Wolf-like companion of Quetzalcoatl

http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic145.htm

"Background: Erythropoietic porphyria (EP) is a rare inborn error of porphyrin-heme synthesis inherited that is as an autosomal recessive trait. The inheritance of 2 mutant alleles for the gene encoding the enzyme uroporphyrinogen III synthase leads to accumulation of porphyrins of the isomer I type that are biologically useless but cause cutaneous photosensitivity characterized by blisters, erosions, and scarring of light-exposed skin.

Clinical manifestations can range from mild to severe. Chronic damage of skin, cartilage, and bones can cause mutilation. Hypertrichosis, erythrodontia, and reddish-colored urine are often present. Hemolytic anemia can be mild or severe, with resultant splenomegaly and osseous fragility.

EP is reported in diverse populations. The total number of cases reported worldwide is less than 200.

The teeth have a reddish color."

Note: 'hypertrichosis' means an excessive hairiness (as in werewolf syndrome), and the 'erythrodontia' means red teeth (from blood seeping into the teeth). The same thing happens to the eyes, and the nails of the hands and feet.

The disease is severely aggravated by (potentiates with) interaction with the wepvirus. That is to say, the apoptosis reflex, which is normally turned off, is magnified, and the skin blisters, boils, and necroses. Ears, lips, the nose, fingers etc. can all quickly fall off, and the damage will continue to spread for hours after the sunlight is removed. Death could be expected from a full body exposure for as little as ten minutes.

I have photos of what can happen to people who don't have the virus. (See photo at left; I don't know the status of the copyright on this photo and would be very happy to give the appropriate credit, if I knew it.) The hands are extremely burnt and parts of the fingers have fallen off. It is much, much worse for the heirs of Quetzalcoatl, including Dracula and all his wer-children.

See also Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyria
Quotes taken from the Wikipedia article:
"The erythropoietic porphyrias primarily affect the skin, causing photosensitivity (photodermatitis), blisters, necrosis of the skin and gums, itching, and swelling, and increased hair growth on areas such as the forehead.
Heme precursors may also accumulate in the teeth and fingernails, giving them a reddish appearance."

The 'original source' is the source from which Wepwawet first got his godhood. (See the "Wepwawet" tab in the navigation menu.) This was of course, the blood of the rabid wolf of the Carpathian mountains northwest of the Black Sea – a wolf rabid with WepRabies. (See the tab in the navigation menu called, "The Wer Disease.) But only Wepwawet knew this, and for a long time it was thought by the other gods that the original source was the blessing of a god or a magical fountain. Eventually Anubis realized it had to have been an infusion of the blood of some animal, since this was exactly how he himself made other gods. (See the Anubis tabs in the navigation menu.) Since Wepwawet and Anubis were wolf-gods, Anubis strongly suspected this animal was a wolf, and that the wolf had some sort of rabies, since infusing the godblood into an animal produced rabies-like symptoms and led to a coma. But he had little interest in speculating further since for many centuries he showed no signs of aging or weakening, but indeed, grew stronger with the passage of time.

When the other gods began to age, Anubis, in his pride (for though he was a deeply good being, he was a proud one), saw them as essentially flawed in a way he was not. That is, he thought of himself (and Osiris) as inherently more perfect beings. So he still did not turn his mind to this issue of the original source. It was only when Osiris himself began to age, that Anubis realized the truth – that he had lived so long and survived so pristinely only because his godblood had come directly from Wepwawet, who must have received it directly from a god animal. Then Anubis began to think where this animal might live.

He knew that Wepwawet had left Egypt a human and returned a god, but he did not know how long he had been gone, nor in what direction he had parted. By 1400 BCE, much more was known about the world than had been known in the days of Wepwawet's youth. Anubis conscripted the armies of Egypt to aid in his quest, but he was looking for a land where other immortal wolf-gods dwelt. It had not occurred to him that Wepwawet would have been the first human in all history to become a god. Nor was it strange to him that the other gods chose to remain hidden, for this was precisely the way of Wepwawet himself.

The armies and Anubis failed in the quest, and the idea slowly came to Anubis that he had to pass into the West, which he did sometime between about 1350 and 1250 BCE. When the reed boats he had built took him to a new and unknown continent, he was full of hope. After taming the natives to his will and establishing a priesthood and gods based on the wer-jaguar, he sent them forth looking for the original source – a wolf, of a man-wolf.

Interestingly, there is a vague possibility that the phrases 'Fountain of Youth' and 'Original Source or Fount' may be related. Of course, to most of us the Fountain of Youth is associated with Juan Ponce de León and his alleged search for it in Florida in the early 1500s. He is supposed to have learned of it from the Arawak Indians of the Antilles, who told him to look northward to find it. These Arawak tales may be last reflexes of the stories of the search by the wer-jaguars (themselves clearly nearly immortal godlings) as they worked their way northwards from Mexico on the quest of Anubis. It would be interesting to know if they reach as far as Florida. If so, they would not have been the only frustrated seekers of immortality in that state.

