This video explores how ancient cultures like the Aztec (Mexica) perceived and symbolized color differently from modern humans. The Aztecs, as a 'grew culture,' did not separate blue and green as distinct colors but viewed them as part of a continuous spectrum, which is why they described the sky as turquoise—a color representing the blinding heat of fire and the sun. The hummingbird god (Huitzilopochtli) represented this fiery, intimidating solar energy, with its shimmering feathers symbolizing the 'malamu' (blinding charisma) and 'pulu' (animal charisma) that ancient peoples perceived as physical emanations from powerful beings. The video explains that this ancient perception of light as a form of 'firewater'—where seeing intense light caused tears—was later misinterpreted by colonizers, who transformed the Aztec fire serpent symbol into the rattlesnake on the Mexican flag.
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1088 - Under a Hummingbird Sky
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We got uh we got some things to talk about. Thank you very much. Obviously, there's been a little technical glitches. Someone's drunk over here is what it seems like. And uh but I'm not.
I've actually just uh been so into prepping this show for you guys. What can I say? And I'm always trying to get like a faster uh blowby-blow to jump into new things, but I always have to do it this way cuz this is how we do it on James Drew Live. Hello everyone. Under a hummingbird sky is the theme for today and we've been building up a lot to it.
So, let's just let's just do some reviews. You guys are going to learn some things. This is a picture of the phobia. It's a side view of the phobia.
It's a divot. It's sort of like an opposite boob. For the guys out there that are like, look, I don't want to go through a lot of science. I've already told you it's an opposite boob. You're like, oh my goodness, this sounds interesting. And inside the phobia, there are certain things. collectors.
Collectors shields little tiny vibrating medicine. No, wait. Dream catchers, light catchers, photon catchers. And the photon catchers are different diameters.
And the different diameters are thought because we have a crude understanding of how things work are thought to collect only certain colors of photons when in fact it's just the shape itself that collects and resonates when the photon hits it. And that's okay. And what you're seeing to the left is the same phobia that we just talked about, the little phobia over here. The same one on the left is a blow up of a certain region of the phobia. And this is most of the region. And what you're looking at is the conglomeration of an average of the number of color cells.
And as you can see, by far red is the most prevalent inside the phobia.
Red is the the highest collected form of wavelength that we receive.
Then we come in with green. We we were collecting a lot of green in our redness or trying to resonating as it were. And then there's just a little speckles of blue. This is not an artistic decision.
This is literally you only really have about one10enth to even 1%. depends on if you're comparing them to red cones or or or green cones of collectors, photon collectors, ladies and gentlemen. And this this has led many to wonder, well, this is interesting.
Why is it that we're not actually able to see blue? And I've done a lot of episodes specifically about this concept, why no one sees blue. And uh I've told you guys that I think most mostly what happens is the mind hallucinates the blue. it hallucinates that this is happening. So, we end up painting the sky blue. We paint the sky blue because uh we get more dopamine that way. We get fed more. And we've been discussing this a lot over the last year.
In ancient warfare, a warrior's panopoly was crafted not just for physical defense, but to terrify and psychologically paralyze an opponent.
One of those things was wearing these shinuards.
These shin guards had the head of the Gorgon at the top of the knee. And when you're sat into the flanks, the failix, the this deadly uh bunch of dudes with spears like, "Look at my spear. My spear's lower than your spear. My spear could could hit you in the face with your spear and all that stuff." But I need you to know that uh most of the writing, most of the the work on this is this was considered a uh apotropic uh medicine. uh in the sense of it was intimidating. It was meant to intimidate. Not only the face of the Gorgon itself, but the bronze, the flashing, the gleaming of the bronze um was said to be a glare that reached heaven. And uh it invoked this concept called cherm or battle madness.
and that this striking dread was introduced through the combination of glinting bronze and the terrifying splendor of the gorgon's face. And of course, we have the concept of of the gorgon, one of our most famous gorgans, Medusa.
The concept of turning to stone would be uh mimicking the idea of being struck by fear. That the fear of something was so strong that it was enough on the battlefield to make a difference. And so if you look at how how much of the technology would be used, guys, this is a lot of wasted hammering. If you're going to if you're going to hammer a Gorgon's face on there just for a dude that's just there to take a fail for the afternoon, why are you going to this extra effort?
And I think the reason why you're going to this extra effort is because the extra effort literally meant something.
