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Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Vedic influence in Meso America


Kali is depicted with a necklace of human skulls. The human skulls signify ego. She is shown to be victorious because she has controlled her ego and tore the veil of cosmic illusion. This has been wrongly interpreted by many as skulls from human sacrifice.
Goddess Kali is depicted with an outstretched tongue just like the ancient Meso-American Sun God. The powers of sin such as greed, lust, hate and anger always lurk in a man’s mind. These are fueled by egoistical attitude and by drinking the soma juice which is the “drink of knowledge”, the powers of sin are killed. Decapitation is a form of soma sacrifice. Decapitation actually refers to killing egoistical attitudes.  In the hands of persons lusting after meat and alcohol, the meaning has been mutilated giving rise to religious beliefs that approve human/animal sacrifices as well as the use of intoxicants. Just imagine the sort of interpretation Hannibal Lecter would come up with & if he decided to recruit followers to join his new cult, wouldn’t he lecture them on partaking human flesh?

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