The Quetzal Bird and the Maya

Dear Cosmic Sisters and Brothers...

The Quetzal Bird and the Maya

In the Mayan culture one bird more than any other symbolizes their culture perfectly.
This is the Quetzal bird because it is a symbol of freedom.
This beautiful bird roams free in the jungles of the Mayab,(the chosen ones) and the land of the Maya. It's tail feathers are blue and green and can reach up to 40 inches long.
Once a Quetzal is caught and held in captivity its feathers become opaque and wither. The bird then plucks it's own feathers out and causes it self to have a heart attack because it cannot stand to live in a place where it is not free.

For this reason the Maya took on the Quetzal as a sacred symbol of the freedom of their culture.
They created elaborate headdresses for sacred ceremony and drew upon the Spirit of what it means to be a free civilization and lived in harmony of what the expression of the Quetzal means.
Their headdresses named Copilli were filled with the feathers of the Quetzal. Their respect for this bird and all of nature meant they thrived within their environment for many thousands of years.

In the sacred Cholq'ij calendar the count of days, one of the sacred days, the nawal called K'anil or Lamat was also associated with the Quetzal and of the Planet Venus because it represented both love and freedom through the heart, a way of achieving true freedom.
They practiced this extensively through their deep devotion and great reverence of the animal kingdom and the sacredness of Mother Earth.

They would base their use of sacred geometry through the wisdom of the animal Spirits, which are the representations of the Gods and Goddesses in our realm.
Their great Pyramids and Temples used the principle of Tuunich Quetzal K'in (Technological Pyramid of Stone) to harness the energy of particular area. 

There is only one energy but there are different frequencies to this energy. The Maya were well aware of this when they built their temples and Pyramids therefore every 52 years the Maya would extinguish their sacred fires during a period known as the Wayeb, a month of 5 days at the end of their yearly calendar called the Haab. During this period the Maya would conduct ceremony and go deep within. Their Shaman Priests would travel the Kuxan Zuum, the route to the sky and gather the information required from the Cosmos to guide their individual clans for the next cycle.

Great stones called a stelae would be created to record the information the Shaman collected and would then be erected in their cities. The information collected would determine whether or not the Maya would move locations to another area.
They would move to other locations because of their knowledge of energy, all energy moves to different locations on the Planet. The Maya also knew that energy returns to the same place every 520 years and that events repeat themselves every 52 years.

Thus then it is highly advantageous to know where the energy will be in the coming years, this they achieved through their sacred practice of divination and traveling through space and time, known as Najt.
Their technological Temples and Pyramids used energy just as much as their culture did, so if the energy no longer existed in a particular area they would relocate their cities and build again.

Even today if you stand inside a Mayan temple site and clap your hands it's unique resonance and the combination of the stones makes a very familiar sound to the keen listener, which is the sound the Quetzal bird makes.
This shows the remarkable bond and connection the Maya had for their bird of freedom, a harmony of technology, sacred geometry and the harmonic resonance of the stones is why they called it Tuunich Quetzal K'in ( Technological Pyramid of Stone)

                                                   Divine Love and Blessings to all

                                                              In Weet Laak'ech
                                                                   M.Yaxk'in 
                       Mayan Yuum Balum (Jaguar Priest) and Shamanic Energy Healer
                                        Teacher of Ancient Wisdom and Channeler

The Wonder of Guadalupe ( Mother Mary )

Dear Cosmic Sisters and Brothers...

The Wonder of Guadalupe (Mother Mary)

This is the true account of the four apparitions of the Beloved Ascended Master, Mother Mary on the 9th to the 12th December 1531 in Mexico City, Mexico.
This is a magical story which is known throughout the Americas and something very dear to my own heart having been blessed to witness her Divine presence in my life.
I have wanted to tell this amazing story for such a long time having visited this sacred shrine in the Basilica of Mexico City. It is one of the most magical events ever to transpire on Earth and something not many know about in the rest of the World.  So here goes...

It was in the early hours of the morning of the 9th December in 1531  a Nahuatl ( Aztec)  peasant left his home, like every day he began his long journey up the hills around Mexico city. He was off to find food for his family when he approached the hill of Tepeyec. This was a normal day in the life of Juan Diego, this peasant. With his sick uncle at home in bed seemingly nearing his own death, Juan Diego began the long climb up Tepeyac hill, upon reaching the top he was met by a blinding light that shone through to him.

