NEW AGE BULLSHIT # 35: MACCHU PICCHU
Yes we've all heard this one - how simply wonderful Macchu Picchu is and how such clean-cut masonry could only have been achieved by an advanced civilization aided possibly by aliens with laser cutters.
It's fashionable for soi-disant aya gurus to be photographed gazing reverently at the instantly recognizable mound.
But it's hard not to see MP as anything but a monument to a failed (rather than a declined) civilization.
As I wandered around it, dodging hundreds of porky US tourists(many who imagine the settlement to be very ancient, -and surprised to learn that it's a mere 500 years old), peering into the little alcoves designed for discrete child sacrifices, examining the strange building shapes designed to mimic condors and jaguars - set up to mirror the natural and cosmic realms, it is impossible to avoid reaching the conclusion that this settlement - which is in fact more a temporary royal encampment than a tribal settlement - was abandoned due to a kind of self-destructive collective lunacy - and I use that term in it's technical sense.
The 15th century Inca citadel was constructed without a single arch. Meanwhile, in Florence, the finishing touches were being made to Il Duomo, with Brunelleschi completing its crowning cupola after an ingenious discovery involving transferred egg-shell stress vectors.
Now, to avoid the accusation of cultural chauvinism, I am prepared to concede that the Inca had devised brilliant methods of cultivation and water catchment usage.
And I am willing to admit that the religious wars carried out during the Renaissance era and beyond are but a refinement and rational justification of blood sacrifices demanded of the human etheric body's presiding Vampiric entity.
However, let us not privilege the Incas, or the Mayans, for that matter, in any cosmological tussle. The Mayans practiced mass human sacrifice, just as most other Meso- American pre-Colombian civilizations. Why then , do we care so much about their long count calendar or their prophetic pronouncements?
Did the Quetzalcoatl prophecy become true with the apocalyptic arrival of the Spanish conquistadors?
Possibly. It's just a matter of interpretation,
The devil loves to equivocate. Yes, the Mayans predict May 26 as an important date, but not for the reasons the New Agers think.
As long as the Primordial etheric parasite drives human behavior into ruts of carnage and disconnection, so too , will ambivalence and binary interpretation reign in this sector.
Yes we've all heard this one - how simply wonderful Macchu Picchu is and how such clean-cut masonry could only have been achieved by an advanced civilization aided possibly by aliens with laser cutters.
It's fashionable for soi-disant aya gurus to be photographed gazing reverently at the instantly recognizable mound.
But it's hard not to see MP as anything but a monument to a failed (rather than a declined) civilization.
As I wandered around it, dodging hundreds of porky US tourists(many who imagine the settlement to be very ancient, -and surprised to learn that it's a mere 500 years old), peering into the little alcoves designed for discrete child sacrifices, examining the strange building shapes designed to mimic condors and jaguars - set up to mirror the natural and cosmic realms, it is impossible to avoid reaching the conclusion that this settlement - which is in fact more a temporary royal encampment than a tribal settlement - was abandoned due to a kind of self-destructive collective lunacy - and I use that term in it's technical sense.
The 15th century Inca citadel was constructed without a single arch. Meanwhile, in Florence, the finishing touches were being made to Il Duomo, with Brunelleschi completing its crowning cupola after an ingenious discovery involving transferred egg-shell stress vectors.
Now, to avoid the accusation of cultural chauvinism, I am prepared to concede that the Inca had devised brilliant methods of cultivation and water catchment usage.
And I am willing to admit that the religious wars carried out during the Renaissance era and beyond are but a refinement and rational justification of blood sacrifices demanded of the human etheric body's presiding Vampiric entity.
However, let us not privilege the Incas, or the Mayans, for that matter, in any cosmological tussle. The Mayans practiced mass human sacrifice, just as most other Meso- American pre-Colombian civilizations. Why then , do we care so much about their long count calendar or their prophetic pronouncements?
Did the Quetzalcoatl prophecy become true with the apocalyptic arrival of the Spanish conquistadors?
Possibly. It's just a matter of interpretation,
The devil loves to equivocate. Yes, the Mayans predict May 26 as an important date, but not for the reasons the New Agers think.
As long as the Primordial etheric parasite drives human behavior into ruts of carnage and disconnection, so too , will ambivalence and binary interpretation reign in this sector.
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Wahi Ngaro Tane Taputoro i feel sorry for the bricklayers.. serfs in any kingdom could give ya the real reason it was built....
Norma RavenDove Have
not experienced macchu Picchu to make a comment. But whilst in Hawaii,
processing my own personal DNA encoded memories of ancient Maya, yes
there was human sacrifice. It was the period where we decided to turn
away from God. I felt it through my body and throat. Horrible feeling
but had to face the music and feel the injustices I held within me in
order to move on....
Michael Szabo I had so much fun going there
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