Sunday 12 February 2012

Mushrooms and Religion in the New World

If you're interested in entheoarcheology don't miss this interesting and thorough study about Mushrooms and Religion in the New World before Colombus by archaeologist and Maya researcher Carl de Borhegyi (who also writes something interesting about 2012)

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Carl de Borhegyi said...

The mushroom stone above, called the Rietberg mushroom stone (Esperanza period 300 to 600 A.D.), is from Guatemala and is now in the Rietberg museum in Zurich. The nine points or rays of light surrounding the young man's head likely refer to the 9-layered underworld. The symbolism of nine may elude to the god scholars refer to as G-9, the last of the Nine Lords of the Night. G-9 has been identified as the supreme ruler of the underworld and the sacred day Ahau. G-9 of the Nine Lords of the Night, was venerated at all period endings (katuns) because he represented the Lord who would complete the rituals at time's completion. He was known to the Mixtecs and Toltecs as 9-Wind (Quetzalcoatl), for the day on which he was born. Scholars have determined that the birth date of 9 Ik at the Maya site of Palenque's Temple of the Cross corresponds to the alternative date and name for Quetzalcoatl's name 9-Wind. This is the same god the Quiché Maya called Tohil, and Plumed Serpent. In the Maya mythological text the Popol Vuh, the Hero Twin named Xbalanque, whose avatar (totem) is the jaguar, represents a Maya version of Quetzalcoatl as the Evening star aspect of Venus. Xbalanque, who has been identified as the underworld jaguar, has also been identified as the personification of the number 9. Thus, I suspect that the Rietberg mushroom stone represents G-9 as the Evening Star.

15 February 2012 at 09:32

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