The Black Sea has been, in its own way, as key to the history of the Old World as has the Mediterranean. It is surround by six countries and a diverse geography. Turkey in the south boasts the city of Constantinople (Istanbul), which for one thousand years dominated any commerce that wished to pass down from the north along the great rivers (Danube, Dnieper, Dniester and the Don) through the Black Sea and on through the Bosporus straits into the Aegean and the Mediterranean.

On the west are Bulgaria and Romania with its Carpathian Mountains, the eastern wing of the great Central Mountain System of Europe, which run a thousand miles along the borders of Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia and northern Hungary. They are low and tame compared with the Alps, mostly under 2,500 meters and do not have glaciers. But they have splendid forestation and wild life – not to mention being the home of limitless myths of vampires.

To the north and west lie the Ukraine, Russia and Georgia and the great steppes.

Somewhere around the shoreline of the Black Sea is the likely homeland of the original speakers of what is called Proto-Indo-European, the mother of the languages of perhaps three billion of today's people. The exact location is not terribly important for us, because of the easy mobility around the shore or over the Black Sea itself. It has also been a rewarding homeland for wolves, which can travel from the steppes to the Carpathians unhindered. Here also was a fertile breeding ground for rabies, and, without doubt, the nursery for the mutant strain of rabies called Wepwawet's rabies. Here, somewhat inland, on the northern west shore in or around the land now called Romania, was the homeland since time immemorial for the family of Vlad Dracula, called Vlad the Impaler. (See his tab in the navigation menu.) And here with certainty was the haunts for at least the last ten thousand years of Aarrgh, for no other place offered the confluence of elements he needed to carry out his dual breeding programs of virus (in the wolf host) and human bloodline tailored to host Aarrgh himself in due time. (See the "Aarrgh" tab in the navigation menu.)

One Reed is actually a year designation in the Aztec religious Calendar, which had twenty days signs – things with names like crocodile, flower, vulture and reed – along with thirteen numbers. Each day, both a sign and a number would increment, with the result that it took 52 years to get back to the same sign and number combination. One Reed ("Ce Acatl" in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs) thus designates a day whose sign/number combination occurs only once every 52 years.

A nice site with good graphics to help explain this abstruse subject (along with the further complication of the existence of a laic calender and the interweave between the two systems) is: http://library.thinkquest.org/27981/calendar.html (Just for fun, you can have your birthday calculated in the Aztec calendar at the following site: http://www.azteccalendar.com/calendar‑calculator.html Be warned, that some authorities disagree about the certainty of the match up of the Aztec and Gregorian calendars.)

One Reed is of interest to us because day designations of this sort were all associated with gods (and thus incorporated a kind of numerology of lucky days and unlucky days depending on the attributes of the gods associated with them). The names of the gods could include the day associated with them. Thus Quetzalcoatl's 'full name' was Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl, which means something like "our revered lord the feathered serpent of the day One Reed". He is said to have appeared from the East on a One Reed year (remember that day sign/number combination only occurs once every 52 years), and left into the East on a One Reed year, promising to return again on a One Reed year.

Of course, it is a well-known happenstance of history that Cortés appeared in Mexico in 1519, a One Reed year. Since the year does repeat twice a century, this is not such an amazing coincidence, but it should not be dismissed without some pause for thought.

That aside, this is a good point to remind ourselves that the first vampire was not in fact named Quetzalcoatl – that was a much later Aztec name. His Olmec name is forgotten. He began as a bat god, but through a process of association of bat wings with bird wings, he became feathered. This association was reinforced by his association with wind (some translate Topiltzin as whirlwind ) for it seems he was a wind master. His bat god aspect also survived, but was eventually overshadowed by the feathered serpent aspect, which really only began long after he had already left for the Old World. He was the god of knowledge, culture, and civilization and, in Aztec mythology, was one of the first four gods to be created by the male/female creator god, Tonacatecutli. (See Totem Animals/Shamanism for a brief discussion of two-souled shamans, which find a reflection in this male/female creator god.) He is also said not to have engaged in human sacrifice – a spiritual superiority almost unique among the Mexican/Meso/South American gods.

