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Tuesday Roundup 27-11-2007

By Gregon

A strange assortment to get you through the week…

Enjoy!

Greg
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Greg is the owner-editor of The Daily Grail, as well as the author of a number of books including Stop Worrying, There Probably is an Afterlife.
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  1. Pyramids and the New Fire ceremony
    [quote]Two deities, Nanahuatzin and Tecciztecatl, both tried the divine sacrifice. One burnt quickly, the other roasted slowly. Then Quetzalcoatl manifested himself and was able to survive the fire, ensuring a new World Age – ours.[/quote]

    Mmmm… I don’t think this is correct. What I remember from that particular legend, was that the gods gathered at Teotihuacan to choose who would burn at the pyre so that the world could have light, Tecuciztécatl was chosen because he was the most perfect and powerful, but at the moment of truth he cowed and refused to jump. At that moment one of the lesser gods, Nanahuátzin, who had also been chosen despite o being poor and ugly, bravely jumped and died by the flames, his soul ascending to become the Sun. Seeing this Tecuciztécatl took valor and followed Nanahuátzin to the flames, dying and transforming into another Sun. When the other gods saw two equal suns lighting the world, one of them threw a rabbit to the face of Tecuciztécatl, who became paler and turned into the Moon, in charge of giving light only after the Sun had gone to rest at the end of the day. That’s why to us mexicans the spots in the full Moon ressemble the shape of a rabbit.

    [quote]What was this ceremony? Was it the literal burning of men, who died for ascension? Was it purely a religious, symbolical ceremony? It seems that it was a place where men tried to become one with the gods – which in Egypt was known through the myth of Osiris.[/quote]

    It is an interesting proposition; but if that were the case, there would be indications of those ceremonies, but to my knowledge there has never been found charred human skeletons that would confirm this. What has been found instead are the remains of warriors that were beheaded and buried at the base of the pyramid, along with eagles and jaguars.

    The ceremony of the New Fire was different. It was performed when the sacred calendar of 260 days coincided with the civil calendar of 360 days (plus 5 “empty” days which were gratly feared) every 52 years. People had to destroy all their posessions because the fate of the Universe during those last five days of the calendar was uncertain. When the fire was lit from the sacred pillar, that same flame was carried out to all corners of the city to light the houses of every family. It was also in that time that the pyramids were increased in height by adding more rock and mortar to the older structure, much like an onion.

    Regrettably, there still much we ignore about the ancient culture of Teotihuacan. Consider the fact that the very word (Teotihuacan) is not how that culture named that city, but was a name given hundreds of years later by the aztecs when they spotted the ruins of this incredible metropolis, and came to the conclusion that only gods could have built such wonders.

    —–
    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

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