MOTHER EARTH
 
The Aztecs, a highly evolved race of Indians that took over Mexico in the Twelfth century had an unusual practice of dealing with Drought. The Indians world revolved around the soil and the harvest that the Earth produced in Corn or Maize. The harvests would tell the Indians if Mother Earth was happy or sad. Food and being in harmony with Nature were the most important fact of their civilization. Now you have to understand that this civilization was highly evolved, the city that became Mexico City held several million inhabitants and was highly ordered because everyone had a job, no unemployment. The Soil and corn were the main thoughts of this group, simple huh? Well when things were good everyone was happy however in drought and crops failed just as is happening now all over the U.S. the Indians became terrified that they had done some thing wrong, had offended the Corn Mother, and a failed crop meant death to many. The Aztecs had disobeyed the God Quetezel Quatle who said not to kill. The Aztecs developed human sacrifice to an art not done better by the Germans in world war Two or the Cambodians of the Pol Pot regime. In the consecration of the Temple of the Sun in 1492 ad 80,000 men women and children were ritually slain over one weekend and none of them seemed to mind because it was for a good cause they thought. The Priests thought the Sun God wanted a blood sacrifice, so what the heck. Remember no unemployment! They went to war only for sacrifices they rarely slew anyone, it was like a game of Ring a Liveio, they tagged the other warrior and He went with the winners quietly. The happy or drugged folk would line up on those steep steps we have all seen in pictures of the temples of Mexico and each one would go to the top where a priest would direct the warrior to lay down and taking a stone Obsidian knife would cut open the chest of the willing victim cut all the arteries Ripping he heart, still beating, out of the chest, and lay the heart on a Chaque Mal, a stone and count the beats. The longer the beats the more auspicious the person and better the sacrifice. The hearts would be thrown down a shoot inside the temple and the bodies were thrown off the back to be used as fertilizer in their next manifestation. A lucky few whose hearts were strong had the singular privilege of being skinned from head to foot and a particularly lucky Priest would get to wear the dead persons skin. The priest would wear the skin for weeks and months when it got golden it was particularly gruesome. Then the gods would be appeased by the sacrifice and rains would come and life would go on. A few years later the men of Cortez would exchange one form of brutality for another except the sacrifices were not for food but Gold.
Today we think of the practices of those men barbaric and have actually made advances towards controlling those terrible impulses of we humans towards each other.
The Planet we live on is so incredible, it’s just the right distance from the sun to form the life, as we know it. We breathe Air made over ages we can’t even guess at. Made from green plants. We eat the food brought about by a process of photosynthesis most of us have no idea about. We drink water made billions of years ago and pollute it with disdain. Our Mother Earth is under assault from too many humans that do know enough to care about out planet. We dig up the farmer’s land and put in houses. We dam up rivers with out the knowledge of the consequences. In Nature it’s not right or wrong Its Consequences. We are tearing down our forests at an alarming rate and it has to be stopped. The planet, being alive is running out of air and is being replaced by co2. The co2 levels much lower than our own triggered the last ice ages. The trees of our world are the lungs, the soil is the skin and we are SKINNING OUR PLANET ALIVE.
Think about it for a moment here we disdain the slaughter of Moslems, Serbs, Tutsies, and Cambodians yet we are bulldozing our planet’s skin into pieces.
The bulldozer is the machine of this century. It single handly ripped off almost every single square yard of soil on every continent. As folk in the Green Industry we have a stake in the correct use of our planet. As parents and grandparents we have a greater stake in the health of our home planet. What we put on the soil goes into the air and the groundwater. Our planet weighs the same as it did billions of years ago, hasn’t lost an ounce. All the water we started with is still here and 97% is in salt water 3% is fresh, 2% is locked in ice, That means the whole world has 1% to use to wash, drink,raise our food and frolic in ,and most of that is polluted. We have to wake up to be aware of the fragility of our home world and respect her! We have to, or face the consequences, lets do it right, use organcs, common sense and compassion for your home. Vaya con Dios