"When Rocks Cry Out" by Horace Butler

Here is an excerpt from the chapter "Tracing the Mexicans past Mali" pg. 50

"I was not sure where, in the Americas, Taharka was being taken for burial, but there was one city that seemed to be a good candidate. The Aztecs said that the large city in Mesoamerica known as Teotihuacan was s burial place for rulers who died and became gods. According to the early histories, throughout the city of Teotihuacan stood terraced bases that were topped with pyramids, temples and monuments built to honor deceased "gods".

The Mexicans told Sahagun that the long, wide street in Teotihuacan was known as the "Street of the Dead". Teotihuacan was an ancient city and the Aztec historians said of this burial center:

"And so they named it Teotihuacan;
because it was the burial place of the rulers.
For it is said: When we die,
we do not truly die,
because we are alive,
because we are brought back to life,
because we still live,
because we awaken...
Thus, the elders said:
"He who died became a god."pg. 50

And from the chapter called
"Heliopolis: Wonder of the World still stands" which begins on page 72

"The ancient Egyptian metropolis called Heliopolis proved to be an astonishing example that shows how understanding can go astray.

Heliopolis was the largest, and arguably the most revered, city of ancient Egypt. When history is better understood, Heliopolis will be honored as one of the greatest cities ever built during ancient times.

Yet, the place now pointed out to be ancient Heliopolis is one of the clearest figments of the imagination ever conceived. There is no ancient Egyptian city with: at least two great pyramids; enough burial temples and pyramids to house several thousand years of Egyptian rulers and elite people; a famed Labyrinth which had at least 3,000 burial chambers; and several man-made lakes. The records also speak of a ceremonial boulevard at Heliopolis that was so large, so wide, and so deep that one Greek historian wrote of this extraordinary road:

"For ten years the people were afflicted in making the road whereon the stones were dragged, the making of which road was to my thinking a task but a little lighter than the building of the (Great Pyramid), for the road is five furlongs long and ten fathoms broad, and raised at its highest to a height of eight fathoms, and it is all of stone polished and carven with figures."

\

Old mexican traditions say that the name of the city is "Teotihuacan". That name probably refers back to the most ancient era of Egypt. It was at Heliopolis that an Egyptian deity called "Tehuti".
was believed to maintain the records of the kings and the history of the nation.

According to the Egyptian hieroglyphics, Tehuti also judges the souls of the dead at the burial city of Heliopolis. The Mexican name,
"Teoti-huacan" remembers that this was
Tehuti's city."

Horace Butler author of "When Rocks Cry Out"

"Mastery of Love" & "Beyond Fear "
by don Miguel Ruiz

Here are a few excerpts from "Beyond Fear: A Toltec Guide to Freedom and Joy"
Chapter 2: The Vision Of Teotihuacan

Hell on Earth pg. 23

"Fundamental to Miguel's teaching is the concept that earthly life is hell. Hell is the combined dream that all humans share. Both individual and collective dreams are actually nightmares. Every individual has a dream of reality, and likewise, so does each family, each community, city, state, nation,and the whole of humanity. We all contribute to the dream that is characterized by fear.

An ultimate healing would mean to waken from the dream and to thereby be liberated from hell. Teotihuacan was designed for this purpose, to free humans from their fears. Such freedom restores the knowledge that humans from their fears. Such freedom restores the kno0wledge that humans are of divine nature. They are gods. This is the source of the name-Teotihuacan, which means, literally, "The Place Where men become Gods."

""By attuning to Smoky Mirror's plan, the properly prepared pilgrim can be led through this site to his divinity. He can become eternally free from fear. The original purpose of Teotihuacan was to change the dream of all those who survived an initiation into freedom through a ceremonial process."

The teachings of don Miguel Ruiz
author of the Four Agreements

Some of my notes taken from the chapter on Tetutla, from "Beyond Fear," pg. 102:
"ancient compound, 1.5 km from the Pyramid of the Sun complex, close to the Rio San Juan, called Tetutla, which means , "Place of Stories", many murals. This is a place of Black Light; this is a healing energy that goes into the wounds we carry around with us and clears away the poison from them. The Black Light is Pure Love or the Love that purifies. "

"Even the wounds that you do not know you have, based on childhood fears, will be released in this light. False images will break down. Anger may change to sadness, which is just a symptom of the cleansing you will experience as you allow yourself to express an emotion for the first time after many years of repressing it under a mental image."

This is an artisan's cooperative market. This is one of the places where the artists actually make and sell their art as opposed to buying similar items, or even machine made items, from vendors. Artesamias "El Maguey" Ciruito Arquelogico No. 3 Teotihuacan, Mexico tel. 01(54) 95 607 58;
cel. 044 55 8575 2067

Aztec dancers performed a ceremony at the Villa the night before our departure back home. If you've read "When Rocks Cry Out" or works by Ivan Sertima, you'll understand why this was so significant.
They performed a cosmological dance in honor of the 4 elements and 4 directions.
I even got to dance with the dancers inside the circle: note rattle in hand!

After the presentation, we shared a few words with the dancers. It turns out that the lead dancer is a big reggae fan! I told them that when I return I would like to perform for them!

Their beautiful costumes reflect their Aztec, names, which are chosen according to their date of birth.