#maize god

The rhythms of agricultural life in central Mexico have remained largely unchanged for generations. In the quiet community of San Damián Texoloc located within the state of Tlaxcala, local residents were recently carrying out routine work on their land. The soil there is rich and dark, and it has sustained families for centuries. On an ordinary day of working the earth, a farming tool struck…

Children of the Corn and Maize God https://medium.com/@JacquesCoulardeau/children-of-the-corn-and-maize-god-69ca482c03ef

Medium.com, 2019

Jacques Coulardeau

CARNAL CORN-IVOROUS MAIZE GOD

Modern literature is always seeing the most dangerous horrors as if they were entertaining, and as a matter of fact we enjoy them a lot.

Stephen King rediscovered and reinvented the old Maya myth of the Maize God who was sacrificed, meaning put to death by the Death Lords a long time ago and who was resuscitated by his own children, the Hero Twins. He has to be sacrificed again every year both after the harvest to get a promise of a good one next year and before sowing the seeds in the spring to make sure the corn will prosper and the harvest will be good. That means a lot of blood and quite a few human volunteers to accept the big sacrificial voyage to Xibalba. Stephen King wrote a novella or big short story a long time ago and it became a cultish long series of eight films or direct adaptations. 8 is, of course, the symbol of the Second Coming of the Christian sacrificed divine being that many in this world celebrate every Sunday. But the Christian references are always warped into some kind of fanatic fundamentalism against adults. Be sure you do not listen to teenager preachers, Asperger or not because they do not know what they are saying, which is a reason why you can forgive them but do not believe in their predication.

Publication Date: 2019

Publication Name: Medium.com

Terrorism  *  Horror Film  *  Biblical Studies  *  Human sacrifice (Anthropology Of Religion) *  Fear of Crime  *  Fantastic Literature

Olmec incised jadeite celt, Mexico 900 - 300 BC

I am in love with them no matter how malicious and merciless they may be and holy shit, there is some beautiful modern illustrations of them and some rather humorous ones. Holy shit. <3 I went to the DAM today and was on a desperate hunt for Tezcatlipoca and friends because Aztec art is badass when you know stuff about it.(I never found them. They must have sensed my presence and hid.)