The Birth of the Left-Handed Hummingbird [Huitzilopochtli]

Appendix – B

The One Adorned with Rattles [Coyolxauhqui]

Description of the monolith found in Mexico City representing "The One Adorned with Rattles [Coyolxauhqui]", found today in the Museum of the Major Temple, Mexico. The symbolism explained in this work is not that of its relationship to a goddess of the Moon, but that of a psychological aggregate, negative fire, lust and temptation.

Decapitated and Dismembered

The Left-Handed Hummingbird [Huitzilopochtli] decapitates his sister and tosses her down the hillside of the Mountain of the Serpents. The stone clearly shows this particular aspect of the myth, dismembered, decapitated and bleeding. This monolith is representation of the internal work that must be realized within the internal universe of each human being: the elimination of all psychological aggregates.

The Woman

The same monolith holds a multiplicity of meanings to create an impact to the emotional center. The woman in the carving is also a representation of temptation, the mythological Eve, she is also Kundry in Wagner's Parsifal. She is lust and sexual temptation, imminent danger and constant threat to both men and women.

Serpents

There are knotted serpents on her extremities and her belt is made of a serpent with two heads. This is a symbol of the sexual fire, but when placed in service of the Ego. Psychological aggregates make use of this negative creative energy to grow and harden themselves.

Adornments

She has been methodically adorned with jewels, a crown of eagle feathers, earrings, a nose ring and a decorative wreath on her head and these are all representations of the positive values of the consciousness as they become trapped by the ego. The rattles on her face are a symbol of her voluptuousness and war.

Claws

Her knees and her elbows show claws as a symbol of the brutality of the ego; its capacity to destroy anything and everything, bring death to those we love the most and all of this because of the harshness of its mind.

Skulls

There is a skull on her waistline, similar to that of "The One with the Skirt of Serpents", goddess of Earth, of life and death. We must remember she is her daughter, yet in this instance the skull is a representation of the extinction of the positive values of the soul, as they wane until they disappear as our psychological aggregates manifest.