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
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