Much of that knowledge has been lost, but we do know what the initiation ceremony entailed. The upper scene depicts the deceased in the act of plunging through the portal into the underworld. The Flag of the Spanish conquistadors, with the crown of Castile upon a red flag, as used by the conquistadors Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, and others. ( Sahagun,1950 p. 517). According to Frazer, other things went on, too—things that “no good Christian could look upon without being struck blind and deaf and dumb for the rest of his life.”. Open from 10 to 22 h. (leaving the premises is forbidden after the closing hour).
"They [the Toltecs] could do practically anything, nothing seemed to difficult for them; they cut the greenstone, they melted gold, and all this came from Quetzalcoatl - arts and knowledge." On the day of the sacrifice, he would be restrained by four priests holding his arms and legs, while a fifth cut out his heart and threw it in his face.
Above is a Post Classic gold figurine of an Aztec warrior wearing a mushroom inspired nose plug. (Proskouriakoff 1978:116) (Milbrath 1999:102).
In Aztec (Nahua) legends the sun, descends each night into the underworld to battle the forces of death in order to return, triumphant, each morning to the sky on the wings of an eagle. Above is a close up images from page 89, in the Codex Vaticanus that depicts a ritual drink encoded or tagged with a Fleur de lis emblem as a symbol of God and divine immortality. Section 107, any copyrighted work on this page is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Note that their capes have been turned around as bibs, maybe to be used after decapitation as a ritual bundle. By 1623, just over a century after Cortés arrival in the New World, the area had experienced a 97 percent drop in the aboriginal population. The Fursts, Peter and Jill, have identified this symbol as representing the north-south axis or sacred center as the place of entry into the Underworld. They originated the year count, which they called the count of days (260 days), and created esoteric signs for good or favorable days. Mithras sits at the top, and along the way through this journey through the heavenly afterlife, the person in question is guided past gatekeepers and through the realms of Earth, heaven, and into supraheaven.
Your thoughts, comments, and concerns are most welcomed. p.250). This Tlaloc-Venus warfare cult spread from the great metropolis of Teotihuacan into the Maya area during the Early Classic period when Teotihuacan was at its apex. Nechtheir Thanmelou!”), it also relies on establishing the visitor as a god himself. The ancient city of Cholula, near Puebla, Mexico has a pyramid honoring Quetzalcoatl covering an area of over 500,000 sq.
The image portrays the god-king Quetzalcoatl, or ruler or High Priest, in the guise of Quetzalcoatl, crowned with a Fleur de lis symbol.
I found another example of very early Fleur de lis worship in the Americas that comes to us by way of a written account by a French explorer named Rene de Laudonniere. Whatsoever was to befall one, they then saw all in vision.
Other images show processions of people and the playing of instruments like drums, trumpets, pipes, and rattles.
A Spanish traveler in post-Conquest Peru named Pedro Cieza de Leon is quoted by Bartolome de Las Casas as saying... "We Christians, have destroyed so many kingdoms....For wherever the Spaniards have passed , conquering and discovering, it is as though a fire had gone destroying everything in its path." Lowy reported in 1974, "Amanita mucaria and the Thunderbolt Legend in Guatemala and Mexico" page 189, that cakulha was not only the Quiche term for thunderbolt but is also the Quiche name for Amanita mucaria mushroom.
So it was that the religious use of sacred mushrooms remained unnoticed for centuries. Sahagun also describes the use of mushrooms at the coronation of Montezuma II, the High Priest of the Aztecs, as follows: “For four days there was feasting and celebration and then on the fourth day came the coronation of Montezuma II, followed by human sacrifices in numbers”. He led his people eastward to the “land of writing” (the Maya area?)
The man’s brother had taken his place, and all his descendants remained outcasts. In one episode the ball playing Hero Twins decapitate themselves in the underworld in order to come back to life.
The name Quetzalcoatl has been interpreted to mean "Precious twin," indicating that the Morning Star and Evening Star are one and the same (Caso, 1958:.24; Duran:325). Additionally, the Maya god K’awil has been identified by scholars as the Quiche Maya counterpart of the god Tohil, who has been identified as a Quiché variant of the god Quetzalcoatl (P.V. Alfonso Caso later confirmed, although reluctantly, that they were indeed mushrooms. According to Aztec legend, he was resurrected each morning by Quetzalcoatl/Tlaloc as the Morning Star, and ascended into the heavens on the wings of a harpy eagle.
Much of that knowledge has been lost, but we do know what the initiation ceremony entailed. The upper scene depicts the deceased in the act of plunging through the portal into the underworld. The Flag of the Spanish conquistadors, with the crown of Castile upon a red flag, as used by the conquistadors Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, and others. ( Sahagun,1950 p. 517). According to Frazer, other things went on, too—things that “no good Christian could look upon without being struck blind and deaf and dumb for the rest of his life.”. Open from 10 to 22 h. (leaving the premises is forbidden after the closing hour).
