On the Cholq'ij Revolution

[teopiltzin]

GUARDIA ROJA DE AZTLAN

In this time of great social turmoil and massive upheaval around the world, there is much disenchantment among the masses of people and disillusionment with its leaders. Their leaders have largely abandoned them in their efforts to concentrate power in the hands of the view at the expense of the many. The ruling classes of the world have done their best to supress the masses through the use of the dominating cultural hegemony that makes the masses complacent to the wishes of the ruling class. There is a control machine that effects every thought and action of the masses of people, twisting their fate while in effect abusing their minds with the oppressive thought forms of the dominant culture.

In the wake of all of this, there is one way to put the power of society back into the people's hands. That is the Cholq'ij calendar. Through the use and dissemination of the sacred calendar, the Cholq'ij revolutionary is well-equiped to tackle anything the control machine can throw their way. The perpetration of the calendar into the hands of the masses serves them not only as a tool but also as a weapon to dethrone the ruling class and give the land back to the people. The Cholq'ij revolutioanry must work tirelessly to give the people the insights of the calendar as well as arm them with knowledge of their day sign and their nine symbol chart so that they have a vantage point from which to struggle for a better life, and in order to counter the dominating hegemony.

The masses must pursue the goal of a new type of society, one in which the guiding rule is the study of the nawales for personal and collective betterment of social and natural conditions. We as a society are on a route of devastating mother nature as the expense of destroying our natural habitat so that the social gluttons and their lackeys may reap the benefit of our toil, hard work, and effort. The social structure of our society benefits these people without its worth trickling down to the lower social classes. In order to counter this devastation of our earth mother, we must counter the effect that the dominating capitalist culture has on us as individuals in the social milieu. To understand the world, we need to Cholq'ij to guide us so that we may know who we are and where we should be in society as a whole.

Through the use of the sacred Cholq'ij calendar, we will instill upon the masses of people a new social hegemony, one that counters the monstrous tide of the old society in which we now inhabit. The year 2012 marks the beginning of a new age of enlightenment and social understanding that will change the way humanity thinks and acts with each other. At the vanguard of this new movement towards our destiny in 2012 and the years ahead is the Cholq'ij revolutionary.

To be a Cholq'ij revolutionary, one must first comprehend the social dimensions of the Cholq'ij. It functions as a cultural adhesive that acts as a social glue that can hold together a movement strong enough to change the face of the earth for the better while still giving us the opportunity to improve ourselves to our fullest potential as human beings while still making us responsible members of society as well.

In the year 2012 there will be a cultural revolution the likes of which we have never seen. It will revolve around the idea of a new society through which our thoughts and our actions will be free of the oppressive measures of the ruling aristocracy. Such a cultural revolution is only possible if we bring the Cholq'ij calendar to the widest and most profound masses, communicate with them, and have them understand the power vested in their mighty hands if only they would reach out and understand the sacred calendar for what it is: the tool to bring about a new era of peace and harmony. The calendar is a control system in and of itself, but the difference is that this control machine is grassroots, while the leading control machine is in the hands of the bourgeoisie. If the proletariat or masses of people use this weapon and becomes the advanced detachment of the masses of people, we can lead this new age in such a way that the cultural revolution will have a profound effect on everything the light touches.

As a means of divination, astrology, and a key to the ritual cycle, the Cholq'ij has the magnificent power to hold together such a movement. It is the road towards our better understanding of our relationship to the cosmos and will be the guiding light for those of us who want to live a new cosmic consciousness that will set the fire ablaze and nurture deep within ourselves a new cosmic understanding that will lead us to victory on our way towards 2012 and beyond. Through divination, we can better comprehend what is in store for us as we struggle to make this new society a reality. As a tool for astrology, the calendar may serve us in our understanding to trek of our life and what our deficiencies as human beings are. As a guide to the ritual cycle, we may use to calendar as a tool to set the time and date for revolutionary action by the masses of people that would best coincide with the energies of the evolving days.

