Part XI | Itzamna | The Mayan Empire
Davy Jones roamed the Pirate Cemetery on Madagascar's eastern coast, whistling "Frère Jacques" and looking for “Brother John” (Abraham), who had been burying the remains of Itzamna's Mayan "Queen," a Malagasy Panther Chameleon turned "human" due to an ancient uranium source near the island.
“In the Kʼicheʼ language, “coban” means “between clouds,” [1] Abraham's tall figure appeared out of the mist, startling the fearsome pirate out of his reverie.
“The city of Coban is the origin of this disease and it has a mysterious past. The vine-like roots of the Indian coral tree [2] at the abandoned temple of Coban are truly frightening and consume their victims down to the bone. Legend has it the coral tree was brought to the Central American kingdom as a gift from the people of India as a poisoning cure. However, the tree itself was poisoned by the Panther Chameleon's daughter born from the Dragon King Sagara, rendering it a toxic nightmare instead of a cure.
Hundreds of years ago, the Mayan sky deity Itzamna, [3] took a Malagasy native (the Panther Chameleon) as his "queen." When a local Mayan curandero {4} offered Itzamna a cure for his poisonous disease that the curandero had prepared himself, Itzamna refused.
Unfortunately, Itzamna's step-daughter born from Sagara was responsible for poisoning hundreds of people over the years, both inside and outside the Mayan civilization, with disastrous consequences. Eventually, Abraham took Itzamna's hostile "queen" and added her in bits and pieces to a Cherubim called “Proginoskes.” [8]
Abraham originally created the Cherubim with the feathers of a scarlet macaw and the eyes taken from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Since that time, two more individuals were added and the Vucub-Caquix is the seventh. Due to the nature of their crimes, the Cherubim is intended as a punishment. It seems the cure, oddly enough, are only the freshest leaves of the Indian Coral Tree, the exact same tree whose roots produce the toxic, snake-like vines.”
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Notes
[1] Coban
[2] Tiger's Claw or the Indian Coral Tree
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythrina_variegata
[3] Itzamna
[4] (image)
Principal Bird Deity and worshipper, Classic period, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
[5] Vucub Caquix
[6] Seven Macaw or Vucub Caquix (image) by Gibger Ilustraciones
https://www.facebook.com/Gibger/posts/581288472224788/
[7] Popol Vuh
The Popol Vuh is a foundational sacred narrative of the Kʼicheʼ people from long before the Spanish conquest of the Maya. It includes the Mayan creation myth, the exploits of the Hero Twins Hunahpú and Xbalanqué, and a chronicle of the Kʼicheʼ people. The Kʼicheʼ people are one of the Mayan peoples, who inhabit Guatemala and the Mexican states of Chiapas, Campeche, Yucatan and Quintana Roo, as well as areas of Belize , Honduras and El Salvador.
[8] A Wind in the Door
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wind_in_the_Door
[9] The Great Wall (movie) 2016
[10] The Queen and the Conqueror (2020)
The Ruins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ruins_(novel)
Seven Macaw (image)
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