"They [the Toltecs] could do practically anything, nothing seemed to difficult for them; they cut the greenstone, they melted gold, and all this came from Quetzalcoatl - arts and knowledge." On the day of the sacrifice, he would be restrained by four priests holding his arms and legs, while a fifth cut out his heart and threw it in his face.
Above is a Post Classic gold figurine of an Aztec warrior wearing a mushroom inspired nose plug. (Proskouriakoff 1978:116) (Milbrath 1999:102).
In Aztec (Nahua) legends the sun, descends each night into the underworld to battle the forces of death in order to return, triumphant, each morning to the sky on the wings of an eagle. Above is a close up images from page 89, in the Codex Vaticanus that depicts a ritual drink encoded or tagged with a Fleur de lis emblem as a symbol of God and divine immortality. Section 107, any copyrighted work on this page is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Note that their capes have been turned around as bibs, maybe to be used after decapitation as a ritual bundle. By 1623, just over a century after Cortés arrival in the New World, the area had experienced a 97 percent drop in the aboriginal population. The Fursts, Peter and Jill, have identified this symbol as representing the north-south axis or sacred center as the place of entry into the Underworld. They originated the year count, which they called the count of days (260 days), and created esoteric signs for good or favorable days. Mithras sits at the top, and along the way through this journey through the heavenly afterlife, the person in question is guided past gatekeepers and through the realms of Earth, heaven, and into supraheaven.
Your thoughts, comments, and concerns are most welcomed. p.250). This Tlaloc-Venus warfare cult spread from the great metropolis of Teotihuacan into the Maya area during the Early Classic period when Teotihuacan was at its apex. Nechtheir Thanmelou!”), it also relies on establishing the visitor as a god himself. The ancient city of Cholula, near Puebla, Mexico has a pyramid honoring Quetzalcoatl covering an area of over 500,000 sq.
The image portrays the god-king Quetzalcoatl, or ruler or High Priest, in the guise of Quetzalcoatl, crowned with a Fleur de lis symbol.
I found another example of very early Fleur de lis worship in the Americas that comes to us by way of a written account by a French explorer named Rene de Laudonniere. Whatsoever was to befall one, they then saw all in vision.
Other images show processions of people and the playing of instruments like drums, trumpets, pipes, and rattles.
A Spanish traveler in post-Conquest Peru named Pedro Cieza de Leon is quoted by Bartolome de Las Casas as saying... "We Christians, have destroyed so many kingdoms....For wherever the Spaniards have passed , conquering and discovering, it is as though a fire had gone destroying everything in its path." Lowy reported in 1974, "Amanita mucaria and the Thunderbolt Legend in Guatemala and Mexico" page 189, that cakulha was not only the Quiche term for thunderbolt but is also the Quiche name for Amanita mucaria mushroom.
So it was that the religious use of sacred mushrooms remained unnoticed for centuries. Sahagun also describes the use of mushrooms at the coronation of Montezuma II, the High Priest of the Aztecs, as follows: “For four days there was feasting and celebration and then on the fourth day came the coronation of Montezuma II, followed by human sacrifices in numbers”. He led his people eastward to the “land of writing” (the Maya area?)
The man’s brother had taken his place, and all his descendants remained outcasts. In one episode the ball playing Hero Twins decapitate themselves in the underworld in order to come back to life.
The name Quetzalcoatl has been interpreted to mean "Precious twin," indicating that the Morning Star and Evening Star are one and the same (Caso, 1958:.24; Duran:325). Additionally, the Maya god K’awil has been identified by scholars as the Quiche Maya counterpart of the god Tohil, who has been identified as a Quiché variant of the god Quetzalcoatl (P.V. Alfonso Caso later confirmed, although reluctantly, that they were indeed mushrooms. According to Aztec legend, he was resurrected each morning by Quetzalcoatl/Tlaloc as the Morning Star, and ascended into the heavens on the wings of a harpy eagle.
Much of that knowledge has been lost, but we do know what the initiation ceremony entailed. The upper scene depicts the deceased in the act of plunging through the portal into the underworld. The Flag of the Spanish conquistadors, with the crown of Castile upon a red flag, as used by the conquistadors Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, and others. ( Sahagun,1950 p. 517). According to Frazer, other things went on, too—things that “no good Christian could look upon without being struck blind and deaf and dumb for the rest of his life.”. Open from 10 to 22 h. (leaving the premises is forbidden after the closing hour).
"They [the Toltecs] could do practically anything, nothing seemed to difficult for them; they cut the greenstone, they melted gold, and all this came from Quetzalcoatl - arts and knowledge." On the day of the sacrifice, he would be restrained by four priests holding his arms and legs, while a fifth cut out his heart and threw it in his face.
