MEXICA AND MAYA COSMOLOGY AND CIVILIZATIONS
We read in all of the books about the Mexica ("Aztecs") and the Maya, where it explains very matter of fact, that they had a religion and gods and heaven and hell, conceptually much like the Europeans (along the line of Romans and Greeks). First, the Mexica never called themselves "Aztecs". Second the Mexica and the Maya had common roots in Olmec civilization, but they were stylistically very different, but intellectually they were very similar. They were both our ancestors, part of our heritage. They are both amongst us today. The Mexica have been ethnically destroyed but their culture is still with us: Mexican. The Maya have had their great civilization destroyed but the people number in the millions, and survive as colonized people. The Mexica Nican Tlaca and the Maya Nican Tlaca are both part of our heritage.
Our lives and our world view, our sciences, our morality, and our civilizations and cultures were nothing like the European cultures and Christian religion. You will never find clarity on our history unless you junk the idea that Europeans were superior to us or that we were in any way similar in cultures.
When Europeans talk and write that we had "gods", it is only an ignorant European misunderstanding of our poetic and metaphorical languages and art. We had an extremely complicated and sophisticated civilization. Europeans try to dumb it down. What they saw and thought to be "gods" in our art, writing, and culture, were really our ancestor's scientific and complex ways of expressing the actions, the manifestations, of Our Creator.
Our civilizations spoke in the poetics of metaphors. Speaking metaphorically was our common everyday way of speaking. It was something too complex for Europeans to understand. Our faces and race were too complex for them, so they called us "Indians", to this day they keep that error of calling us "Indians". Obviously the only Indians are the people of India. They refuse to straighten out such a simple and obvious mistake. They refuse to straighten out a simple and obvious mistake with "gods" also.
They saw our world and spoke of kings, tribes, and empires and other nonsense. Those European ideas did not fit our world. We had elected rulers, city-states, and they were nothing like those of the Europeans. They could not understand what they were looking at when they saw our cities, our civilizations, and our cultures. Our democracy was too complex for them to understand because they had nothing like it in Europe, so they called us savages for being democratic (and for being scientific); despite the fact that we had been civilized longer than Europeans. Trespassing and genocide were also too complex of moral issues for them to understand because they were and are racists. Their bible and their gods Jehova, Yaweh, Jesus, and their other gods, demanded genocide, and practiced immorality as a norm while claiming to be a moral people.
Our Mexica and Maya cosmology had nothing to do with morality or ethics. We had no "religion", no belief system. We did not have delusions that human sacrifice was necessary "in order to feed the Sun so that the world will not end." That nonsense was Europeans being stupid, too ignorant to understand the sophisticate language and culture of our civilizations. We were way too scientific of a people to think like that, like Europeans: "Jesus is coming at the end of time to make all Christians resurrected [zombies]". Yeah, that sounds like something logical and scientific that can happen?
Our world was way more scientific, more complex, more moral, more advanced in thinking than the world of the Europeans. That is something that European white supremacist culture will never accept. Racism is built into their culture. Sadly too many of our own people think like white supremacists and speak in racist and ignorant ways about our people and our civilizations.
Our study of and acknowledgements of Our Creator were totally about science: astronomy, physics, mathematics, biology, and logic. It was not about "gods". It was about the actions of Our Creator.
This scientific view can be explained in this way. It is much like you, as one person, have many parts. You have body parts and they have a name: head, arms, legs, fingers, eyes, mouth, etc. You take actions and they all have a name: walk, run, sit, sleep, talk, eat, etc. You are called the daughter/son of, the brother/sister of, the employee, the customer. They are all ways of addressing you in whatever particular circumstance you are in. All of those titles and actions do not mean that you are different persons. They mean you do different things in your life and are referred to by those titles, including spouse, father/mother, and by your first, last, or full name. You even have baby pictures, picture of you at the beach at 12 years old, pictures when you got married, pictures of you at the mountains, and many other pictures. They are all you, at different points in your life. We understand that you were a baby once, and that you grew and became who you are now. It is understood, without need to explain because it is part of our history, part of experience, part of our reality. Europeans did not share our history, our experiences, our reality, and therefore they did not understand us.