Before him stood a lone figure of a young woman surrounded in a brilliant white light brighter than any known source. This was the first apparition of the Ascended Master, Mother Mary who appeared to Diego and spoke to him in words that were as soft and gentle as love itself. Kneeing in front of this magical heavenly sight the virgin Mother Mary then asked Diego to undergo a task for her by going to see the Archbishop of the church of Mexico city and asking him to build a church in the name of Blessed Virgin here on the hill of Tepeyac.

When Diego replied that he was but a mere local and poor man with no influence over the Church, Mother Mary responded to him, "That is why I ask this of you dear child."
Diego then left and made his way down the hill to the church to fulfill the wishes of Mother Mary. He waited all day at the entrance to the Bishops quarters for an audience with the Archbishop to give the message gifted to him. Being a very simple man with no wealth he was over looked by the other friars and was even beaten up by other church goers whilst he waited.
At the end of the day having not been given permission to see the Bishop, Diego left for his long journey back home again.

The following day Diego set off again in the early hours and went no where near the site of the apparition.  He was ashamed that he could not complete the task set by Mother Mary and so he detoured from his normal route well away from the hill.
The day after that Diego climbed  the opposite side of the hill but low and behold the Blessed Virgin appeared once more to him.  Stunned and embarrassed Diego began to apologize to Mother Mary for failing to gain access to the church and speak to the Archbishop with regard to the message from her.

Mother Mary comforted him and asked Diego to go down the hill to speak to the Bishop about building a church on this hill once again. So Diego once more took on the long journey to see the Archbishop and waited outside for an audience. After half a days wait he was allowed to see Archbishop Zumarraga where he told the story of the apparition and the request from Mother Mary to build a church on the hill of Tepeyac.
Not surprisingly the Archbishop did not believe his story and sent him away saying he would not consider anything he said without living proof that the Blessed Virgin Mary had appeared to him.

Not entirely convinced the Bishop sent two men to follow Diego and report on his movements the next day.
When Diego left his home once more on the 12th December 1531 his uncle whom, was now gravely ill was worrying Diego all the way up to Tepeyac hill. As he arrived at the site of the first apparition the two men from the church following Diego saw him disappear the moment Mother Mary reappeared to Diego in a haze of brilliant white light once more. As if invisible to the two men, Diego continued to commune with the Virgin Mary telling her that the Bishop would not believe him or the story without some sort of miracle that she was who she claimed to be.

Upon hearing this Mother Mary instructed Diego to collect some flowers, Castilian roses  (which are not native to Mexico) and others which were not in season in December. He was then told to take them to the Archbishop as proof of the miracle he sought.  Diego then carefully gathered up the flowers in his cloak called a Tilma for his ardious journey to see Bishop Zumarraga in Mexico city. Before he left, Mother Mary asked Diego what was troubling him to which he replied that his uncle was very sick and hence he was very concerned about him. Mother Mary replied that she had visited him this very morning (Apparition number 4) and had healed him of all the ills of the body. She told Diego to worry no longer for his uncle was now healthy and awaiting his return. Go now to the Bishop my son, she told him and when your task is done you will find your uncle at home alive and well.


When Diego was granted access to the Bishop he told him the Blessed Virgin had given him the miracle he sought. In the room that day was the Bishop, Diego, an interpreter for Diego and the Bishops aid.
When Diego opened his tilma the flowers fell to the floor to reveal an image of the Blessed Mother Mary on the cloaks fabric. This was the miracle of the Virgin Mary that the Archbishop had asked for from the Divine.

After that day a church was indeed constructed at the site of Tepeyac hill where it stands today. Where Diego collected the flowers lies a water font with magical healing qualities and where the most beautiful flowers still grow today.

The original church that was built was open to all the elements of nature and the cloak, the tilma was placed within. It has been subjected to high winds and rain over the many years before a stronger church replaced it. All the while the tilma on which the image of beloved Mother Mary magically appeared has remained undamaged. Many years later a great flood in Mexico City soaked this cloak, still it remained undamaged.
Another remarkable fact is that the cloak made from local yarn is still intact when the material itself has only a life span of 20 years.

