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Simple and sacred descriptions of indigenous wisdoms where readers discover how celestial cycles merge with seven skills for long life, and learn the secrets of becoming spiritual warriors of the mind and heart. "This is the book that Carlos Aceves' fans have been waiting for. At last a codification of the wisdom that Aceves teaches during classroom lessons, community lectures, public workshops, and circles around the fire. As hosts who have brought Aceves to Central Texas audiences, we continually hear the aftermath of presentations long past: 'When will he be back?' 'I want to attend his workshop.' 'I should have brought a notepad to take notes.' With 'Nine Seasons' not only will Aceves' accessibility be expanded to those appreciative of indigenous wisdom, but established fans will have a tidy manual for quick refreshers on the road to a sacred and balanced life." – Mario Garza, Ph.D, Board of Directors Chair, San Marcos, Texas, U.S.
- Sales Rank: #794147 in Books
- Published on: 2012-03-22
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .19" w x 5.50" l, .24 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 84 pages
About the Author
Carlos Aceves, born in 1954, has a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism and a Master of Education in educational psychology. He is a bilingual teacher in Canutillo, Texas, and coordinates the Xinachtli Project for the Indigenous Cultures Institute. The Xinachtli Project utilizes Mesoamerican pedagogy to teach young children. He has presented at national conferences and various universities and institutions across the country. He began learning indigenous spirituality in 1980 from maestro Jesus Ventura and maestra Paola Juarez. Later, he traveled to Mexico, studying with several maestros of the Nahuatl and Mayan traditions. He has published in educational journals, chapters in texts for teacher education, and is author of the novel Diadema (Floricanto Press). Yolohuitzcalotl is his Nahuatl name, which means “Crow with a Hummingbird for a Heart.”
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Nine Seasons... a unique work
By constance s reuschlein
I enjoyed this book. It is a well written manual of 96 pages. Not a complex read, yet is unique in format with illustrations and a helpful glossary of Mayan terms. Nine Seasons explains the mathematical patterns of the number thirteen that we unconsciously live by and cycle thru in rhythm with the earth, sun, and moon. In simple terms it guides us to healthy ways of living in synchronicity with our Mother Earth. Nine Seasons is a sort of "back to nature" book for modern times with an indigenous flair.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Practical modern time rewriting of this fundamental mythology
By Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
Books like this one are needed in our modern world. We have to go back to old cultures, and particularly the cultures that flourished at the time of the invention of agriculture and herd husbandry, a long period after the ice-age that brought the "flood" of rising waters and the Neolithic time when the human species crossed a line from simple Homo Sapiens - who were quite advanced though - to modern Homo Sapiens who were able to produce most of what he needed to live and develop from his own work by curbing nature into obliging, like in this case devising modern corn or maize that can only reproduce if the hand of man gets the seeds free and sows them. The old plants behind can scatter their seeds freely. How did Homo Sapiens do that at the time? No one really knows, but that was the step upwards toward modernity.
This being said this manual is not the search for the original documents expressing the ideas of this civilization, like the poetry, the mythology, the transcription of Aztec and Maya legends or any other documents, engravings, and even the memorized heritage from those distant times. It is a total rewriting of some of these principles and ideas for a modern audience to implement in their real life.
This culture is based, like all other cultures all over the world on a set of numbers that get some power and value within a corpus of concepts. The central number is thirteen and it is a beneficial number. It is based on the body and the articulations of this body. There are thirteen, the last one being the neck, hence the articulated junction of the head onto the body. This is standard in most civilizations, though most have gone beyond the connection to the body and conceptualized such numbers by moving them into different fields of more abstract reference.
The second principle is that everything is connected to the cosmos. A lot more than just the sun as a father figure and the earth as a mother figure. All the stars and bodies in the sky become meaningful and are connected to our bodies and life. The whole vision of life is based on the cosmos, i.e. the four special moments in the year: the two equinoxes and the two solstices, but amplified by the thirteenth day after the summer solstice when the earth is farthest from the sun (aphelion), the thirteenth day after the winter solstice when the earth is closest to the sun (perihelion), and the thirteenth days after respectively the fall equinox and the spring equinox when the earth is at the same distance from the sun (equihelion).
This cosmic vision is built into the body with four special points in our bodies: our fontanel where our tonally or solar vibration appears and is positioned; our heart where our teyolia appears as our heart spirit; our liver under which our thiyotl appears, a greenish gas created from earth and fire than generates our passions; and our bladder in which our atlachinolli is located that moves like water and forms meridians throughout our bodies. And these four have to be integrated in order to work together for us to be healthy and productive. I find it problematic because the four elements are connected to the sun; nothing except some magnetism in the body; earth and fire; and water. The four elements of air, fire, earth and water are separated in other parts of the book and here earth and fire are one, air is missing (is it compensated by `"magnetism"?) and the sun is introduced to supplement the missing fourth element.
