Friday, May 8, 2009

The Scorpion Goddess

For Carlos:
The scorpion appears in ancient Egyptian iconography (as the Goddess Serkert, for instance), and in the carved game boards discovered in Jiroft, Iran in 2001, and here in Mayan iconography.
dondelion says the symbolism is universal. Mother Scorpion, who dwells at the end of the Milky Way and is many breasted, reminds me of the ancient Ephesian Artemis who was many-breasted. Rhea was said to have pressed her breast and her milk formed the stars of the Milky Way.

7 comments:

Unknown said...

...oh, isn't she a darling. she stung the milky way into being, the galactic myth is a misnomer
probably from the greek, as,
calaqui(N)=enter the house(which
a scorpion does)= c/galaxi/qui.
her name in mayan=tzek, which also
means: spindle,whorl,mushroom,
sheath(of palm,cane),fruiting stalk,and most telling, skirt.
the weaving sisterhood appears
to have spread her worship, by
looking at the mayan wordlist.
the mayan were from the gulf of ormuz across the strait from
babylon, the 2d coming of quetzalcoatl, proto-christ and
(c)raftsman(a departure pun),
home of the weaving goddess and
mother of birdsnake, lady birdsnake
herself, and persian home of
perseus, father of hecate/ehecatl
(N/day2booktunes) according to
gk myth.
let's examine her names with
letra, ah, se(r)ke(r)t, yeah,
the egyptian/cipactli(N/day1tunes)=
(s)c(r)ipt has (r)inclusive, so
if the mayans took off from the
gulf ormuz at 1.5k bc, then inclusive (r) is late, not minoan,
at least for that area, as,
s/ce(r)k, or it may be they
arrived in amerindia before 1.5k bc
and missed the (r)injection from
the east, but the egyptians, being
on the levant end of the silk trail
didn't. so s/c/tzek(mayan), source to, tzecoa/tzicoa(Nauatl)/stick(E),
which jibes with the mayan/egyptian
meaning of scorpion/colotl(N)/
spindle/skirt.
ah, she has 4 pairs of walking legs,the number of teats she is
carrying in the glyph basket,
now 8/ocho/tochtli(N/day8tunes),
from, toca/ to/our being/ca,
so yes, she/tzec/se(r)ke(r)t
sows/seeds the(as phosphorescent
as she, tzec is,) milky way, and
not only that some of her species
are parthenogenic, which is quite
a relief to mythographers and
women in general, i.e., no male
skygod intervention.
so, to keep abreast(pun)
of myth, the earliest injection
of milk into the galaxy is from
the mayan glyph of tzec.tks

Unknown said...

...by the way, jan, those are 8 stars tzec is carrying in the glyph,probably the pleiades star
cluster in the maia/maya
(a synchronicity)nebula. the mayans called pleiades, tzab-ek,
those are founding words in
nauatl, tzab/tzapinia(N)=pinch/
tzapoyo, tzapoquauhtla, tzapoquauitl(N)=what has fruit,
fruit orchard, fruit tree/
tzaptic(N)=sharp, tzaptli(N)=spine,
thorn/tzapa(N)=dwarf. hmmmm,
i think i can see a creation myth there, the glalxy would be snow white/blanca nieves. ah, -ek=
heck hecate ehecatl, goddess of
wind, weaving, creator deity.
the persians called pleiades,
sorayya= tzol/r ya(N)=tzoliuhyan=
tzoliui yan(N)=compressed space.
the babylon star catalogue:
mul mul= molli molli(N)= salsa
salsa(still heard today in the
tianguiz=the aztec name for
the pleiades, moloni(N)=
momoloca(N/freq. of moloni)=
bubble, surge, flow, extend.
molonia(N/name,maloney)=to card
wool. actually wikiped says,
tianguis=pleiades, but the word
i find is, miec(N)=mucho/much, which is also used for freeman
in polish=kmiec, used during
their g(r)odi=tlacotli(N)=slave
(dakota)city-building period.
and lastly, krittika(hindu),
which, applying letra= k(r)ittika=
k(r)/cetia(N)=unite/sit/set,
-tika= t/tzek/tzicoa(N)=root(stick). the 8 legs of tzek would
match the 7/8(visible)stars of
the pleiades. what keen observers
the ancients were, everything was
(and is)connected: a scorpion and
the heavens. there are scorplings
at gobekli. tell matilda. tks

dondelion said...

