The Mayan Moon Goddess, "Lady Rainbow"
The Mayan moon goddess is Ix-Chel (Chak Chel in Quiche Mayan). You will no doubt come across her in Martin Prechtel's work, especially Secrets of a Talking Jaguar. The glyphs depict her as a crotchty old woman with a serpent on her head.
In Mayan Gods and Goddesses, a book thus far only available in Guatemala, daykeeper Vinnie Stanzione writes:
"Ix-Chel is best known as "Lady Rainbow", but she is also referred to as "Great Rainbow" "Red Rainbow" and "Red Tree." She is a mother and a grandmother, an old goddess of divination, childbirth, medicine, healing, weaving, feminine wisdom, sorcery, sweatbaths and sustenance. If ever there was a Creator Mother, this is she!
She provides humanity with her nurturing rains of abundance, but she was also queen of floods and their destruction. She was the "first mother" as grandmother, the weaver of destiny and birth giver of fortune. Her blood was the vital liquid that flowed from women at both menses and childbirth, yet she herself was beyond menses. Chak Chel was the waning aspect of an aging moon. As destroyer, she was nature's great devourer, for her blookthirsty hands were the paws of the ravenous mother jaguar that silently stalked the jungle for prey. Ix (jaguar) was her day and red was her color.
The jiote tree (also known as the sunburn or tourist tree because the bark is a thin red skin, like the tourist who got sunburned) was her sacred abode.One was her number and "one-footed" hurricanes were her specialty. She was the archtetypal midwife of the world and mother of maize as well as the first pair of Hero Twins from the Popul Vuh. Most importantly, Chak Chel embodied the wisdom of nature's eternal return symbolized by the rainbow serpent that she wore as her headdress and crown.
Carl Johan Calleman wrote an article on diksha guru Sri Bhagavan's Experience Festival site about the Mayan moon cycle of 29.53 days (similar to other early cultures) vs Jose Arguelles' Dreamspell calendar and other calendars that inaccurately peg the moon cycle as 28 days.
Also, Wikipedia's page on the Mayan moon goddess is worth reviewing.
In Mayan Gods and Goddesses, a book thus far only available in Guatemala, daykeeper Vinnie Stanzione writes:
"Ix-Chel is best known as "Lady Rainbow", but she is also referred to as "Great Rainbow" "Red Rainbow" and "Red Tree." She is a mother and a grandmother, an old goddess of divination, childbirth, medicine, healing, weaving, feminine wisdom, sorcery, sweatbaths and sustenance. If ever there was a Creator Mother, this is she!
She provides humanity with her nurturing rains of abundance, but she was also queen of floods and their destruction. She was the "first mother" as grandmother, the weaver of destiny and birth giver of fortune. Her blood was the vital liquid that flowed from women at both menses and childbirth, yet she herself was beyond menses. Chak Chel was the waning aspect of an aging moon. As destroyer, she was nature's great devourer, for her blookthirsty hands were the paws of the ravenous mother jaguar that silently stalked the jungle for prey. Ix (jaguar) was her day and red was her color.
The jiote tree (also known as the sunburn or tourist tree because the bark is a thin red skin, like the tourist who got sunburned) was her sacred abode.One was her number and "one-footed" hurricanes were her specialty. She was the archtetypal midwife of the world and mother of maize as well as the first pair of Hero Twins from the Popul Vuh. Most importantly, Chak Chel embodied the wisdom of nature's eternal return symbolized by the rainbow serpent that she wore as her headdress and crown.
Carl Johan Calleman wrote an article on diksha guru Sri Bhagavan's Experience Festival site about the Mayan moon cycle of 29.53 days (similar to other early cultures) vs Jose Arguelles' Dreamspell calendar and other calendars that inaccurately peg the moon cycle as 28 days.
Also, Wikipedia's page on the Mayan moon goddess is worth reviewing.
posted by Barbara (BJ) Sadtler @ 8:41 PM
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