Above is a Post Classic gold figurine of an Aztec warrior wearing a mushroom inspired nose plug. (Proskouriakoff 1978:116) (Milbrath 1999:102).
In Aztec (Nahua) legends the sun, descends each night into the underworld to battle the forces of death in order to return, triumphant, each morning to the sky on the wings of an eagle. Above is a close up images from page 89, in the Codex Vaticanus that depicts a ritual drink encoded or tagged with a Fleur de lis emblem as a symbol of God and divine immortality. Section 107, any copyrighted work on this page is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Note that their capes have been turned around as bibs, maybe to be used after decapitation as a ritual bundle. By 1623, just over a century after Cortés arrival in the New World, the area had experienced a 97 percent drop in the aboriginal population. The Fursts, Peter and Jill, have identified this symbol as representing the north-south axis or sacred center as the place of entry into the Underworld. They originated the year count, which they called the count of days (260 days), and created esoteric signs for good or favorable days. Mithras sits at the top, and along the way through this journey through the heavenly afterlife, the person in question is guided past gatekeepers and through the realms of Earth, heaven, and into supraheaven.
Your thoughts, comments, and concerns are most welcomed. p.250). This Tlaloc-Venus warfare cult spread from the great metropolis of Teotihuacan into the Maya area during the Early Classic period when Teotihuacan was at its apex. Nechtheir Thanmelou!”), it also relies on establishing the visitor as a god himself. The ancient city of Cholula, near Puebla, Mexico has a pyramid honoring Quetzalcoatl covering an area of over 500,000 sq.
The image portrays the god-king Quetzalcoatl, or ruler or High Priest, in the guise of Quetzalcoatl, crowned with a Fleur de lis symbol.
I found another example of very early Fleur de lis worship in the Americas that comes to us by way of a written account by a French explorer named Rene de Laudonniere. Whatsoever was to befall one, they then saw all in vision.
Other images show processions of people and the playing of instruments like drums, trumpets, pipes, and rattles.
A Spanish traveler in post-Conquest Peru named Pedro Cieza de Leon is quoted by Bartolome de Las Casas as saying... "We Christians, have destroyed so many kingdoms....For wherever the Spaniards have passed , conquering and discovering, it is as though a fire had gone destroying everything in its path." Lowy reported in 1974, "Amanita mucaria and the Thunderbolt Legend in Guatemala and Mexico" page 189, that cakulha was not only the Quiche term for thunderbolt but is also the Quiche name for Amanita mucaria mushroom.
So it was that the religious use of sacred mushrooms remained unnoticed for centuries. Sahagun also describes the use of mushrooms at the coronation of Montezuma II, the High Priest of the Aztecs, as follows: “For four days there was feasting and celebration and then on the fourth day came the coronation of Montezuma II, followed by human sacrifices in numbers”. He led his people eastward to the “land of writing” (the Maya area?)
The man’s brother had taken his place, and all his descendants remained outcasts. In one episode the ball playing Hero Twins decapitate themselves in the underworld in order to come back to life.
The name Quetzalcoatl has been interpreted to mean "Precious twin," indicating that the Morning Star and Evening Star are one and the same (Caso, 1958:.24; Duran:325). Additionally, the Maya god K’awil has been identified by scholars as the Quiche Maya counterpart of the god Tohil, who has been identified as a Quiché variant of the god Quetzalcoatl (P.V. Alfonso Caso later confirmed, although reluctantly, that they were indeed mushrooms. According to Aztec legend, he was resurrected each morning by Quetzalcoatl/Tlaloc as the Morning Star, and ascended into the heavens on the wings of a harpy eagle.
One saw in vision that already he would die, and then continued weeping, one saw that he would die in battle; one saw in vision that he would be eaten by wild beasts; one saw in vision that he would take captives in war; one saw in vision that he would be rich, wealthy; one saw in vision that he would buy slaves, he would be a slave owner; one saw in vision that he would commit adultery, he would be struck by stones, he would be stone; one saw in vision that he would steal, he would also be stone and saw in vision that his head would be crushed by stones-they would condemn him; one saw in vision that he would perish in the water; one saw in vision that he would live in peace, and tranquility, until he died; one saw in vision that he would fall from a roof top, and he would fall to his death; however many things were to befall one, he then saw all in vision: even that he would be drowned.