At the center of the Cholq'ij cultural revolution is the daykeeper. To be a revolutionary daykeeper means spreading the revolutionary fervor to the widest and most profound levels of our collective consciousness. The goal, after all, is to bring the day signs and nine symbol chart to the entire world so that the negative capitalist hegemony may convert into a positive cosmovisionary mode of consciousness. The revolutionary mode of consciousness must spread like a wild fire through the entire planet in order for us to better live in peace and social understanding and in harmony with the cosmic law. It is first and foremost up to the youth to rise up and use the calendar in such a way that we may prosper by way of making every single person on earth know what their day energy is. Not only must they know their day energy, but they must know the daily energies of the Cholq'ij so that they may better maneuver through the galactic waves of particular energies that the Cholq'ij shows us is working in the background.

The bourgeoisie will stop a nothing to rid themselves of the empowering force that is the Cholq'ij. Only the common people can save themselves from the future disasters of the 21st century. In order to live by the calendar, the common people must first strive to understand the pertinent cycles that gives us strength and revolutionary power over our oppressors. The collective is sick of the dominating culture that is built upon greed, suffering, and the devastation of our natural environment. If we are to save this planet, we need to pursue a new goal, to institutionalize the Cholq'ij in world culture, in national culture, and first and foremost in local culture. The fifth sun is about the transformation of consciousness. But what most New Age writers leave out is that co-creation with the cosmos and the Creator is about practice rather than just thinking of a new age. I humbly applaud anyone on the road towards co-creation and cultural revolution, for ours is a noble cause that will send shock-waves around the world. May the Cholq'ij lead us to a new world consciousness! Long live the Cholq'ij Revolution!

Yours in the struggle,
--Teopiltzin

[RedStarOverChina]

Is this a joke?

[teopiltzin]

I knew this was going to happen and I am totally prepared to defend my position. Yes I might be unorthodox but its been my experience that my method and ideology does produce revolutionary results. Tell me exactly where you think i'm kidding and i'd be glad to respond.

[Invincible Summer]

I knew this was going to happen and I am totally prepared to defend my position. Yes I might be unorthodox but its been my experience that my method and ideology does produce revolutionary results. Tell me exactly where you think i'm kidding and i'd be glad to respond.

I think it's the part about the astrology and divination and the sacred calendar. No offense, but it sounds like the plot of a movie or video game.

Regardless, could you please explain how "your" method and ideology produces results? Has this been carried out before? Do tell! It sounds interesting to say the least.

[Salyut]

...what

[RedStarOverChina]

You'll have to excuse me if I do not associate the worker's movement with the Mayan civilization.

If I recall correctly, the Mayans cut off children's heart as an offering at every beginning of the Mayan calendar.

Therefore, "the use and dissemination of the sacred calendar" which you mentioned doesn't exactly inspire much love and support.

[Kléber]

Regardless, could you please explain how "your" method and ideology produces results? Has this been carried out before?In his defense, indigenous American peoples enjoyed a much better life before their culture was illegalized and persecuted. Thus, the idea is, by reclaiming lost indigenous culture, oppressed people can combat the ongoing hegemony of American imperialism. Although I think that working class-based politics are a much more productive form of revolutionary activity, cultural nationalists have some good points, and researching/preserving histories and cultures that have been written out of the historical narrative is ultimately a progressive endeavor even if it tends to go overboard in arbitrarily romanticizing/essentializing indigenous traditions.

Still, even though the Mayan calendar might be just as good, the calendar most of the world uses now is good enough. I don't think that using a different calendar is a viable strategy, and even if it could be successful, it wouldn't change much because the calendrical system is a formality - what really matters is how indigenous people are educated, employed and politically represented. Nevertheless, if Aztlán were to declare its independence and voted to make official use of the Cholq'ij calendar, that would be their right as an independent state, efficiency be damned. At the very least, it would be good to teach children of all cultures more about how the Mayans and other indigenous American peoples had relatively advanced mathematical and scientific traditions that were violently suppressed by colonialism.

It's true as RSOC notes that there were reactionary feudal traditions in Mayan culture, like the culture of any society that had developed agriculture and split into antagonistic classes, but the sacrifices are exaggerated in popular consciousness, there is actually no evidence that Mayan rulers carried out more public executions than say English lords in the same period. I know more about the Aztecs than the Maya but not all cities or priestly orders condoned sacrifice, in fact some were strongly anti-sacrifice. Indigenous cultural nationalism may seem outlandish to those unfamiliar with it but it is a natural response to the obscurantist cultural policies of imperialism that attempted to force indigenous peoples to "Hispanize," "Christianize" and "whiten" while literally destroying their "pagan" culture.

