Pacha

Cherry

By Ewan

Sat, 05 Mar 2016
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Who sees omnipotence in the smoking mirror,

forgets the feathered serpent

and the light of the morning star,

or the moon with her skirt of jade

and the gleam of the four hundred southerners

against the atramentous sky.

 

The left-handed humming bird flutters,

four hundred rabbits career below,

fools expect the flower prince

until our flayed lord arrives

in his coat of human skin

and there is no space,

there is no time,

there is only pacha.

 

 

 

 

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Submitted by celticman on

I guess apocalpytic. When I googled pacha the defintion was some kind of disco. That would certainly put a different meaning on your poem. 

 

Submitted by Ewan on

pleased to note Google is not infallible. Everything is based closely on Aztec mythology. The 400 rabbits are a reference to one of the Gods of excess responsible for drink and drunkenness... Slammin' !

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Submitted by Ewan on

tried to flag your comment as great feedback, Jack, since it showed how closely you had read the poem... but the site wouldn't let me. Anyway, thanks for reading and commenting again.wink

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Submitted by airyfairy on

Arrival of the Conquistadors?  Or, as celtic says, a particularly hot night in Ibiza?

Submitted by Ewan on

all the epithets are Anglicised versions of Aztec deities and minor Gods.  Maybe you're right about the poem. What's interesting about your mention of the arrival of the Conquistadors is that, when Cortez arrived the Aztecs thought he was Quetzalcoatl (The Feathered Serpent) come down to earth. I think he proved to have more in common with Xipi Totec (Our Flayed Lord who was represented by a priest wearing the flayed skin of a human during ceremonies) in the end. 

Ewan

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Submitted by Bee on

I feel the title refers to the world. Some unusual and original images. Loved, especially, the left-handed humming bird. It's a mixture of fools and frightened rabbits belief in mythology and religion, not shared by the narrator. 

Bee

Submitted by Ewan on

Now we're getting nearer. Millennia before Albert's insight, the Aztecs believed time and space were the same thing and they called it 'Pacha'. I find it quite ironic/hilarious/disturbing that a civilization sophisticated enough to stumble on this idea practised human sacrifice on a quite colossal scale.

Thank you Jack, Airy and Bee for taking the time to read and comment

Ewan

 

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Submitted by Ewan on

and I wonder if it was a 'phone issue way back then?

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Submitted by celticman on

that's interesting. Einstein postulated time and space as being the same (but differrent). I did wonder about the left-handed humming bird. 

 

Submitted by airyfairy on

I watched the recent TV series on the Inca - they had a similar idea of different layers or types of time co-existing for each individual.  Fascinating.