To what extent did animal costumes play a role in Mayan rain rituals?
To what extent did animal costumes play a role in Mayan rain rituals? One tradition to invoke the Chaac rain Gods was to dress like frogs.
Could masses of costumed frogs send a signal to the black Chaac of the West to mitigate the drought?
We will see if the Pasadena anomaly brought any results to California like Red Chaac has kept the East Coast wet.
The significance of the bird-serpent the Quetzal Coatl can not be underestimated as it would "hoard" water in the sky unless properly motivated by the Chaacs.
The Chaacs would try various techniques to get the Quetzal Coatl to release the stored water, one was the creation of specific frequencies at the base of Chichen Itza thru sound filtering that resulted in the sonic signature of the quetzal. Or humans dressed as frogs who would cha-Chaac.
It's important to realize that the Maya mixed system inputs that don't respect our boundaries as part of a "field" created by different inputs shared by different systems which transformed from one object to another object.
http://www.history.com/news/did-the-maya-build-chirping-pyramids
Even current Mayan shamans perform certain rites that are based on balancing effects that leak from other dimensions by using tools that allow them to visualize incursions. Specifically they were protectors of a specific non-stinging bee, and the bee chant has been documented by MesoAmerican investigators.
This audio filtering is very sophisticated audio modeling accomplished by altering the sound waves of hand claps by using the pyramid steps.
These interactions are all documented in the Hieroglyphs and documents such as the Dresden Codex. The loss of control of N'Zeer based climate technology may have led to the substitution of sacrifices for technological control as magic and superstition edged out technology causing a loss of confidence and depopulation.
There are many times, and all are circular.
ReplyDeleteAll is repetition, and repetition is ritual.
"To what extent did animal costumes play a role in Mayan rain rituals?"
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The First & Foremost Gab Android The complex usage of calendars and record keeping can help reconstruct these cycles.
ReplyDeleteTypically, highly advanced technology is a stage of civilization that doesn't come with a manual. Or it may, but doesn't advance as fast as the technology since the archetypes can be manipulated by those in conflict.
As such stories such as Prometheus, Moses (where there's a both a calendar and a manual as well as a contract ) give insight to help recreate the issues surrounding the conflicts that are inherent between "God" level humans possessing technology and primitive tribes.
Once a species advances to the point it can destroy its home planet, or their own neighborhood, through weapons or climate change it leaves the cyclical path and enters an intelligent self modifying phase in which ethical decisions dominate or fail to take hold.
This would have been on the minds of the Greeks when describing Atlantis. Was it a natural process or did it self destruct as a side effect of advanced technology? Were they shaped?
It's not always easy to get at the motivation of "gods" and there's a clear bias towards the more "advanced" civilization where the more primitive may be closer to the truth in some cases in that they may perceive connections more directly over long periods. The destruction of the Mayan records is a case in point by the Spanish for religious reasons.
Gods of course experiment with different creations that either work out or do not, sometimes choosing to wipe out and start over. As evidenced with the Shaper and N'zeer use of XM there is not a strong consensus as to their motivations which leads to effects on Devra Bogdanovich and Hank Johnson but they can't escape this larger arc of destruction and recreation even as they morph through different stages.
It's documented that plague #2 bothered the Egyptians, but not much, since they also could produce large numbers of frogs on demand. This is an interesting point.
The nuance of the story is that refusal to honor the original bargain in future Pharaohs and the reduction of status of the Jews to slavery where they previously had high status. This unfortunate turn of events did repeat itself in the most horrific ways possible while leaving technology and bureaucracy untouched to function without ethical controls.
Even if the Pharaoh's intent was to release the Jews from slavery, he recanted each time so that it could be established who was more powerful. This points out the heart of the problem was that an ethical problem was reduced to a power struggle.
Peter Bachman, remember Leo's words: "That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier."
ReplyDeleteThe First & Foremost Indeed, I also think that we are on the brink of the emergence of a collective organism.
ReplyDeleteFor insects it was faster. For mammals it takes a bit more time, but when it happens, it's this spectacular!
The Internet connections are the synapses. The neurons are us and our computers. The muscles are the engines. Connective and epithelial tissue? Plenty of building material...
He died for our sins.
ReplyDeleteWhich reminds me, I wonder if flint dille reads the comments down here.
ReplyDeleteThe theme I have been pursuing is similar to the shaper/n'zeer "conflict" of how civilizations progress or degrade based on their scientific observations combined with their beliefs.
ReplyDeleteNot so much magic being indistinguishable from advanced technology but how the context of the prevailing attitudes can shape that so that it seems part of the quotidian.
Take wireless music which comes out in SF of 1880s and then goes through adaptation to quickly become normal. Steam Punk does this well. So did the Society for Creative Anachronism and SJG RPGs,
I want to know why the Mayans were convinced that certain things would produce rain, and the only example I have seen where people dress up like frogs en masse is Ingress and why frogs are the second plague that both Moses/Aaron and the Pharaonic magicians can both pull off, is interesting. If you ever have spent time in a frog area, you know that on one or two nights a year they all come out and head for the roads. Where they get squished. So there has to be a biological signal that gets frogs to hit the road.
We are in a post modern, even post po mo time frame that effects how we image and share ideas.