Showing posts with label Aztec. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Nat'l Hispanic Heritage Month (9/15-10/15)

Maybe Sofia Vergara should speak for US Hispanics

Crystal Quintero, the Mexican Buddhist (WQ)
The growing Latinx (Latina and Latino combined) population, popularly referred to as Hispanic (descended from Spain) is too big to be contained in one month. So we take up two, the second half of September and the first half of October.

It might have been better to claim November with its mass celebration of el Dia de los Muertos or "the Day of the Dead," which is quickly becoming the new Cinco de Mayo, the American celebration of "Mexican Independence Day."

Of course, Independence Day actually falls not on the 5th of May (cinco de mayo) but on Sept. 16th (el Grito de Dolores, "Cry of Dolores," which being a place rather than a person called Dolores, should perhaps be rendered "Shout from Dolores," a word that literally means "pains" as in birth pangs) at the beginning of National Hispanic Heritage Month. What do most Americans want, fanatical popularity or technical accuracy?

If "we are what we eat," can I be Mexican by eating real Mexican food?
(Business Insider) How one chef is fighting to preserve a cooking tool as old as civilization itself | Still Standing: the hand-mill or metate ("mealing stone," quern-stone for grinding ingredients)

What if I want to eat like a real American from the Americas?
Look at the Native women in their native land using their own metate (quern), Palestine 1900

Plant-Based Mexican Recipes for Healing
More than a cookbook, Decolonize Your Diet restores what "traditional" Mexican food means by reaching back through centuries of history to reclaim heritage crops as a source of protection from modern diseases-of-development. It was compiled by partners, California professors, and co-authors Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel.

When Calvo was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, they both radically changed their diets and began seeking out recipes featuring indigenous, healthy, vegetarian Mexican foods.

Did Mossad bring Mexico under Jewish rule?
This led to the promotion of a diet rich in plants indigenous to the Americas (amaranth, maize, beans, squash, greens, herbs, and seeds) and a passionate idea that Latinxs in America, specifically Mexicans, need to ditch the colonial garbage, synthetic, artificial, and toxic fast food and return to their own culture's food roots for physical health and spiritual fulfillment.

This vegan and vegetarian cookbook features over 100 colorful recipes based on Mesoamerican cuisine and also includes contributions from indigenous cultures throughout the Americas. It is a winner of the International Latino Book Award for Best Cookbook. More

What's National Hispanic Heritage Month?
Presidenta Sheinbaum, deja me. I'll do the talking for the 65 million U.S. Hispanics, okay?

First flag of the Mexican Empire of Spain
Mes nacional de la herencia hispana
 is observed annually from September 15 to October 15 in the United States of America ("America" being a big continent, much bigger than the powerfully hegemonic USA) for recognizing the contributions and influence of Hispanic culture to the nation's achievements, culture, and history [1, 2].


History
What have Mexicans ever done?
National Hispanic Heritage Week was established by legislation sponsored by Democratic Rep. George Brown Jr. of Los Angeles and signed into law by Democratic Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968 [3, 4, 5], taking place on the week including both September 15 and 16th [6].

In 1988, the commemorative week was expanded to a month (September 15 to October 15) by legislation sponsored by Rep. Esteban Torres (D–CA), amended by Sen. Paul Simon, and signed into law by Republican Pres. Ronald Reagan [3].

September 15th was chosen as the starting point for the commemoration because it is the anniversary of the Cry of Dolores (early morning, Sept. 16, 1810), which marked the start of the Mexican War of Independence.


The original Mexican flag (1821) had no snake
In 1821, this resulted in independence for the imperial New Spain Colony, which was actually a viceroyalty (known in the Native language, which has never been Spanish but rather Nahuatl and the Nahuan/Aztecan family of languages as Yankwik Kaxtillan Birreiyotl, but first called the "Kingdom of New Spain," now the United Mexican States or United States of Mexico, Estados Unidos Mexicanos, the Mesoamerican country's official name, and the Central American nations of Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Nicaragua), which became the Federal Republic of Central America.

The 30-day period also includes many dates of importance in the Hispanic (Spain-descended) community:
  • Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua celebrate their anniversary of independence on Sept. 15;
  • Mexico commemorates its independence on Sept. 16;
  • Chile commemorates its independence on Sept. 18;
  • the celebration day of reviled Jewish terrorist and Converso Cristobal Columbus (an Anus'i or Marrano), formerly known as Columbus Day now Día de la Raza [7]. More
What have the Latins ever done for US?

Oaxaca: the most Native part of Mexico
  • Crystal Quintero, CC Liu, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Who are the 'White Mexicans' of Mexico?


Little Mexican Mennonite girl
(Mexico Atlas) Who are the 25,000,000 "White Mexicans," the Mestizos (blended, interracial, mixed race) of Mexico, and what are they called? Los Gueros, Hispanos, Creolos, or the gradients of mixing (Mestizo) with more European than Indigenous American blood. To find large numbers of White Mexicans, just visit the German dominated state of Jalisco or the 100,000 blond-blue-eyed Plautdietsch and Spanish-speaking Mennonites of Chihuahua (keeping their traditions and religion alive and well).

