Quetzalcóatl
came to Tlapalan
and
disappeared into the sea.
He told
his people not to cry for him.
He
would return.
Quetzalcóatl
went to Tlapalan, “the land of the Dawn,”
also
known as “the land of Red and Black,”
where
he died in the year 1 Reed
and was
transformed into the Morning Star,
also
known as 1 Reed
But
What
Quetzalcóatl?
Which
Quetzalcóatl?
In
this tangle
with
which Quetzalcóatl are we left?
…
Quetzalcóatl,
the Feathered Serpent,
the
serpent with the feathers of a quetzal.
Serpent-quetzal,
Earth
and flight.
The
serpent was the earth,
devourer
of life
and
giver of life.
Serpent-bird=winged
matter,
the
union of earth with sky.
Earth
that rises and sky that descends.
(United
at the pinnacle of the pyramid.)
Erect
serpent and descending bird.
Matter
ascending toward light.
The
struggle of the light.
Venus
invisible 90 days.
Afterwards
it burns 250 days in the afternoon sky.
Then it
disappears 8 days…
It is
also said, moyocuyatzin ayac oquijocux,
ayac oquipic
which
means that no one created him
but
that he created everything
(he who
would think or invent himself).
His
illuminated face on so many broken potsherds in Mesoamerica…
creator
of pulque and corn.
The God
of Tolan, “heart of the people.”
He is
the same Ometéotl
(Ome=Two,
Téotl=God),
the
Holy Couple
From
whence children are sprinkled onto the earth.
The
Two-God.
“The
true God and his Wife”
(Florentine Codex)
…
He is
the Dialectical God Ometéotl…
He who
put corn in our lips.
The
Supreme Couple
Ome-Tecuitli
and Ome-Cíhuatl,
God
and Goddess of Duality.
And
what is the child?
All
of us…
Venus
that burns in the evening and the dawn…
And
what is Tula?
And
what is Tolan?
Tolan means metropolis.
The
polemic of Tula…
Here he
cried out toward the place of Duality…
A
social structure according to the heavenly bodies.
The
reproduction of heaven here on earth:
“The
rule of Tolan.”
A copy
of the cosmos on human scale.
More
than a city, a vision…
An
urban copy of heaven.
The
fall of Tolan,
…a
collective dream.
A
social harmony in that Tolan.
A city
and over it a sky furrowed with paths,
the
paths of the sun, the moon and the stars…
The
unformed stone found form…
Teotihuacán:
Human divinity.
Where
the serpents flew….
The
pyramid of the Moon at the end of the Highway of the Dead…
The
walls covered over with visions.
Decorations
of animal gods or god animals.
Over
the rectilinear architecture
(Teotihuacán
cubism)
the
undulating bird serpent,
the
salient smile of stone,
animal
gods and god animals,
animal
men and men animals,
god
men and men gods.
The
harmony of heaven was that of society.
City of
the Morning Star
“that
shines over fields and houses”
…
The
buildings like books of stone.
Friezes
of walking tigers
there
where the buses are now…
…
[Then]
A
people no one had seen before.
And
soon the military superpower of Mesoamerica.
They
opposed the turquoise serpent (Huitzilopochtli)
to the
quetzal-feathered serpent (Quetzalcóatl).
Now
Huitzilopochtli,
the
Lord of war:
the
supreme god.
After
the over throw of the worshipers of Quetzalcóatl
human
sacrifice.
…
Huitzilpochtli:
militarism…
With
Moctezuma a despotism without dissent
But
there was an intrinsic contradiction: the tlamatinimes.
On one
hand the official mythology
and on
the other, the tlamatinimes. The followers of Quetzalcóatl.
They
preserved the bright tradition
in
the libraries with their books of paintings.
“They
taught the children to live”…
Humanity
must be honored like a precious stone or rich plumage.
(in the
Calmecac
the
prehispanic centers of education)
Think
of him, the Night and the Wind,
and
he will give you delicious dreams,
little
turtledove.
They
say it is very difficult to live on earth
place
of horrible conflicts,
little
dove.
Antifascist.
And the
doctrine was kept alive in the people…
There
had been a conflict with Netzahualcoyotl
(cf.
Don Juan Pomar, the great grandson of the King of Texcoco
about
the religious revlution of Nezahualcoyotl).
He
declared himself adept of an invisible principle.
In
the temple of Texcoco, no effigies.
The
theology of Quetzalcóatl recovered.
The two
little figures above are Netzahualcóyotl and Netzahualpili,
below,
figures that paint, sculpt, weave and sing.
The
song spirals.
The
song painted in front of their mouths painted like a flower.
And in
the people the doctrine lives…
Chac
Mool: the awakening of the Indian, said Martí.
Quetzalcóatl,
or the historicity of myth.
Carrasco
called him subversive.
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