It actually caused different things to happen. And it's important we consider this. So this is the principle of malam or maleu as we say on this show and that the deities typically wore malam is an ambiguous substance covering them in terrifying splendor which could also be worn by heroes, kings, giants and even demons good and bad. The effect that seeing a deity mamb has on humans is described as knee. That's right. Knee, a word for physical creeping of the flesh.
Knee. We are the knights who say nei.
This is all from Assyrian Samrian ideas.
Samrian charisma and fame are glimmered on the skin. I've shown you the uh scroll of Ada. The Ada scroll. This is a bead that's kind of rolled around to symbolize something official happened.
But I've pointed out to you what I believe is Mamba. this charisma that was very hard to separate separate from the person itself.
The sovereignty of both king and assur is expressed by the concept of malamu is a passage from the continuation of the inscription indicates while I was in mount keru the malamu or vasur my lord overwhelmed the gilzanu and the hubushku and they brought to me as their tribute horses silver gold tin bronze and a bronze casserole. That's right, ladies and gentlemen. The bronze casserole.
One of the most fabled, intimidating weapons ever invoked upon the battlefield.
Bring me the casserole.
And they bring it out on a table.
And they light the sterno underneath the casserole and say, "Behold, we have brought tuna casserole and we're heating it because we're playing with the very dangers of salmonilla."
But Lord, tuna and salmon are different fish. Take him away. Burn him at the stake. We will place him in a casserole.
Now, this close visual parallel to the radiant descriptions in Hebrew and Ezekiel illustrates this idea so well, ladies and gentlemen, of this terrifying splendor.
And I know many of you think of the wing sundisk as a symbol of uh early uh logoian iconography.
And that's fine. And you can I although I'm probably pretty sure none of you have said you know I think the uh wing sundisk is a prehistoric logos uh embleos whatever I said but I want you to know that this is actually a symbol of what a human looked like who was who was terrifying. This is actually what you saw. I swear this is what you saw when you looked at a king. You did not see a face. You saw this. It was a winged extrusion from the sides of the shoulders, a mapping sort of uh birdlike tail. But then in the center was a very different kind of vibration, a piercing uh emanating, perturbating sound light, electric sound light. And one is the head. Inside the ring is what would what you would see around the head. And I'm about to tell you there's different words for these. And the wings are are are a different charisma. The one around the head is the mamu.
The charisma of the wings is the pulu.
Pulu.
When we start to look at things, there's a uh a trope of very ignorant people that are saying that Michelangelo mistransated uh some Hebrew and he thought it said horns when in fact horns and shining are the same.
And here I'm showing you that mame is in fact horns. It looks like horns on the Ada seal, the glowing of the head.
what many of you maybe thought were antlers. This is electric light. And I need you to understand that the early mind had no separation between the electric aura of something and the creature itself. They looked much more like this.
And so figures like Moses had this same terror.
These same horns protruded from their heads because they psychically glowed.
And as Moses came down from the mountain bearing the two tablets of the pact, Moses was not aware that the skin of his face radiated horns since he had spoken with him. Moses's appearance terrifies the Israelites who shrink away when he comes down the mountain until he calls out to reassures them with his voice, "Hawk, do not fear me.
I am simply glowing because I am Gina or something like that." But it was never clear exactly what the Israelites saw without raising the full range of lexographical issues. The problem interpreting the text is separating the verb Karen. Karen Karon, which appears three times in the passage describing the skin of Moses's face from either, check this out, the sense of radiating light or the sense of sprouting horns.
The ambiguous meaning of the verb is one of other places it appears in the Bible and James True Live is telling you what it is. It's right there.
The eight of seal showing you these are the horns of Moses.
The horns of Moses was a horny man.
You know this.
Oh, Moses is coming over. Oh, everyone wants to go see Moses and his old malamu horns, right? This is a blinding mask of light. This is Seth Sanders book. Really great book. The range of association is the body and actually this is paper.
Excuse me. uh is the range of associations is a body in the Mesopotamian mythology object called the malamu. A blinding mask of light. A blinding mask of light. The malamu is the property of gods and monsters as well as the sun and one is conferred by the gods and kings in his coronation.
The coronation, you know the word coronation, right? We are a part of the apple coronation, right? You know that the coronation is the crowning. What do you think crowning means, guys? Radiance of the crown. This goes back to Malamu.
Do you see how deep this is? Like this is some deep stuff.
The very concept we have about the crown itself is a remnant of the way we used to psychically perceive the world. Now is when you hit the like, guys. See, now your like counts because I just dropped one thing and you're like, "Fuck yeah, man." And you can only hit like once because I'm like a virgin. This this show's like a virgin.
