It's a
little crazier this year, since the end of the Mayan Calendar has a lot of misinformed people thinking that it means asteroid
collisions and the zombie apocalypse, when it's just the beginning of
a new baktun.
But
there are a lot of other holidays in this season (not to offend some
Christians who dream of world domination). I seem to discover a few
new ones each year.
A young,
upstart holiday that deserves some attention is December 12, Virgin
of Guadalupe Day.
In my
novel High Aztech
(manifesting as an ebook soon!) I pointed out that the Virgin seems
to be standing in for the Aztec Goddess Coatlicue.
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Lately,
I've been pleased to see that others have been pointing out the
Mother Goddess connection.
My wife
said that that the Virgin seems to be a user-friendly version. At
least, more so to our culture.
It's
like the Virgin was an updating of the software for a changing world.
Software that updated itself. I wonder what kind of technology we're
dealing with here?
And the
world is changing. Again. As usual.
I wonder
if what kind of updating we'll see in Baktun 14?
I'm honestly looking forward to Baktun 14. I don't know how I'll fare in it, and I really don't care. All that matters is that we have some real change, because things are a little too stale to suit me right now.
ReplyDeleteRead Gloria Anzaldúa's book "Borderlands/La Frontera." She has a great chapter on the Virgen de Guadalupe and Coatlicue (Chapter 3, "Entering into the Serpent).
ReplyDeleteGreat analogies at the end.
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