Over several deliveries, have presented a number of areas and areas that show territorial settlements that contain a prominent theme: the pyramids.
This is a series of beautiful and enigmatic buildings constructed in such a way that astonished both friends and strangers for their majesty and grandeur. (Missing other areas that will show in later installments). These settlements, revolved around these compact structures, the most gigantic, representing the core of their culture: From there, he carried out a series of rituals that involved all kinds of requests to their deities to seek their satisfaction and thereby achieve living standards that will benefit the whole community, making them very powerful to see how their enemies or to other settlements near or far.
But yes, what is it that these people led to the construction of these extraordinary buildings, regardless of the many rituals and ceremonies countless staged from there? Why or why in these strange buildings, so high and strange settings? What really meant? Aside from requests for obtaining water and good crops, warrior rituals, acts of initiation and delivery of life and the shedding of blood, what else was there? Was there something else perhaps? What was the meaning of it all?Let's see:In existence there is always a constant serious: Human Suffering ... And the cause of all this suffering is mortality itself. Therein lies the primary condition of existence: You can not deny death if you affirm life ... But there is always life-affirming ...
For me, our Mesoamerican cultures, started from universal cosmological idea itself of all our species: The spiritual is deposited in everything and everyone. Why are the pyramids would participate in it? Even as we have seen in regard to the Maya area and presented in this blog, one of the outstanding buildings bears the name of the Magician, or in the territory Teotihuacan - which will present another delivery - where are the pyramids of the sun and the moon, ie the intangible trapped in the earthly, the spiritual energy deposited into the giant rock moles: Within these sacred buildings, are deposited all the spiritual energies of the cosmos.
That was the magical and religious thinking of our ancestors that was located in that reality was not only what our senses perceive, but there's always more. They watched it all from a sacred perspective. He was convinced of the existence of a spiritual world that exists at the same time the material world, in an eternal present. A spiritual world conceived not as alien, but as united, forming a single world, a complex reality in which they could act simultaneously on both dimensions. And it was from the tops of those pyramids sacred from where the priests and shaman rituals and ceremonies practiced spiritual energy and matter combine therapeutic purposes, or divinatory propitiatory spells profits or other individuals and communities.
It was believed that since the pyramids were mystical experiences of a large collective energy force. From there received messages or commands from one of their deities, or divination performed by therapeutic activities and trips to the spiritual realm, benefiting the community which came into delirious ecstasy. Even the priests and shamans from those buildings, practiced healing cures based on collective or collective terror. Practiced acts of mass delusion, staged by the top leaders. The performed at night, preferably in the dark. So they did, for example, in the Pyramid of the Niches in the Totonac territory. Within the niches were placed small torches that gave the place a beautiful multi illusion. Then the priest would have the body of the slain with a knife while the crowd was silent to hear the noise of the viscera and blood began to smell. All witnessed the ritual, were shown from above, guts, heart, all heard the screams of the sacrificed. Many of these acts were acts of illusion and others were real. They were acts of illusion and reality sheltered by the dim light. They were acts of prestidigitation perfect, cool and full, full of psychological reasons. The terror of the crowd served to heal the community. They were cured by the terror socially and for that they used their majestic and mysterious pyramids. In these performances, attacking the individual and collective unconscious, which not only healed but the brothers.
It is very important to clarify that the Mesoamerican peoples conceived of magic and divination and all its rituals as part of a separate divine spacetime space time of creation, but in a steady stream where it was a divine mixture of substances and matter perceptible and perishable. Hence, the arrival of the conquerors to their territories, they expected the illusory and the appearance of the divine to twin with them recognizing their superiority: "because the top and bottom are connected by the paths of the gods." And what they got instead was the annihilation and subjugation of their race. To the conquerors were only interested in precious metals and jewels, his world was divided and the material and spiritual were a thing apart. And besides, it was grounded in spiritual perceptible and perishable characters punished and crucified by them ... We talked about or devil and a hell where earthly pleasures were punished ...
The Mesoamerican worldview was firmly grounded in the belief that nothing exists outside of divine energy. In his view, everything has divinity and in the space between the sun king of this world, creatures and heated to build a world in which we live: water and mountains, wind and fire, light and darkness, stars, stones, trees , herbs, animals and be able to worship and feed the gods. This raises a place where gods, demons and many other lesser beings live side by side with a great capacity to adapt ... There is no concept of hell or punishment of the Catholic tradition where the pleasures are subject to punishment to proceed of a world or society ruled by sin, by the crisis, limitations, divisions, exclusions, restrictions and barriers of all kinds where reigns the guilt and eternal torture, an ideology that applied to the slaughter of counterfeiting Mesoamerican peoples to be, think and feel differently from them, instead of appealing to the great adaptability of indigenous peoples where everything was a matter of demonstrating a unique and divine nature extremely versatile and flexible:The there-then, said the Mesoamerican peoples, the "God-time" waiting their turn to come running through the lower heavens, sweep the surface and penetrate into the bodies of creatures, all in strict order calendar, there is keep the "seed-hearts" of the worldly dead and there the gods sent back to the field of life ...
Severe constant human suffering, but with a very different concept and different from the pyramids of us in the field of life and those from the land, eternal paradise where petty earthly mind and material interests, hide the divine and the clouds that form in the heat of the sun, hidden from the same star king ...
While the material prevails, while the legacy of conquest is what is always present in our lives, we will not know or even understand anything of the divine from our great Mesoamerican races that belong to the world.
