Cracked.com

Okay, Cracked.com is hilarious.
I just read one of thier old articles "11 Movies Saved by Historial Inaccuracy", and I just read number three, about the film "Apocalypto"

Apocalypto's inaccuracy was the fact that all these Mayan's did was sacrifice people to Kukulkan/Quetzalcoatl. Okay, the Mayan's did sacrifice people, but not to Kukulkan/Quetzalcoatl.
In the words of Cracked:
"In fact, the Mayan sun god Kukulkan, to whom the sacrifice is made in the movie, never asked for and was never given such a sacrifice, so whatever priest was offering Kukulkan a human heart was probably just creeping him the fuck out."


Now, I want to have a movie night with Quetzy and watch Apocalypto to laugh.

Happy Imbloc!

Today I got up early (for me) and set up my altar. I went shopping and I came home to an AWESOME post by Pagan Culture (aka one of my favorite blogs). I was picked to be Touched by Pagan Culture. The post is here. Read it!


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ANYWAY! Onto the fun stuff.

So, this is my altar. Yes, it’s also my desk, which is why there is a lamp. I don’t have much ritual space. In fact, I have the floor and this desk. I would have everything on the floor, but because of my cat, it was better on my desk. As you can see, there are four place settings, I’ll explain them. And yes! Those are Hello Kitty glasses. They are all I had. I got some plain, basic glasses today for ritual use for offerings, along with plain plates.
The altar cloth is a silk scarf with a Western Native (so...British Columbia) image on it. I believe it’s an eagle. I picked it because...I have no idea. My Mayan Square one was too small, so this was my second choice.

This is Quetzalcoatl’s place. He’s my patron God, so I thought it would be nice to put him first. I love them all equally, of course. Anyway, his candle, the red one, felt right, and the blue holder is due to the fact Quetzy’s colour association is traditionally blue. The egg (and stone chunk you can’t really see) are made of malachite, the same colour as Quetzy appeared to me in my dream/vision. He’s got tequila and 70% dark chocolate (which he adores).

This is my welcoming plate to Cama Zotz. Yes, that is a giant Beanie Baby. It was all I could get last minute. His candle is dark purple and fig scented. It smelt dark and forest-y, so I thought of the rainforest. He was the one that asked for this altar, funnily enough. He’s got tequila and 70% dark chocolate.

Moving right along, this is my Egyptian place setting. The three candles are for Thoth, Ptah and Bastet. The stones, which you can’t see, are ones from the bases of each of my four statues, Sobek, Thoth, Anubis and Isis. They have a glass of tequila, and a plate with both milk chocolate Hershey Kisses and some 70% dark chocolate.

My final place setting is for my little flower faerie, Leiko. She is like the traffic controller to my room. She’s small, but she can be deadly if she wants to be. Anyway, the purple agate slab is hers, along with all the purple stones I have, beside the purple candle. Did I mention she liked purple? Anyway, the glass is filled with a pink lemonade cooler called Vex. It’s sweet, and almost like cream soda. She likes sweet things. She has Hershey Kisses. We got her those for Samhain one year, and she loved them. She said they were just the right size.

Presents!
In my shopping adventure, we went to The Weather, and they had a sale! 30% off! It was awesome. So, let me show you what I got. I got some plain clear quartz (not shown).

This is a Smokey quartz ball. Total impulse buy. I did not need it, but damn I wanted it. It’s so pretty, photo’s can’t do it justice.

Obsidian heart for Quetzy. One of Quetzy’s sacred stones is obsidian. I can be a bit of a purist when it comes to which deities have which stones. I follow my intuition at times, like with the malachite, but sometimes I just go with what the book says.

These next three things are for Cama Zotz. He got a slab of obsidian, because he is a God of the night, the underworld, and all manner of darkness. Obsidian is black. See! Connection! The heart is hematite. I was looking through my stones and he wanted a piece of hematite I had. I was like “okay, you can’t have this piece because it’s totally not suited for you, but I’m going out today to get you some.” The hematite I had was okay, but not perfect, and I wanted it to be perfect.
But, the best thing for him was the rose quartz skull I found. See, this is what binds Cama Zotz and me together. The rose quartz is me, my personal stone, and the skull is his, the personification of what he is (being the God of the Underworld and whatnot).


