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.

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.