Showing posts with label ethnic tribe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ethnic tribe. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Mexico's Aztec Dance to the gods ๐Ÿ‘น


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

Quetzalcรณatl (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

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Mexico: Zapotec 'Cloud People' tomb found

  • IN THIS STORY: Mexican officials are calling the discovery of a Zapotec (Be’ena’a) tomb one of the country’s greatest archeological discoveries of the last decade.
  • The tomb, dated to 600 C.E., features colorful murals that experts hope they can soon decipher.
  • Other architectural highlights within the tomb include friezes and carvings in doorposts.
Tomb features colorful murals that experts hope they can soon decipher (Lelia Valduga/Getty)
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Mexican Pres. Lopez Obrador and Sheinbaum
Officials are lauding a newly unearthed tomb, tucked into the Central Valley of Oaxaca [pronounced \wah-hah-kah\] in Mexico [Mesoamerica], as the greatest archeological find made in the country in the last decade.
 
Dated to 600 C.E.—a pre-Hispanic [Pre-Columbian era, pre-arrival of Spain and European Conquistadors] period during which the Zapotec culture ruled the region—experts believe the architectural and cultural meanings they can extract from the find will reveal unknown elements of Zapotec life 1,400 years ago.

Claudi Curiel de Icaza (INAH)
“This is an exceptional discovery due to its level of preservation and what it reveals about Zapotec culture: its social organization, its funerary rituals, and its worldview, preserved in the architecture, and mural paintings,” Mexico’s Secretary of Culture Claudi Curiel de Icaza said in a translated statement from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).

The tomb features sculptural elements and mural paintings that contain symbols often associated with power and death, while friezes and tombstones bear inscriptions which appear to reference calendars.

Pres. Claudia Sheinbaum in front of MX flag
“This is the most important archeological discovery in Mexico in the last decade due to its level of preservation and the information it provides,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo said at a press conference, according to INAH.

The murals and architecture start at the entrance to the antechamber. An owl, which symbolized night and death for the Zapotec people, covers the painted face of a lord. Experts with INAH believe that the portrait may be of the ancestor to whom the tomb was dedicated. His descendants may have hoped that he would serve as an intercessor with deities. More
Who are the "Zapotecs," the "Cloud People," how did they build underground?
Zapotec civilization funerary art
The Zapotec civilization (the Be'ena'a or "The people who came from the clouds," circa 700 BC–1521 AD) is an advanced indigenous pre-European (pre-Columbian, pre-Hispanic, pre-invasion) civilization that flourished in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca in Mesoamerica (part of North America above Central America, mostly comprised of modern Mexico). Archaeological evidence shows that their culture, now replaced by Mixtec culture, originated at least 2,500 years ago. The Zapotec archaeological site at the ancient City of Monte Albรกn has pyramids, monumental buildings, ball courts, tombs, and grave goods, including finely worked gold jewelry. Monte Albรกn was one of the first major cities in Mesoamerica. It was the center of a Zapotec state that dominated much of the territory which today is known as the Mexican state of Oaxaca [1, 2]. The Zapotecs are their modern Mexican descendants. More
  • Mitla, Oaxaca, Southern Mexico

Mitla: the Sacred Underworld, Mexico
  • Tim Newcomb, popularmechanics.com, Jan. 29, 2026, via MSN; Crystal Quintero, Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Monday, January 12, 2026

Lost tribe of Jews found in NE India?


Have you kept Jewish custom of Molech?
(Unpacked) Is this tribe in India secretly Jewish [Asian Jews]? Bene Manashe or Bnei Menashe

The warlike Bnei Menashe (Hebrew ื‘ื ื™ ืžื ืฉื” or "Children of Menasseh" known as the Shinlung in India [5]) is a community of Indian Jews from various Tibeto-Burmese [6] ethnic groups from the border of India, Bangladesh, and Burma (Myanmar) who claim descent from one of the Lost Tribes of Israel [7][5]: 3 , allegedly based on the Hmar belief in an ancestor named Manmasi [8]. Some of them have adopted Judaism [5] [though most seem to have been converted to Christianity by Western missionaries before realizing they were "Jews," though they have not been easily accepted by white supremacist Ashkenazi-dominated Israeli society even if officials offered them expedited conversion]. The community has around 10,000 members [1]. More

Contacting world's uncontacted tribes


Are there really uncontacted bands of humans left on the surface of the planet? Besides in the warm and green parts of Antarctica we are banned from seeing and Sentinel Island off the coast of India or deep in New Guinea and still wandering around in the thick Amazon or out on the Kalahari, aside from those, is there a single human who does not know there are other humans, carrying on destroying the planet? It would seem so. They're probably better off not knowing what we're doing. What about one of the oldest countries in the world, the Kush we now call Ethiopia, are there secret tribes there, riding around on tiny boards with even tinier wheels, doing the impossible?


Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Amazon Shamans on ET Greys (Ant People)

 
Drone ant people
Grey aliens -- also referred to as Roswell Greys, Zeta Reticulans, or simply as Greys [a] or Grays -- are a species of extraterrestrial beings on (and in) earth. [They are the ant people.]

They are frequently featured in claims of close encounters and forced alien abductions.
 
Greys are typically described as having small humanoid bodies, smooth, grey skin, disproportionately large limbs, hairless heads, and large, black, almond-shaped eyes like goggles or sunglasses.


The famous 1961 Barney and Betty Hill abduction in the American desert was key to the popularization of Grey aliens [1, 2] as was Whitley Strieber's bestselling classic Communion: A True Story.
  • Communion (W. Strieber)
    The true story in Whitley Strieber's Communion is an iconic classic. Strieber describes his firsthand 1985 close encounter experiences. This book fundamentally changed the way Americans understand close encounters and alien abductions. The message of Communion, that something is really happening to people but that attempts to study, understand it, or even talk about it remain stifled by the powers that be. The book was first published in 1987. Strieber's riveting account of what he himself experienced, along with his relentless and expert pursuit of the reality behind the experience, is to this day the greatest such account ever published. It is a classic and powerful introduction that explores abductions as they stand today—and it's even more provocative as officials begin to admit that UFOs and ET visitors are real. More
Come spend the catastrophe with us in our caves
Precursor figures have been described in science fiction and similar descriptions appeared in later accounts of the 1947 Roswell UFO incident and early accounts of the 1948 Aztec UFO incident (the "other Roswell").
The Ant People helped Hopi survive, cavern beings who twice helped during times of crisis
  • Greys would seem to be the underground "Ant People" (Makunwabu or ancient Greek Myrmidons, possibly Buddhist cosmology's Kumbhandas) of the legendary Grand Canyon Native American civilization that was saved from a natural cataclysm on the surface by being taken down into the dwelling place of these humanoid beings and being sheltered there for a long time until it was safe to come up again and repopulate the surface world.
  • A Buddhist kumbhanda is a kind of "dwarf" or "gnome," a short being shaped like a "gourd" but also described as having testicles as large as a pot (kumbha), two etymologies that give them their name. More


Roger (American Dad!) 
The world's most famous Grey is named "Roger Smith" whose handler (Stan Smith), working for the CIA, liberated him from Area 51.

The Grey alien is cited an archetypal image of an intelligent non-human creature or ET (extraterrestrial) life in general.

It has become an iconic trope in popular -- thanks to Cartman and the very first episode of South Park -- culture in the age of space exploration.

Aztlรกn? Atlantis? Where'd Sea Peoples come from?

Description and Appearance
We are not alone. Here is a photo of a real ET.
Grey aliens are typically depicted as grey-skinned, diminutive (small being 3 or 4 feet tall) humanoid beings that possess reduced forms of, or completely lack, external human body parts such as noses, ears, and external sex organs [3]. [They may be partly artificial synthetic-organic automatons with AI abilities sometimes seen operating under the direction or power of Tall Whites (Nordic aliens).] Their bodies are usually depicted as... More
  • Joe Rogan Podcast; Xochitl, Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

The issue of Somalis in Minneapolis

Somali Muslim Congressperson, the Squad's Ilhan Omar
(Sammy Obeid) Minneapolis Somalis vs. ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | stand up
This Is What America Looks Like
(By Ilhan Omar) Ilhan Omar’s career is a collection of historic firsts: She is the first refugee, the first Somali American, and one of the first two Muslim women to serve in the United States Congress.

Against a xenophobic and divisive administration, she has risen to global fame as a powerful voice in the Democratic party’s new progressive chorus of congresswomen of color, The Squad.

This Is What America Looks Like is a tale of the aspirations, disappointments, successes, and surprises in the life of an immigrant and Muslim in the U.S. today.


This is Omar’s story told on her own terms: from a childhood in Mogadishu and four long years at a Kenyan refugee camp, to her arrival in America -- penniless and speaking only Somali -- and her triumphant election to the U.S. House of Representatives.

In the face of merciless slander and constant attacks from opponents in both parties, Rep. Omar continues to speak up for her beliefs. Courageous, hopeful and defiant, her memoir is marked by her irrepressible spirit, even in the darkest of times. More