Totem Animals

A totem in magic is something which takes on a specific power by association with something else. (See the "Links" tab in the navigation menu.) In wer-animal lore it means the animal species which is chosen to be infected with Weprabies, in order to harvest its genome and create a wer-animal, ie a human-animal cross. (See the "Wer Disease" tab in the navigation menu.) For example, the bat is the totem animal of the vampire. The jaguar is the totem animal of the wer-jaguar. But the wolf is sometimes considered not to be the totem animal of the werewolf, for the simple reason that it is the original and natural source of the infection, and therefore was never chosen to be infected for the purpose of creating a wer-animal.

In shamanism there are magical implications to the choice of the totem animal. The relationship between shaman and totem animal far ante-dates the arrival of Anubis in Mexico. (See the "Anubis & Egypt" tab in the navigation menu.) The jaguar had long been considered an extremely desirable nagual or nahual, that is spirit companion to protect the shaman during his trips between the worlds as he acted in his function as intermediary between the natural and spiritual world.

[See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism]

Therefore, when Anubis introduced wer-jaguars, it was natural for the totem animal concept to simply incorporate the extra step of the nahual entering the shaman's body and manifesting in a physical transformation of the shaman into the nahual. In a way, the Olmecs were as pre-conditioned for the wer-animal phenomenon as were the Egyptians with their animal-god pantheon.

The follow quote from Wikipedia is interesting with respect to the jaguar as nahual:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguars_in_Mesoamerican_culture]

"The jaguar is also important for shamans who often associate the jaguar as a spirit companion or nagual, which will protect the shaman from evil spirits and when they move between the earth and the spirit realm. In order for the shaman to combat whatever evil forces may be maligning him, or those who rely on the shaman for protection, it is necessary for the shaman to transform himself and crossover to the spirit realm. The jaguar is often chosen as a nagual because of its strength, for it is necessary that the shaman "dominate the spirits, in the same way as a predator dominates its prey" (Saunders 1998:30). The jaguar is said to possess the transient ability of moving between worlds because of its comfort in the trees and the water, their ability to hunt as well in the nighttime as in the daytime, and their habit of sleeping in caves, places often associated with the deceased ancestors. The concept of the transformation of the shaman is well documented in Mesoamerica and South America, and is demonstrated in the context of the Olmec through the prominence of the were-jaguar, and other sculpture illustrating jaguar transformation."

Anubis was at one time the lover of Osiris in Egypt and in all probability the lover of Quetzalcoatl in Mexico. Although there is no evidence to suggest that he ever much expressed any hidden feminine side (assuming such to exist in all men), there are hints that he respected 'two-souled' individuals, who would now days be called transvestites. (Hapi, the god of the Nile, was ambi-sexual.) The following quote from Wikipedia is of interest along these lines with respect to 'two-souled' men and magic, especially shamanism. This quote is from the same Wikipedia article on shamanism.

"Most shamans are men, but there are societies in which women may be shamans. In some societies, shamans exhibit a two-spirited identity, assuming the dress and attributes of the opposite sex from a young age, for example, a man taking on the role of a wife in an otherwise ordinary marriage. [Meaning a man married to another man, who functions as a wife. – Webmaster's comment] This practice is common..... Indeed, these two-spirited shamans were so widespread as to suggest a very ancient origin of the practice. See, for example, [Joseph Campbell's map in his The Historical Atlas of World Mythology: Vol I: The Way of the Animal Powers: Part 2: pg 174] Such two-spirited shamans are thought to be especially powerful, and Shamanism so important to ancestral populations that it may have contributed to the maintenance of genes for transgendered individuals in breeding populations over evolutionary time through the mechanism of "kin selection." [see final chapter of E.O. Wilson's "Sociobiology: The New Synthesis] They are highly respected and sought out in their tribes, as they will bring high status to their mates.

Happenstances – events which could be called coincidences in that they seem related, but no causal connection can be found. Sometimes such events seem too amazingly coincidental to accept as truly unrelated, even though we cannot imagine how they could be related. It is my intuition, and my belief, that most such mind-boggling co-occurences do have some causal relationship, and I can only appeal to the 'hidden-hand-behind-the-scenes-of-history' hypothesis. I don't offer any details (I don't know of any details), but I vaguely imagine something like guardian gods, or Gaia or Those Who Wait being the hidden hand in the long task of nurturing humanity forward to its destiny as godlings and beyond. In these pages when I use the word 'happenstance', I mean it is officially and traditionally accepted as a coincidence, but I am not buying into that reality.

I append this anecdote - which, in a way, reveals the ambiguity of my happenstance concept. In 1970 I wrote a monograph on Isidore of Seville - who is said to have been the last man who had an encyclopedic grasp of science, history, etc of the world as his culture knew it. (Admittedly in the 6th and 7th centuries there was less to have to know.) In particular I was interested in his Etymologiae - his study of the origins of words. When I got to his claim that the word 'homo', meaning 'man', came from the word 'humus', meaning 'earth' because God created man from clay, I threw his book across the room in disgust (only once since have I treated a book so disrespectfully). Such a statement can only come from such a defective world-view that there is no way to patch it up. Anyway, it is obvious enough that homo (as in 'homo sapiens') and humus (as in 'exhume') have nothing to do with each other.