[teopiltzin]

Frankly, I don't care about the bloody history of the Mesoamerican civilizations of old. That's the past. The Maya people do not sacrifice people anymore. I am not trying to mimick the Maya people. The calendar is a treasure for all the peoples of the world. They just don't know it yet.

My method has not been used by other people to be honest it has not produced the results I have wished for. But I did start a small group of calendar enthusiast that were down with the movement towards real freedom. My method is a poison to the capitalist Establishment. With the sacred calendar you could foretell the mood and feeling and even the future of a particular society. It is a dialectical methodology which can be applied to a people or peoples to set them free from the shackles of oppression. How is it dialectical? Well, once a person has become familiar with their day-sign or horoscope sign, they begin to understand the relationships and contradictions in their own life and in their social organization as a whole. They begin to understand their place in the world, their weaknesses, and their good traits.

This is useful to the revolutionary in that once you know someone else's day-sign, you will also come to know their strengths a weaknesses which will help them in their ideological development as a revolutionary socialist. The basic idea behind the sacred calendar is that its year approximates the period of human gestation and shows us how we continue to grow as the cycles role by. It can be used against the imperialist control mechanism in many ways. It's like a virus to current order. Every single person that I have met and have had their sign read to them gains a deeoper understanding of themselves and the world as a whole.

You may forecast through divination the moves, attacks, and counter attacks of the imperialists, for the divinatory calendar has been proven my anthropologist to be the most accurate in the whole world. Look it up. You can analyze history through the scope of the Cholq'ij and come to an understanding of how to approach future social change. I use sorcery as a weapon against our oppressors. Yes, you may say sorcery is a ridiculous superstition, but even if you use it only as a psychological model that may or may not be true, it will instill upon the revolutionary a sensitivity to the movement of movements and to the waves of time as they stroll by. I do not use the calendar in the same way as the traditional Ajq'ijs from Guatemala do. The body is a microcosm of the universe and the Maya understood this. If you come to understand yourself in a distinct new way you will leave alienation in the dust and be truly free. There are many social experiment you can create through the use of the calendar in a group of people. My own group studied the calendar and became more attuned to the pace of their own lives and began to know each other in very real and deep ways. It may also be used, depending on a person's sign, a way to determine the division of labor within the revolutionary organization.

This may seem far-fetched, but it works for me and for the others that have applied it to their own personal and collective liberation. The Cholq'ij is the greatest scientific creation and legacy of the Mesoamerican people and was the cornerstone of their entire world-view and way of life. But I, in my own practice, have internalized what applies to socialism what does not. I have tried to strip it bare to its foundations. Of course, if you are not of Mesoamerican heritage, it may be a little bit harder to accept or understand. But it holds wide appeal to the masses of Aztlan and of Mexico as a whole. The defect is that I am the only Revolutionary Nahualli on the planet. But that will change. Call me what you'd like, but I will hang around for a while. I just wanted to see what you socialists thought about my path. It will deepen my understanding of what i'm trying to do. But I ask that you be constructive and to point out the contradictions in my method so that I may transform it into something more genuine. The preservation of our culture demands that we be militant and tightly-knit in order to combat the aggressor and his lackeys.

Yours in the struggle,
Teopiltzin

[al8]

(To mods; This article is built on a philosophically idealistic New Age religion. This should be in the religion sub-section. )

Why should every nation embrace a Mayan calender, instead of just of each area reverting to it's pagan calender? You know Icelanders could reinstate the pagan months and weekdays, Slavs taking from their old pagan traditions etc.

The smartest thing though would be to institute a functional calender (http://en.technocracynet.eu/index.php?option=com_fireboard&func=view&id=13234&catid=95#13234).

