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In the Path of Plumed Serpent #9 Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres The Twelve Immortal Masters Series Presents In the Path of Plumed Serpent #9 Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres Plumed Serpent Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres La Leyenda de Quetzalcoatl Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres • “The great bird-serpent, priest-king Quetzalcoatl is the most powerful figure in al the mythology of Mexico and Central America.” • “It is the complete fairy tale. • In the “time before time” through agriculture, a union of two worlds, sky (quetzal, bird) and earth (coatl, serpent) occurred. Rain penetrated the ground and caused maize to grow. Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres • “My heart stirs just a little to the word Quetzalcoatl. Quetzalcoatl! Quetzalcoatl!” Cipriano repested it several times to himself, smiling. “Curious!” he said. “But yet, Ramon, need we revive old gods? Isn’t it an antiquarian thing to do? Do you know what Padre Ignacio once said to me about you? ‘Ramon Carrasco’s future is the past of humanity.’ That always stuck in my mind. Can you find the future in the past?” - D.H. Lawrence, Quetzalcoatl: The Early Version of Plumed Serpent Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres The Atlantes Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres The Atlantean Warriors Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres The Enigmatic Olmecs ∆ Our search for Feathered Serpent or Quetzalcoatl begins with the Olmecs ∆ Although not much is known about them, they are believed to have been a Mesoamerican “mother Robert Schoch next to culture” that thrived in the Gulf Olmec head Coast region of Mexico between 1500-400BCE Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres Their name derives from the Spanish name for Country of Rubber. Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres The Colossal Olmec heads Although the Olmecs left no written record, they were the first Mesoamerican culture to leave permanent sculptured works such as the famous carved stone heads. Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres Weighing in at 14 tons and standing from 8-14 feet tall, the basalt boulders used to shape them were shipped from nearby mountains by rafts. Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres Olmec religion remains a mystery ∆ The 17 known stone heads are believed to be likenesses of their ruler elite. ∆ There were likely many more created, however ∆ On six of them, birdlike features are clearly depicted Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres ∆ There is no consensus among scholars as to the religious or ceremonial reasons for hauling the massive raw stones over long distances to create such effigies ∆ But beyond the heads, the overriding theme of Olmec civilization was the celebration of the human body Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres The “classicism” feature which defines their style of art can easily be seen in these austere, hieratic heads which “stand free rather than being surrounded by the clutter of customes and other details of the later more baroque Mesoamerican styles, like those of the Izapa or Maya” Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres Mysterious Monument 19 of La Venta The jaguar imagery of the headgear is an association with an animal of great power while the serpent’s body embracing him appears to be a sheltering, womblike enclosure, as if nurturing him for birth. Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres ∆ This fascinating carving may be the earliest depiction of Feathered Serpent. ∆ Found just in 1955 during construction of an airstrip, this vivid 3 foot carved chunk of stone, dating from the the 10th to 6th centuries BCE, has sparked much debate. Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres ∆ The dominant design features a giant sized rattle snake baring ominous fangs surrounding a seated man wearing a mask headdress and holding something in his right hand. ∆ The “X” shaped geometric or rattlesnake back design represents the recurrent sky and serpent themes. Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres An Ancestral form of Plumed Serpent? ∆ The birthing theme is important because the Olmec was the first Mesoamerican culture to blur men with animals. ∆ “The entire stela is strongly reminiscent of the man-bird-serpent [Quetzalcoatl] of Tula, in spite of the differences of time, style, and perhaps even theme.” Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres The cape or mantle draped over his shoulders shows he is a leader of men, possessing authority and elegance as do the chest ornament, large earrings or plugs and the pouch he is holding which was a common accessory of priests, the copal, or ritualistic incense. Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres Joseph Campbell ties the opposing animal identities of Vishnu the sun bird of the upper world to the serpent of the lower; he saw the jaguar mask as Vishnu’s reincarnation of “man-lion.” Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres The Jaguar Theme In monument 19, with the mystical union of the bird and serpent with the jaguar, the Mesoamerican obsession with this powerful animal can be seen from its earliest development. Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres The jaguar was venerated because of its fearsome countenance, reaching 6 feet in length. A nocturnal and stealthy prowler, the jaguar was undaunted by man and merciless against other animals. Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres ∆ His threatening jaws, like the snake’s gaping jaw shown in monument 19, were lethal. ∆ The jaguar also liked water and navigated with speed and ease. ∆ The spotted pattern was reminiscent of the cielo estrellado or starry firmament where Venus wandered. Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres In the jaguar as earthy predator, the Olmec saw a soaring hunter and depicted the jaguar with fathers along its back or flames over his eyes instead of eyebrows; in jaguar the swimmer, they saw an aquatic serpent, a magical dragon who could also be an avian, journeying from his watery world to the celestial realm with ease Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres The Were-Jaguar But his most important mystical identity was with the monstrous were-jaguar with its slanted eyes, forward thrusting head hunched shoulders, serpentlike fangs, long tongue protruding from U-shaped lips and fists clenched imagined as the offspring of male jaguar and female human. Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres ∆ The Mother Culture descended from this distant union. ∆ The were-jaguar represented the shaman’s or medicine man’s ability, at times enhanced by hallucinogens, to transform himself ecstatically into an animal spirit that transported him to the otherworld to find the cure and bring it back with him. Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres Many times he is depicted with bent knees preparing to take a flying leap beyond the human realm Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres This combination of human-animal imagery in the genesis of Plumed Serpent represents the interpenetrating relationship of the early mesoamericans with the benign and forbidding dimensions of nature, and blended with the spiritual feelings stemming from it Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres Teotihuacan Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres Dwelling Place of the Gods Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres The Place Where Time Began Just thirty miles northeast of Mexico City, just past the shanty towns ringing the outskirts of the world’s largest city, lies ancient Teotihuacan. Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres The name of this magnificent, sprawling urban center has been variously translated from the Aztec Nahua tongue as “the dwelling place of the gods,” “Place where God was created” and the “place where men became gods”. Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres ∆ According to Aztec legend, it is here in this dramatic setting that time began during the El Quinto Sol or the rising of the fifth sun. ∆ Aztec myth claims that the first gods convened at Teotihuacan to create the sun and moon, establish a race of men, and determine their fate. ∆ This final and important task fell, of course, to Quetzacoatl, the Feathered Serpent. Copyright 2004 by Stratton Horres Immortal Masters of Love By Stratton Horres Teotihuacan Predates the Aztecs Many mistakenly believe that the Aztecs built Teotihuacan but this is not so for they knew it only as long abandoned ruins.
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