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The text describes these sacred sabers.
I know that that I'm not trying to take away that James that's the vibration of sound itself and the emanation of energy. Yes, it is. And I'm trying to tell you it's those things because the king wields the power of maleu and pulu.
He yields them both. And if you follow, you will see that one side of this prison saber, this uh prism saber is the side of Malamu and the other is the side of Pulu. And I want you to notice that he's actually fighting a beast that only has Pulu.
The beast on the left only has Pulu. He only has the wings. This is the animal charisma, the animal trembling. When you see a bear, the bear glistens if you're lucky some of you have seen a glistening bear. The bear glistens. I swear. Tell me in the comments if you've ever seen a glistening bear because it does. It's little pin pricks of white light.
It's like uh like frozen like it's been frozen by frost, but it's summertime and he's all like cuz you know a lot of bears have asthma.
I don't know. I think they probably drink too much bear milk. Bermilk is very uh lactosegraphy.
It's it's a lot going on there. But it's like the the glistening that you see in the fur used to be a very loud noise.
That glistening was a color. When I say color, I mean a differentiation that the brain, the options were allowed to interpret and manipulate.
And so too did Kings.
This says um this says sparks maliciously like stars.
This is the maam. I I've I've underlined the mamb is different than the pool. In fact, if you guys give me one second, you're watching James 2 live. And when things are live, things happen this way.
And one of the things I want to do is I actually want to read this to you, but it's so small on my screen. I just have to pull it up on a bigger screen. That's all.
James Drew live. You're watching James Drew live. James, stop saying that if we know what we're watching. You're right.
So, everything that's underlined in red is showing you principles of pollut.
And everything that's underlined in blue is showing you principles of malamu. And I've circled the blue and the red to show you kind of where these things penetrate. But I didn't want to circle the entire creature here because it was kind of got dirty and I was like, you're putting too many circles on there.
People don't like it. Too many circles and they're not going to like you if you put too many circles on there. But it does show you these ideas, personality and hood was this pu and I want you to think about this is like the uh the ego. Now when I say ego, I don't I don't mean the ego. I mean the I don't mean the super ego. I mean the ego. So your id your ego a mammal would have ego you've got you've got that and then you've got this super ego and I want you to picture that the emanation of the ego of the id is the pulutu it's the animal spirit it's intimidating it's terrifying right it's all those things it's intimidating and terrifying it's intimifying it's intimifying that's how terrifying it is and the intimifying Intimification of these things is the psyche learning to recognize fear for the first time. I want you to think about that. The perception of fear is a very loud experience in the brain. So loud that it could render you uh frozen.
You could enter into what's called shock. Yeah. It turns out we have a word for it. Yeah. Turns out the body goes into shock when it's experiencing something that is too much for it. We end up with tremors in our electrical system. We call them PTSD.
We have literal uh mythology tracing the levels of Hades as people learn to see things that are that are harder that are harder to see. We just learned in last episode the eye of Horus is a crinkled smile and a tear from the eye which means the eye of Horus is the idea of seeing the full spectrum of red and blue. Right? So the full spectrum a long time ago was smaller. And because it was smaller it looked a lot more like energy, electrical energy. Malamu pulu.
So the personality in hood is more of this red kind of energy and the blue kind of energy is they sparkle maliciously like stars refers to the phenomenon and this is more of a mask. It's more of a face. It doesn't say it on this page but it's more of a face.
Now, the emanations of the body we've interpreted as being clothes.
I swear you like, "Yeah, they wore a bunch of uh they wore bamboo uh shanks back then in the day." It's like really popular. They're like, "Hey, hey, where'd you get your bamboo shanks?" Right? Skimble shanks. You know what I'm talking about. The railroad cat. Yeah. these uh this this kind of garb is actually keep in mind there's no separation between the aura, the charisma, the knee and the person.
There's no separation. This is a a jaguarian consciousness, early consciousness. And they're going to see things like this and it's going to be left in our history right out in the open. And so we end up with this. We we're like, "Yeah, they they were uh basically they were barrels back then.
They wore uh tile barrels. Hey, who who made your tile barrel? Oh, I did. I made my tile barrel. And one of the principles of of this kind of shape around you, you could imagine, I think, is that you would have a sort of like showing a mirror. You're you're reflecting.
The uh shade of light is changing based on the angle, which means that you would change. You would sparkle.