[teopiltzin]

ON THE REVOLUTIONARY APPLICATIONS OF THE CALENDAR

In order for us to start a magickal cultural revolution of a new type, we must first have a firm grasp on a magickal paradigm. It is in the ancient and contemporary Maya that we find an adequate paradigm that will suites our purposes fairly well. Through praying and manipulating the energies of the Cholq'ij calendar, we may come to know not only ourselves but the world around us and how we interact with the spiritual dimension life. The calendar gives us powers and techniques beyond compare anyone else in the world. We must strive to bring this calendar to the broad masses of people so that they may develop what we will term New Power. This New Power, in the hands of the people, will open new paths to not only enlightenment but also to a new mode of communal and tribal life, an egalitarian society developed and built by using the Cholq'ij calendar in a new and revolutionary way.

There are many techniques here that are of use to the revolutionary nahualli. First, we must learn to commune with our own nawal in order to pursue self-knowledge and self-criticism and develop ourselves in a never-ending spiral of fulfillment and learning. We may then use our nawal actively in any endeavor or pursuit that may interest us at the current time. Your nawal is the basic archetype that influences you throughout the course of your life. Through its revolutionary application, you may send it off into space, into the the heavens or into the underworld, to do jobs for you, to bring back information for you, and even to influence other people and world events. But these techniques are too advanced for us to deal with adequately at the present moment. All we must know is that it is the source of our life-force and any connection we have to it cannot be severed. It cannot be stolen from you by other sorcerers as is the case with ones nahualli or guardian spirit.

As has been mentioned elsewhere, the sacred calendar is the key to the Web of Power. This web can be used effectively in many shamanistic and sorcerous work. At our date of birth, the great Web of Power is directed by the Creator to infuse us with our life-long spirit helper and companion, our nawal, so that it may protect us, guide us, show us our strengths and our weaknesses, and to give us a tool to develop our inner serpent power. To access this Web of Power, we may use a set of various techniques, such inhibitory methods such as meditation, solitude, contemplation and sacred postures or fasting, or excitatory forms of methods which include drumming, dancing, singing, chanting, intoning, ingesting entheogens, and generally anything that gets your heart pumping. The shamanic journey, which will be dealt with in more detail in another thread, can also give you access to the great Web of Power. I will try to guide you through the techniques of using the nawales in your sacred journeys through other dimensions. But that is an advanced topic better dealt with at another time.

Another useful set of techniques when using the calendar is working with the mnemonic phrases. The mnemonic phrases are used by Quiche diviners in Guatemala as advanced constructs or symbols in order for them to remember the immense mantic information hidden deep within the calendar. I will not guide you through this type of divination as I am not an Ajq'ij, but we may touch upon it at a later time. The phrases are a short play on words on each day-sign. They should not be taken as a literal interpretation of the meaning of the sign. They do, however, become useful in meditative contemplation of ones life. Today, for example, is 10 Cauac or 10 Rain, and the mnemonic is: "to hold water, to plant or set out," "gather together gossip, trouble, or harassment." This means that on this day we hold much resentment and suffer. For this to be cured we must "set the table for the gods," another mnemonic for this day. We must appease the gods so that we may find equilibrium and harmony on our road of life.

Here is a list of the mnemonics:

IMIX: "one becomes possessed or crazy," "a big enemy," "humble oneself before truth."
IK: "one became annoyed," "an enemy is against one," "strong, wild, violent," "frenzy, fury, madness."
AKBAL: "opening at dawn," "to blame of lies, tricks, and slander."
KAN: "to burn in nets and heaps," "to be in debt."
CHICCHAN: "he is weeping," "the enemy."
CIMI: "asking for good," "the deceased," "marriage."
MANIK: "mounting," "talker."
LAMAT: "harvest," "it ripens," "to have corn and money," "sowing and planting," "feeder," "sunset."
MULUC: "to pay," "illness, pain."
OC: "to be dirty, soiled, stained, impure," "jealous words," "it isn't certain."
CHUEN: "to spin," "to roll up," "winding," "asking."
EB: "the good road," "the straight road."
BEN: "in the house," "at the place," "mixing," "in the patrilineage."
IX: "to withdraw, remove, to be free," "before the Earth."
MEN: "to cry for," "to ask for," "money, silver."
CIB: "pardoning your sins there before the sky, before god, before Earth, before the ancestors."
CABAN: "he was thinking good thoughts," "he was thinking bad thoughts," "to think, meditate, argue, resolve, conclude, or worry."
ETZNAB: "telling lies," "slandering," "trampling lips," "to conceal from ones family," "fighting."
CAUAC: "to hold water, to plant or set out," "gather together gossip, trouble, or harassment."
AHAU: "ancestor's day," "before the ancestors," "the ancestors already know."