Quetzalcoatl can be identified in this codex by his trademark conical hat, that in most cases is adorned with bloodletting instruments and a Fleur de lis symbol. The second date is 90 days later, corresponding to Venus's rise as an evening star. This disaster was no less than the tragic depopulation of Native Americans. Note that the boat is shaped or encoded like the Maya Ik glyph, (a capital T) a symbol of the Wind God in Mesoamerica, and similar in shape to the Old World tau cross. The neighbors say it was because he ate the mushroom and then had intercourse with his wife. The Nazca were only one of two South American cultures that prepared trophy heads for a ritual use. "At the time when the planet was visible in the sky (as evening star) Quetzalcoatl died.
Much of that knowledge has been lost, but we do know what the initiation ceremony entailed. The upper scene depicts the deceased in the act of plunging through the portal into the underworld. The Flag of the Spanish conquistadors, with the crown of Castile upon a red flag, as used by the conquistadors Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, and others. ( Sahagun,1950 p. 517). According to Frazer, other things went on, too—things that “no good Christian could look upon without being struck blind and deaf and dumb for the rest of his life.”. Open from 10 to 22 h. (leaving the premises is forbidden after the closing hour).
"They [the Toltecs] could do practically anything, nothing seemed to difficult for them; they cut the greenstone, they melted gold, and all this came from Quetzalcoatl - arts and knowledge." On the day of the sacrifice, he would be restrained by four priests holding his arms and legs, while a fifth cut out his heart and threw it in his face.
Above is a Post Classic gold figurine of an Aztec warrior wearing a mushroom inspired nose plug. (Proskouriakoff 1978:116) (Milbrath 1999:102).
In Aztec (Nahua) legends the sun, descends each night into the underworld to battle the forces of death in order to return, triumphant, each morning to the sky on the wings of an eagle. Above is a close up images from page 89, in the Codex Vaticanus that depicts a ritual drink encoded or tagged with a Fleur de lis emblem as a symbol of God and divine immortality. Section 107, any copyrighted work on this page is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Note that their capes have been turned around as bibs, maybe to be used after decapitation as a ritual bundle. By 1623, just over a century after Cortés arrival in the New World, the area had experienced a 97 percent drop in the aboriginal population. The Fursts, Peter and Jill, have identified this symbol as representing the north-south axis or sacred center as the place of entry into the Underworld. They originated the year count, which they called the count of days (260 days), and created esoteric signs for good or favorable days. Mithras sits at the top, and along the way through this journey through the heavenly afterlife, the person in question is guided past gatekeepers and through the realms of Earth, heaven, and into supraheaven.
Your thoughts, comments, and concerns are most welcomed. p.250). This Tlaloc-Venus warfare cult spread from the great metropolis of Teotihuacan into the Maya area during the Early Classic period when Teotihuacan was at its apex. Nechtheir Thanmelou!”), it also relies on establishing the visitor as a god himself. The ancient city of Cholula, near Puebla, Mexico has a pyramid honoring Quetzalcoatl covering an area of over 500,000 sq.
The image portrays the god-king Quetzalcoatl, or ruler or High Priest, in the guise of Quetzalcoatl, crowned with a Fleur de lis symbol.
I found another example of very early Fleur de lis worship in the Americas that comes to us by way of a written account by a French explorer named Rene de Laudonniere. Whatsoever was to befall one, they then saw all in vision.
Other images show processions of people and the playing of instruments like drums, trumpets, pipes, and rattles.
A Spanish traveler in post-Conquest Peru named Pedro Cieza de Leon is quoted by Bartolome de Las Casas as saying... "We Christians, have destroyed so many kingdoms....For wherever the Spaniards have passed , conquering and discovering, it is as though a fire had gone destroying everything in its path." Lowy reported in 1974, "Amanita mucaria and the Thunderbolt Legend in Guatemala and Mexico" page 189, that cakulha was not only the Quiche term for thunderbolt but is also the Quiche name for Amanita mucaria mushroom.
So it was that the religious use of sacred mushrooms remained unnoticed for centuries. Sahagun also describes the use of mushrooms at the coronation of Montezuma II, the High Priest of the Aztecs, as follows: “For four days there was feasting and celebration and then on the fourth day came the coronation of Montezuma II, followed by human sacrifices in numbers”. He led his people eastward to the “land of writing” (the Maya area?)
The man’s brother had taken his place, and all his descendants remained outcasts. In one episode the ball playing Hero Twins decapitate themselves in the underworld in order to come back to life.
The name Quetzalcoatl has been interpreted to mean "Precious twin," indicating that the Morning Star and Evening Star are one and the same (Caso, 1958:.24; Duran:325). Additionally, the Maya god K’awil has been identified by scholars as the Quiche Maya counterpart of the god Tohil, who has been identified as a Quiché variant of the god Quetzalcoatl (P.V. Alfonso Caso later confirmed, although reluctantly, that they were indeed mushrooms. According to Aztec legend, he was resurrected each morning by Quetzalcoatl/Tlaloc as the Morning Star, and ascended into the heavens on the wings of a harpy eagle.