Esoteric Currents in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean (6) Olmecs in Mesoamerica: The People of the Jaguar. (6)

 

Esoteric Currents in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean (6)

Olmecs in Mesoamerica: The People of the Jaguar.

(Part 1)

Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes.

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

(Jacques Soustelle, The Olmecs, p.15)

Art in Mesoamerica in its Early Formative Period = (100-900 B.C.), contains a high content of physical and symbolic values within its valuable enigmatic and millenary iconography.

The coasts of the Gulf of Mexico, and the insular Caribbean is the cultural substrate of what we can call ='archaic mother culture''.

'Mesoamerica is important as one of six regions of the world in which humans independently developed a constellation of features sufficiently complex to be called ''civilization.''

(Carolyn Tate, Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture, p.3)

Michael Coe, of Harvard University, uses the concept of the jaguar to draw the attention of Euro-American researchers to the notion of "shamanism" in a universe animated by incomprehensible forces.

In 1955 it was still not possible to understand and describe the nature of jaguar and Olmec symbols, leading archaeologist Stirling to 'suggest' that art motifs were produced thanks to the 'sexual union between man and jaguar'.

It is interesting to note that in the course of recent excavations at the archaeological site of La Sorcé in Vieques, Puerto Rico, tusks of Jaguar= (Pantera Onca) dated 150 A.D. have been found.

( Narganes Storde, 2003)

Of course, ritual objects in the shape of the Jaguar's fang appeared, delicately worked in the shell of the Strombus snail, dated to 310 AD. They were excellently crafted as earrings in the shape of jaguar tusks, dated 770 A.D. C.

The original peoples of Mesoamerica and the Insular Caribbean have a millenary ancestral history, which today is beginning to provide us with its best evidence.

Which, he suggests, is an Ancestral and Mysterious Lineage that has been appearing since early 1400 B.C., developing an enormous and significant degree of social-political integration since the second millennium. (1)

Undoubtedly, a "hidden initiatory order" that manifests itself prior to the Mesoamerican Mother Culture as the Olmecs are known, and which is already evidenced as their original culture.

From 1150 BC to 400 BC. It is known of a people of similar cultural features, who inhabited the geographical area of the 'Olman' as supreme master of its territorial extension. (2)

'The Olmec inverted many of the symbols and institutions that remained at the heart of political and religious authority for the rest of Mesoamerican history. Most specifically, the symbolism of the ruler for both the Teotihuacan's and the Maya derived directly from royal imagery of the Olmec'.

Since ancient times, the traditions and chronicles of the Native Peoples of America have made known and indicated the same primordial place or real physical space of common mythical-historical origin and provenance.

On the other hand, testimonies of certain geographical variants and striking similarities resurface, many of them, among clear ideological similarities of common ancestral philosophical and spiritual currents. (3)

Some of them, extraordinarily similar while sustaining and maintaining the same ancestral ideological substratum of 'multiplicity and fragmentation' within a whole rich theurgical universe of a magical-spiritual nature. (4)

The essential and primordial function of the permanent re-actualization of the ancestral myth of Mesoamerica is to be able to awaken man through ancestral rite and dance.

Consequently, it is an Ancestral and Mysterious Lineage.

A hidden initiatory order that already manifests itself prior to the Mesoamerican Mother Culture, as the Olmecs are known, and which is evidenced as the original Culture.

As we can see, the Olmecs were foreigners (Chontalli = foreigners in Nahuatl), who arrived in the Gulf of Mexico in very late times (1500 BC), as evidenced by the problematic and enigmatic archaeological and historical chronology of America: 'In Mexico, the first feline icon appears among the Olmecs (1250-400 BC) in monumental stone sculptures and in delicate jade pieces from sites such as San Lorenzo and El Azuzul, in Veracruz, and La Venta, in Tabasco.'

(N. J. Saunders)

Jacques Soustelle, in his excellent work: The Olmecs, refers to masked priests and powerful shamans with a cult of fecundity and abundance...'A high civilization of inimitable style, whose roots are FOUND NOWHERE', according to Soustelle.

We differ from that opinion, for a tree without a root cease to be a tree.

For the rest, they were a wandering civilization of Masters, Naguals, Jaguars, Nautas, already mature, educated, Ahaw,-cultured.

The 'Olmecs'. 'We have no idea what name or names the people of the ancient society called themselves, but it wasn't ''Olmec.'' (5)

We can say that ritually and symbolically old, that's how we consider them.

To restore his notion of true face and honorable personality.

Your Face and Heart and Identity=JAGUAR FACE!

In a valid way, legitimacy and Power are given to their own Identity, Tradition and Heritage.

Specifically, the true face of a cult ancestral lineage is permanently acquired.

'Our House is sought' is a sign of identity because 'Face' is taken.