It is also important to use this information responsibly. The day-signs whether in extended, astral, or mnemonic form, can be very dangerous if used by a malevolent sorcerer. He may hurl the spirit of the nawales while concentrating on a particular mnemonic phrase to a certain target. This may cause soul-loss in the target. He may also use it as a vehicle to send a malicious magickal object into the victim's body. The only way to counter such an attack is to have the protection of your nawal, to employ your nine symbol chart (which will be dealt with elsewhere), and to pray to correct aztec power. A sorcerer is no match for this sort of astral preparation. Such preparation makes one immune to not only soul-loss, but empacho, mal ojo or the evil eye, susto, as well as other spiritual illnesses.

I will try to gather my thoughts so that I may expand on what I have written here. There are many many techniques that may be drawn from the sacred Cholq'ij calendar. As you have already seen, there is much power in the nawales but it can become very easy to manipulate these forces for evil deeds. It is important, if one wants to become a revolutionary nahualli, to help people get past their insecurities and help them become warriors of light rather than darkness. It can become very easy to be seduced by the forces of evil, therefore it takes a strong sense of will-power to stay afloat with the proper balance and the correct respect for the environment and its creatures. It is your responsibility to the gatekeeper of the greater good. It is up to you to use your new powers to fight against the forces of the dark void and chaos. The sacred calendar, in all its manifestations, helps us bring order out of chaos, and transform this energy into something usable by the nahualli in his various pursuits.

[teopiltzin]

THE WAY OF THE REVOLUTIONARY NAHUALLI

On December 21, 2012, there will be big changes in the world. The veils of reality will be lifted and universal enlightenment will reign. But this will come about only if we come together to work out our ills in time for the coming of the New Sun. In this age of environmental crisis, war, starvation, and spiritual decay, there is much need for a new magickal solution. In order to bring about change in this new era, there must be people in the world that understand the nature of the universal life force and its secrets, in order to help the world progress to this new age with little difficulty. It is up to the shaman to be a mediator between the community and the spirit world, for only the shaman knows the extraterrestrial planes of existence, and only he can walk between the world of the tonalli and the nahualli. The Aztec way of magick is more relevant today then it has ever been. I have been asked by my elders in the spirit world and by the Aztec gods to create this message board in order to help spread the sacred knowledge that has been largely lost to the bloody cries and memories of the ancient indigenous people of Mexico.

I have set out the create a magickal order of a distinct and new type. We gather inspiration from all the shamanic traditions of the world, and we accept other shaman's influence in the spiritual and material world. But they are not our adversaries. All traditional shamanic cultures have a special place in this mysterious world. This magickal order will be a training ground for anyone interested in the ways of the revolutionary nahualli. I call it Guardia Roja de Aztlan because red is the color that the ancient aztec books were written in. It is symbol that binds us by blood to the aztec powers. And the word Aztlan represents our ancestral homeland from which the ancient Mexica sprang and roamed through the desert until they arrived at Tenochtitlan, where the eagle stood on a cactus devouring a serpent. It was an omen interpreted by the ancient shamans that meant the Mexica had found a new homeland. But the spiritual memory of Aztlan stills lives on. It still resides there, in the spirit world, guiding the evolution of the Mexica people from afar and always protected by Huitzilopochtli from the heavens.

Special nahuallis are given the special gift from their patron gods to magickally transport themselves to specific regions of the spirit world. Whether through shamanic journeying or through dream, we are carried to this regions and given information relevant to our daily and spiritual lives. An aztec shaman can astral travel to either the upper-world of the thirteen heavens or the nine underworlds. In the thirteen heavens, you can gain insights into the secrets of creation for it is their that you may meet the gods and plead to them your ills and troubles so that they may help you on the road of your life. It is here that we may find our helping spirits and human form so that they may help us by divining information, tell us of future events, and help us attain the sacred knowledge of the aztec cosmovision. The revolutionary nahualli must be of strong will and character in order to accomplish his first mission. He can be an instrument of his community to communicate with higher powers to safeguard the well being of their people and send messages and prayers to the aztec powers.