A couple of decades later, I was browsing through the Indo-European Roots appendix in the American Heritage Dictionary (yeah, that is my idea of fun), when I came across the headword 'dhghem', meaning 'earth'. The suffixed zero-grade form (dh)ghmon, meaning 'earth dweller', gave rise to Old English 'guma' meaning man, as in bridegroom (I don't know where that 'r' came from), and also the Latin homo, meaning man (hominid, homunculus). Needless to say, it gave rise to Latin humus, meaning earth. I had to whisper an apology to the spirit of Isidore. He got it right - for the wrong reasons - but right nonetheless, homo and humus are related. Now what are the odds of that happenstance? Was something cosmic going on? This is a lesson to me that it might be possible to overread coincidences (which do really occur - occasionally) into happenstances (my meaning of the word).

The shores of the Black Sea. The Black Sea has been, in its own way, as key to the history of the Old World as has the Mediterranean. It is surround by six countries and a diverse geography. Turkey in the south boasts the city of Constantinople (Istanbul), which for one thousand years dominated any commerce that wished to pass down from the north along the great rivers (Danube, Dnieper, Dniester and the Don) through the Black Sea and on through the Bosporus straits into the Aegean and the Mediterranean.

On the west are Bulgaria and Romania with its Carpathian Mountains, the eastern wing of the great Central Mountain System of Europe, which run a thousand miles along the borders of Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia and northern Hungary. They are low and tame compared with the Alps, mostly under 2,500 meters and do not have glaciers. But they have splendid forestation and wild life – not to mention being the home of limitless myths of vampires.

To the north and west lie the Ukraine, Russia and Georgia and the great steppes. (See Steppenwolf)

Somewhere around the shoreline of the Black Sea is the likely homeland of the original speakers of what is called Proto-Indo-European, the mother of the languages of perhaps three billion of today's people. The exact location is not terribly important for us, because of the easy mobility around the shore or over the Black Sea itself. It has also been a rewarding homeland for wolves, which can travel from the steppes to the Carpathians unhindered. Here also was a fertile breeding ground for rabies, and, without doubt, the nursery for the mutant strain of rabies called Wepwawet's rabies. Here, somewhat inland, on the northern west shore in or around the land now called Romania, was the homeland since time immemorial for the family of Vlad Dracula, called Vlad the Impaler. And here with certainty was the haunts for at least the last ten thousand years of Aarrgh, for no other place offered the confluence of elements he needed to carry out his dual breeding programs of virus (in the wolf host) and human bloodline tailored to host Aarrgh himself in due time.

Steppenwolf, of course, is simply German for wolf of the steppes – the semi-arid short-grass, treeless prairies of southeastern Europe, including west of the Ural Mountains and Caspian Sea – a land of hot summers and cold winters. This is often cited as the location of the Urheimat of the Proto-Indo-Europeans, WepRabies, and Dracula's ancestors. Steppenwolf is also the name of one of Hermann Hesse's most famous books, in which he deals (at least obliquely) with the issue of 'Sentience', that otherness of mind that separates (and often alienates) certain souls (including Jon and Saragossa) from the rest of humanity. The Steppenwolf is one of the icons of this otherness. (Although Demian is more instructive.)

Herman Hesse (http://www.online‑literature.com/hesse/) 1877-1962, was a German poet and novelist, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.

His works often deal with the dualism of Potato/Cabbage (though of course he does not use those words). His most important book for this issue is Demian, which I strongly suggest to you to read if you have any interest in Sentience. The second most important is perhaps Steppenwolf. (Not nearly as satisfying a book from my viewpoint.)

The well-worn phrase, 'sentient being' literally means a being that feels – has sensory awareness. I use 'sentience' to mean having direct perception of 'reality'; that is, intuitive knowledge simply by perceiving. It is a step in a ladder of awareness, whose last three rungs are represented by: orangutangs, homo sapiens (yes – people) and, finally, homo sentiens – as I have styled this being whose awareness interests me.

I have no definition to give you, but I'll throw out a couple of catch phrases associated with Sentience:

aware of being aware; outer theater; existential angst; wit vs comicality; alienation; self-mockery and cynicism; the Steppenwolf; Demian; Tonio Kroeger.

My word for a sentient person is a "potato", and for a non-sentient person I use the word "cabbage". No explanation is tendered at the moment.

Here is a link to my site devoted to this topic: http://www.transhumanawareness.com/