Dear Carlos,

Your comments weave a fascinating tapestry and have struck a chord with me. Like the history of the pawn, it is difficult to know where to begin because there is so much to be said about "First Times" and how our human understanding of the cosmos effected the invention of chess and chaturanja. As I see it, the secrets of many earlier board game compositions dwell in the stars and the way the great minds of the past proposed to bring them down to earth and make ideas of navigation portable and more easily communicated even among peoples whose language had evolved differently.

And there is also the reverse side of the same concept - an inner context - which showed human beings a sacred way back to the stars that birthed them once our fires had grown cold and we no longer breathed life.

Then too, there is the sacred way of dying and being reborn before our natural course was run... a rehearsal for the second and final stage of our voyage back to the stars. This is what chess pawns attempt to do - this is what they strive to become while the game is still in flux. As Ian Fleming wrote, You Only Live Twice. The Egyptians thought such an event - pawn promotion - was "very good". I'm sure Lazarus would agree... and maybe that other Carlos - Castenada too.

We do not know which culture began to organize knowledge in this way and it may not matter since the mandate of heaven is also the mandate of earth.

a bientot

Don

Unknown said...

...the more i look at game/gamen(OE)/gaman(ON)/gammon, the more
it looks like the original for
g(r)ammer, which is: g/camatl(N)=
mouth. the mind always has to seek
another grammer, another voice to express itself in. and games were
the answer, put your money where your mouth is, is the grammar of game, the betting impulse.
aztecs were so gone on gaming/
betting/petla(N)=to throw, that
laws had to be passed now and then
to stop the ruinous practice,
akin to prohibition in our times.
so i think, that just like
tennis/tentli(N)=lip, gaming accents(pun)the mouth, altho
in tennis, tentli(N)/lip was an admonition not to talk as
the court ladys were weary of
discussions that led to the point
of a rapier and the(e)te(r)nity(tl)
lipping off implied.
the splayfoot pawn/peón, note
he can't take a piece head on because of his lowly rank, but
promotion will make him a queen.
my gay friends make a lot
of this, but i always remind them a pawn may equally be a side-slip
bishop, a horse, or a crossroad
rook as the crow flies, but promotion should be chosen on
basis of what ends the game
in shortest time.
ollama(N)=the meso-amerindian
game of tlachtli(N)/tlaca=body,
begins a string of words:
oynamak(turk)/olgau(basque)/
yugi(Jap)/jugar(sp), yugi also
meaning yoke/unite in japanese,
the given name(not original)of
the stone and wooden yokes used
in the ballgame(mayan also, but
started by the olmecs during
the sea age,1.5k bc). in the basque and turkish words, one can
see the track of precursor ollama, expecially in the turk,
oll/oy(n)ama/k, the basque less
so, altho the ol/ollin is preserved, the -gau=ca u/up(E),
more like the river,
ollin ca(N)/olga volga/rolling being, however, volcar(sp)=
to turn upside down(one of
the maneuvers in ollama is
handstands to hit the ball
on the hip). best, carlos.

Unknown said...