In general, for our ancestral peoples, myth and reality are inextricably linked tightly hand in hand.

In any case, it is remote and elusive to even try to easily disentangle or separate reality and myth, within multiple canons and varied existing and latent levels, that flow constantly between the inscrutable real and terribly mysterious universe of the inexplicable.

The magic of the sacred nourishes and permeates all Mesoamerican thought, very vigorous and still in force, within a very powerful and open spiritual awareness of multiple and broad realities.

We cannot forget that some of these legendary and sacred narratives underlie hidden and alive, strange stories skillfully drawn between "mirrors that reflect the face of things" of that other possible reality.

They are images of the dynamic cosmos that are hidden elusively and powerfully among carpets and dusty mats of our debatable and limited very fine concept of reality.

For Wise Elders and Old Men who jealously guard Tradition, the narration of the myth is not merely a blurred or weak and insignificant memory or a narrative tale devoid of any transcendental meaning.

There is deposited in it a very rich millenary and symbolic language, provided with several levels and superimposed planes.

That manage to overflow between valuable forms of meaningful interpretation that manage to personify extremely abstract ideas.

They are elaborate figurations of complex ideas skillfully personified through a series of mythological and spiritual concepts.

That manage to sustain a remarkable sacred philosophical complex through a millenary and ancient memorized Oral Tradition.

Subsequently, it comes to be encoded between codices and paintings of Divine Origin.

The verbal historical myth or 'the words about the ancient' then embody in painting what the elders originally told and sang = 'the antiquities of the Indians'.

According to the conception in old structures and dusty antipodes of the psychic and ritual life of our peoples, trying to know these "myths" is a fundamental and essential part of the spiritual process of teaching for the acquisition of the "True Face".

Among the many and varied images and concepts = (Pilgrimage Strip or Boturini Codex), of Pre-Hispanic Tradition about its origins or the departure from the point or place of origin = 'what the Elders used to repeat'; certain strong ties of real historical continuity can be pointed out and established.

They affirm and delimit the true limits and influences of our own formation or personality as brother peoples.

Always taking due caution and extreme caution not to enter into sterile debates about arbitrary measures and divisions of time in the dynamited Mesoamerican chronology.

Only then, can we understand the ''Spiritual Unity of all the Native Peoples''= (it is the essence of the work presented), depositories of millenary Tradition by being able to listen with a single Heart = 'Izca in tlatolli in quitotihui in huehuetque''-='Here is the Word that the Elders left spoken''.

Bird that 'speaks' already appears on the 3 Ajaw and the sign of the Regent Ahaw.

Graphic and artistic motif of corn: 'It is also in accord with the significance of Probable Olmec maize motifs on Stela I at El Viejón in Central Veracruz and the Xoc Rock sculpture in Chiapas'. (6)

The pioneering and sporadic archaeological finds focused mainly during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, on the fortuitous discovery of colossal and monumental sculptures.

(Tres Zapotes-Veracruz-1862)

Also, to the discovery of the famous Kunz Axes.

Through the people of the Olman, the sacred element of the Ahaw or Rattlesnake is dispersed.

Profound Wisdom of the Geometric Serpent Pattern and Power Bearer.

Principles and forms of an unknown spirituality and deep and significant cult of the jaguar, the rattlesnake, water and solar seed of corn. (7)

Ideological structure and motive for the elaboration of the lithic complex and spiritual expression-jaguar masters of the stone or, 'master builders'', for-Linda Schele p.27.

Greatness of the characters that is measured by the hierarchy and content within the spiritual configuration of the metaphorical language of the AHAW-Baalam.

(Monument No: 19 La Venta, it is observed that it is a rattlesnake Ahaw 3 Crotalus-rattlesnake)

For the wise Don Ignacio Bernal: 'The pre-Hispanic world was hardly glimpsed through confusing legends or the episodes of the Conquest that, of course, reflect Western history rather than indigenous history'.

(#8)

In the Tres Zapotes area, it was common to see the isolated collector and curious antique dealers among 'rare objects' free of interpretation and proper identification.

For Don Eduardo Matos Moctezuma: 'The century of enlightenment is going to mark the beginning of our archaeology'.

Already at this time (1880), the Sacred Coatlicue was considered by educated men of science: 'A Horrible Monster.'

Don José María Melgar y Serrano in 1862, learned about the monolith of Hueyapán.

Making him known to the Mexican Geography Society and attributing to him an innovative Ethiopian Negroid origin.

Don Frans Blom and Oliver La Farge were in charge of "opening a-New Chapter" for 1925, under the name Olmec.

As early as 1937, archaeologists and scientists of the time were collecting Olmec skeletons from excavations and many of them ended up badly crowded. Similar to 'tamales in a poor man's market', in wheelbarrows or private stores. (9)

That same decade of the thirties, we have the resurgence of the archaeological wealth of Tajín, Veracruz.

