Notes: game on...on the radio...Dodgers at Pirates...rolled out for dog supplies, and voted...have no idea who to vote for...read the pamphlet, some candidates without statements, some without pics, some not even in it...apparently the mass mailing state pamphlet is low priority...voted for a few...left a lot blank...let fate sort them out...Angels game later...maybe roll out to see...have an hour...maybe enough to continue a bit from yesterday's post...this like the twenty sixth post in a series...see previous...it caught my eye, the codice illustration of a little temple with step fret in the cornice, and the god sitting inside...a common pic in these codices...so, so. looked it up...K...K...K...to bottom of 1st...
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from yesterday wiki quote
The image from the Codex Fejérváry-Mayer (more recently re-named the Tonalamatl de los Pochtecas or Merchants’ Almanac) shows the god of song, poetry, and music, Xochipilli, in his temple, which has the same pattern style clearly displayed in the roof.
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so, so, I looked up Xochipilli....
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Xochipilli [ʃu˕ːt͡ʃiˈpiɬːi] is the god of art, games, beauty, dance, flowers, and song in Aztec mythology. His name contains the Nahuatl words xochitl ("flower") and pilli (either "prince" or "child"),
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xochipilli
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I dunno...:)...anyway, reading that page, at the bottom, the references, I noted:
^ Jump up to: a b Wasson, Robert Gordon (1980). The Wondrous Mushroom: Mycolatry in Mesoamerica. McGraw-Hill. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-07-068443-0
and thought to do search I've done before: Robert Gordon Wasson Robert Graves...in the beginning of his Greek Myths, Graves relates his experience with magic mushrooms...home run for Peterson...Dodgers 2-0...and in a 1957 Life magazine story, Wasson relates his experiences in Mexico with magic mushrooms...the two of them were pals...this is all very suspicious to me, as Wasson was part of the 'cast' I gathered together studying the jfk mystery...and that cast I came to from the 'cast' I put together studying the sinking of the USS Panay and Old China...these 'casts'...the 'usual suspects', are quite a bunch...my study of the Panay, lead to the study of jfk, because the China cast had members in the Washington cast...note Claire Booth Luce in China, and that's a thread end to untangle that ball of yarn!...I often stepped back, scratching my head, asking, 'how can all these people be so connected!...it's very strange, and I had to add Robert Graves, one of my favorite poets, to the 'cast'...detectives have their story board boards, pics of persons of interest with captions and linkages...the one I have of these 'casts' is extensive...top of 2nd...anyway, I did the search, and found two new sites to me, which are extensive in their own fashion!....brb....
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Apart from his fascination for mushrooms as objects of ancient worship, what was also of great interest to Graves was the relationship of the mushroom trance to the poetic trance. His letter of 22 October 1955 contains a fascinating explanation of how he along with Keats, Coleridge, Shakespeare, and Spenser - possessed "that capacity for seeing things in the weird romantic light usually known as 'glamour'." This was the state, he wrote, that Wasson had experienced under the influence of mushrooms.
http://en.psilosophy.info/the_mythophile_and_the_mycophile_robert_graves_and_r._gordon_wasson.html
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hmmph...'glamour'...
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Perhaps the most famous representation of the god in art is the Late Post-Classical Period (1450-1500 CE) statue, a masterpiece of Aztec sculpture, now residing in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. The statue is 1.2 metres high and has Xochipilli seated on a temple platform (or perhaps a drum) which is decorated with butterflies, flowers and clusters of four dots representing the sun. Xochipilli is wearing a mask and is himself covered in flowers from psychotropic plants, hallucinogenic mushrooms and animal skins. Cross-legged and care-free the god is portrayed happily singing and playing his rattles, a vibrant symbol of all the good things in life.
https://www.ancient.eu/Xochipilli/
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It has been suggested by Wasson,[3] Schultes,[full citation needed] and Hofmann[full citation needed] that the statue of Xochipilli represents a figure in the throes of entheogenic ecstasy. The position and expression of the body, in combination with the very clear representations of hallucinogenic plants which are known to have been used in sacred contexts by the Aztec support this interpretation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xochipilli
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Dodger's picked up another run...Dodgers 3-0...well, if I leave off and hurry, I can make it to the Angels game...to be continued...
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