Long post was long, thanks for reading it all!

Quetzalcoatl Bust and Oils!

My mom gave me some awesome Pagan stuff for Yule.
This is an Ostara Sabbat basket. It has everything for a small Ostara ritual. It comes with incense and two charcoal blocks to light them, a candle that looks like Vicks Vapo-rub, Ostara oil, a rose quartz and citrine in a pretty bag, a mini-broom and a scroll that gives a breif history of the holiday. The moon-cloth is really nice too, and it came in a basket so I can use it too!
This is a dark sunstone crystal ball. I have a small chunk of this, as does my friend Kristine. We call them our drag queen stones.
These are some more oils my mom got me. The mini ones were on sale! I have Oregano, Grapefruit, Myrtle, Eucalptus, Angelica Root and Chamoile.

Yes! This is a Quetzalcoatl bust! Just like the one's on the temples and at Disney!
SMOOCHIES!

Side note: There was a bit of a kafuffle involving Quetzalcoatl and mistaken identity this week. Big thanks to my cousin Ash and Hex for letting me vent and helping me figure it all out.

Blog Prompt

From my own blog prompt collection: If you found out your God/Gods were just super advanced aliens, how would you react? Would you still treat them as deities? Would you change religions, or abandon religion altogether?--Link

A lot of conspiracy theorists on Above Top Secret’s Alien and UFO forum bring up a lot of questions and discussions about ancient space visitors posing as Gods, and the conversation seems to instantly go to Egypt of the Aztecs. Of course, this makes me nuts.

Being a nerd, however, I do think about the possibility that, for sake of argument I’m going to use Quetzalcoatl, is in fact a super advanced, long-lived alien. If he were to the return to earth in some hard-core space ship, I think I would be thrilled. Not only would humans know they aren’t alone in the universe, but also the personal connection I have with Quetzalcoatl would probably be more cemented now that I can physically see him. I may not revere him as a deity anymore, if this was the case, but I would probably see him as some sort of saviour of humanity. As to if I could change or abandon religion, I probably wouldn’t, but I don’t think I would see Quetzalcoatl as a God anymore, but I’d see him more-or-less as a prophet or Jesus-like figure, like I said before, being a saviour of humanity to help us evolve into more cosmic citizens.

I think a lot of people would, however, have their world’s shattered if anything like this happened. Me? I’d be so excited.

Deities and Adabtability

Yes! It’s my 100th post! Oh my Gods, have I really been able to keep up for 100 blog posts? Wow, that feels so weird. I’ve never been able to really keep things up. I leave them for months and then come back.
I’ve actually been updating pretty much every day, and now we’re at out 100th post. To me, that’s just surreal. Because, you know, I’m amused by simple things.
A big THANK YOU to everyone who reads this blog and puts up with my weirdness. You guys are really what keeps me going. Every time I see a comment or a new watcher, or having my blog on a blogroll, or on some sort of inspiration list, I literally freak out with joy. So, again, you guys ROCK and I thank you a million times over.
As you know, I had my surgery today, and I’m feeling okay. A little groggy, so you’ll have to forgive some grammar errors. I can give you an actual account of my surgery if you want me too (just ask, then check back under your comment in a couple of hours!), but I won’t bore you here.

There is a perfume company called the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab. They have a collection called A Picnic in Arkham, which is perfume based on the Cthulhu Mythos. I recently got the Necronomicon Tarot, an H. P. Lovecraft inspired tarot deck. I never really got into H.P. Lovecraft until I got this deck. It sparks memories of a dream I had when I first met Quetzalcoatl. He identified himself as Cthulhu, even though I recognized him as Quetzalcoatl.

Now, I’m asking for the collection H.P. Lovecraft’s short stories for Christmas, and since it’s only about $11 at the most expensive (my Mom checked it out), I’m probably getting the perfume as well, and the Cthulhu plushie from ThinkGeek. It’s a Cthulhu fest.

