I’ve had a nagging sense that we are approaching a critical moment in what I’ve been calling Carbon Zero.
This thread is a work in progress attempting to utilize what I’ve learned over the last three years in hope that somehow, some way I can help in even a small way…
This thread is a work in progress attempting to utilize what I’ve learned over the last three years in hope that somehow, some way I can help in even a small way…
Covidians have given us a glimpse of what I’ll call Carbonites (for now) and the capacity they will have to cause great harm. History and ritual studies as well as sociology and art history has also offered me some glimpses into what is, as of yet, a still very early exploration
Nextlahualli is a term you may not know. It’s one I’m thinking a great deal about. It’s impossible for me not to see some frightening echoes of what may be our future in simply this word.
“Human sacrifice as shown in the Codex Magliabechiano, Folio 70. Heart-extraction was viewed as a means of liberating the Istli and reuniting it with the Sun: the victim's transformed heart flies Sun-ward on a trail of blood.” 
Recently we have seen imagery which many have described as religious and very creepy…
There has been a link between the arts, radical collectivism and the myth of the Fifth Sun, my familiarity with it is particularly in theater. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Suns
I once played / performed the “Lord of Corn” many years ago.
I too was in high school. The text has changed since my performance. Strikingly.
The “Jaguar Priests of the sun” were entrusted the sacrifice. Nextlahualli.
“The main objective of Aztec Flower warfare was to capture victims alive for later ritual execution, and offerings to the gods. Being killed the Flower wars, considered much more noble than dying in a regular military battle,[15] was religiously more prestigious, as these
dead were given the privilege to live in heaven with the war god, Huitzilopochtli.”
“Before and during the killing, priests and audience, gathered in the plaza below, stabbed, pierced and bled themselves as auto-sacrifice. Hymns, whistles, spectacular costumed dances and percussive music marked different phases of the rite.
The body parts would then be disposed of, the viscera fed to the animals in the zoo, and the bleeding head was placed on display in the tzompantli or the skull rack. When the consumption of individuals was involved, the warrior who captured the enemy was given the meaty limbs
while the most important flesh, the stomach and chest, were offerings to the gods.”
The irony is thick. moufawad-paul.blogspot.com/2016/03/coloni… but the author here does not recognize their own banal evil. This is far too familiar.
And this selfdefinition.org/psychology/A.M…
#WarOnMemory Your value is far more than the sum of your carbon debt.
/end for now. More to come.
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