The mythical stories depicting ouroboros revolve around a theme of renewal, infinity, and eternal return, and repetion of history.The word Quetzal can refer to a bird of magnificent beauty with golden-green and scarlet plummage.
Quetzal can also refer to a precious thing. The word Coatl defines a serpent. Therefore Quetzalcoatl is the precious feathered serpent, or the beautiful serpent.The first images of the Ouroboros theme are found in Alexandrian Egypt in an age where the beautiful Cleopatra was looking for the grail whereby she could manufacture Gold. The wizards of alchemy were laboring hard to find this formula.
Quetzalcoatl was a deity within the MesoAmerican pantheon. He was the God of the wind, the giver of breath. As an immortal creator, he decended to the land of the dead (mictlan), where he remained for a period (he fell like the dead). He brought from the land of the dead some bones and sprinkled them with his blood and turned them into humans.
That is the ancient myth behind Quetzatcoatl but his presence his brought to life in the mortal world again as the founder of the Toltec city of Tollan. The sixteenth century writer, Bernardino de Sahagun in a book entitled History of Things of New Spain compares the mortal Quetzalcoatl to the legendary King Arthur of Merlin fame. Quetzatcoatl is pure and virtuous, he is the ninth Emporer Priest of his Kingdom and has a temple built in his name.
The Aztecs adopted the Quetzalcoatl cult centuries after the Toltecs had faded out of the mainstream.
Quetzalcoatl is credited with several honors.
- started the cultivation of Maize
- introduced weaving
- introduced polishing of stones
- introduced the making of feather mantles
- taught men how to measure time
- taught men how to study astronomy
- invented calendars and rituals based on calendar events
The Aztecs became extremely dogmatic in their worship rites and included human sacrifice as a means to appease Quetzalcoatl. The prophecy surrounding Quetzalcoatl stated that the God would one day reincarnate and reclaim his throne. This backfired on the Aztecs when the white skin race entered the picture. Knowing of this reincarnation belief Hernando Cortes posed as Quetzalcoatl and manipulated the Aztecs into assimilation.
Moira Timms, in a book entitled Beyond Prophecy and Prediction, writes of the duality of the mythical and the mortal Quetalcoatl.
There is strange correlation between the myth of the ouroboros and of Quetzalcoatl. They both are icons of a theme that repeats itself. That theme is eternal return and oneness or singularity.
That theme isn't only evident in Ouroboros and The Plummed Serpent. It can be identified with the Hopi, the Mayans, the Bible Prophets, Cayce, the Babylonians and almost all of these cultural or personal works seem to predict the coming of great change.
It may all peak on December 21, 2012 or maybe not. The prophets are telling us to get our Feng Shui in balance, get our yin yang together, clean up our house, smell our @$%^.
2012 is but an interpreters prediction. The prophets are never wrong.
We may have better technology than the ancients but deep inside we still worship the beliefs of the ancients. Hollywood is filling a need. The bookshelfs are filling that same need. Their something inside of us all crying out "save us from ourselves".
The ouroboros was used as a logo for the TV series Millenium.
Before Chris Carter created the X-files series he had created Millenium. Carters' Millenium series used the Ouroboros as their logo. The story of Millenium revolves around Robert Black an ex FBI detective who posseses extrasensory power. He is approached by "the Millenium Group", a black op team who want to hire him as a consultant.
The theme of Millenium is fitting to the Ourosboros symbol. The all is one theme is apparent in the ability of Brown to transcend time constraints and see into the world of others.
This "all in one" theme is where the first Ouroboros symbol is located in history. During the Alexandrian Period in Egypt, Cleopatra was the reigning deity when an a ......................to go on would be to return to the beginning............eternal cycles just like the Yuga states.......
Peace Out....................
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