Now, my question then became, why do I want all this Cthulhu stuff? Are the Elder Gods coming and I am going to be eaten first (“Chick Tract” explanation)? Actually, I think I have an explanation.

I think Quetzalcoatl loves H.P. Lovecraft. I only vaguely knew of it, and after my dream, I read all the Wikipedia stuff on the Cthulhu Mythos. All this Cthtlhu stuff is coming to me.

I have a theory about deities. Most of us tend to think of them as these immortal beings in their palaces in tune with the culture they are associated with. We may call them into modern settings, but I don’t think we see them blending into modern settings. To be honest, I don’t think many can blend into modern settings, especially ones that are incredibly ancient like Mesopotamian deities.

I think the vast majority of deities treat the modern world almost like the annoying family members: you visit them, but you wouldn’t want to live there. I think there are some that are really terrible at meshing in with this world and don’t exactly know how to transition from their world to ours.
I think there are a few that are great at changing with the times, and I think Quetzalcoatl is one of them. He loves Indiana Jones, How Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth (Star Trek episode), and H. P. Lovecraft.

Maybe it’s the drugs talking.

Anyway, does anyone have any thoughts on this? I’d love to hear your opinions and/or experiences.

Also: holy shit! I started this post at, like 4pm. It’s almost 3 hours later, and it’s barely 600 words. I am easily distracted in this state.
Bring on the Tylenol threes!

Best Pick-Up Line. Ever.

This happened a while ago, but it's still rather funny and rather awesome.

I like taking long baths in the middle of the afternoon, with a nice book. Sometimes I read novels, sometimes I read non-fiction.

This particular bath, I was reading my tarot book, the companion guide to my deck, The Animal Guide tarot. The deck is about animals (obviously), with the Majors and the Court Cards as deities. The King of Swords happens to be Quetzalcoatl.

So, I'm sitting quietly, reading about the King of Sowrds and...

AMBUSH!

I'm sitting quietly in the bath and Quetzalcoatl seems to sense that *something* is happening with him, or about him. So, he comes to investigate.

He's all excited, because he's in a published Tarot deck. Excited like, pre-teen girl at Twilight premire* excited.

But suddenly, he goes all suave, and in the slickest, most bad romance novel voice he says "you know, I'm in that book."

And all I do is laugh, because it sounded like the worst pick-up line I have ever heard.

Now it's become a running joke between me, Quetzalcoatl, and my friend Lisey, who adores Quetzalcoatl (and he thinks she's pretty cool too)

*I know not all pre-teen girls are obsessed with Twilight, and I know not all people obsessed with Twilight are pre-teen girls. But, we know how the fangirls act, and a majority of the vocal ones are pre-teen girls.
Images from the animated Star Trek episode, How Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth

When Nostalgia Attacks!

I’m a nerd. Actually, let’s be more specific: I’m a Trekkie. My mom is a Trekkie as well, so I was introduced to it at an early age.
When I was young, around the age of seven or eight, I watched all the episodes of Star Trek: The Animated Series on VHS on the little TV I had in my room at our vacation home. Possibly my favorite episode is season 2, episode 5: How Sharper than a Serpent’s Tooth. In this episode, the Enterprise crew encounters an ancient space alien who resembles the god Kukulkan which is what they call him in the show. Another name for Kukulkan is Quetzalcoatl.
Anyway, this is the episode I would request most often.

I was young at the time, so I never did any more research into Kukulkan. At the time, we still went to Church and my image of “God” became more and more reptilian and much like the animated Kukulkan.

Recently, I’ve gotten into contact with Quetzalcoatl, and he is awesome. He is thrilled with How Sharper than a Serpent’s Tooth. He doesn’t care that they portray him as some long-lived alien; he’s just thrilled to be in anything. In fact, he loves the new Indiana Jones movie, because they use Aztec/Mayan myths.

I just re-watched How Sharper than a Serpent’s Tooth. I forgot how undeniably hilarious it was.

PS: The Animated Series of Star Trek has an episode called The Magicks of Megas-Tu, which has many pagan and Wiccan themes. Remember: this incarnation of the show was aired in the mid 70s.