Why Killing Women May Make You Wealthy (11)

White Plastic Chair, Green Plastic Plant, and A Wood Pile.

Copyright Eso A. B.

The Serpent Mountain that serves as a home of Mother Earth is a dangerous place. The most obvious danger for whoever visits there is snakebite.

There are also less obvious dangerous elements than snakes about Mother Earth, too, which is why we must pay attention to the descriptions of what She wears, how She looks, and what She does. For example, Mother Earth is said to be a Lady with the Serpent Skirt, which is to say, She is also the flayed or, more accurately, the self-flaying one. Like a chameleon, she may metamorphose into a human being.

A serpent is a snake, and a snake is noted for shedding its skin. This is what causes us to find her as having similarities with the waxing and waning moon. This permits us to say that the moon, too, wears a serpent’s skirt. If the moon is associated with a woman, we are certain that once a month she also sheds blood.

Women sacrifices at Templo Mayor (now Mexico City) were often flayed, and the flayed skin was worn by the high priests. One may argue that such a sacrifice is an all too literal presumption on the part of the priest and the society that he serves. The all too great literalness and directness is what may cause us to forget about the symbolic aspects of the ritual. It is this that causes the sacrifice to become suspect of being overdone, therefore a possible fake, and despite the charisma of the cruelty, suggestive—over a period of time—of overreaction because of a fundamental lack of faith in the action by the sacrificer.

Over a period of time, the resentment by the public over priestly overbearingness is likely to demand that the ritual cruelty is redressed, or the priests themselves may become sickened by it and desist from fulfilling all the demands of the ritual. Writes David Carrasco (“City of Sacrifice”, p. 77): “While many city-states were securely integrated [by means of war and terrifying sacrificial rituals thereafter] into the Aztes sphere, some were alienated to the direction of other kingdoms, and the capacity for rebellion increased. So, when the Spaniards came, Indian allies were not hard to find, and, in fact, played vigorous roles in the conquest of Tenochtitlan.” Indeed, the foregoing may equally describe the story of the Sphinx (re Sophocles ”Oedipus Rex", where in this writer’s opinion children were sacrificed, and Oedipus is the hero who rescues the City of Thebes from this sacrificial ritual).
As discussed in earlier blogs, Coatlique or Mother Earth is identified with the underground of Earth, the world of black dirt, worms,  and the dead. For this reason, when Mother Earth conceives Huitzilopochtli, a warrior God engendered from the moon-shadow of an imaginary penis, (possibly visualized as a feather falling from the sky), Earth conceives him as an armed male—a symbolic manner that replicates an erection. When born, Huitzilopochtli’s birth-appearance as an armed child outrages the Gods of the South, the realm of the Sun. These Gods (four hundred in number), incited by Earth’s eldest daughter, Coyolxauhqui, all agree to go kill Hitzilopochtli, the phantasm of violence.

If we think at the symbolism of a feather, we may see it as a result of a dream, possibly a nightmare, the latter especially, because it falls from the sky at night time and drifts and enters the deepest chambers within Mother Earth. In short, if we stay with the idea (blog 9) that the art of war and violence is learned at night by a full Moon, a ball of black feathers (Quetzalcoatl disguised as wind and the shadow of the moon) may be imagined as symbolizing men on a surprise night time raid—penetrating the camp of their enemy, they may have taunted as womanish and, thus,  learned to despise it. Even today, it is not uncommon for bullies to taunt their opponents as being weaklings and womanish in behavior.

Be that as it may, the siblings of Hitzilopochtli stand no chance against his violence. After Huitzilopochtli is born, he commences with killing his mother and all his siblings. The act establishes violence and war as what the Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung called “a permanent Revolution”, except in ancient Mexico, the “permanent Revolution” manifests itself in rituals of permanent human sacrifice. This suggests that violence is taught and learned, in the same manner that a young boy is taught to overcome “buck fever http://www.buckfever.com/ ” by being urged not to fear to shoot to kill, then skin the game, and as was custom at the Norman court, presend the rectum of the stag to the king or some other high ranked lord.

It is thus how by killing a harmless creature, one steels one’s self. And killing—of game and men (or women and children), becomes ever easier to accomplish, and the slaughter of millions but increases the glory of some CIC (Commander in Chief). When thus trained men are bunched together in a ball of feathers, they form a military company able to put fear into other men, the womanish kind, who have not gone through such a barbaric training schedule.

As professor Carrasco notes (p.67), for Aztecs the ability to go to war and be violent served as a tool for the accumulation of wealth.

Gifts may become a 'tribute' : “…the Templo Mayor was the symbolic gathering place of the great tribute network of the Aztec empire. Not only was [Templo Mayor[ the material expression of Aztec religious thought, it was also … a ritual container of sacred symbolic gifts from many parts of the unstable, shifting, political geography of the empire.”

Given the scenes in preceding blogs, we can now see how for the Aztecs violence became a learned compulsion. Having learned to shoot the buck, attack and kill Mother Earth, violence was henceforth taught to the rest of society through all sorts of rituals of forced mimesis. As nightmarish as violence may be, and as insecure the society it creates, society comes to depend on violence, nevertheless; and insecurity and nightmare are not hindrances that may cause one to desist. Instead, violence becomes a form of dependency on pornography.

Just as big or small game hunters cannot tolerate criticism of their bloody sport, a society habituated to watching human sacrifice, will react with shock to any suggestion that such sacrifice creates a society unable to hold together through love and self-sacrifice.

Even though sacrifice is needed to escape virtual reality, that is, virtualism must be replaced by actual reality, this necessity is misused by teaching and then practicing compulsive murder, which then ckauns to be sacrifice and, therefore, a good on behalf of love and unity.