Olmec Jaguars

 

Olmec Jaguars

Víctor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes.

The Olmecs were foreigners= (Chontalli=foreigners in Nahuatl,) arrived in the Gulf of Mexico in relatively late times= ( 1500 a.C. ).

This is evidenced in the problematic and enigmatic-dynamited- archaeological and historical chronology of America:

"In Mexico, the first feline icon appears among the Olmecs ( 1250-400 BC.C. ) in monumental stone sculptures and in delicate pieces of jade from sites such as San Lorenzo and El Azuzul, in Veracruz, and La Venta, in Tabasco''. (N. J. Saunders)

Jacques Soustelle, in The Olmecs, refers about the masked priests and powerful shamans practicing a cult of fertility and abundance. For Covarrubias they are described in their character ''embryonic'' of baby-jaguar image. (1946-La Venta,altars 4 and 5) ''Covarrubias's ideas about the axe-image and his invention of the term were-jaguar were informed by the theories of reigning Mesoamerican scholars''.

(Carolyn E. Tate, Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture,p.21)

The Olmec Grandparents is a culture that many speak and few understand as they are Mighty BÖ-Jaguars naguales Ahaw.

They still do not identify the origin of the Dragon or ''the olmec dragon'' associated with Itzam Na.

"A high civilization of inimitable style, whose roots ARE NOWHERE TO BE FOUND, this, according to Soustelle.

We differ from that view, because a tree without a root ceases to be a tree.

a wandering civilization of Masters Naguales Jaguars Nautas already mature and educated Ahaw very cultured.

Ritually and symbolically old, that's how we consider it.

No MASTER lifts from initiatory death without the Claw of the Jaguar The White Way (sacbeoob)-or, better, the old Paths-, are recognized as the humble path of footprints in the codices.

Therefore, it is in the same way the sacral way of the sacbe.

It is curious that that White Path Sak Beej of his grandparents is the same one that he searched busily for the Sacred and Hidden Thread =Kuxa'an Suum- of Tulum, of the grandfather Juan Tutul Xiu.

That White Way and thread of blood that leads directly and again, to the old place of ''the whiteness'' or "place of the heron''. Aztlán himself.

''In distant times, which no one can calculate anymore, which no one can remember anymore, those who came here,... Grandparents, grandmothers...''.

(Florentine Codex)

This problem of the origin of the ancient Masters, leads each time back, to ancient chronological epochs without possible historical relationship "direct''- some of them-, with the recent "pilgrimages" of the young Nahua peoples.

" We do not know, then, as the Olmecs called themselves, what language they spoke or where they came from.''

(Jacques Soustelle, The Olmecs, 2003, 15)

We can say that they are those ancient Spiritual Masters and the original "nahualli''o naguales of the Jaguar and the serpentine Ahaw. (Soustelle, 155)

''The jaguar and the serpent: these two creatures haunted the imagination of the Mesoamerican Indians for tens of centuries' (Soustelle, 88)

It is they who maintain the tea of the burning tradition and who preserve the basic patterns of rattlesnake wisdom and the spiritual and "shamanic" teachings of the Jaguar.

Consequently, what the wise and jealous informants of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún-following the jealous and noble investigative attempts of Fray Diego de Olmos (1533 to 1539) come to inherit.

Tradition in those fundamental legendary narratives -the always in force= "huehuetlahtolli=Old Word''.

The Old and Ancient traditions, which possibly, can be traced chronologically back to the glorious historical and millenary pre-Hispanic times.

(Román Piña Chan, History, Archaeology and Pre-Hispanic Art, 1986, 22)

Tamoanchan- "we look for our home'' is sought since it was lost and it was there that they: ''and they took with them his writings, the books, the paintings...'' .

(Florentine Codex)

We have already pointed out that Hun-Ra-Kan, is also the snake bird =(Coa=snake and Mo=bird).

