RELIGION: intuition (OT) ( wasRe: dreaming and remembering)

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> Thanks, ! More of serpents and prophecy.

Hey Wanita, check this out:

http://inanna.virtualave.net/southamerican.html

Tonantzin:

" The Goddess of Sustenance " , " Honored Grandmother " , " Snake " : Aztec

Goddess of the Earth. She brought the corn. Mother of the Corn.

Her cult is ancient and as a goddess of fertility of the earth she was

also regarded as a goddess of human fertility. Associated with the

number 7, and was known as the Seven Serpent.

Appears in codices with a red face and body and holding ears of corn

in both hands. Also known as the " Seven Serpent " . Thought of as being

a sister to the god of rain, Tlaloc.

Also refereed to as Chicomexochitl, or Chalchiuhcihuatl, meaning Seven

flowers or " Woman of Precious Stone " , and worshipped during the

moveable feast called Xochilhuitl.

An idol attributed to this deity is described as being made of wood

and in the image of a young woman of about twelve years. Her garments

were red and well appointed. A tiara of red paper was on her head. Her

neck was adorned with a necklace of corn and tied with a blue ribbon.

Her hands held ears of corn and her arms were open. She had a special

chamber atop the great pyramid in Tenochtitlan next to

Huitzliopocttli(*26). This placement next to the revered patron god of

the Mexica indicated the reverence and importance this deity held. "

Hmm,

Coatlicue:

" Aztec Great Goddess of life, death and rebirth. She often wears a

skirt of snakes and a necklace of skulls.

The Aztec goddess of earth and fire, and mother of the gods and mother

of the stars of the southern sky. Her daughter is the goddess

Coyolxauhqui. Coatlicue was magically impregnated by a ball of

feathers. Her outraged children decapitated her, but the god

Huitzilopochtli emerged fully armed from his mother's womb and slew

many of his brothers and sisters. She represented the type of the

devouring mother in whom were combined both the womb and the grave.

Coatlicue was a serpent goddess, depicted wearing a skirt of snakes...

The Mother of Gods-The Devourer of Filth-Our Grandmother Wears a skirt

made of braided serpents secured by another serpent and a necklace of

human hands and hearts with a human skull. Her feet and hands are

adorned with claws. Coatlicue was seen as an insatiable deity feasting

on the corpses of men. Her breasts are depicted as hanging flaccid

from nursing. Also known as Teteoinan, (Teteo Inan), " The Mother of

Gods " , gave birth to the moon, stars, and Huitzilopochtli. Also known

as Toci, " Our Grandmother " , and known as Cihuacoatl, patron of women

who die in childbirth. Cihuacoatl has transformed into modern Mexican

culture as La Llorona, " The Weeping Woman " , said to carry the body of

a dead child and weep at night in city streets. Also known as

Llamateuctli, " Leading Old Woman " , who wore a two sided mask, one in

front and another behind her head. Both masks contained open mouths

and large protruding eyes that signified her role as giver of life and

death. She was also known as an instigator of war. Coatlicue owned

nothing and wore a garment made from rattlesnakes. The rattlesnake was

a symbol of poverty and the earth sheltered the rattlesnake in holes.

Known as Mother Earth. Her feet were giant claws, good for digging

graves. In Mexico City a giant statue was discovered by

Bullock, an English traveler in 1824. Apparently during the final

battle for Tenochtitlan, the statue just fell over and was preserved

as Cortes built his city on top of it. The famous statue now stands in

the National Museum in Mexico City. The several ton basalt statue was

considered so horrible, that local priests had it re-buried after it's

discovery in 1824. "

That's Kali Ma!

Here's another quick essay:

http://www.ladyfest.org/LadiesWeLike/Coatlicue_Tonantzin.html

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> The Iroquois Two Serpent Prophecy

> The first Serpent of white represents the Spirit... The Serpent of

White, then gets distracted by the Serpent of Red.

That's shiva/shakti!!!

> This as with all prophesy, is played out within each individual as

> well as the mass consciousness, which dictates the state of the world.

Thanks for the lesson. So the sages around the world go into deep

meditation and they see the same images. I was ignorant about these

particular likenesses. That was fun.

B.