Pages

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:

  1. ...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

    ReplyDelete
  2. ...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

    ReplyDelete
  3. 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

    ReplyDelete
  4. ...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.

    ReplyDelete
  5. ...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.

    ReplyDelete
  6. ...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.

    ReplyDelete
  7. ...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.

    ReplyDelete