...from neander's point of view,
the sky was, ilhuicatl(NN), ilhuia
(N) meaning to concentrate, actually the pig latin for will/ilway, and, a perfectly acceptable linguistic maneuver
in the formation of word. from his
cave, neander had a fixed position.
he didn't like to move much, cf.,
missing mithen post on
tzopilotl.wordpress.com to findout
why, by then he/she were weaving,
and the word for knot/tie was
2 words, one was ilhuicatl(N)=
heaven, and the other was pia(N)=
to guard and abstain(piety), throw
the 2 words together and we get:
ilpia(N)=to tie, to knot, being,
hilpan(goth)/elpomai(gk), the
word, help in english. this is how
and why the stars were charted by neander during those long millenia,
at least 228k before gene pool/72k.
when a star appeared on his fixed
horizon, neander made a knot to
mark it, this desire/cea(N)=not one
to be alone, is what drove neander to chart the stars and incidently
began weaving and computing and
led to the gods and the book of tunes/tonalamatl and framed the
language we use today.
our promethean angel: subtle,
cautious, circumspect, fearful,
judicious, grateful, the greatest
manager the world has ever seen,
a real, live, action, rodeo hero
and heroine who brought us into
his/her spritual world of wonder
and awe, and mimati(N)immati(N),
the immortal mime, whose knowledge
has been carrying us along ever
since fire became ash became letter
became language became gods on
the blue planet.
as science tries
desperately to say we are not
related, we are, linked by hand,
by breath, by song, by word,
by deed, by brain, by blood,
by time, by gravity, by the grail
we were given. and our answer?
ingratitude and arrogance wearing
the cloak of specious argument, shut by the broach of tenured
science, herded by the crown
of comfortable nonsense.

Unknown said...

...the scarab/(s)c/karabos(gk)=
stag beetle, is related to the
amerindian/alkonquin word, karaboo=
caribou, another deer connexion,
perhaps the most basic one out of
the egyptian nomadic past of deer
culture. karabos(gk)caribou(alkon)
is from the nauatl reversal,
quaitl xicalli=quaxicalli(N)=
head gourd, also the alkonquin
word, squash, which has gone into
english as, head=quaitl(N), the
other amerindian word, that uses
the entire reversal of, quaxicalli=
calabash/gourd, then, calabaza(sp)=
squash. close quarters for all these words, and the scarab setting
sun symbol rolling along right with
it. thought to be parthenogenic by
the egyptians, the clickbeetle
(another name for scarab/escarabajo/sp), also, the
spanish, garambullo, which is a
cactus/bug, the mexican blueberry,
but slang/caló(sp) for a same sex
person(male), along with, carambola
(sp)=carom(E), a shot off the cushions in billiards. the scarab
navigates by moonlight, and when
rolling goes in a straight line.
the early mastaba tombs and burial
chambers imitate/derive from the
scarab, and even the mummifying
of the egyptians was taken from
careful observation of scarab pupae. dried scarabs cure at least
10 distinct diseases in the chinese
book of medicines. so the egyptians
are arch entomologists, their first
encounter with scarab and religion was as noma/nomatca/nomatzinco(N)=
spontaneous, still, the same, always(an unintentional but true
description of religious service),
and as sun and rain worshippers
of deer culture, quickly took up
the scarab they found in deer
droppings and in old forest and
taiga as their symbol for rebirth
and the squashy setting sun of
their death culture.

Unknown said...

...following the merze(Mong)=
metztli(N)=leg/limb/moon trail
for mastiffs, the alaunt of the alani, who call themselves the
massagettae=mazatl ceti(N)=united/
set deer/mazatl people, the alaunt
used to guard cattle, their origin
in central asia, so these are the
scythians, horse/cattle originally
deer/massa/mazatl people, and, they
used the net/matlatl(N) in war,
almost capturing the armenian king,
tiridate, by long-distance cast
of a net but he cut himself free.
they were a tall, blond people
with fierce eyes, which i take to be blue or green, sign of neander
crosses. their locus near the sea of azov, lake meotis/meyaua otli(N)=the flowing trail/road. so, as i said in my mastiff post on gobekli
matilda, dogs used by deer culture.
then the alani were forced into the caucasus, 9-12c ad, by mongol
expansion, to form alania, a christian kingdom, not to wonder,
as deer culture is the rootstock
of christianity, a nomad, scapegoat
faith.

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