This is a series of beautiful and enigmatic buildings constructed in such a way that astonished both friends and strangers for their majesty and grandeur. (Missing other areas that will show in later installments). These settlements, revolved around these compact structures, the most gigantic, representing the core of their culture: From there, he carried out a series of rituals that involved all kinds of requests to their deities to seek their satisfaction and thereby achieve living standards that will benefit the whole community, making them very powerful to see how their enemies or to other settlements near or far.
But yes, what is it that these people led to the construction of these extraordinary buildings, regardless of the many rituals and ceremonies countless staged from there? Why or why in these strange buildings, so high and strange settings? What really meant? Aside from requests for obtaining water and good crops, warrior rituals, acts of initiation and delivery of life and the shedding of blood, what else was there? Was there something else perhaps? What was the meaning of it all?Let's see:In existence there is always a constant serious: Human Suffering ... And the cause of all this suffering is mortality itself. Therein lies the primary condition of existence: You can not deny death if you affirm life ... But there is always life-affirming ...
For me, our Mesoamerican cultures, started from universal cosmological idea itself of all our species: The spiritual is deposited in everything and everyone. Why are the pyramids would participate in it? Even as we have seen in regard to the Maya area and presented in this blog, one of the outstanding buildings bears the name of the Magician, or in the territory Teotihuacan - which will present another delivery - where are the pyramids of the sun and the moon, ie the intangible trapped in the earthly, the spiritual energy deposited into the giant rock moles: Within these sacred buildings, are deposited all the spiritual energies of the cosmos.
That was the magical and religious thinking of our ancestors that was located in that reality was not only what our senses perceive, but there's always more. They watched it all from a sacred perspective. He was convinced of the existence of a spiritual world that exists at the same time the material world, in an eternal present. A spiritual world conceived not as alien, but as united, forming a single world, a complex reality in which they could act simultaneously on both dimensions. And it was from the tops of those pyramids sacred from where the priests and shaman rituals and ceremonies practiced spiritual energy and matter combine therapeutic purposes, or divinatory propitiatory spells profits or other individuals and communities.
It was believed that since the pyramids were mystical experiences of a large collective energy force. From there received messages or commands from one of their deities, or divination performed by therapeutic activities and trips to the spiritual realm, benefiting the community which came into delirious ecstasy. Even the priests and shamans from those buildings, practiced healing cures based on collective or collective terror. Practiced acts of mass delusion, staged by the top leaders. The performed at night, preferably in the dark. So they did, for example, in the Pyramid of the Niches in the Totonac territory. Within the niches were placed small torches that gave the place a beautiful multi illusion. Then the priest would have the body of the slain with a knife while the crowd was silent to hear the noise of the viscera and blood began to smell. All witnessed the ritual, were shown from above, guts, heart, all heard the screams of the sacrificed. Many of these acts were acts of illusion and others were real. They were acts of illusion and reality sheltered by the dim light. They were acts of prestidigitation perfect, cool and full, full of psychological reasons. The terror of the crowd served to heal the community. They were cured by the terror socially and for that they used their majestic and mysterious pyramids. In these performances, attacking the individual and collective unconscious, which not only healed but the brothers.
It is very important to clarify that the Mesoamerican peoples conceived of magic and divination and all its rituals as part of a separate divine spacetime space time of creation, but in a steady stream where it was a divine mixture of substances and matter perceptible and perishable. Hence, the arrival of the conquerors to their territories, they expected the illusory and the appearance of the divine to twin with them recognizing their superiority: "because the top and bottom are connected by the paths of the gods." And what they got instead was the annihilation and subjugation of their race. To the conquerors were only interested in precious metals and jewels, his world was divided and the material and spiritual were a thing apart. And besides, it was grounded in spiritual perceptible and perishable characters punished and crucified by them ... We talked about or devil and a hell where earthly pleasures were punished ...
The Mesoamerican worldview was firmly grounded in the belief that nothing exists outside of divine energy. In his view, everything has divinity and in the space between the sun king of this world, creatures and heated to build a world in which we live: water and mountains, wind and fire, light and darkness, stars, stones, trees , herbs, animals and be able to worship and feed the gods. This raises a place where gods, demons and many other lesser beings live side by side with a great capacity to adapt ... There is no concept of hell or punishment of the Catholic tradition where the pleasures are subject to punishment to proceed of a world or society ruled by sin, by the crisis, limitations, divisions, exclusions, restrictions and barriers of all kinds where reigns the guilt and eternal torture, an ideology that applied to the slaughter of counterfeiting Mesoamerican peoples to be, think and feel differently from them, instead of appealing to the great adaptability of indigenous peoples where everything was a matter of demonstrating a unique and divine nature extremely versatile and flexible:The there-then, said the Mesoamerican peoples, the "God-time" waiting their turn to come running through the lower heavens, sweep the surface and penetrate into the bodies of creatures, all in strict order calendar, there is keep the "seed-hearts" of the worldly dead and there the gods sent back to the field of life ...
Severe constant human suffering, but with a very different concept and different from the pyramids of us in the field of life and those from the land, eternal paradise where petty earthly mind and material interests, hide the divine and the clouds that form in the heat of the sun, hidden from the same star king ...
While the material prevails, while the legacy of conquest is what is always present in our lives, we will not know or even understand anything of the divine from our great Mesoamerican races that belong to the world.
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