Our ancestors had been scientists studying the sky and the earth for thousands of years. They had written the data of the sky with mathematics that used zero, calendar dates more accurate than those of the Europeans and it was all put together into algebraic-like equations, into metaphoric and poetic language and art. This was the hard science of looking at Creation, and the hard science of understanding the Creator of Our Universe. Nothing of this had anything to do with "belief" or "religion". Nothing of this was understood by Europeans in a real way that was close to truth.
We operated on a high intellectual and high science level that Europeans could not understand, therefore they called it "heathen superstitions", and they burned our books that held the knowledge of thousands of years of civilizations. They reacted the same way with our scientific use of medicine, which were superior to their superstitious and ignorant use of medicine in Europe. But in the case of our medicine they cancelled their views when they saw the effective results of our medicinal practices based on science. They made exception to the destruction of our studies in medicine and studied and adapted our medical and pharmacological practices, because they were more effective than European medicine. But that was the only exception.
They saw our books and our art and only saw "gods" and "the devil", and not the mathematics, physics, astronomy, and the scientific understanding of Our Creator. They burned most of our books, with only a few dozen surviving in hidden libraries.
In this writing I am only trying to give you a glimpse of our cosmology.
I will not try to do a summary of a highly complex cosmology, of a highly complex civilization, of a highly complex literature filled with metaphors and allusions to things that are no longer understood, of the highly complex intellectual minds of our ancestors. But I will say that there are plenty of books out there for you to study, not to skim through and figure out in one 5 minute read, one afternoon or one month. This is serious work of years. You have to filter through the Eurocentric translations of original sources, Eurocentric interpretations of those sources, and Eurocentric conclusions, Sadly, at this point in our history we have no Nican Tlaca schools of our History and Cosmology where you can study all of the sources and where they are cleansed of their Eurocentric interpretations.
Our cosmology was highly complex and that is why people, including our own people, try to simplify, dumb-down, something that is highly complex and that requires years of study. It is criminal what has been done with our Intellectual heritage. Europeans and the New Age exploiters have distorted our heritage. They have defaced the science and the beauty of our heritage. They have dumbed it down to a point where it would not be recognized by our ancestors. They do all of this because they are too dumb to understand our intellectual heritage. This diluted and defaced version of our heritage is filled with lies, and sadly is what most of our own people understand to be our heritage. It was not until the 20th century that some Europeans began to understand and appreciate our cosmology in our own terms, not in the interests of the Europeans. Michael Coe, Jacques Soustelle, Nigel Davies, and James Blaut stand out. They are still a bit Eurocentric but better than the majority of Eurocentric historians, and better than even those Eurocentric historians of Mexico, with the exception of Guillermo Bonfil Batalla. It is only in the last 100 years that we had more access to our own history, to the beauty of our heritage.
Sadly our own people have not had the luxury of investigating and straightening out 500 years of European white supremacist colonial propaganda about our civilizations, and their lies about the intelligence of our people that denied us our solid foundation of genius accomplishments.
If Europeans were to fully know the truth of the last 500 years of their evil done on our continent they would be faced with a shocking revelation of the savage core of their genocidal crimes against our people. Europeans would clearly know that they were the savages and that we were the civilized ones. They would know that they destroyed seven major civilizations. They would learn that there was nothing Christian or civilized in any of the actions that they took against our people. At the top of this list of truths found would be that monstrous fact that Europeans did not "conquer" us with their intelligence and superior weapons. They destroyed us with the use of smallpox as a weapon of biological destruction: killing 95% (100 million) of our people throughout our continent. This made it easier to destroy our civilizations, burn our books, outlaw our universities, outlaw our histories, and to outlaw our warrior societies.
Trying to explain all of this reality, this history, to our people is difficult because the 99% of them have not read the original sources, have not studied them. They have not combined the writings, hieroglyphic and photographic writings, to see the fantastic and beautiful minds of our people. They have not been to the actual archaeological sites and seen the vast amounts of art and architecture that are the evidence of our heritage being a collection of the most beautiful genius civilizations in the history of humanity.