And that this sparkling would be one of the earliest forms of mind control. I swear the glistening, the glistening is one of the earliest forms of mind control. And that's what glimmer that's what glimmer does. That's what uh that's what uh glitter does, right?
All these things uh intimidate. They do it now. We're intimidated by shiny things. We attract gold right now.
And it's the same hummingbird. All right. On the left, the hummingbird is is called a stupid doodoo head. And in the right, he's he's called a pretty bird. I'm just kidding. The same hummingbird, all he's done is turned his head just a little bit. Turned his head.
And by turning his head, he ends up doing the same thing as as clothing like this would do, but he's but he's got like a lot more going on here.
This is ultraviolet reflected light, meaning that you're only going to see these ultraviolet colors because of the way that they've been trapped inside the keratin melanosal uh matrix that we're just going to say is how the hummingbirds are made. And that these only certain light waves, right, are able to come out. But I want you to picture that if you're already seeing aura and charisma, it's just part of someone's skin. I think that this hummingbird would look like an electric firefly. I think it would glow during the day. It would probably stab you. I swear I think this the light the color from this thing would stab you because it would hit a certain frequency and that frequency it's not that the frequency is hitting you, it's the pulse of the frequency. I remind you all that your pain receptors always run a volume of 6 through 10. Doesn't matter if it's a piano that dropped on your foot or a uh uh a a toy plastic piano there. Yeah.
That all of that's going to be registered as 6 to 10. What what changes if the if not the volume, if not the amplitude of the signal, what changes?
It's the frequency, the amount of times that that toe is hitting the button.
It's actually still pressing it the same. It's not hitting it harder. It's hitting it faster. It's hitting it faster. It's hitting it faster. It's hitting it faster. Faster is equated to intensity in the body. Intensity. And keep in mind, there's no pain receptors.
So, when you first start seeing things that are putting this thing through, we we equate that to pain until we learn to practice. Once we practice, it no longer feels a pain. Some of you sickos have figured out a way to make it feel pleasurable. Some of you are like, "Oh my god, I'm looking at the sunset. It's beautiful. Oh my god, I'm so beautiful out here. I feel so connected to the universe. Some of you [ __ ] are doing that. And why? Because you've interpreted the hurts. You've interpreted the pain through enough practice. And a long time ago, we didn't have as much practi practicalis.
Now we talk about Laorti himself, the hummingbird god.
The hummingbird god.
In early Mexico, Aztec mythology, the hummingbird aura represented the fiery divine guide of Hos Lapolei.
I know we talk a lot about him being just a hummingbird, but this is so much more about uh fire too. Fire and water, as you're about to see, known as Hutchland, the hummingbird was not viewed as a fragile bird, but as a fiercely aggressive warrior.
And these are the very small birds.
It's very difficult considering that this culture worshiped eagles. So they knew what a big bird was. And they're like, "Oh, but the hummingbird is like really, really intimidating."
And when they come, they make us want to go to war. This is what it's this is what they say. It enrages us when they come. This bird enrages us. It enrages us. and it would enrage you.
Oh, the same way if you can imagine a strobe light hitting your eyes. The same way that we get mad if someone flies a green laser. If you know many of you are out there flying helicopters and I everyone's just like, "Oh, don't ever point a green laser at helicopter, James. You can't point green lasers at helicopters." And I'm over here. I came here to this [ __ ] planet to shine green lasers on stuff. And all you guys are like, "You can't do it to a helicopter." Because apparently helicopter guys that's like their kryptonite. Anyway, it's fine. That's fine. I don't mind rules still.
And and we know how dangerous certain shades of light are. We we we understand this. We actually have a word called light. Has nothing to do with this. I just noticed I said lar, so I just thought I'd say that.
So much more though about this hummingbird is really this concept of turquoise and fire.
Bright blue green turquoise represents the extreme blinding heat. the absolute center of a roaring flame. This is how Aztecs called it. They told you that the center, guys, they told you that the center of the fire of the flame was blue, green, turquoise. I swear to you, that's what they said.
That's how they describe fire.
And and then there's the sun. But guess what? The sun really wasn't an object in the sky. Not really.
The entire sky was turquoise.
It wasn't blue.
It was the same color as the fire, but it wasn't red. It was blue, green, turquoise. It was this weird mix of all.
In Aztec cosmology, the daytime sky was intimately tied to the sun god, Ho Lei, as you said, the fire god. uh uh uh [ __ ] like Couti, the turquoise lord. Because the sun was viewed as a blazing fire traversing the heavens, the sky was conceptually treated as a place of immense solar heat and precious radiance represented by turquoise.
