Re: Happy Birthday Oleg
- From: "Sergio Sanmiguel" <soundsorcerer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 31 Oct 2005 10:20:25 -0800
Oleg Kaizerman wrote:
> no ,you have another 48 hours its on
> Day of the Dead
> november 2nd
> --
> Oleg Kaizerman (gebe) Hollyland
>
> "Dave Schaaf" <d69@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:r8mdnQWm0I1B2PveRVn-jA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Did I miss this a couple of days ago?
> >
> > Dave Schaaf
> >
Actually the "Day of The Dead' celebration starts on the night of
November 1st, on which they celebrate the dead children, and on the
second they celebrate the older people... Anyway, For more info please
read:
Return to Mictlan
When we die,
we actually do not die,
thus because we live,
we revive,
we continue living, we wake up,
This makes us happy...
Is it really that we live on Earth?
We are for a short time here on Earth, not forever
Although made of jade, it will break
although made out of gold it will wear off,
although made out of quetzal feathers it will rip,
Not forever on top of the Earth, just for a short time here.
Numerous civilizations all over the world have a special place for the
death...
Every time on which the question needed to be answered, "where will we
go after death", none but two civilizations existed that centered their
Cultural Development on the concept of the LIFE & DEATH; the Egyptians
and the Ancient Mexicans.
In effect, our Great Grandparents defined Life & Death as a pair of
opposite complementary sides. The duality that's against each other but
at the same time, they also need from each other. BECAUSE IT COULD NOT
BE LIFE WITHOUT DEATH and NOT DEATH WITHOUT LIFE.
The Toltecs, a respected kind of knowledgeable people from ancient
Mexico, worked on their majestic Temples of Knowledge, known today only
as archaeological sites, to reach for eternal life through the "death"
of the known human lively matters. That is that, only trough the death
of the material attachments our spirit will then be free, and hence
will enable us to initiate the journey of enlightenment towards eternal
life.
For that very reason the Olmecs of the pre-classic through the Toltecs
of the classic & also the Aztecs of the post-classic; left signs on
their written language on osage, paintings and sculptures, representing
the concept of eternal life, as like the last thing that lasts on a
corpse are the bones in which is what it was for a material lifetime.
Did our Great Grandparents asked themselves, where will We go after
death? Yes, they Did...
Where will I go, where will I go?
The way from the Divine Duality?
Or Luckly to the place where the emaciated ones are
Or perhaps into the sky
Or into the Earth is the place of the emaciated ones are and only there
Because of them life on Earth was totally fleeting, they estimated that
we as humans have a more important destiny, a place in the
incommensurable thing/place at where we will have to arrive after a
journeying through this mortal existence.
Death is a passage to eternal life. Our Ancestors assumed we humans as
a Warriors. Fighter of the cosmic forces that will prevail to the
universe and from which they comprise actively. The Warriors formed at
the Calmecac, a school of high studies that allowed the aspiring man or
woman, to dreamed up like a "Warrior of the Spirit", since they have to
initiate an extraordinary battle into the deepest of their inner selves
& against their very own selves.
Against the weaknesses of the spirit and the temptations of the matter.
To this fight they poetically named "the Flowery Battle" . This war got
on with "flowers and Chants", meaning that, with the arms of the art
and the wisdom and in the deep within the individual. The objective of
this impeccable battle was "to bloom the heart and to occur like food
to the dear beings". This Flowery Battle forged "own faces and true
hearts" between the children of the children of the Great Grandparents
during many centuries that for the splendor of Ancient Mexico lasted.
This way we must understand and include/understand that our ancestors
had a deep interest for the spiritual life and the importance of
existence, and from which they reach higher levels of spiritual power
and knowledge that unleased the human being to a great and advanced
state that until today is difficult to comprehend, but that we believe
still being an effective and vital part for the human existence.
In the Nahwa cultures of the central valley of Mexico, including the
Toltec, Aztec, tlaxcaltec, chichimec, tepanec and many others, life and
death played a strong part of their tradition, where if life was just
dream, and dying meant been awakened; and where when suffering
happening in this world gave them the chance of escaping into the other
world where death was not feared but inevitable... Nowadays this
feeling prevails, and is a fact from a tradition over 5000 years old.
When dying, the anceient Mexicans believed they went away to a mythic
place called Mictlán after an arduous journey through nine worlds.