Emanating from its power the lightning as lord of the storms, sea, the Wind-Hurricane, thunder and lightning. Or, from fire mixed with water.

It is also known that he is often associated with the planet Venus and that he embodies one of the many aspects of Master Quetzalcoatl-''the one leg'' as the ''Lord of Lightning, Thunder and Lightning'' (Piña Chan and Patricia Castillo Peña, Tajín, 1999, 48, 54, 65)

It can also suppose that from this Mythical Historical place -Old Thunder- Primordial each racial group or clan will take its spiritual direction and recognize its Face or Origin as An Original People.

"And then these different groups followed: the Toltec, the Mexica, the Nahua'' .

(Florentine Codex)

For the rest, it is interesting to point out that note familiar to us between the Caribbean and the Totonacas, which is well pointed out by the researcher Piña Chan:

"In turn Hurricane, Juracán (Taina voice), means tempest; it comes to be equivalent to El Tajín or Trueno Viejo...''.

(114)

Exceptional testimonies can be found in the Arey-T'o=areyto sung dance.

It is there that the oral tradition of our Ancestors or Grandparents and Grandmothers endures.

To is one of the Lakotas=(háu, chá, hó, húh and Tó) cries.

If we look closely, the same linguistic root of the To= (memory, ancestral memory, tradition) also manifests itself.

Iguanaboina, is one of the main caves from where the Sun and Moon rise. B

BÖ, is jaguar and Na=house.

Beret is brown snake.

Cauta or Kanta =(Canta-Ulloa calls it sings) is the place or cave from which the ancestors come.

Can or Kan is courageous, tough and powerful.

Lucayos, Macoríes, Taínos, Guanatabibes, Ciguayos and Caribes all speak of the same sacred place of unique origin.

Says the Swedish researcher Even Loven:

"The oldest inhabitants of the Antilles were not South American immigrants but Americans of whom, at the time of discovery, there was still a remnant, the Guanahatabey."

Among the archaic nautas and pre-lithic groups it is quite possible that the deciphering of these enigmas of origin is found.

Tó is a sacred wrapper whose meaning is ''wrap'' or cover.

The Toa is the Mother Frog-Toa-ti is the three-pointed Cemí- that nourishes the oral tradition or that which we must preserve and guard or jealously protect (Tla-toa-ni=Tlatoani=''the one who speaks'').'

Pure worthy unknown and misunderstood children of a very ancestral historical and hidden millenary period, which we have only recently begun to glimpse; truly ancient.

Glorious epoch that is finely and delicately lost to us among the Oral Traditions of the Sung Wisdom of the TO.

Oral Teaching of the B'O, the powerful nagual shaman who indicates the initiation, the hunt, the offering and the designs of heaven.

Jaguar Moon!

Symbolic relationship between the sorcerer's government, the BO and an Initiatory Society of powerful Feline Masters.

( Lintel 26 of Yaxchilán )

"In many of the tropical Native American societies these animals can be found represented in their social structure of lineages and clans as there is a magical relationship between the animals and the members of the tribe.''

( Reichel-Dolmatoff,1971 )

Primordial Oral Tradition of the jaguar lords, immersed in the fertilizing energy of the guide of the pilgrimage the T'OHIL, in which resides widely the power of the Hun-racán and the nagual dreaming of the Uay-Mighty Shaman or, the nauta BO of the millenary and archaic Insular Caribbean.

His fearsome Way-Uay-kán resides on the sacred mountain inside cave, his heart or Tepeyóllotl. Transformative power in the Solar Dance of the Jaguar, Dance of the Arey' T ́O.

Therefore, the researcher Guillermo Bernal Romero says:

"When the meaning was ''nahual'' a variant of the sign Ahaw was preferably used, half of which has jaguar spots.".

( Arqueología Mexicana Vol. VIII-p. 43 )

Mircea Eliade comes with all his authority to confirm the investigation: "Fasting is almost absolute for the duration of instruction; apprentices smoke cigars continuously and drink tobacco juice... During the first night of the second period they are taught to TRANSFORM INTO JAGUARS and bats " .