And you could say, well, it's cuz you know they had that rock and it was really great and stuff and it's no actually jade was even more powerful.
They they picked turquoise because that was the color of the sky.
It's the color of the sky. Why? Because this is a grew culture.
It's a group culture.
Grew cultures, excuse me. Group cultures are cultures that have a historic tendency to not separate green from blue.
Group cultures, um, I thought I had a slide about this. Excuse me. Group cultures are all over the place.
Uh, typically we only are able to preserve group cultures when we find them. I cannot believe this slide's gone. This is I spent like a lot of time on this slide and it's not here anymore.
Uh, uh, these cultures were all over.
They they existed in I'm going to find this slide. This is insane. Here they they existed in Asia-Pacific. They existed in indigenous Americas. They existed in uh uh all around the globe. Vietnam, Japan, China, Korea, Thai, Japanese, Mayans, Lakota, Chakaw, Purus, Tasami, Binimo, Walpro, Zulu is Africa. Even old Welsh and old Irish they have this concept of grew.
Classical no, this is Mashika, belong to what linguists called a grew language culture. Instead of treating blue and green as completely separate categories, ancient Aztecs grouped them into a single continuous color spectrum.
Now they definitely understood blue, but these words came later.
Words like dexalty, words like Mad Landlin, these were specifically used. But keep in mind that there's the mythology is older.
The mythology is carried into culture as the mind learns to discern blue.
It's not much 500 nanometers.
What you're seeing is is the options did not have the resolution to distinguish between these 100 nanometers. These are pretty close.
It takes a lot of practice, a lot of subtle practice, a lot of staring at the blinding sun, a lot of staring at things that are hard in order to learn to discern these things.
This is not a madeup rumor.
Homer applies the adjective porerios which is later Greekly messed purple or dark red to describe a blood dark cloud a wave and a rainbow all of them.
He uses the epitth onopus wine looking to refer to the sea.
Gladstone says the organs of color and its impressions were but partially developed among the Greeks of heroic age.
Homer operated in the main upon a quantitative scale with white and black, light and dark for his opposites of extremities.
Now whether or not you want to say Homer didn't see color or whether or not you want to say that Homer was writing to an audience that didn't see color, I don't care which, but it's true. How do you have a voyage when really your principal ingredients are going to be water and sky and a lot of sitting in a boat and you've never used the word blue?
Lazarus Guyger agrees.
Guyer traced the history from the Old Testament Bible to Hindu vdic to Greek and Romans and noticed there was a study progression of colors that were invented through literature. I'll show you a list in a second. It's a little bit easier than this.
And you'll find that violet, indigo, green, and blue. These differences came much later.
Here's Homer.
Black is used almost 200 times. White is used almost 100 times. Red is used maybe four.
Yellow three.
Green two.
It's pretty bad. There's no color.
and the mind. Again, it doesn't matter to me if you think Homer saw color, but I I I want you to more understand. I don't think the people that that that heard these stories understood color.
It's very difficult to to convey. And it took a while. Hugo Mag Magnus did these things. All these guys uh studied these things through literature and they found that there's just certain characteristics that that rose and came with um with the invention of colors.
And this is why we say Mishika is or Aztec is a grew culture. It's a grew culture. And now I want you to just open your mind to that idea and let's revisit why would they call the sky turquoise?
Why is the fiery burning of water one of the principal uh symbols is this firewater thing?
Why is firewater associated with hummingbirds and this god?
And you end up with a word like this, the turquoise serpent.
As you know, quad, we've talked about quit squad, right? Plume serpent.
She quaddle. Sorry, I don't say this word enough.
The uh fire serpent is a combination of this word chuli meaning turquoise gems, fire or solar year, and quadal serpent.
And listen to this. Linguistically, the word functions at a literal description of lightning and cosmic fire, binding the fluid zigzagging motion of a snake to the destructive energy of a thunderbolt.
I'm telling you, this is nerve endings.
This is what it feels like to have nerve endings fire.
When Mesoamerican writing systems, the name operates simultaneously as a noun and as a mythical beast. And overall it really represents this solar heat. This idea of solar heat of electricity.
In historical manuscript illustrations, the word is materialized through a highly specific set of visual code that spell out its exact literal meaning.
By painting the creature's body a vibrant blue green hue and capping its tail with a trapezoidal wedge, the standard hieroglyph signal for a solar ray or a year count. The quaddle.