The origins of a dozen Mexican surnames
(DNA doesn't lie) If one has these 12 Mexican surnames, DNA finally reveals people's true clan
What about Smitho?
  • 12. Castillo (Castle), 11. Reyes (Kings), 10. Flores (Flowers), 9. Torres (Towers), 8. Villareal (Royal-village), 7. Guerrero (Warrior), 6. Aguilar (Eagles), 5. Zapata (Cobbler), 4. Salazar (Farmstead), 3. Cruz (Cross, Delacruz, Of-the-cross), 2. Balam (Jaguar), 1. Tlaxcala (indigenous)
If only Los Angeles had Mexican food

Mexico City VEGAN FOOD TOUR | tacos, tortas

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Mexico's Aztec Dance to the gods 👹


Catholic converts drew stories to colonial priests
The Aztec religion is a polytheistic and monistic pantheism in which the Nahua (Nahuatl, the indigenous language of Mexico) concept of teotl was construed as the supreme god Ometeotl, as well as a diverse pantheon of lesser gods and manifestations of nature [1].

The popular religion tended to embrace the mythological and polytheistic aspects, and the Aztec Empire's state religion sponsored both the monism of the upper classes and the popular heterodoxies [2].

The codices were made by Catholic priests
The most important deities were worshiped by priests in Tenochtitlan (Mexico City), particularly Tlaloc and the god of the Mexica (the tribe from which the word "Mexico" derives), Huitzilopochtli, whose shrines were located on the Templo Mayor ("Main Temple").

Their priests would receive special dispensation from the empire. When other states were conquered the empire would often incorporate practices from its new territories into the mainstream religion [3].


Aztec Mexico has world's largest pyramid
In common with many other indigenous Mesoamerican civilizations, the Aztecs put great ritual emphasis on calendrics, and scheduled festivals, government ceremonies, and even war around key transition dates in the Aztec calendar [4].

Aztec calendar, often seen in depictions of more sophisticated Mexican Mayan Calendar
Maya Calendars: How did the Maya count time with moving gears? | TheCollector
Pok ta pok ballgame (Mesoamerican ballgame) Native Maya Indians in Mexico
They built massive sports complexes like the Great Ball Court in Chichen Itza, Mexico

Quetzalcóatl (Aztec religion)
Public ritual practices could involve food, storytelling, and dance, as well as ceremonial warfare, the Mesoamerican ballgame (precursor of football, soccer, and basketball), and human sacrifice (a tribute to appease bloodthirsty gods of military service and slaughter) [5].

Human sacrifice today?

The cosmology of Aztec religion divides the world into 13 heavens and nine earthly layers or netherworlds [6]. The first heaven overlaps with the first terrestrial layer, so that heaven and the terrestrial layers meet at the surface of the Earth, where we are.

The celestial entities of "shining ones" (sky devas)
Each level is associated with a specific set of deities and astronomical objects. The most important celestial entities in Aztec religion are the Sun, the Moon, and the planet Venus (as both "Morning Star" and "Evening Star") [7].

Convert or die: Become Catholic
After Conquest by Spain, Aztec people were forced to convert to Catholicism, and the two religions syncretized.

In this religion, your black magic blood sacrifice will come from a scapegoat, who is the God Himself disguised as a human to pay Himself a ransom for your eternal soul washed in blood: You have to accept it, or we'll kill you. And let our priests molest your kids because they don't have wives. The Vatican orders it. Don't worry. His Mom is very nice and will do lots of favors for you.
Let me just liberate your iishti so you can go back to the Son, I mean Sun (Codex Laud, f.8)
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This syncretism is evidenced by the Virgin of Guadalupe [8] and the Day of the Dead. More: Aztec religion

Monday, May 4, 2026

The (Mexican) Aztecs of Tartaria (Aztlan)?


Gemelli Careri: Aztec Map of Aztlán migration
(History Origins) Aztecs from Tartary (Great Tartarian Empire, Russian Tatarstan) which they remember as Aztlán? The 1610 origin claim and Watkins' lost West photos (1860-1885).

The Mexica (pronounced /meh-hee-kuh/ or /meh-chee-kuh/) tribe of the Valley of Mexico gave "Mexico" (a country the official name of which is the "United Mexican States" or Estados Unidos Mexicanos) its modern name, not as a place that ever spoke Spanish but rather the indigenous language Nahuatl (/naw-wah/), "Mexican" of the Nahua people and Chichimeca (/chee-chee-mee-kuh/) people. Let's ask early indigenous chronicler Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl.

