RE: On the subject of Hell and Salvation
February 25, 2019 at 1:09 am
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2019 at 1:17 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 24, 2019 at 5:22 am)fredd bear Wrote: The dying and resurrecting god has been part of fertility religions for millennia. And I think in South American civilisations, independently.
-ish.
Nanahautzin and Tecuciztecatl, sacrificial gods, threw themselves into a fire at Teotihuacan to forestall the end of the world and were made manifest again as the sun and moon, respectively. This created a pillar of fire that burns from Mictlan to Toplan, which the fire-god Xiuhtecuhtli stokes every 52 years in the month of november...completing a cycle of the solar calendar. Toxhiuhmolpilia. The fire gods name translates to Tourquoise Lord, xiuhitl..the root, meant both turquoise and time.
Quetzalcoatl is commonly mistaken for a dying and resurrecting god due to some pretty hilarious bullshitting on the part of spanish conquistadors and their translators, which made it's way into the florentine codex later in the century and spawned the myth of the natives expecting a returned god and mistaking Cortez for the same. Meso-americans appear to have believed Quetzalcoatl to be an immortal dragon (THE wind dragon, no less). Not some bilge rat prick fresh off the boat eyeballing chandeliers.
Pre-columbian myths were culturally isolated thousands of years before the familiar mesopotamian tropes arose as we see them today.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