Each year during those early times the cloak would be paraded in the streets on float carried by the church in front of the waiting crowds of local Nahuatl indigenous people. They would fire their arrows from their bows in celebration and on one particular day an arrow fell from the sky and struck a local man, killing him instantly. When the float containing the cloak came past, the man rose up from the floor as if nothing had happened, undamaged and magically healed.

Miracles are constantly attributed to this wonder of Mother Mary, the magic of the cloak and the ever presence of Beloved Mother Mary, who is the Queen of Mexico and Beloved Deity of the Americas, and the reason why her cloak set in the new Church, the Basilica de Guadalupe is the most visited Marian shrine in the World.
Everywhere you go in Mexico the Blessed Virgin is seen outside homes, at the Airports, trains and bus stations.
Another remarkable fact was that in the 1970's a terrorist group planted a bomb next to the glass cabinet containing the tilma. A bronze cross in front of the cabinet melted but not even the glass let alone the cloak was damaged as this device went off next to it.

Recently using digital imaging scientists have photographed the cloak. They then zoomed in on the face of Mother Mary and discovered in her eyes the images of the four men in the room when the cloak was opened to reveal Mother Mary on the 12th December 1531. This means that the miraculous moment of the miracle on that day not only captured the stunning image of Beloved Mother Mary on the tilma, but also that of  Diego, interpreter, Bishop and his aid in the eyes of Mother Mary. This stunning image is similar to a digital print of today being put on a old and worn yarn of local cloth that was created over 500 years ago.

I have personally visited this magical place when Great Spirit guided me to visit a few years ago. At that time I was suffering with an injury and whilst in the presence of the shrine not only did I feel the enormity of Mother Mary and her Divine love which saturates all who visit her but was instantly healed by her love.

                                                        Divine Love and Blessings

                                                           In Weet Laak'ech

Mayan Cosmovision of the Gods

Dear Cosmic Sisters and Brothers...

Mayan Cosmo vision of the Gods

In the Mayan Cosmo vision there are three levels in which their Gods/ Goddesses are viewed upon the Tree of life. The Maya envision these as three vertical layers of this Cosmo vision.
1. The starry arch of what we call heaven. (Upper world)
2. The stony middle world (Earth)
3. The dark waters of the underworld (Underworld)
All three levels of these domains are alive, inter related and infused with sacred power. For the Maya and many of the Worlds indigenous population "What is above so is below"
These three Worlds can be described in our terms as the Physical, the Spiritual and the Cosmic realms.

The Gods and Goddesses are representatives of the Supreme being "Kili'ich HUNAB KU"  Or that which contains everything.
These deities are regents of the various levels and configurations of the Universe, and they in turn have representatives in the three vertical layers of the Underworld, the World and the Upper world.
In the Mayan Cosmo vision everything that exists contains Spirit.

Story telling plays a huge part in the Mayan culture and one which keeps alive the essence of the Gods and Goddesses for future generations.
It is also a unique way of keeping their deeper meaning hidden from those who are not Spiritually evolved enough to understand their esoteric meaning and in the process protect their ancient wisdom.
This is why the Maya and many of the Worlds ancient cultures would disguise their true meaning in a seamless myth, a metaphor story about human relationships or a natural phenomenon that occurs annually.
In this way everything that is holy to indigenous people can be kept alive in story telling, hiding it in a coded language known only by each tribe or culture and passed down from one generation to another verbally without any loss of it's true purpose and so to the casual listener nothing is ever revealed.

The ancient Maya and those who still follow the sacred traditions speak in their stories about everyday life in the village, these include the village gossip, families struggles and failures and the romance of love affairs of the people. This is a mirror to what we in the West use in our everyday soap operas on television, except the Maya use their daily struggles of  life to portray the hidden story of Spirit. And whose everyday life we see in our Western culture as the Trees, animals, plants, rocks, weather patterns and the Heart of the Sky and the Heart of the Earth.

The annual cycles of the environment are the family records of time and what the Maya perceive as being Divine. These metaphors are how the Maya are taught through story telling to accomplish the day to day activities from the Gods.  They literally read the signs given in nature as a kind of hidden instruction from the Cosmos which allows them to live a harmonious and balanced life guided by the Divine.

