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by Darryl
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� One of the gods highlighted in The Christ Conspiracy, and even more so in Suns of God, is the Mesoamerican deity Kukulkan or Quetzalcoatl. � In Christ Con, it is included the fact that mainstream scholarship does not allow for contact between the �Old� and �New� Worlds, but I suggested that the presence of the �mythos� or mythical archetype in Mexico centuries before �first contact� would serve as an indication that there was pre-Columbian contact. � (However, the core shared traditions may also predate the first migrations of peoples into the Americas, possibly traceable to back to Africa or points in between. Some of these parallels may also emanate from observations of globally detectable natural phenomena directly from a local perspective.) � After making the above disclaimer, I commented:
In both books, it is quoted and cited the abundant scholarship reflecting what the conquistadors/Jesuits themselves had recounted, common knowledge among modern comparative religion and Mesoamerican scholars. � Indeed, these correspondences were so commonly recognized that many natives reportedly converted to Christianity with relatively little effort because of the similarities between their religion and that of the Christians. � As American anthropologist Dr. C. Scott Littleton (1933-2010) remarks:
I continue to explore how this phenomenon has come to be and to raise this issue of the Mesoamerican correspondences to Christianity, included in 2012 Astrotheology Calendar:
These contentions are all cited using modern research such as can be found in National Geographic - Essential Visual History of World Mythology (pag. 391 - below images), articles on Wiki, which have been vetted for accuracy, and primary sources wherever possible. � �
� � � � Virgin Birth? � As concerns the virgin birth, it is clear that such a concept was understood to have been applied to a �priest-king� named Quetzalcoatl. � Based on the abundantly pervasive concept of the virgin birth found elsewhere, as well as the fact that kings, priests and other �authorities� have frequently been identified with or as gods, it is logical to suggest that the attribute attached to the supposed �king� Quetzalcoatl was also that of the god. � In Living Myths - How Myth Gives Meaning to Human Experience, under the entry �The Story of Quetzalcoatl: The Hero Becomes a God,� classical scholar J.F. Bierlein summarizes this issue:
Concerning the birth of this composite figure, Bierlein further states:
A third story of Quetzalcoatl�s birth is directly tied to his identify as a deity of the sun and planet Venus. � In this story, Quetzalcoatl is the son of a mother who already has four thousand children who have left her and now form the stars of the Milky Way. This mother was saddened to be alone and have her children so far from her bosom. She began to weep from longing. � Onteotl took pity on her in her loneliness and caused a feather of the sacred quetzal bird to drift� � Some of the pertinent information concerning Quetzalcoatl�s virgin birth can be found in the Codices Telleriano-Remensis and Vaticanus A, folio 27v, from a Spanish commentator, Pedro de los Rios. � Once more, many of these commonalities between Christ and Quetzalcoatl were remarked upon by the first non-native chroniclers, not a few of whom were so mortified to find basically their entire religion among the �savages� that they felt the need to destroy thousands of Mesoamerican writings and artifacts. � � � |
