Haiku Shuukan – Quetzalcoatl – August 10, 2014

For this week’s Shuukan, Chèvrefeuille writes:

“Another week has gone by … and so it is time for a new episode of our weekly haiku meme Haiku Shuukan. This week our prompt isn’t easy, because it starts with a Q and it refers to the once golden culture of the Inca. This week our prompt is Quetzalcoatl the Sun God of the Inca.
So maybe your haiku can be about Sun, the Inca or the Andes for example. I hope you will be inspired by this prompt.”

Michel wal – Wikipedia

majestic being
creator of warmth and growth
Quetzalcoatl

sacrifices
to appease the great sun-god
blood flows at dawn

mists of the Andes
mysterious sun cult
guided a people

We’ve all heard of the above aspect of the Inca culture and it’s hard to forget writing on the subject … what about the modern ideas about Quetzalcoatl:

alien visitor
from an unknown planet
Quetzalcoatl

Or maybe I could write about Quetzalcoatl as though he were Ra:

first dawning rays
flash upon the mountain tops
bringing summer warmth

his face beams down
drying the Earth of night’s rain
Quetzalcoatl

10 thoughts on “Haiku Shuukan – Quetzalcoatl – August 10, 2014”

Alien visitor… yes I’ve watched a few shows that explain the image of Quetzalcoatl as a space explorer – I think is in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariots_of_the_Gods%3F by Erich von Däniken. There is so much debate on how the ancients could have achieved their wonders that supposedly aliens had to help.

I like how you went from past to present. I think though that it was not so much Quetzalcoatl asking for sacrifices as it was the few priests in charge who wanted to maintain control over the many. I’ve also watch shows that explained how the ‘priests’ scared the masses with very fine trickery just to keep their elite priestly status. I think I read or heard somewhere that Quetzalcoatl was not violent at all but a promoter of peace and it was that sharing of knowledge that perhaps was too advanced for the people at that time that eventually skewed the works.

Thanks for your visit and kind words.

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Bastet on August 10, 2014 at 17:50 said:

I have to admit that I know little about Quetzalcoatl, but I wouldn’t hesitate to believe that indeed the priests did their power thing as priests have done consistently throught out the ages and in so many different cultures that had little or nothing to be shared … except priests. The alien theme came fron Von Daniken’s book the Chariots of the Gods which did so much to create the lastest millenium scare (the Aztec calindar) I read it back in the 90s but remembered this part clearly.

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- julespaige on August 10, 2014 at 18:00 said:
  
  I saw a great comic on the Aztec calendar.
  The one guy was chipping away, finishing up.
  The second guy asks something like; “How come you are stopping?”
  To which the first replies; “I ran out of room.”
  
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  - Bastet on August 11, 2014 at 05:21 said:
    
    LOL … guess it was something like that, ’cause we’re still here making a muck of things 😉
    
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Georgia, these are simply wonderful. 🙂

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Bastet on August 12, 2014 at 06:28 said:

Thanks Celestine 🙂

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Wow Georgia I thought Quetzalcoatl would be very difficult, but you have shared a complete series … chapeau!

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Bastet on August 12, 2014 at 06:32 said:

Thanks for the chapeau … it was rather difficult so that’s why I wrote a series as I thought about different facets of the subject.

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- Chèvrefeuille on August 12, 2014 at 20:52 said:
  
  I liked it a lot …
  
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julespaige on August 10, 2014 at 15:38 said:

Alien visitor… yes I’ve watched a few shows that explain the image of Quetzalcoatl as a space explorer – I think is in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariots_of_the_Gods%3F by Erich von Däniken. There is so much debate on how the ancients could have achieved their wonders that supposedly aliens had to help.

I like how you went from past to present. I think though that it was not so much Quetzalcoatl asking for sacrifices as it was the few priests in charge who wanted to maintain control over the many. I’ve also watch shows that explained how the ‘priests’ scared the masses with very fine trickery just to keep their elite priestly status. I think I read or heard somewhere that Quetzalcoatl was not violent at all but a promoter of peace and it was that sharing of knowledge that perhaps was too advanced for the people at that time that eventually skewed the works.

Thanks for your visit and kind words.

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- Bastet on August 10, 2014 at 17:50 said:
  
  I have to admit that I know little about Quetzalcoatl, but I wouldn’t hesitate to believe that indeed the priests did their power thing as priests have done consistently throught out the ages and in so many different cultures that had little or nothing to be shared … except priests. The alien theme came fron Von Daniken’s book the Chariots of the Gods which did so much to create the lastest millenium scare (the Aztec calindar) I read it back in the 90s but remembered this part clearly.
  
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  - julespaige on August 10, 2014 at 18:00 said:
    
    I saw a great comic on the Aztec calendar.
    The one guy was chipping away, finishing up.
    The second guy asks something like; “How come you are stopping?”
    To which the first replies; “I ran out of room.”
    
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    - Bastet on August 11, 2014 at 05:21 said:
      
      LOL … guess it was something like that, ’cause we’re still here making a muck of things 😉
      
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readinpleasure on August 11, 2014 at 18:49 said:

Georgia, these are simply wonderful. 🙂

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- Bastet on August 12, 2014 at 06:28 said:
  
  Thanks Celestine 🙂
  
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Chèvrefeuille on August 12, 2014 at 02:20 said:

Wow Georgia I thought Quetzalcoatl would be very difficult, but you have shared a complete series … chapeau!

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- Bastet on August 12, 2014 at 06:32 said:
  
  Thanks for the chapeau … it was rather difficult so that’s why I wrote a series as I thought about different facets of the subject.
  
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  - Chèvrefeuille on August 12, 2014 at 20:52 said:
    
    I liked it a lot …
    
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