The Maya in their villages do not see celestial bodies as mere objects in the Sky, where in the West we refer to them with no real meaning or reverence as in the Sun or the Moon. To Maya and indigenous cultures they are sacred beings, part of their Spiritual family.
They speak to them in terms of our Father/ Father Sun and Grandmother Moon when used for Praying or when communicating to other people in their community.
If they use a direct term this would depend on location and type of tribe or culture because each has a different name for them. For example the word for Sun in Yucatec Mayan is K'in but in the K'iche Mayan it is Q'ij, similarly the Yucatec Mayan for Moon is Uc and in Tz'utujil Mayan it is Iq. All depends on the particular dialect of Maya you speak and of which there are 23 types of languages in present use.

What is a common theme for all tribes of the Maya is that the Sun and Moon are used sparingly and only when these celestial bodies are absent from the sky. They use these terms to talk about them as objective phenomena, instead of speaking about them as Spiritual family.

The Mayan stories, then show us not only what the Gods did in the beginning of time, during creation as told in the Mayan codices, but also what they continue to do today. In this way, what we do in our daily lives is also a reflection of what the Gods are continuing to do right now for indigenous cultures.
In the indigenous concept of how the Gods do things in normal village life it looks, to the less evolved as being just a natural phenomena.
Western thinking is that of the Sun only being a hot orb in the sky which comes up each day traveling through the sky and goes down at the end of the day. For uninitiated people there are no stories, no meaning therefore no connection, all of which leads to a Spiritual sickness of the Soul.

The Mayan understanding of the Sun differs because it is part of a story that has life and adds true meaning to the Sun God as a living being. Father Sun has a job which sees him rise each day by using his energy to feed the people with his warmth and giving life to the World and throughout the Cosmos. Tirelessly he works getting exhausted by the end of the day, hungry, he ends the day and feeds and sleeps before rising the next day. All indigenous cultures know this, they know by giving life to their stories they are helping to feed the Sun which feeds the very essence of what it means to be an initiated being.
They know that Father Sun works hard and has periods when he struggles like all humans do, therefore they assist Father Sun as they do Grandmother Moon and all their Gods and Goddesses with their stories, Prayers, Blessings to feed their deities.
Like a good Father, the Sun provides us with all we need to grow with warmth, light and food and the indigenous cultures are well aware that they are the children of the Sun.
Their stories keep alive the Gods and Goddesses and in the process their culture is kept alive.

They understand that sacred beings do not live in a distant World but one that is intimately connected to our own. All the stories of the ancients, all those cultures knew this which is why it is echoed throughout so called history.
Nothing is separate from us, nothing is apart from us, it cannot be because the Universe is part of everything, the everything that is the ONE.

In the Mayan Cosmo vision their Gods like us work, they sing, play, have children, suffer, get upset and are filled with love and Joy. And when they die they transform themselves, as do we.
In the environment the rocks work, as does the wind, the rivers work, all the animals work.
It is only in our preconceptions that we in the Western culture do not see stone as working, in their World, life is slow they live in another dimension which is parallel to our own.

The Gods and Goddesses of all indigenous cultures are not the Gods of the rivers, of the Sea, the Moon, the Sun or the Trees, they are the rivers, the Sea, the Moon, the Sun and the Trees.
They are entwined in folklore for a reason, for a purpose because the Ancients and the indigenous people of today still firmly believe. They have not had the veil of forgetfulness placed over them or been lost in the World of materialism. Because of this they have kept alive their traditions through their prayers and thoughts, they stand as an example to follow.

Their deities live in the Underworld and Upper World but their representatives we see all around us in this World as our natural phenomena, the Earth we walk upon, the rocks we build upon and the food we eat are all sacred manifestations of the Gods shown in our world.
They fully comprehend what it is to be part of something rather than claiming to own something. Indigenous cultures know that the land they live on does not belong to them rather they are part of that land.
We do not own the Earth we inhabit, we are merely guests here. Mother Earth carries us in the same way a tree carries fruit.
To claim to own something is destructive, to be part of something is a whole different idea altogether and something only the initiated person can fully conceive of.

                                                         Divine Love and Blessings to all

                                                                    In Weet Laak'ech
                                                                         M.Yaxk'in
                           Mayan Yuum Balum (Jaguar Priest) and Shamanic Energy Healer
                                          Teacher of Ancient Wisdom and Channeler