( M. Eliade, Shamanism pp.117-119 )

In the Jamba of the Temple of the Cross of Palenque, Chiapas, we can again reread that Old BO smoking his Tobacco with Ajaw jaguar skin.

( Maudslay,1898-1900: IV, lam, 43 )

"One was our Language" confirms the Popol Vuh.

(p. 200)

We can say, in the relationship between the animal of power and man, a legendary information is transmitted that can be structured in states of knowledge or various levels of initiatory understanding.

This animal of power manages to "talk" with the neophyte and transmit a wisdom and a sacred knowledge attached to a certain kind of expressive ordered relations.

It is the vírgula of the Jaguar Warrior that is transmitted in an essential message of initiatory character.

( Mural 7,Tetitla,Teotihuacan )

Sacred plants and blessed entheogens collaborate in this arduous spiritual process.

It is an Ahaw-Jaguar Snake-Man association that through thousands of years acquired form and Architectural Geometric Pattern and structure; Proportional Mathematical- Mythical of the geometrical skin of the Ahaw.

Extremely close relationship that united the threads of blood and common spiritual destinies between the jaguar and the ruling class and the Sorcerer the AHAW TZAB CAN BALAAM.

The jaguar Bó is respected, loved and regarded as the select member of the Initiatory Society.

BO is the MASTER.

The black jaguar teaches him to go down to the underworld and, indicates the grave dangers of darkness and is his NIGHT POWER is guide in the terrible dark night of the soul.

If we lose the nagual, then we will lose our soul. We urgently need to learn to conserve the Chanul to protect the Ch'ulel.

Archaeological evidence in the Insular Caribbean shows us that this ancestral cult remained alive and active until after the arrival of the Spaniards.

In the course of recent excavations at the archaeological site of La Sorcé in Vieques, Puerto Rico, Jaguar tusks (Pantera Onca) dated 150 AD.C. (Narganes Storde, 2003) have been found.

Ritual objects in the form of the Jaguar's tusk also appeared, delicately worked on the shell of the snail Strombus, dated to 310 AD. C. and excellently elaborated as earrings in the form of jaguar tusks dated 770 AD.C.

Throughout indigenous mythology the felid hunter is associated with teaching and civilization, and according to old beliefs, in his transcendent wisdom he provides the man-Shaman with fire and hunting weapons.

(Reichel Dolmatoff, 1950; Levi Strauss, 1972)

For the ancient Warrior Caribbean and still for his descendants upon the arrival of the Spaniards to wear or carry the attributes of the jaguar conferred certain distinctions of a strictly hierarchical nature.

It is not only a South American historical relationship or connection, but recent evidence indicates the real possibility that since archaic times (3,000 BC.C.) recurrent migratory movements arise from north to south and from west to east.

These are repeated again, as a consequence of an endless and constant ancestral search of the remote Island of La Tortuga or the Original Center of original dispersion.

That's what we're getting closer to. The French Chronicles of the Carib Indians and new and broader archaeological and documentary research can shed new light on this.

Brave and fearsome Caribs also they of the Lineage of the Lords of the Jaguar.

Let's look at this according to Father Dominic Breton in the 17th century.

"Caicouchi prays, is the skin of the Ounce (puma, Felis concolor), wild beast; it is large and long as a greyhound, agile and cruel, whose hair is red and satin; there is only one on dry land... When they go to their feasts, each one carries his ostentatiously on his back, ten to twelve feet, and claws of the bird mansfenix hanging on two sticks on his back, believing that this communicates encouragement and courage.''

(in Breton, according to Dr. Sebastian Robiou )

We will continue with these simple questions for study and again I urge you to study the codices and old ancestral legends of our millenary roots as Native Brother Peoples.

Olmec Jaguars

Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes.