Esoterics Currents in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean: The Black Jaguar Tezcatlipoca Art of Mesoamerica: The Black Jaguar Tezcatlipoca

Esoterics Currents in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean: The Black Jaguar Tezcatlipoca

Victor Arturo. Cabello. Reyes

'One of the more fascinating gods of Postclassic Central Mexico, Tezcatlipoca was the omnipotent god of rulers, sorcerers and warriors... Tezcatlipoca presided over the Sun of earth'.

(Mary Miller and Karl Taube, The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya, p.164)

One of the most significant moments in the Nahua historical chronicles is undoubtedly the magical-spiritual element of the power of the marvelous portentous, substantially evidenced in the evident "appearance" of Tezcatlipoca to messengers from Motecuhzoma, in that visionary unusual encounter near Popocatepetl.

However, it is the Codex Ramírez where the extraordinary purely Naguálic event is best narrated. Possibly enhanced by sacred ingestion of the sacred ololiuqui. (1)

Common practice among priests of Tezcatlipoca. (2)

'... they went to the part from which the Spaniards came, and going up a hill appeared to them Tezcatlipuca, one of their principal gods, ... he came as if out of his mind, and as if intoxicated, not with wine but with fury and rage.'

After preparing an altar, "the 'sorcerers and enchanters'' have a vision of Mexico in flames. (3)

And it is clearly set forth in the vision of the 'Magical Thinking' of the Priests sent: 'We are not worthy to see this prodigy; it was better for Motecuckoma to see him, for this one who has appeared to us is the god Tezcatlipoca.' (4)

In Mesoamerican mythical-spiritual thought, the gods contain and sustain a certain active potentiality = energetic charges that manage to merge dual and apparently antagonistic aspects.

That Power resides in Omeyocan as a potential duality.

And it was their power to materialize or manage to crystallize particular elements of the tonalli of the day.

And to be that power organized between cosmic-archaeo-astronomical-astrological components.

It is worth mentioning that they can be actively personified through the personal power of the Tona-nagual = 'to be hot or sunny'.

And until they are complemented experimentally.

Experienced in explicit authenticity by communication techniques between different levels of the cosmos.

Mythical worlds and various supernatural categories accessible by the Power of the Nagual.

By "melting" in the heat of the divine Teotexcalli and Divine Furnace.

The harmonious union of the dual and apparently contrary in Quetzalcoatl-Tezcatlipoca is powerful.

From this same resurgent power of the Tonalli - vital heat produced by complementary duality - it is potentially substantiated in the 'resinous iztaccihuatl.'

The SMOKE of the Smoking Mirror!

It is born from the Union of opposites; product of Water-Fire = atl-tlachinolli.

Only in this way can it resurface and to be born the FLOWER:

'Yn Tlachinolxochitl, chimalxochitl, On cuecuepontoc'= (The Flower of Fire, the Shield Flower (water) has opened its corolla.( 5)

There is no opposition between the masculine, igneous, celestial, luminous solar with the feminine, nocturnal, terrestrial, lunar and passive.

Primal darkness is not only an attribute of the nocturnal Jaguar.

For she manages to embody in herself, polyvalent riches of multiple meanings. Quetzalcoatl is nothing more than one of the many visible and sustainable faces of Tezcatlipoca.

Complementary-duality that goes beyond the Moon and the Ocelotl!

Nations consecrated to the Wisdom of the Sun-Moon.

Important to know: "... the things of the moon belong to Tezcatlipoca."

Don Francisco J. Clavijero makes it clear: 'Tonatiuh, the SUN, who was called par excellence TEOTL God, and Meztli the MOON. To ONE and ANOTHER they consecrated those nations.' (6)

It is the result of arduous enterprise and joint work, complementary -assisted- and, then, Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca will undertake the cyclical struggle against=Tlalteotl-Tlaltecuhtli.

Or, the substance of the earthly watery underworld, the fearsome YAOTL=( enemy ) to be defeated.

It is from her -TONAN-, that as a 'Woman Birth' the fruit of the sacred tree will be born.

But at the same time, it devours men, which is why tribute is demanded of them in "blood and heart."

To be reborn life-giving the enigmatic: I'tzpapalotl or OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY.

With its sharp-wind-black-cutting Tecpatl and bat wings, attributes of Tezcatlipoca.

The Night Jaguar BÓ of the Heart of the Sacred Mountain of Tepeyolohtli is a particular aspect of the numen assimilated to the trecena 1 Ocelotl.

And, also, to the smoking mirror or cold north side like the cutting black wind.

Sahagún affirmed that Tezcatlipoca was everywhere and that 'when he walked on earth he stirred wars, enmities and discords... He was undoubtedly the inciter and the Necoc Yaotl – sower of discord.' (7)

His Spiral-Eddy Sacred Wind moved the words that disharmonize communication and deprive the environment of concordant harmonies.

In his hands he carried arrows and flute.

The Shining Mirror was depicted as the ever-young.

The Supreme Priest of the Youth Order, the Telpochtiliztli or the Telpochtli.

He had descended from heaven by a rope made of spider webs.

The jet-black obsidian stone was his totem and statue and the ITLACHIAYA= (his viewpoint) to "SEE".

(#8)

Its head – from the Tlatlacahua-Tezcatlipoca – was crowned with beautiful quail feathers.

There is a beautiful teaching that says that Tezcatlipoca ordered the priests to go to the House of the Sun by the sea, and from there, return with music for their feasts.

The naguals walk on the TURTLE and the whale singing a SACRED song.

The companions were not to respond to the song... but..., by disobeying the order they were magically transported to him, hearing the melodious singing and sweetness of his "song".

The great feast of the month Tóxcatl = (fifth month May 17 -3 Cipactli), the feast of Tezcatlipoca, required great fasts and a solemn procession of penances.

A clay flute that sounded from the rooftops, and which made thieves, fornicators, murderers and 'criminals enter into extraordinary terror and consternation'.

It is very necessary to include certain politicians in these times in their sound!

The tóxcatl = dry thing was associated with the string of roasted corn sartals or dry corn grains to the drought that needed to be avoided.

To ask for water and the resurrection of the Sacred grain.

Iconographic-pictorial attributes of Tezcatlipoca.

It's the horizontal bands on his face.

The Aztaxelli = headdress of separate heron feathers.

Anahuatl pectoral and emaciated foot that often has a Coyote like Nagual.

There are other particulars, such as its Anahuatl or characteristic disc in the famous Tonalámatl of the Pochtecas and its relationship with the Tezcatlipoca-Itztlacoliuhqui in obvious association with the entheogen.

According to the History of Mexicans, his paintings are the cosmic battle.

The Sacred Universe of the Tloque Nahuaque is unified at various levels by the rope or rope-thread of the spider.

The one that represents the path of corn to the gods.

Back to seed!

In the Mesoamerican wizarding world the passage is possible as long as it is a stalking passage by the 'Claw of POWER.'

You can push the boundaries and then... the Celeste corridor is unified with the land routes.

It is the Way of the Nagual, where Sacred Plants, ritual fasting and offerings open the possibility of encounter.

But, between forces of night and day, the cosmic cycles of the tonalli live stealthily, which we must respect, since between those spaces the cyclical energetic charges can be powerfully beneficial, protective or terribly harmful.

The Yaotl may reside there.

It is better to cover yourself from the warrior's enemy with the 'Jaguar's Skin' = ocelotl.

The old sage of the Caribbean Sea, the BÖ-jaguar knew of this power hidden as the night and mysterious as the lunar cycle that governed the cyclical fertility of the feline.

He covered himself with his skin: 'Our Naturals sometimes have on their necks small gourds as long and thick as the thumb, full of mansfenix meat, other times they have caicouchi [JAGUAR, Panthera onca] skins..." ...'There is no native who has been on dry land who does not have one. When they go to their feasts, each one carries his own ostentatiously on his back, from ten to twelve feet...'(9)

Thus Tezcatlipoca becomes the other.

Only one is Power. '

Quetzalcoatl is immersed in Tezcatlipoca.

It was the power of the Tlatoani of Coyohuacan.

The fearsome Tzutzumatzin and the priests of Tezcatlipoca who held the Millennial Power of the Owl.

Celestial power that "comes down" from the sky as a portentous TECPATL of the Hurricane = Lightning Stone.

It fertilizes the seed of the sacred caves or guacas of Chicomóztoc and opens the shell of the AYOTL (Tortoise) to be born from its YOl-OTL.

New seed from the Heart of the Tepeyollottli Hill.

But the destinies of Mesoamerican man are governed from birth by the sacred word.

Consigned to the Amoxtli.

That he is faithful to the tonalli, in his burden of astrological destiny and to the calendrical wheel of the Tonalpohualli.

In this way, deity and calendar can have the same calendrical names where number, day and birth are cyclically interrelated.

A complicated spiral wheel with deep mathematical-astronomical roots; celestial correspondences between the Cosmos and Man.

This is how the Jaguar - in its "half-sacrifice" - is singed and stained in Teotihuacán.

Gods and men are governed by destiny and are "eaten by the Ocelotl"... 4-Ocelotl!

We must learn not to be slaves of the tohuenyo!

There are times when it's better... to do like Tezcatlipoca and "to become the Macehualli" in honestly carving humility.

