On Mesoamerican Civilization
On the Devolution of Consciousness in Ancient Mesoamerica:
Or, The Victory of the Astral Plane Over the Human Ego
An Essay by John David Ebert
The Tyranny of the Ancestral Dead
In Mesoamerica, the realms of the dead and the living were never truly separated. In fact, of all the civilizations in world history, the Mesoamericans are the one society in which no such separation was ever even attempted. Indeed, there is a continuity from the early village traditions of the so-called Archaic period (8000 – 2000 BC), in which the dead were buried under the floors of the houses, right on into the Formative, Classic and Post-Classic periods, in which this practice continues into Aztec times, as Manuel Aguilar-Moreno comments: Read the rest of this entry »
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