(García Vega, 1935, Pyramid of Niches)

Yokes, arrival of the Sea-Hurakan-Wind-Lightning-Thunder in the Tajín-Wakan-Lightning-East... God-Tajin.

Producer of Hurricanes-Lightning-Lightning and Signs of FLOWER and Jaguars of the earth and the underworld.

Lizards-snakes and Ancestral ball games of Caribbean origin. Maw of the Jaguar that swallows the initiates.

(Estela D, Tres Zapotes, Veracruz).

Jaws of celestial Serpents, as a sacred-realm-womb-maternal, Venusian symbols, feline-features, Jaw-Figurehead-Temple-Serpent-Ahaw. Herencia de Totonacas-Olmecs.

'In dynamic images, the jaws are almost always those of a Cosmic Monster, terrestrial or Celeste, or of an emblematic animal of the earth.'

(Claude-François Baudez)

Ahaw Baalam Masters who knew how to look inwards, towards their own Flower, coming out of Turtle Island, the Prime-Original Center and Point of Dispersion. (10)

'That's what they came to say, that's how they came to establish it in their story, and they came to draw it on their parchments, the old men and women who were our grandmothers, our grandfathers... our ancestors.'

(Fernando Alvarado Tezozomoc).

Z'-AC-ATLAN-=Water Turtle=AC-TLAN.

For Torquemada, coming out of caves of the Mythical Chicomoztoc=Seven Caves-Ak-ATL or Water Mountain.

Diverse and varied ethnicities. Unique Initiatic Knowledge. Sacred Mother Tongue, close to Zuyua-protomixe-zoque-proto-Maya. (?)

OL-T'AAN Balaam.

It was time for the Jaguar to speak and to settle its power mat-Pop.

Your royal power, venerable reincarnates of the Divine Cross-Flower-KA-I'TZ-Seed-Corn-Celeste.

"Reincarnates of cosmic wisdom", who descend to the planet in Divine geometric Crotalus forms, K'A-I'TZ-of the Iguana-sacred-Dragon-Astronomical-Floral-Sun.

Like the Olmecs (from whom they inherited the stonework), the inhabitants of the Tajín conceived of the Cross of San Andrés (X) as the Sun. (11)

Later, these studies were magnified and disseminated with the appearance of the extraordinary Olmec mural painting of Oxtotitlan and the grotto of Juxtlahuaca, Guerrero in 1937.

Where La Cruz and La Serpiente already appear.

The problem of the antiquity of these places and monuments found, led Matthew Stirling to explore the difficult and enigmatic archaeological site of the Gulf Coast as in San Lorenzo.

(It takes place 1500-900 B.C.) (Tres Zapotes en Veracruz and Hermosa La Venta (1949)

The Olmecs extend to Chalcatzingo, Teotihuacán, Tlatilco, Chiapas, Guatemala, El Salvador and the Monte Albán ceremonial complex, San José Mogote (Espiridión phase 1500 to 1400 B.C.).

There is a female figurine that comes from Tomb 1-95, Building 1, of San José Mogote, symbolically similar to the Lord of Las Limas.

It is important to point out that many of these cultural vestiges already before the 20s, appear very sporadically as disordered, many scattered ceramic vessels, colossal sculptures and very valuable jade objects. (12)

Incredibly, many of these Jade Axes appear to originally form a sacred offering in the form of a cross.

(Druker, Excavations at La Venta)

Esoteric Currents in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean (6)

Olmecs in Mesoamerica: The People of the Jaguar.

(Part 1 of 2)

Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes

SACRED Peoples of the JAGUAR.

Bibliography:

1. Christopher A. Pool, Olmec Archeology and Early Mesoamerica, Cambridge, p.p.1 to 7 and Agrinier, P. The Early Olmec Horizon at Mirador, 1984.

2. L. Schelle and Peter Mathews, The Code of Kings, New York, 1998, p. 40.

3. Balser, C. The Olmec 'Baby-Faces' of Costa Rica, p.p.280-285.

4. Alfonso Caso, Definition and Extension of the 'Olmec' Complex, 1942 and L. Sejourné, 1992, 63-64.

5. David. C. Grove, Discovering The Olmecs, 2014, p.2.

6. S. Jeffrey K. Wilkenson; Robert. S. Peabody Museum for Archeology, Andover, Massachusetts p.3.

7. Ignacio Bernal, Introduction in: The Olmec World.

8. History of Archaeology in Mexico.p.18.

9. Isla de Sacrificios Veracruz: Mexican Archaeology, Special Edition #7 p.33.

10. Central Turtle: Figure, 11.17., piece 327, page 66, El Tajín.

11. El Tajín, Román Piña Chan, p.42.

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