "Huck, I need something.""I thought we were done.  I thought that was what you wanted.  You did your job, and your payment's in your hand.""Huck, I don't want your money.  I want your help.  We used to do that, sometimes, remember?  Just help each other?  When you still loved me?"He looked away, stared out at smoke and ruins, a big man with a rumpled suit and a scar.  "What?""I need a tat.  With this blood.""So you can finally become a real boy?"I ignored the stupid, useless bitterness in his voice.  He could never believe that this had nothing to do with him. "So I can be what I am.""A man," he said.  "That much blood, you could be more than that."I turned the sphere and watched the colors shine in the dark blood.  So much power, so much potential.  "Yes.  I can be every man.  Young and old, big and small.  All different, and all the same.""A shapeshifter.  A changeling."The idea pleased me, so much possibility after a lifetime of being trapped.  "I like change."Huck's eye came back to me, and the corner of his mouth moved, almost made a smile.  "No lie there, baby-girl."  The words made me twitch, his name for me when we had been lovers, what he called me when we were tangled together.  "You could even be a woman.  Again."I looked up and met his eye, and for first time ever he looked away.  "It's not for you, Huck.  I'm not going to be your girl again.  Ever.""No.  I guess not."  He pushed himself up straight, walked around the truck and stopped by the door.  "This smoke is killing my eye.  Let's get out of here."I stood, but didn't step forward.  "The blood?"Huck frowned at me, his scar darkening.  Then he shrugged.  "I know a guy.  But he'll want to get paid."My turn to shrug, and I did it while walking toward the car.  "Shouldn't be a problem, for us."  His eye narrowed, and I smiled.  "We just agreed not to screw each other anymore.  Best basis for a partnership we ever had.""Shit."  He shook his head, but then slid into the truck, popping the door for me.  "Spilling that blood's made you crazy.""No.  It made me sane."  In my hand, I clutched the blood tight, and in my head I held just as tight to the image of a serpent spiraling across my skin in every color of the rainbow.  A serpent that could weave my flesh into a thousand shapes that made a greater truth.  I would bear the blood of a dead god, and become what I'd always wanted to be.  Myself.END"And the Blood of Dead Gods Will Mark the Score” was originally published in Fantasy Magazine in August 2010 and reprinted in Podcastle later that year.This recording is a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license which means you can share it with anyone you’d like, but please don’t change or sell it. Our theme is “Aurora Borealis” by Bird Creek, available through the Google Audio Library.Thanks for listening, and I'll be back on January 19 with "Skeletons" by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam.

ET Experiencers John Tenayuca and Javier Sandoval will be introduced and will share the spiritual side of their belief systems. Both men have recently been a part of an ET experience. Sharing their truth for LightworkersACE Metaphysicians. John knows a lot about the Toltecs based on his cultural background. John was born in Texas and moved to California at the age of 3. Javier was born in California and spent some years in Mexico City area. They both have a spiritual bond and will be sharing the future on how their spiritual path has lead them both to become friends and to have a spiritual journey they want to share with others. Toltec Indian Shaman, Metaphysicist, Philosopher, Cosmologist, Spiritualist, Retired. These are my only credentials besides my 19 generations of Shamans going back to the Tenayuca Pyramid and City. The Toltec Civilization is post Mayan and pre Aztec which conqured the Toltec Civilization. We migrated north to Texas and settled with Commanche and Apaches. In San Antonio Texas I'm fourth generation Texan. Im John the 5th, my son is John the 6th and my grandson is John the 7th. We are known as Master Builders and men and women of knowledge. We also started the pyramids but the Aztecs built over them and wiped out the history of the Toltecs. TEZCATLIPOCA is a TOLTEC GOD. The mind set was that we dream 24 hours a day. We were dream masters and master of our spirit. Karma, Quantim Physics and Laws of Attraction are just words where ancient knowledge is "WE ARE THE CREATOR OF OUR REALITY".

View fullsize Tezcatlipoca: Trickster and Supreme Deity University Press of Colorado Dr Elizabeth Baquedano is a world-renowned expert on Aztec culture and iconography, as well as a lecturer at University College London. She holds a PhD in Archaeology, has appeared on numerous programmes and documentaries, and recently won the highly prestigious Ohtli Award from the Government of Mexico, which is bestowed upon distinguished Mexicans working outside of Mexico.In this, our first interview with Elizabeth, we explore wide-ranging subjects including that of her newest book about the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca - who Elizabeth states is the true supreme deity of Aztec religion.

Mia talks with author G.D. Falksen at Wicked Faire! His work includes Cities of Ether, An Unfortunate Engagement, and The Mask of Tezcatlipoca.

Mia talks with author G.D. Falksen at Wicked Faire! His work includes Cities of Ether, An Unfortunate Engagement, and The Mask of Tezcatlipoca.

Mia talks with author G.D. Falksen at Wicked Faire! His work includes Cities of Ether, An Unfortunate Engagement, and The Mask of Tezcatlipoca.

Mia talks with author G.D. Falksen at Wicked Faire! His work includes Cities of Ether, An Unfortunate Engagement, and The Mask of Tezcatlipoca.

Sun, 1 Jan 1984 12:00:00 +0100 http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5745/ http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5745/1/5745.pdf Giesing, Cornelia Giesing, Cornelia (1984): Rudra-Shiva und Tezcatlipoca. Ein Beitrag zur Indo-Mexikanistik. Tübingen: Science and Fiction Kulturwissenschaften

Before the creation of the 5th age, in which we live, the world had already been destroyed four times over. The first had been devoured by jaguars sent by god Tezcatlipoca after he was struck from the sky by his brother Quetzacoatl. The second world that followed had been swept clean by the mighty winds of the very same Quetzacoatl after its inhabitants had descended into savagery and showed no reverence for their gods. The third world perished in a great rain of fire that left nothing but ashes. From these ashes the Aztec gods rebuilt the world and this time its caretaker was to be the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, “she of the jade skirt”. Accused of caring for humans out of selfishness and only loving them for their praise and worship the goddess wept tears of blood that flooded the world and ended the age of the 4th sun. At the beginning of the time of the 5th sun the gods of the Aztec pantheon gathered within their magnificent city. Here the gods sacrificed themselves to usher in a new age. This city still stands today, abandoned long before the Aztec became a mighty empire. Who built the monumental pyramids that the Aztec found and led them to name this sacred place “The city of the gods”? What secrets have archaeologists uncovered since its excavation? What mysteries still intrigue scientists to this very day? Join the Theorists as they take take a stroll down the Avenue of the Dead within the truly lost city of...Teotihuacan THEORITES, mental health ain't no joke, can't afford an in-person session? Click the link and get back to being you. Cheers https://betterhelp.com/alientheorySupport The Alien Theorists on Patreon$5/ month for everything we do.Buy merch and one-time donationsalientheorists.com