When we really understand all of this it appears that our situation is hopeless. It is not. Our ancestors have proven for us that we are capable of genius.
When we look into the mirror from a point of ignorance it is like trying to read Mayan hieroglyphics: too complex to decipher because we have not studied ourselves, our history, our heritage, the heart of who we are.
Trying to explain the complexity of all of this to our people is like trying to explain E=mc2 to someone that is illiterate and who knows nothing about physics, astronomy, or logic, or worse: who doesn't care to learn the complex steps to understanding what E=mc2 is all about. At best we get some of our people who just want to guess about our cosmology or make up their own ignorant and unstudied explanations of it.
The subjects of our cosmology and our civilizations are not for amateurs to pontificate or to theorize; based solely on skimming the internet. But sadly that is the only way 99% of our people get their knowledge about our heritage. There is almost no serious non-Eurocentric study of the vast amount of material that is now available.
The thing that is most difficult to grasp (therefore they ignore it altogether) is that the morals and ethics of our ancestors were governed by the laws of the warrior societies, the laws of the city, and the laws that were made by the democratically elected governing bodies. That is something that is totally different from Europeans. Their gods gave them their morality and laws. Logic and justice and democracy gave us our morality and laws. But our people today only know European Christian religion and they want to force notions of "religion, belief, and spirituality" into our cosmology, which never existed in our world view, in our scientific relationship with Our Creator, we had none of that.
So, altogether this means that we had no religion, faith, belief, spirituality, metaphysics or other delusions about reality. We were a totally scientific people who looked at the world and Our Creator in scientific ways. This did not mean that we were perfect. There were flaws, imperfections, in our societies, and different levels of understanding this complex scientific view of the world. And only the most studied of our societies knew the most complex parts of this scientific view of the world.
We had art and architecture that used stylized metaphors and allusions to mythologies that expressed the scientific way that we viewed the world.
We did have an obsession with gaining knowledge of Our Creator, who is The Giver of Life, The One Who Is Everywhere, The One Who Is Self-Created, The One who Is Both Our Mother and Our Father. Grasping all of this and ejecting European exaggeration of human sacrifices and invention of the notion of "gods" is extremely difficult for all of us; unless we take the time for seriously studying our own heritage of civilizations, cities, accomplishments, and the genius of our people.
We were a scientific people that studied the Universe and the Creator of the Universe as the only reality.
We were a scholar warrior people of science, art, logic, and poetry. That is not who we are today. That is not what Europeans ever were. That Mexica and Maya heritage are our Nican Tlaca Anahuac ("North America") heritage. Warriors, study, logic, discipline, honor and courage were the engine that made and maintained our civilizations. That is what we need to reconstruct and become once again.
We were a scientific people that studied the Universe and the Creator of the Universe as the only reality.
We were a scholar warrior people of science, art, logic, and poetry. That is not who we are today. That is not what Europeans ever were. That Mexica and Maya heritage are our Nican Tlaca Anahuac ("North America") heritage. Warriors, study, logic, discipline, honor and courage were the engine that made and maintained our civilizations. That is what we need to reconstruct and become once again.
All of this applies in parallel to our people of Tawantinsuyu ("South America") and to all Nican Tlaca of Cemanahuac ("North and South America"). We need to become one Nican Tlaca nation with a unity that respects and protects all of our cultures, civilizations, and languages. We need one goal in this reconstruction: to be totally liberated from the Europeans
Our ancestor's genius understanding of the world was an intellectual and a scientific understanding. We used layers of science and metaphors to explain the science and logic of the universe. We created intellectual art based on science that danced the empirical scientific ideas that understood the hands of Our Creator in all of the actions of the Universe.
Morality and ethics were about keeping order in society, and about keeping justice so that people could live knowing that they lived in a fair society.
It was more or less the same from city to city, from civilization to civilization, from town to town, and from culture to culture throughout our continent.
Of course it's way more complicated than all of this that you have read here, but this will do for a short explanation that will get you started on a journey of studied knowledge, warrior living, and being part of the reconstruction and liberation of Cemanahuac.
Olin Tezcatlipoca Copyright © 2015
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