Only the nahualli is capable of undertaking this task. For it is only he that possesses the spiritual fortitude and skill to travels to these vast regions beyond time and space without inviting death or insanity. It is the first step in the initiation of the shaman to travels these world and gain mastery of it. It is said that it only takes one time in these special places in ones life to gain spiritual enlightenment and the power necessary to tackle the obstacles of daily existence. The next mission in the life of the nahualli is taking a journey to the nine underworld, all the way to the region of the dead. You must first go to through all of the successive heavens, one by one, until you come face to face with the supreme ruler of the universe. You then pray to him and ask him for permission to go to the aztec underworld. It is here where, once completed, the shaman faces first experience dismemberment, where he is cut to pieces by the spirits and then is reborn with a new body and new eyes so that he could see spirit in the material world. I will attempt to write guides to these places according to my own experience with them in due time. But until then, all I must say is that to stare death in the face and then make it your ally is what makes a nahualli a fearless warrior in the world of tonalli.

In the underworld, there are two particular regions which are of interest to the nahualli. The first is Tlalocan. This is the paradise reigned over by Tlaloc, god of rain and thunder, and Chalchiutlicue, goddess of water. Here, we will find vast cities, lakes, and rivers, guarded by Tlaloc's assistants, the Tlaloque. They are the ones that bring about rains, storms, famines, and droughts. They are masters at weather working and can influence human affairs in many ways. You can invoke them once you make them spirit helpers, but before then, you must face many trials. You must come face to face with Tlaloc, and much feared and revered god of ancient aztec times. In Tlalocan, the shaman may gain information about hunting game, current weather conditions, and influence the weather by transporting themselves there in their dreams. The entry into Tlalocan is a whirlpool into which the nahualli throws himself only to later find himself in Tlalocan.

Another region of interest is Mictlan, land of the dead. To get to Mictlan, you must first find an entry into the earth, usually through shamanic journeying to the world tree. Climb down the roots of the world tree until you find yourself facing the god Xolotl in the form of a black down. You cannot take your allies or your talismans with you to the region of the dead. You can only take water, a dog, and gifts for Mictlantecuhltli, the guardian of the underworld. You must complete nine trials to go into Mictlan which for the deceased, when they are trying to find eternal peace, usually last for four years. The various applications of going into Mictlan are endless. You could become a psychopomp and guide the spirits of the dead the their humble resting place, or you could engage in necromancy and bring back the spirits of the dead and particular spirits like the Cihuateteo, which I will deal with in a later thread.

The instant we enter this world, that is, when the supreme dual-creator god Ometeotl looks down to earth from his thrown in Omeyocan and decides to bring you forth from the substance of the universe, you are given life. Not only this--you are endowed by the Creator with a predetermined fate. This has been captured in aztec culture by the creation of the sacred Tonalpouhalli calendar. This predetermined fate is determined by the day of our birth, which transmits to the offspring what is known as tonalli or life force. The world of the tonalli is the mundane world, the place of everyday occurences and material existence. The aztec calendar not only determines our destiny, but also the face or shadow one assumes in the world of matter. This face determines our personality, our propensities, our gifts, our flaws as individuals, but most importantly, our powers. Everybody has powers that are either known or unknown to them during the course of their life. But to understand this power by way of the tonalli is the first glimpse at the world of the nahualli.

The nahualli is many things, but the most tangible of these are: your spiritual twin or guardian spirit given to you by the universe in order to guide and help you throughout your life. It assumes the shape of an animal and often times comes to you in a vision or dream when you are young. Shamans go on vision quests to find their nahualli, usually as part of their shamanic initiation. Another defition of the term nahualli is that of a shaman or sorcerer reputed to be able to shapeshift into their nahualli in a shamanic journey or dreams. For this to become possible, the nahualli must first have total certainty of what his nahualli is, and then achieve total mastery over it as time goes by. As a concept of the universe, the nahualli represents the unknown forces of the planet, the spirit world, and that which is intangible. It is a symbol of magick and the occult. To tap into our inherent tonalli powers given to us by our day-signs in the sacred calender can lead to us, through intensive training and discipline, and through the techniques of solitude and meditation, to harness the power of nahualli.

