(urth) Wolfe as Heretic

[brunians at brunians.org]

The most important part of the Toxcatl ritual was the sacrifice of a young
man who had been impersonating Tezcatlipoca since the last Toxcatl
festival, and the selection of a new man to take that role in the year to
come.

The youth chosen to be the ixiptlatli (impersonator) of Tezcatlipoca was
normally a war captive. He was taught courtly speech, singing and to play
the flute. Throughout the year he would parade in the streets of
Tenochtitlan and be treated with great reverence.

His skin was painted black except for a ribbon across his eyes, he was
dressed in precious jewellery and cotton embroidered clothes. He wore a
snail-shell lip pendant, eagle down headdress, turquoise bracelets and
golden bells on his ankles.

He walked about the city playing the flute, smoking tobacco and smelling
flowers, and people would salute him as the living image of the god. At
the building called Quauhxicalco he would sometimes burn copal incense and
play his flute.

Several times during the year he would meet with the Aztec ruler, the
tlatoani, who would ritually adorn him. In the month of Huey Tozoztli
which preceded Toxcatl, he would be ritually wed to four maidens who
impersonated the goddesses Xochiquetzal, Xilonen, Atlatonan and
Huixtocihuatl, and he lived with them for twenty days.

Four days before the main ceremony the tlatoani secluded himself in his
palace and the Tezcatlipoca impersonator and his four wives paraded
through the city. On the fifth day they travelled by canoe to a place
called Acaquilpan, here he was left to himself by his wives near the
temple Tlacochcalco ("In the House of Darts"). He then freely walked up
the stairs of the pyramid, breaking a flute on each step. At the summit
the priests would lay him on a sacrificial stone, open his chest with an
obsidian dagger, and remove his heart.

He was beheaded and his skull was placed on the tzompantli (skull rack),
his body was flayed and his flesh was distributed among the nobles of the
city and eaten. The warcaptive who was to be the next impersonator of
Tezcatlipoca also took part in the flesh and probably also wore the skin
of his predecessor.

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> That's also right.
>
> It's interesting to reflect that Arjuna is the Left Handed Archer.
>
> Arjuna uses his bow from both sides.
>
> When we die, it is God that kills us.
>
> He is closer to you than your jugular vein.
>
> Are you familiar with the observance of Toxcatl, Dan'l?
>
>
> .
>
>
>> I'm familiar with Tezcatlipoca as Necoc Yaotl, "The Enemy on Both
>> Sides."
>>
>> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:03 PM,  <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>>> A regular enemy is the enemy on the right.
>>>
>>> The Enemy on the Left is a title of Tezcatlipoca.
>>>
>>> Another of His titles is the Smoking Mirror.
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>>> Who is the Enemy on the Right?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:30 PM,  <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>>>>> God's got our best interests in mind, and all, but that's from His
>>>>> point
>>>>> of view.
>>>>>
>>>>> God is the Person who kills every one of us.
>>>>>
>>>>> God is the Enemy on the Left.
>>>>>
>>>>> .
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> And it's a great pun.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Wouldn't want to overinterpret, but if Latro is hunting (seeking)
>>>>>> something in a world where gods present themselves to him daily,
>>>>>> what
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> he seeking except which god to worship? Indeed, which god would a
>>>>>> Christian worship if he lived before Christ?
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> Message: 4
>>>>>> Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 11:37:56 -0400
>>>>>> From: John Watkins <john.watkins04 at gmail.com>
>>>>>> To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net>
>>>>>> Subject: Re: (urth) Wolfe as Heretic
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>>>>>> The last to know was me, reading this just now!  I thought it meant
>>>>>> "hunter"
>>>>>> and was a reference to his desire to regain his memories.  I missed
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> pun.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:32 AM, David Stockhoff
>>>>>> <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And now I grasp another layer of meaning in Latro's name.
>>>>>>> Am I always the last to know? ;)
>>>>>>>
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>> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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