It's starting to paint to you why there's a plume circuit.
It's plumemed because you're seeing it's pulled to plume. What does this mean? Think about it, guys. These are plumes. These wings, they're plumemed.
What's a plumemed serpent?
And the plume serpent has actually been misinterpreted.
This guy is on the Mexican flag right now, but it's been misinterpreted.
We're going to get to that though.
She Shew Wheatley is how it's pronounced. Sorry. The classic model, the word shew wheatly simultaneously translates to turquoise, a green plant sprout, a solar ray, and in a unit of time. They're seeing the sun the same color as the sky, turquoise, the same color as plants, green.
Do not tell me I'm reaching because I will show you six more slides and you will be backed into a corner and you will say the sweetly's strong in this one.
Even the cosmology the physical daytime sky. Elby Katl was explicitly categorized asly realm because it hosted the sun. Rather than viewing the sky as a distinct shade of pigment, their language and religious myths group the sky, fire, and turquoise into a single continuous visual and conceptual category. This is uh documented in the codeex and has been misinterpreted over time.
What you're seeing right now is is the god who's responsible for the new fires.
The new fire is seen as the symbol of bringing us together is technically sort of this ability to see to see things.
So you have on one one side you have this shuati this turquoise serpent and on the other you just have this conceptual idea of year turquoise and grass and it's has this concept of war lightning comets fireb breathing divine entity something inside of you something deep inside of you a signal that would feel like a snake that would hit you and the glistening would be so intimidating. It would it would knock you back and you'd have trouble perceiving and even being comfortable in this world. You'd struggle with it.
Now, in order to really set this up even more, I want to remind you that according to Hoppy mythology, the ant people, the Anu Naki, I know it's close, Anu Snaki, were benevolent underground humanoid beings who saved humanity from global cataclysm twice.
In Hobie cosmology, these worlds or eras have these ant people played a vital role. Keep in mind that ants come out during a full moon and the first world was destroyed. The fire uh in French theories is a massive solar flare, volcanic activity or an asteroid people forcing people underground.
Second was destroyed by ice.
The point is is that civilization was incubated underground. That's the hoppy myth.
And then if you look at the Mishika myth, keep in mind the Aztecs came from A land as Lantis. I'm just saying that it came from Aland. And while they were in Aland, this Chico Muttok, this uh different kind of people that they came from, because keep in mind, they couldn't be Aztec until you left Aland.
So the Aztec are basically as landers.
So before you leave Aland, you're not going to be the the people from Aland, you're going to be the Chico.
And there was a idea of there was seven caves and the world was ruled by dog people. We've talked about dog people before, these outlaw sort of cannibalistic spirits, and that man was incubated underground preserving art, preserving culture, preserving religion, preserving mythology.
And it said around 1064, 1168. I just want to point out this is not long after the big solar eclipse that kicked off the Uriccoy Confederacy, but that these tribes emerged from the caves to settle in Alan, an island paradise.
However, they faced oppression from the ruling Aztec.
And so it was their patron god, the hummingbird, Ho Leapolei, eventually commanded them to flee Yeland.
So this is a guy that has a lot of pulu, a lot of a lot of malamu, a lot of knee.
And he takes his nomads and they wander seeking a sign. And he's told the sign is an eagle perched on a cactus.
That's the sign they're looking for.
And this eagle perched on the cactus ends up gaining something later. Is it the dog people? Uh, interesting story I want to share with you one day about Montazuma sending uh 60s uh 60 wizards out to uh locate Alan. He did this uh about a hundred years before uh Cortez came. The dudes go out and they're like, "We found Aland."
Beautiful naked woman showed up and bling, "Welcome to Asland." They're like, "Oh my god." She's like, "Yeah, you found me." And she's like, "You guys are doomed. You guys are doomed. You're not accepting the old ways."
So the uh wizards go back home, told Matazuma one, not not not the second one, not the famous one. Hey man, we got to go back to the old way of life. So he tried to dress the poly in the old ways and it's said to fail. It's interesting fable. It's like oral mythology. Am I right? Only the wizards could see the bad things that were happening. They had to leave the village to see the bad things happening. I'm just saying there's a lot there.
So these shimmering metallic covers of the bird feather were believed to be the physical manifestation of sunlight.
And why? Because I think when you looked at these hummingbirds, you your eyes burned. Your eyes stang. And this is why they carry this special special rod. This fire stick. This blue thing. Remember the turquoise? The blue thing. Yeah. The sky thing is a fire stick and it symbolizes fire and water.
