Macehualli Oracle
Indigenous Poetry Between the Physical and the Miracle
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Introduction
There’s related a Pre-Columbian Tale, an Oracle of the arrival of Strangers –that would bring calamity and disease…. To fast forward in any story is to presage. All, told for that there’s still that which can never be lost, the Art of Culture –this merely an aptitude that requires an amplified understanding, for its sake. As, in the same way that Language and/or Religion are geographical accidents; if borne in the shadows of the Himalayas the Tibetan is taught Sanskrit or a child in the Jungles of Chiapas was imposed Catholicism. In, Central Mexico Indigenous Traditions reached a zenith, of something that was brought from previous millennial advancements, of more Ancient People’s –Toltec, Olmec, Mayan, Otomi... The Aztec (as other contemporary tribes called them variably Chichimecas and/or Tenochcas) or more correctly so Mexica –vehemently sought this Art. Of, which Codex hieroglyph-script-writing was the most priced, both as a profession and/or a spiritual calling. Termed in-xochitl, in-cuicatl translated literately –flower and song today referred to as Poetry and Dance. As, yet this Achievement was merely one of many of these People’s sophistication(s) in the Art(s), aside from Mathematics, Architecture, Music, etc. At, present date this Cultural Patrimony remains vehemently –alive, in its many adaptations; the most emblematic and still most enigmatic the Aztec Calendar (i.e. Nahuatl Cosmos/Vision Quest)...
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This work is due in appreciation
for All those that sought beyond the established façade.
As, all those Elders that who by their example,
provided the impetus for the present
Motivational Meditation.
Thanks, accorded to Harmony Books/Author House
For being the medium were by these words will be retold.
And that with certainty will resonate with those that are bold.
This for the Children of Iraq lost in the sands, keep on.
In Hope that the present work be a link
as yet Indigenous Poetry is as always a personification of the Ancestors work continuing on. On Xocotl Huetzi Ome Cuauhtli Chicome Tochtli (September 22, 2006) Eclipse Anular del Sol. At, the closure of this astronomically precise phenomenon was completed the present prose words. As, told in the Introduction; here’s were Oratory/Poetry has no match for, as the stroke of the genre Artist can paint aesthetically beautiful scene. In a few words –this captures both the fancy of a small child and/or the imagination of a tired-old Scientist; thus the essential aim to bring a coalescing unison between the Physical and the Miracle.
c/s
About the Author
Originally, from Southeastern Mexico (Celaya, Guanajuato)of very humble parentage of Huasteca/Maya Ancestry. Now residing in Southern Califaztlan, for the last 13 years. As, yet all discriptions are haphazardly accurate, specially those penned by the Author himself. Thus, self-realization has come about that real Education begins after one leaves the Institutions. For, as the Elders know it remains inoxerable or in a few words, inescapable that we're all Authors; as the most knowledgeable always remain unwritten. In the least, all biographical sketches are myopic. Still, being Native in two distinct Culture's brings to bear that being a Poet/Activist/ Spoken Word Artist is a reflection of a juxtaposed unorthodox upbringing. c/s