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"Religion in the Toltec Empire was dominated by two major deities. The first, Quetzalcoatl, is shown as a plumed serpent. This deity of learning, culture, philosophy, fertility, holiness and gentility was absorbed from earlier cultures in the area. His rival was Tezcatlipoca, the smoked mirror, known for his warlike nature and tyranny."
<a href="http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/latinamerica/meso/cultures/toltec.html">mnsu.edu</a>
This makes me think of the verse in the Bible:
"Though now we see through a glass darkly, yet then we shall see face to face."
I really had no fucking clue what that meant until I read Philip K. Dick's novel A Scanner Darkly. I didn't interpret glass as looking glass/mirror, but as a cloudy frosted glass that we see through, like a window pane distorting our view of the truth.
But as a mirror, it really relates to my philosophy of inversion that I think shows itself in sacred literature throughout the ages. I say "my" not in a literal sense, but as more generalized "I also agree with this train of thought."
The truth, represented by Quetzalcoatl (who you'll find, if you do the research, has a strong resemblence to the Christian mythos...) anyways, a beautiful plume, like the Logos, or Word projecting itself in the mirror, it's opposite/antithesis, to be distorted, by illusion, by Maya.
<a href="http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/latinamerica/meso/cultures/toltec.html">mnsu.edu</a>
This makes me think of the verse in the Bible:
"Though now we see through a glass darkly, yet then we shall see face to face."
I really had no fucking clue what that meant until I read Philip K. Dick's novel A Scanner Darkly. I didn't interpret glass as looking glass/mirror, but as a cloudy frosted glass that we see through, like a window pane distorting our view of the truth.
But as a mirror, it really relates to my philosophy of inversion that I think shows itself in sacred literature throughout the ages. I say "my" not in a literal sense, but as more generalized "I also agree with this train of thought."
The truth, represented by Quetzalcoatl (who you'll find, if you do the research, has a strong resemblence to the Christian mythos...) anyways, a beautiful plume, like the Logos, or Word projecting itself in the mirror, it's opposite/antithesis, to be distorted, by illusion, by Maya.
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