Quetzalcóatl – Sixth Sun Fall 2018

Journey of Initiation

Far Travel to Teotihuacán, Mexico: Arrive Saturday, September 15 and depart Saturday, September 22, 2018. Fly into Mexico City.

In 1995 Teotihuacán was the location of my “Spirit Man” interaction where he referred to me as the mind and soul of Quetzalcóatl—the Sixth Sun.

Teotihuacán, City of Water – City of Fire, known as “the city where one becomes a god,” is the birthplace of the Fifth Sun and the home of the prophet Quetzalcóatl and his religion. In recognition of this, Teotihuacán’s Temple of the Sun was built over a sacred cave symbolizing birth and was shaped like a four-leafed clover. If we explore Teotihuacán’s title as the place where humans become deified, we may clearly recognize that Quetzalcóatl’s religion was based on overcoming our dualistic consciousness by awakening to unity (oneness)—the merging of spirit and matter. This is the same message that we bring today.

Today the ruins of this theocratic city lie in a semiarid valley on a plateau 30 miles north of Mexico City. The enormous four-step pyramid—the Pyramid of the Sun, dominates this magical place, 2000 meters above sea level. This pyramid was situated so that the sun set exactly in front of it on the day of the summer solstice. As a spiritual city, Teotihuacán’s main avenue, and the axis of the city, the “Street of the Dead” runs for almost two miles South to North beginning at the Citadel housing the Temple of Quetzalcóatl and ending at the Complex of the Plaza of the Moon. Along its entire length it is lined with palaces, pyramids and temples. Walking this throughway, as was done before by the Initiates of Teotihuacán, you carry out a symbolic and mythological journey of death and re-birth. For the thousands of casual tourists that tread this path, they know little of these very ancient and ageless ceremonial acts of death and re-birth.

At Teotihuacán we will also explore the Palace of Tetitla—Jaguar Lords, Owl Warriors and the Great Goddess: It is located 500m west of the Avenue of the Dead at Teotihuacán. The Jaguar, Owl, and Eagle military academy at Palacio Atetelco, the Palacio Tepantitla, abode of the priests, and the Palace of Zacuala.

Day Trips

Tula

Tula (legendary Tollan) was the major city of the Toltec’s and according to legend had been founded by the mythological figure Quetzalcóatl (the Plumed Serpent), an ancient deity which the Toltecs had adopted from earlier cultures and worshiped as the god of Venus. The largest of the pyramid temples, which is surmounted by 15 foot (4.6 meter) columns in the form of stylized human figures, is thought to be dedicated to Quetzalcóatl. A distinctive feature of the pyramid’s base is its walls covered with slabs of volcanic tuff, with bas-reliefs of jaguars and coyotes participating in a sacred procession. Directly to the east is the restored Templo de Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, or Temple of the Morning Star.

Calixtlahuaca

At Calixtlahuaca, both the ceremonial and the residential areas were built on terraced platforms cut into the slopes of Cerro Tenismo—a small, extinct volcano, which reveals the mystical power of this site. Here we will explore The Tlaloc complex which includes Tlaloc’s Temple and the Temple of Ehécatl. This prominent structure is round and is thought to have been dedicated to Quetzalcoatl in his wind god identity—Ehécatl-Quetzalcóatl. It was built in a circular form so that it would not hinder the wind god’s entrance. But that shape also could be of a coiled snake and the temple could have been originally dedicated to the ancient serpentine creator god, and later dedicated to the god of wind by the Aztecs. A statue of Coatlicue, the Aztec earth-mother goddess who gave birth to the moon and stars and wore a skirt of snakes, was found here and is now at the Mexico City Museum of Anthropology.

Ehécatl-Quetzalcóatl appears to have functioned both as a patron of the regular priesthood and of those practitioners of various techniques which most anthropologists would classify as shamans.

Calixtlahuaca is not a tourist destination; we will be able to peacefully contemplate the esoteric power of this sacred site.

Malinalco

Malinalco lies at the heart of Mesoamerica’s legendary history as an ancient ceremonial centre. It was a sacred mountaintop sanctuary for initiation into the elite warrior clans of the Eagle and the Jaguar. Malinalco’s group of sanctuaries, one of which, carved entirely out of the living rock, forms a circular temple containing the images of cosmic harmony: Heaven, Earth, and Hell. The entrance is composed of two enormous heads of reptiles, and beautiful sculptures of eagles and jaguars preside over the interior. This same threefold motif, is associated with the symbolism of Quetzalcóatl.

Malinalco was known for their sorcerers and soothsayers and their legendary supernatural powers.

Malinalco is even further off the destinations of tourist allowing us space and time for empowerment and anyone suited for an initiation.

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