Saturday, February 21, 2026

Mexico's sacred grain: Amaranth (not corn)


More protein than beef per acre, banned by Conquistadors, erased from every farm
Mexico invented chocolate helped by gods
(Forgotten Roots) Feb. 19, 2026: There is a grain (seed) so powerful that Mexico's Aztec Empire dedicated 200,000 acres to it—more than any crop except corn (maize). #amaranth
  • Mind you, ancient Mexicans are the same people who gave the world chocolate or xocolatl (bitter cocoa water), which they called Theobroma cacao, "The food of the gods." Who were these celestial visitors or "gods," who pointed out the potent nutritional seeds and delicious flavor of the cacao fruit?
  • The first chocolate drink is believed to have been created at least 5,300 years ago, starting with the Mayo-Chinchipe culture in what is present-day Ecuador [3] and later consumed by the Maya around 2,500–3,000 years ago. A cocoa drink was an essential part of Mexico's Aztec culture by 1400 AD [4]. The drink was introduced by Mexico (New World) and became popular in Europe has undergone changes since. Until the 19th century, hot chocolate was used medicinally to treat ailments such as liver and stomach diseases. More
Amaranth (family Amaranthaceae) delivers complete protein, survives drought, and for centuries fed 20+ million people. Then in 1519, Spanish Conquistadors made growing it punishable by death in Mexico (Mesoamerica) and the Americas.
Amaranth: robust, delicious, and very nutritious
They did so not because it failed but because it was so valuable it was considered "the body of the gods" [devas, celestial "light beings," helpers, alien visitors, rulers].
 
Amaranth contains 13-14% complete protein with all 9 essential amino acids, one of the very few vegan plant sources of a complete protein, along with quinoa.

Amaranth produces more usable protein per acre than cattle grazing and thrives in conditions where wheat dies.

The Aztecs mixed it with honey to create tzoalli—sacred dough shaped into gods, worshipped, and eaten for supreme nourishment.

To the European Spanish invaders, this was demonic and cannibalistic. To modern agriculture, it's a threat.

Donkeys (burros) and hairless dogs in the New World, natural helpers of humans

Heirloom seeds: DNA treasure
By 1970, amaranth had nearly gone extinct. Today it is sold as a $30-a-pound (lb) superfood in health food stores while wheat and corn—both harmful and incomplete proteins—dominate 90% of global grain production.

The amaranth ban ended, but the seed companies never brought it back. This is the story of how religion, colonial conquest, and industrial agriculture buried the most nutritious grain in the Americas.

🔍 IN THIS DOCUMENTARY:
  • Why amaranth was banned under penalty of death (2:15)
  • The complete protein the Aztecs discovered (4:30)
  • How Spain weaponized food to destroy a civilization (6:45)
  • Why modern agriculture still refuses to grow it (10:30)
  • Where amaranth survived for 500 years in hiding (12:00)
📚 SOURCES AND RESEARCH:
  • Florentine Codex (Bernardino de Sahagún, 1600)
  • Aztec tribute records and archaeological cultivation data USDA nutritional database comparisons
  • Robert Rodale's Organic Gardening research (1975)
  • International Center for Tropical Agriculture yield studies
🌿 RELATED LOST VAULTS: → The painkiller growing in ditches (wild lettuce) → The Omega-3 weed in our driveway (purslane) → The Native American fruit that vanished (pawpaw)
⚠️ DISCLAIMER: This video is for educational and historical purposes only. Always consult qualified professionals before making dietary changes. Historical events are presented based on documented sources and scholarly research.

🔔 SUBSCRIBE to Forgotten Roots for suppressed knowledge on forgotten plants, erased medicine, and food history they don't teach us in school. #Amaranth #AztecHistory #AncientGrains #ForgottenFoods #Conquistadors #Protein #Superfood #Agriculture #SuppressedKnowledge #Documentary
  • Forgotten Roots; Dhr. Seven, Crystal Quintero, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Happy Chinese New Year (of the Horse)


The massive estate is shaped like a bodhi leaf.
We spent the day at the largest Chinese New Year celebration in the United States (roughly the size of Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel, Upstate New York). Hsi Lai (pronounced \she lie\, which means "Going West") Temple had it all, including Aztec dancers (
Danza Azteca, perhaps representing Siberian Asians cum Native Americans who are mostly local Mexicans) topping off a cultural show of martial arts demonstrations, dances, dragons, and a big central horse representing the year to come.

 
The lines were out the door but moving fast.
The all-you-can-eat vegan buffet was great (daily, only $10) with noodles, veggies, sweet and sour, tofu, lotus roots, soup, tea, fruit, and fried Indian dharma wheels. The rare rainstorm in Los Angeles cleared the skies as the sun broke through for the outdoor festivities.


We have never seen the temple, said to be the largest in the Western Hemisphere, this crowded. Parking was only found blocks away, and buses were bringing in celebrants. Everyone had their phones out, filming the spectacle. And even the monastics were clapping and enjoying themselves.


Everyone was immersed in Chinese culture uniquely blending with this part of Mexico. (Yes, California is part of Mexico or was until our empire stole it from Spain's empire). Perhaps 20,000 well-wishers passed through the gates throughout the day. Festivities continue for two weeks.