Hope Flickers
I'm not alone in this feeling as I've been chatting with friends about this. So many spiritual people, real-folks that I trust and whom have always had "insights", have truly felt spiritually cut-off, out of sorts, out of whack..... alone even. This has been building for at least a year that I'm aware of. I'm really not sure what to think of it all, how to process it, what to do other than to keep hope and faith alive.
That is what I'm doing.
And as the Ancestors have smiled on me again I look forward to a Huichol Fire Circle this Friday night for women only, followed by the Aztec healing ritual called a temezcalli. This is similar, yet different in some ways, from the Native American "sweat-lodge" or the European "sauna."
Here's some interesting info on the temezcalli:
Origins of Temezcalli
More information
What I find most intriguing right from the start is that the Goddess most associated with the temezcalli is Temazcalteci, said to be "the grandmother of the baths".
From the last mentioned website above:
"She was, really, one of the manifestations of the goddess Teteoinan, "the mother of the gods", or, as she is also called, "our grandmother", the principal goddess among the higher Nahuatl divinities. Sahagun says of her that "...this goddess was the goddess of medicine and of the medicinal herbs; she was adored by doctors and surgeons, and bleeders, and also by midwives... She was also adored by those who had baths, or temazcals in their houses. All placed the image of this goddess in their baths". The cult of this goddess of the Temazcal extended throughout Mesoamerica and it is found in the other great cultures of the region --the Mixteca, the Zapoteca and the Maya. It was in great part because of this close relationship between the worship of a goddess and the Temazcal that the Spaniards found it so important to ban the use of the bath."
And here I am a soap-maker. :) Yes, hope still flickers. I'll remain open, not attached to expectations, and allow my Heart to experience it all.
That is what I'm doing.
And as the Ancestors have smiled on me again I look forward to a Huichol Fire Circle this Friday night for women only, followed by the Aztec healing ritual called a temezcalli. This is similar, yet different in some ways, from the Native American "sweat-lodge" or the European "sauna."
Here's some interesting info on the temezcalli:
Origins of Temezcalli
More information
What I find most intriguing right from the start is that the Goddess most associated with the temezcalli is Temazcalteci, said to be "the grandmother of the baths".
From the last mentioned website above:
"She was, really, one of the manifestations of the goddess Teteoinan, "the mother of the gods", or, as she is also called, "our grandmother", the principal goddess among the higher Nahuatl divinities. Sahagun says of her that "...this goddess was the goddess of medicine and of the medicinal herbs; she was adored by doctors and surgeons, and bleeders, and also by midwives... She was also adored by those who had baths, or temazcals in their houses. All placed the image of this goddess in their baths". The cult of this goddess of the Temazcal extended throughout Mesoamerica and it is found in the other great cultures of the region --the Mixteca, the Zapoteca and the Maya. It was in great part because of this close relationship between the worship of a goddess and the Temazcal that the Spaniards found it so important to ban the use of the bath."
And here I am a soap-maker. :) Yes, hope still flickers. I'll remain open, not attached to expectations, and allow my Heart to experience it all.
posted by Kestrel | 12:19 PM
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