Then the Almighty Gods from above who ruled all decided which of the
different final places the traveler should go into. The majority went
away to the tranquillity of Mictlán, but... In the historical memory
of the Anahuac we found that our Great Grandparents had four places to
where the dead may go, according to how they have had behaved
throughout their lives.
Tonatihilhuac "the place of the sun" luminous place reserved for those
Soldiers of the Spirit, women or men, who had dedicated a lifetime to
the "Flowery Battle" & had managed "to bloom their hearts". Thus, the
"Soldiers of the Light" accompanied the Sun by dawn to the zenith in
its ascending race, winning to the gravitational forces that drag the
matter to the darknesses of ignorance. The "Single-breasted uniform
jackets of the Light" also accompanied the Sun, but from the zenith to
the dusk, until it was shipwrecked into the infra-world,
Mictlantecutli's Reign for "the Lords of Death". For that they died in
combat or where sacrificed.
Cihuatlampa "the region of the women" that was where the little dead in
Ancient Mexico went, It was reserved for those children who died when
new born or at a young age. This place was like a paradise in which an
immense tree of life feed the children out of little drops of milk from
its branches and lived happly into this "infantile paradise" in whom
they assumed infants would live until the raise of the sixth Sun, time
in which they would be reborn.
Tlalocan "the kingdom of Tlaloc" the God of the water, it was reserved
for those who died of causes related to water. Like the drowned, dead
by Lightning, the lepers and hydrops. The mansion of the moon was a
paradise with ideal conditions for the women who died while giving
birth. A pleasant, good & fresh place to be.
Chichihuacuauhco, a place for those who have had not reached the
enlightening death of the Warrior, neither the innocent death of a
child, nor the associated sacred death from water related reasons. A
terrible place which its true meaning was "the nothing", the sterile
death product of an empty life, a death without consequences and
relevance; a death for anything but. This it is the fourth place where
the dead went, according to Ancient the Mexicans, this was the
Mictlán. A Place for those who had died of natural death, a place for
"macehuales" ordinary men or others without distinction of rank nor of
wealth.
The journey to the other world was long & hard. After the funeral, the
deceased had to go across a mighty river called Apanohuaya, for which
they needed the special aid of a dog (techichi). The famous Aztec
bald-dog (xolotl-itzcuintli), was a very important companion for all
people. Many skeletons of dogs had been found in tombs within people.
Later on and already undressed, the deceased had to go through in
between a couple of mountains which where always pounding against each
other. They called these Mountains Tépetlmonamictia.
Then, they needed to make their way across a hill full of sharp stones,
and after that they had to go across the eight Cehuecáyan hills, on
which there was always a terrible snow storm, and as for later they had
to get through a freezing ice storm with razor sharp slashing winds
over eight different landscapes. Later on, they had to follow a path on
which they could get shot by "the archers of the strange". And was
about then when an huge heart eating Jaguar was presented to them, who
was the Teocoyleualoyan. This was the reason why a jade shaped stone
heart was always placed in the mouth of the deceased so that when
arriving to the other side of the river, he will have to give it to the
jaguar allowing him to finish the trip, and saving him from falling
into the Apanviayo, in whose black waters lived the terrible lizard
Xochitonal. Not but until this point the painful trip of suffering had
come to an end. And by now the Lord of the Death (Mictlantecutli) will
talk to the deceased by saying... "your life of suffering is done, go
now to rest & sleep into your mortal dream".
After four years of traveling through Mictlan their final destiny was
finally... The Nothing?
The festivity that celebrated the dead was held during the ninth and
tenth months of the Aztec calendar. The children are celebrated first,
with the Miccailhuitontli and later the older people with the
Hueymiccailhuitl. The military were celebrated during the fourteenth
month (November) with the Quecholli.
The celebration of the "Day of the Dead" still alive and can be
appreciated in places like Xochimilco, Milpalta, Mixquic, Janitzio,
Oaxaca, Guerrero, Queretaro and in many homes where tradition has been
able to pass to people the joy of putting up an altar with all sort of
offerings for their dead loved ones...
Offerings can be:
* water in a cup which purifies, washes and acquittal the dead
* favorite food of the dead person
* copal incense (bursera jorullensis)
* candy & sweets
* sugar skull (calavera)
* Traditional Bread of the Dead (Pan de Muerto)
* MariGolds (zempasúchitl) and other flowers
Feliz día de Muertos!
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SS
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