The Aztec Gateway

This is the part of the site where I get to elaborate on myself a bit, and put random things and projects. This is also the section where I get to state my personal opinions and outlook on certain things, maybe even a rant or two. Click on the links below to read about me or whatever happens to be on my mind at the time. At the bottom, you will see I have also added a vague semblance of artwork. Since changing the layout of this site, I have added more, and as always will do so from time to time in the future. To keep it clear, I have decided to add dates to new or updated works.

Thoughts, Opinions, and Rants

FAQ

Mesoamerican Book Reviews

Recommended Reading List

Gods and the Experience of Blood

On Behalf of a Flowery Death

The Aztecs and Monotheism?

In the House of Death

A Lament for Modern Priesthoods

A Note on Terminology

Battle of the Religious Models

The Abrahamic Dillema

Mesoamerican Shit (Humor)

Toltechs and the Millenial Maya

Open-Minded or is Your Brain Falling Out?

The Mexica Would be Ashamed (A Letter)

To All My Critics

Sacrificial Knife

Tecpatl Ixcuahua

 

Serious Documents and Papers

Why the Aztec Religion Should Not be Mixed with Wicca - An educational document written in response to an eclectic "Aztec Witches Coven."

The Importance of Human Sacrifice - Paper on sacrifice around the world and its benefits, written for college religions class.

Does Sacrifice Have its Place? - Essay written for Witchvox specifically about sacrifice in modern Paganism.

The Aztecs and Monotheism II: Confronting the Evidence - In this essay, I evaluate and address my opponents' theories at the source.

 

Fictional Writings and Poems

Teoyotl Miquiztli (Onteotlahuanac) - Trippy sacrifice story

Flower Blood - Angry hummingbird poem

The Blue-Green Death - A poem (dream or memory?)

Regrets - Poem

Dreamscape III - Another dream poem (Lost I and II)

The World Falls Down Around Me - Poem

Supplication of an Observer - Poem for Teonanacatl dreams

Tears - Poem

Nightly Devotions - Poem for my god

Lost World - Poem

Yollopoliuhqui - Poem ("Lost Heart," Aztec term for madman)

Cuezali - Poem

Face


Artwork

Memory Tree - (Added 10.11.08) Colored pencils and not so colored pencils.

Desolation - (Added 10.11.08) Pencil.

Tepeyollotl - A pastel painting I did for my Temple Room of Tezcatlipoca's jaguar form. I didn't have the means to scan this one, so it's a picture of the painting taken with a digital camera, but I think it turned out relatively well, all things considered.

Sunrise - Tonatiuh rising, accompanied by the souls of warriors in the form of fiery birds.

Night Pyramid - Pastels. Now with properly adjusted levels!

Water Lily Jaguar - I was hit with the masochistic urge to stipple.

Electric Hummingbird - I read way too much Ernest Hogan. And yes, I know the city is sloppy. You try drawing a straight line with a blunt piece of pastel and tell me how patient you are obsessing over the buildings.

 

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