I live thirty-five years now with the K'iche, Kaqchikel and Tz'utujil Maya in the Highlands. I write this tonight from my adobe and pine home after participating three nights and days with Maya Day-keepers on the 8 Baatz New Year Ceremony. Tomorrow is an election day and all is calm in the mountains. This is an ancient ancestral culture that lives in a magic mythical mind completely bound to the ancestors. Blood sacrifice has always been part of the story of keeping balance. The violence forms and shapes a very peaceful culture and society. This is the paradox that JDE talks about when talking of Gebser. You need to talk to this paradox of peace through violence. Mesoamerican empires rose and fell from Teotihuacan to Tula to Tikal to Cholula to the Mexica...Rise and Fall just like JDE talks about through Oswaldo Spangler and Toynebee...We Americans need to study Mesoamerican Civilization but we don't and that is a massive paradox. To not understand Mesoamerican Civilization as much as China or Egypt...We are a racist people who do not value Native American Civilization, which is you need to get to here.
Read Michel Graulich on the sense of Mesoamerica and how the 260 Divinatory Calendar...JDE does a great job here Mexica is Aztec...but you need to think Tolteca-Chichimeca, Olmeca-Xicalanca, Mixteca-Popoluca.....always twins...twinship...Jaguar Tepeyolotl Lord of the Mountain...Nahual or Animal Transform of Shaman Priest...from hunter to warrior to lord to ruler...to warlord conquering ruler as Eagle Warrior, Jaguar Warrior...from Archaic to Magic to Mythic to Mental Mythic conquering Warlord Emperor...that to me is Mesoamerica
BVD, have you read Charles C. Mann's book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2005)? The stuff on South America pretty much blew my mind. Thanks for continuing your discussions with JDE. If possible, please keep 'em coming.
I have not! But my dad has recommended it. I'll get it on Kindle shortly. Been on a Houellebecq binge :) There will be more! Really glad you're enjoying.
I live thirty-five years now with the K'iche, Kaqchikel and Tz'utujil Maya in the Highlands. I write this tonight from my adobe and pine home after participating three nights and days with Maya Day-keepers on the 8 Baatz New Year Ceremony. Tomorrow is an election day and all is calm in the mountains. This is an ancient ancestral culture that lives in a magic mythical mind completely bound to the ancestors. Blood sacrifice has always been part of the story of keeping balance. The violence forms and shapes a very peaceful culture and society. This is the paradox that JDE talks about when talking of Gebser. You need to talk to this paradox of peace through violence. Mesoamerican empires rose and fell from Teotihuacan to Tula to Tikal to Cholula to the Mexica...Rise and Fall just like JDE talks about through Oswaldo Spangler and Toynebee...We Americans need to study Mesoamerican Civilization but we don't and that is a massive paradox. To not understand Mesoamerican Civilization as much as China or Egypt...We are a racist people who do not value Native American Civilization, which is you need to get to here.
Read Michel Graulich on the sense of Mesoamerica and how the 260 Divinatory Calendar...JDE does a great job here Mexica is Aztec...but you need to think Tolteca-Chichimeca, Olmeca-Xicalanca, Mixteca-Popoluca.....always twins...twinship...Jaguar Tepeyolotl Lord of the Mountain...Nahual or Animal Transform of Shaman Priest...from hunter to warrior to lord to ruler...to warlord conquering ruler as Eagle Warrior, Jaguar Warrior...from Archaic to Magic to Mythic to Mental Mythic conquering Warlord Emperor...that to me is Mesoamerica
BVD, have you read Charles C. Mann's book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2005)? The stuff on South America pretty much blew my mind. Thanks for continuing your discussions with JDE. If possible, please keep 'em coming.
I have not! But my dad has recommended it. I'll get it on Kindle shortly. Been on a Houellebecq binge :)
There will be more! Really glad you're enjoying.
Where is episode 5?
Would be curious as to anyone's thoughts on the ur symbol, or dominant pair of opposite things, in Andean civilisation.