My commerce with old mental or religious systems have taught me that such discrepancies would not be overlooked. In the same way the "seven faces" of the moon exclude the phase when the moon is totally black, when one cycle shifts to the next, and this particular phase is important since it is the new moon, a moment when the whole world is changing in a way from waning to waxing, from death to life, in other words the resurrection of the moon. The proposed graph does not even keep a space for this particular phase. What is surprising is the inclusion of intermediary phases before and after each quarter respectively and before and after the full moon. There is no explanation of these intermediary phases and the absence of the new moon, a name that is contradictory with the fact that the moon is totally invisible, thus showing the dynamic contradiction behind this particular phase. I am surprised that the Aztec and Maya did not mention it when we know how important the concept of a moonless night is.
The assertion that the Morning Star and the Evening Star are one and only one star (in fact planet: Venus) though its other name is quoted when it is identified to a dog spirit named Xolotl, which is identified later on as the soul of the dying man in transfer to beyond this world, to Mictlan, the Dwelling of the Dead Ones. This connection of the Morning Star with a dog comes from the fact that it is associated to the star Sirius, the Dog Star in the constellation Canis Major. But the assertion that it is Venus and only Venus goes against the fact that it is also identified to Mercury, this time again as the Morning Star. North American Indian mythologies play a lot on these two planets and their differences considering the Evening and the Morning Stars are not the same thing. I find this passage slightly light for a civilization that is based on the sun and the moon at the same time. Their cosmic dimension should have brought more subtlety in the capture of the basic stars and planets. The Dogon people in Africa for example have constructed their mythology on a cosmology centered on the Dog Star itself, the Star Sirius. This :mythology is said to have migrated from ancient Egypt to this section of western Africa.
When he speaks of the Seven Warrior Foods, he is very well inspired and he should have gone beyond his cultural over flight. The reference to a pyramid should have given in a graph. At the top corn or maize, the plant we have said to be entirely man-made since it cannot reproduce without the hand of man unwrapping the seeds and sowing them. The best human engineering in Neolithic times in the world: nothing to do or compare with the other cereals conquered at that time. Then under corn two more plants, beans and squash. He calls these three plants the three sisters. Amazing because we have here the basic myth of practically all mythologies from the triple goddess of many European civilizations, to the three ladies that are said to produce, measure and cut the thread of life of anyone of us in the world under so many different names. That pattern of three female characters governing our life should have been explored in a lot more detail.
The pyramid then widens to the third level with the last four plants: amaranth, maguey (agave), chile and cacti.
But there is a fundamental rift between the first three and the next four, a rift exploited by the North American Indians that built from the three sisters a group of four sacred plants by adding tobacco to these three sisters. Tobacco is so sacred that only initiated priests and priestesses can grow and cure it. If this addition was possible it was because the heritage of North American Indians from these Aztec and Maya mythologies was both direct and important on one hand, and deeply articulated on the concept of the three sisters and the rift from the other victuals or vital plants. That would have led him to wondering about the connection between three and four, a connection that is also fundamental in all civilizations and mythologies. Think for one of the connection between the Christian Trinity and the crucifixion systematically seen as the number four that leads to resurrection seen as number eight, in fact a vertical omega in Romanesque representation. In the same way he could have pondered on the triple nature of most material worldly elements in the Buddhist tradition that have to be left behind by the mind and the individual of that mind in an attempt to rise to elements and patterns characterized by the number four, the acme of this liberation coming with the Noble Eightfold Path and its number eight.
Instead of dealing with a vast anthropological dimension of the human species emerging from animal-dom as Homo Sapiens, the book is like a manual of recipes how to be happy and manage the stress of modern life.
The last element I want to state here is the reference to "the seventh generation." Once again, being well read in North American Indian mythology, the seventh generation started around 1994 and was the regeneration of the Indian community and culture after the great fall that came with among other elements the invasion of the Americas by Christopher Columbus and his myriads if not legions of conquistadores who were nothing but the minions of some Christian satanic devil that exterminated, at least tried very hard to do so, the cultures and the people they found in America that they considered pagan, hence animal-like, hence worth only enslaving or extermination. Note that was not the official position of the Catholic Church of Spain, Rome, and later France, but it was the practice of these invaders. The English later on will come from a different religious background and their churches and temples will advocate as some kind of Christian cleansing the extermination of Indians and the enslaving of Blacks.
To conclude this book is interesting as some kind of bunch of threads that should enable us to then open doors to a vastly wider anthropological world.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Perfect Addition
By S. CA
Nine Seasons: Beyond 2012: A Manual of Ancient Aztec & Maya Wisdom is a perfect addition to the body of ancestral knowledge that has been preserved. Written in a concise and flowing form a beginner does not become overwhelmed and one with moderate knowledge still has room to learn. This book offers a great foundation to build from and serves as a great resource for those involved in teaching.
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