And when you start to understand the essence of humans is tonali is their heat, their soul force said to emanate through the hair because the hair was capturing this this malamu and pulling it into yourself. And I think it's because the energy looked like hair.
This is all about to come together because when you think about the Moonnight people, it's the same way.
Wait a minute, James and Hopy people lived underground. Yeah. So, they're they're seeing darkness, right? They're they're they're they're living in darkness all the time. Same with the moey people. Same with the Mashika and Alan. Three different cultures that insist that they were seeing in the dark first. Nocturnal living. There's even lords of the night.
And what happens? They were defeated because during the day, people who could function during the day, the Cherokee were able to drive them out.
And I think that's what this means.
They were driven out.
I think I think the Moonai people could be the the uh the Aztec people. But when I say the Moonai people, I'm not trying to say it's just the southern Appalachin, Mississippian Mooneyey people. I'm talking about this culture of people that lived underground had more culture. They were trying to preserve things. And the world was being run by something else.
And one of the things I think they were trying to preserve is their vision, their ability to see glistening.
And so they worshiped this serpent.
These are neurons, guys. I swear to you, they're trying to preserve their neurons.
And they're told to find another place.
Okay, Alan is interesting because it shares the exact same similarities to Mexico City. Alan, where the Aztecs left, was an island on a lake.
And they said, 'You need to go find another island on a lake.
And you'll know that because an eagle will land on a cactus and the cactus will sprout water.
That's that's the entire mythology of what they were looking for. They were looking for another lake. Oh, James, why were they looking for another lake? Are you going to tell us? You damn right.
I'm going to tell you.
You're damn right. Some of you didn't hit like. And I want you to know you saved it for a good one here.
Because water is a polarizing mirror. If you grew up on an island surrounded by water, you would have a high contrast environment, ladies and gentlemen.
You see, all the sunlight hitting the water is going to be super bright and white.
The polarization of all that is going to accent and cause life on the island to be perceivable.
that you would be able to live outside the cave under a very special situation which is a giant area of polarized light i.e any water and a land body floating in the middle of it.
As you know Mexico City was swamp underwater and these guys built rafts and built their village on top of the rafts. The rafts just sat there and they farmed them, they pooped on them, they built canals.
Why would they go to so much trouble?
Why would they live in the middle of mosquito world? Why would they choose that? And the answer is perception. I swear to you, it's perception. And the mythology that I've shown you just even in the short amount of time that we've had today to even talk about this is absolutely bulletproof showing you how they saw these things.
This was a survival requirement back then. As I've told you, visual perception is just voltage. It's just voltage. And what is voltage but fire stick? It's a fire stick, guys. It's a fire stick. There's a physical agony of light described in the Florentine codeex. Thanks to patrons, I'm allowed to read these things in book seven.
The text states that when the sun rises, it shines, cast rays, scatters its light, and no one can gaze upon it. It strikes one eyes, one's eyes, it blinds one.
The sun is a weapon.
People died in the sun because they were exposed because they were blind.
The sun is described as an entity that shoots arrows of heat into nomly.
To a standard human, it forces a squint.
For a nocturnal or dayblind mooneyed perspective, this would be a literal assault on the senses.
The mirror of smoke. You guys know that's Poka's obsidian mirror, right?
John D in the mirror. We talked about this before. If a beam of sun hits obsidian, it shoots a focus stabbing glare across the dark space. It allows you to see the sun. The obsidian allows you to see the sun. Now you understand this wasn't just a novelty.
You'd be able to see things others would not because you had the magic of obsidian waiting for you.
This is so deep. Really, all these verbs describe mammu and Aztec culture.
I spent this time looking up. How can I show these guys that the Greek is the same over here? Peptoaca, glittering unbearableness.
Q poka, the coarse gate sparkling intensity.
Thalentoly, sorry, the lightning flash, the sharp spike of absolute illumination that shocks the nervous system. The tonal solar force heat.
These these things were electric intensity.
from a cosmic warrior.
The turquoise prince, the prince of turquoise would be the prince of a green sky, wouldn't it?
And that green sky would have this essence of stabiness.
It would be a thorned bird of the sky stabbing you with its brightness. And you would feel that stabbiness as a fire serpent.
And I think the biggest tell of all, the biggest tell of all about all this is found in your tears.