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún relates about the wonderful knowledge that the ancestors had in the "qualities and virtues of herbs" as well as in the art of stone: 'They achieved so great about the knowledge of stones, that although they were inside a large one, and under the earth, with their natural ingenuity and philosophy they discovered them and knew where they had found them...' according to Sahagún.

He continues, referring to the ability in "natural astrology", the interpretation of dreams = (Temicamatl) and particularly; "They knew the stars of the heavens, and they gave them names and knew their influences and qualities: they also knew the movements of the heavens, and this by the stars...'

We come from or come from the Sacred Tlacapillachiualoya.

It is a celestial uteral seed.

It is there that: "the children of men are made"... aqueous substance of Omeyocan.

From there our red Tezcatlipoca resurfaces.

The so-called Xipe and Camaxtle.

El Negro Tezcatlipoca.

The blue or yellow associated with Huitzilopochtli.

And the great Quetzalcoatl, god of air and life, according to Don Alfonso Caso.

For the wise Don Alfonso Caso, there was a white Tezcatlipoca associated with the Cospi or Calendrical Astronomical Codex of Bologna.

That precious liquid that unites divinity and the Ancestors.

It is nourished to be reborn from the dried and roasted corn in the festivity of Tóxcatl, towards the vital and rejuvenated life-giving substance of Telpochtli.

They are the Nagual, Jaguar, Nautas and Jaguar Masters, mature, educated, Ahaw and cultured.

Ritually and symbolically Old.

No MASTER rises from initiatory death without the Claw of the Jaguar!

A glorious era that is finely and delicately lost among the Oral Traditions of the Sung Wisdom of the T'O.

Oral Teaching of the B'O, the powerful nagual shaman who indicates initiation, hunting, offering, and the designs of heaven. Moon of the Jaguar!

Symbolic relationship between the government of the Sorcerer, the BO and an Initiatic Society of powerful Feline Masters.

(Lintel 26 of Yaxchilan)

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

(Reichel-Dolmatoff, 1971)

Primordial Oral Tradition of the Jaguar Lords. Its fearsome Way-Uay-kán resides in the Sacred Mountain within the cave, its heart or Tepeyóllotl.

Transformative power in the Solar Dance of the Jaguar.

For researcher Guillermo Bernal Romero: ''When the meaning was ''nahual'' a variant of the sign Ahaw was preferred, half of which has jaguar spots.' (10)

Mircea Eliade confirms the research: 'Fasting is almost absolute for the duration of the training, the 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'. (11)

In the Jamba of the Temple of the Cross in Palenque, Chiapas we can reread the BO Viejo smoking his Tabaco with the skin of Ajaw jaguar. (12)

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

This power animal manages to "talk" with the neophyte and manages to transmit a sacred wisdom and knowledge together with a certain kind of orderly and expressive relationships.

It is the Virgula of the Jaguar Warrior, which is transmitted in an essential message of an initiatory nature. (13)

Sacred plants and blessed entheogens collaborate in this arduous spiritual process. Man-Snake Ahaw-Jaguar Association.

The one that through thousands of years acquired shape and clear Geometric Architectural and Structural Pattern.

Mathematical-Mythical Proportion of the Geometric Skin of the Ahaw.

An extremely close relationship that united 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 considered a select member of the Initiatic Society.

BO jaguar Tezcatlipoca Negro is MASTER.

The Black Jaguar who teaches how to go down to the underworld.

It indicates to us grave dangers of darkness.

His NIGHT POWER is a guide in the terrible dark night of the soul.

If we lose the nagual we will lose the soul.

Today more than ever we urgently have to learn to conserve the Chanul and protect the Ch'ulel.

Esoterics Currents in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean: The Black Jaguar Tezcatlipoca

Art of Mesoamerica: The Black Jaguar Tezcatlipoca

Víctor Arturo. Cabello. Reyes

Bibliography:

1. Codex Ramirez: Relation of the Origin of the Indians who Inhabit this New Spain according to their Histories: Edition 1878, Mexico - annotated by Don Manuel Orozco y Berra. 2. Codex Ramirez p.148 3. Idem: pp. 110, 111.

4. Idem: p.111.

5. Cantares Mexicanos, f.58r.

6. Francisco J. Clavijero: Historia Antigua de México –Libro VI.3.

7. Fray Bernardino de Sahagún: Book I, chapter III.

8. Headstock Book VI.

9. Breton, 1665.

10. Mexican Archaeology Vol. VIII-p. 43.

11. M. Eliade, El Shamanismo pp.117-119.

12. Maudslay, 1898-1900: IV, lam, 43.

13. Mural 7, Tetitla, Teotihuacan.