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Appendix – A

The One with the Skirt of Serpents [Coatlicue]

Coatlicue

To allow the reader the opportunity to penetrate deeper into the teaching, we transcribe the work of Master Samael Aun Weor from his Monograph #10 of the book Aztec Christic Magic. The writing is specific to the monolith displayed in the Museum of History and Anthropology in Mexico City.

Coatlicue - Head

"In the Museum of Anthropology and History in Mexico City, there exists a monolith with an impressive tetra (4) significance: On the apex of it, all the way through the ring of its entangled body, protrudes a precious and great two-headed serpent, which can be seen on the front and on the back like the God Janus of the Greco-Roman religion. The two-headed serpent's eyes are round and penetrating; from their half-opened jaws (located under the four superior, curved, sharpened, protruded fangs) hang great and bifid tongues."

Coatlicue - Chest

"From its chest hang two flaccid breasts. From shoulder to shoulder, this deity wears a leather necklace that is decorated with hearts, and is located in the middle of four outstretched hands. At the height of the navel there is a cranium that completes the necklace."

Coatlicue - Arms

"Its arms are stiffly located at each side, with forearms bent. Underneath its hands there appear superior, fang-like paws, which are actually heads of precious serpents with half-opened jaws. There hang smooth and geometrically cubic rectangles with a vertical line in the center of each one of its faces. All of this is a symbol of perfection of the deeds of its hands. It has tiger paws and eagle eyes on its shoulders and elbows."

Coatlicue - Skirt

"Its short skirt is made of intertwined serpents with their heads pointed downward. The skirt fits together at the waist by means of a wide belt made out of precious serpents that are tied underneath the cranium (whose wide open eyes possess a threatening sight). On the belt, the serpent heads hang towards the front like two ends of a tie without a knot. This symbolizes that everything that exists in the universe is the outcome of the sexual fire."

Coatlicue - Navel

"Nevertheless, the cranium at the navel of this deity is neither the final touch of its necklace nor the brooch of its belt, it is rather Coatlicue, the devourer of men, the Goddess of earth and death, whose body projects from between the thighs of the deity towards the front and from the lower abdomen until the feet."

Coatlicue - feathers

"Many hearts and two streamers made of quetzal feathers adorn the sides of its underskirt that descend to its ankles and end in a wide fringe made of intertwined feathers. These feathers are adorned with badges from which sixteen long rattles hang."

Coatlicue - feet

"A sinuous and thick serpent shows off its jaws with superior fang-like paws between the four paws of each one of the feet of this deity, and upon each one of its feet on a bas-relief are two eagle eyes that try to see towards the infinite."

Coatlicue - base

"In the lower part, at the base or support of the sculpture, in bas-relief, we find Mitclantecuhtli with arms and legs opened as in the cross of Saint Andrew."

Coatlicue - back

"In the posterior part, between its thighs, the creative fire protrudes downward from the lower abdomen. The mouth of the abyss is opened at its navel."

Coatlicue - Shoulders

"From its shoulders, hangs the necklace with two hearts in the middle of four hands which are opened in supplication towards the heights and the final touch is a marine knot adorned with four badges upon the vertebral column in between its hands."

Coatlicue - cranium

"On its back, at the height of the scapula, the cranium that looks as if it is fastened to the belt of her skirt of serpents, symbolizes Tonantzin, Mother of the Gods, who is hidden behind, in the posterior part of the skirt of Coatlicue, and who is forgotten by this present generation of humans. Her figure protrudes in the posterior part of this deity."

Coatlicue - tunic

"She is dressed in a lace tunic that descends towards her feet and ends in a single and enormous paw, whose nails are seven elongated balls. This is an emblem of perfection and sacrifice. From its necklace at the height of the thyroid, hang two great flinted tongues, and upon her pectorals lies a laced tunic with six tassels which is the final touch. This is an emblem of creation. On the front, underneath her pectorals, at the height of the lower abdomen, we find a streamer made of very fine arrows from which two great flinted tongues hang. The whole of these in their conjunction symbolize the universal fire of creation."

Coatlicue - Maternity

"A 'sentiment of maternity' emanates from this precious serpent, which is the final touch to the whole combination of this monolith. Its double-headed face is the emblem of the divine couple."

Coatlicue - Posterior

"The posterior part of its shoulders towards its feet symbolize Tonantzin, the Mother of the Gods."

Coatlicue - Posterior

"Her chest with flaccid breasts adorned with the necklace of hands and hearts symbolizes Coatlicue, the shadow of Tonantzin." Samael Aun Weor