A nahualli is best gifted as one who transforms into animals during the night, in his sleep. Through this technique, the nahualli is given the supernatural attributes of whichever animal he possesses. He can have the wisdom of the horned own, the nose of of wolf, the grace of a hummingbird, or the strength and speed of a jaguar. The revolutionary nahualli has the magickal ability to capture power animals or nahuallis at will so that he may have a team of powerful spirit helpers at his disposal to accomplish certain shamanic task. He can visit others in their dreams, travel into even vaster regions of the upper and lower worlds, come to understand the true nature of their nahualli and have a special connection to animal wisdom and medicine.

In order to become a nahualli, you must find your day-sign or nawal from the day of your birth. To do this, you need an almanac with the information about the pertinent cycles of calendar correlated to the gregorian calendar. Special days on which nahuallis are born and that are much feared are 1-Quiahuiltl and 1-Ehecatl. These are days when the veils of the spirit world are thin and we are better able to enter into its glorious splendor. But even if you were not born on these days, you can still become a nahualli. You need to find the patron god of the thirteen day week on which you were born and the patron god of the your tonalli. The patron god of my trecena is Chalchiutotlin, and of my day Tonatiuh. This is why I am by birth a Chalchiutotolin Nahualli. I was born on the day 11-Quiahuitl, so I could still be a very good nahualli. We all have our strengths and our weaknesses according to our nawal, but some of us are endowed with what is known as by the Ajqij of Guatemala as "body lighting." This lighting in the blood gives the shaman a special ability to receive messages from the spirit world and become sensitive medium for the spirit of the nahualli. There are specific days in the calendar on which one is born with coyopa. This will be dealt with at a later time.

In order to make this magickal order a success, we need dedicated magicians and shamans to train here in order to better serve the world and the aztec gods. With the knowledge of the sacred calendar, with the techniques of ecstacy and mastery of spirits, we will embark on a perilous journey, one which entails much suffering, but in the end, once we attain our spiritual rebirth and awakening, we will be ready to be reintegrated into the world as healing shamans. We will integrate many shamanic traditions in our practice, but we will not stray far from our new shamanic lineage. With much training, hard work, and dedication, there is no telling what we could do. We could change the world in the name of the new era and create a cultural revolution of a shamanistic character. We will be the soldiers and spiritual warriors of the Great Spirit, using only our wits and our souls as weapons to ward off evil from this earth and help those who have requested our aid.

The road is uncertain, but we will find our way. I in no way, shape, or form suggest that I am a traditional nahualli. But in the name of my aztec blood, and in the name of my ancestors, in the name of Huitzolopochtli, in the name of the plumed serpent, the name of the jeweled-fowl, let us take control of our predetermined calendar fate, for only by mingling with the gods can we achieve immortality in this world and change our destiny. I can only show you the way, but you must walk the path. May the gods protect and bless you. May Chiconahui protect your household. May Yocatecuhtli give you much work. And may Quetzalcoatl bring you knowledge, wisdom, and culture!

Yours in the struggle,
--Teopiltzin

[al8]

I just wanted to see what you socialists thought about my path. It will deepen my understanding of what i'm trying to do. But I ask that you be constructive and to point out the contradictions in my method so that I may transform it into something more genuine. The preservation of our culture demands that we be militant and tightly-knit in order to combat the aggressor and his lackeys.

Quite frankly Teopiltzin this is a theoretical error. The propagation of such a side-religion based on mesoamerican paganism will not help with cohesion. This expansionist lust will only create friction and divides with other people who hold other positions such as atheists and people of other pagan beliefs such as Norse mythology, Wiccan or what have you.

It also unhealthy to take up what ever of ones cultural heritage and preserve it. One must take the best and discard the worst. Taking up an old superstitions is not the way to go, but preserving clothing, the language, the poetry, keeping domestic cultural production alive etc. is of positive value.