As you know, at the top of the spine is the perial ductal gray. It's a region of the brain stem that has neuromelanin in it. But it does something else. It is able to clutch emotions. Excuse me. It's able to clutch emotions.
If you experience something intense, it starts to secrete tears from your eyes with higher protein. These are not normal ductal tears. This is an emotional uh lubricant.
A lubricant that is created in the excessive amount of bandwidth that's coming in through an emotion. As you know, we we've learned that all emotion is going to be six of 10. It's the frequency. So, possibly the deeper emotions could be seen as just really heavy frequency like not heavy loud, right? But really fast frequency just What flying animal has a very high frequency?
It's a hummingbird.
The Spanish flag misinterpreted the fire serpent and they turned it into a rattlesnake.
It's close, right? It's close.
And we've lost the memory of how much it hurt to see light.
We've lost that memory. And the reason why this icon is associated with the calendar, it should be self-evident, is because the moving of the sun, the moving of the death star, it's a [ __ ] death star to them, would be the calendar itself. They started calling all years.
During 1507 during the uh great fire ceremony, Montazumus II, this is the second now, says, "We will find the perfect person to burn to suffer the new I mean to have the honor, excuse me, of the new fire ceremony. And we need someone with the name of Shikloo in him. He must have turquoise in his name."
Turquoise.
entire sky is turquoise. It's not the most precious stone. That's jade.
It's not.
It's the most symbolically representative of the color of the sky and what it looked like back then to see.
We are still learning to see.
We're still learning from creatures that came up from the darkness.
And it's such a trip to me to imagine that the moon used to be the sun. That we used to live in the moonlight because we could see everything. And now we live in the sunlight because we're afraid of the dark. And this is the sine wave. One of the most beautiful things of nature is this sine wave is showing us how to live and thrive on either side of that of that uh horizon.
Both sides of that horizon have this pain waiting for you. Whether that pain is fear of the dark or fear of the light, they're both stinging.
They're both causing these oric solar fire flares.
When you stare at the sun, it makes fire. I think this is the ultimate proof that I want I wanted to end on this because I want you by the way, you can come to dojo. We can talk about all this. We got a after show uh dojo today. You join Patreon, you can come. We can talk about all this stuff, but I I want you to see something here.
The reason why firewater was associated is because looking at the sun made you cry.
And in the early psyche that doesn't separate, animism is not an intellectual pursuit.
Hopefully you guys know that it's a versipella state, right? You enter into a state and the reason why you enter into that state is because we emerged from that state. Which is why we invented animism before Christianity, before the before the idea of a conceptual super ego Zusian controller that maintains a personality.
Before we had that, we were living in animistic states. And when the sun would come up, it would cause the firewater.
And you you're not separate from your tears.
Not back then, guys. In an animistic state, if you're seeing tears, the entire world is drowning in water. Do you understand? You don't have a concept of self like that. That's separate. Keep in mind, the sky is the same color as the grass. Just barely different. I've shown you the words. You don't have to speculate this.
And when you when you get into this psyche, the concept of firewater makes perfect sense. This would be the only thing that would feel like fire water.
When you look at the sun, when you're outside in the solar heat, when you're in the fire serpent, you secrete tears.
Your eyes secrete tears. You're learning to see pain that you've never seen before. And this is the war god. This is Hush Leapoti. This is what it's like under a hummingbird sky where the entire entire spectrum has no separation.
The entire spectrum is one continuous living entity.
Tomoteoto or whatever god you want to choose. The emotional state that you were in was the god that was present in the room. Hope you've enjoyed today. Let me know what you think in the comments. Would love some uh likes and comments for that. Uh the new CD is out. Um I think you should really get it. It's uh it's a good one.
This is uh Dream States. Um really really good stuff. You can get it in the shop. Um check out some of my books. Uh join Patreon. Hope you guys have a good one. We'll uh we'll see you next time on James Drew Live.
Don't know where to go.
Turn the lights up. Brea in alone.
I wait for the sun to shine in.
Still not cold.
Do you mind letting yourself in?
got me a fellow.
I was waiting for something. I was like, my body is cold, but my heart is pumping for love.
You ask me to you.
Heat. Heat. Heat.
should be for you.
Don't know where to go.
Turn the lights up. Breathing in, waiting out alone.
While I wait for the sun to shine in, still not cold.
Do you mind letting yourself in?
Got me.
I was waiting for something. How they come?
My body is cold, but my heart is pounding for love.
You ask me.
Heat. Heat.
You should be longing for you.
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