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I learned in a Latin Studies class (with a chill white dude professor) that when the Europeans first saw Aztec cities they were stunned by the grid. The Aztecs had city planning and that there was no rational lay out to European cities at the time. No organization.

When the Spanish first arrived in Tenochtitlan (now downtown mexico city) they thought they were dreaming. They had arrived from incredibly unsanitary medieval Europe to a city five times the size of that century’s london with a working sewage system, artificial “floating gardens” (chinampas), a grid system, and aqueducts providing fresh water. Which wasn’t even for drinking! Water from the aqueducts was used for washing and bathing- they preferred using nearby mountain springs for drinking. Hygiene was a huge part if their culture, most people bathed twice a day while the king bathed at least four times a day.
Located on an island in the middle of a lake, they used advanced causeways to allow access to the mainland that could be cut off to let canoes through or to defend the city. The Spanish saw their buildings and towers and thought they were rising out of the water. The city was one of the most advanced societies at the time.

Anyone who thinks that Native Americans were the savages instead of the filthy, disease ridden colonizers who appeared on their land is a damn fool.

They’ve also recently discovered a lost Native American city in Kansas called Etzanoa It rivals the size of Cahokia, which was very large as well.

Makes me happy to see people learn about the culture of my country 😀

Also, please remember that the idea of a nomadic or semi-nomadic culture being “less intelligent”, “less civilized” (and please unpack that word) was invented by people who wanted to make a graph where they were on the top.

Societies that functioned without 1) staying exclusively in one location or 2) having to make complicated, difficult-to-construct tools to go about their daily lives… were not somehow less valid than others.

This is why I fucking hate it when Europeans make jokes about how they have “more history” than the Americas. “This church is older than your country hahaha.” Actually, it’s older than the country you put there, massacring millions in the process, but go off, I guess. 

“We have this extraordinary conceit
in the West that while we’ve been hard at work in the creation of technological
wizardry and innovation, somehow the other cultures of the world have been
intellectually idle. Nothing could be further from the truth. Nor is this
difference due to some sort of inherent Western superiority. We now know to be
true biologically what we’ve always dreamed to be true philosophically, and
that is that we are all brothers and sisters. We are all, by definition, cut
from the same genetic cloth. That means every single human society and culture,
by definition, shares the same raw mental activity, the same intellectual
capacity. And whether that raw genius is placed in service of technological
wizardry or unraveling the complex thread of memory inherent in a myth is
simply a matter of choice and cultural orientation.”

         –
Wade Davis, The Ethnosphere and the
Academy

 “I bring thee the flower which was in the beginning, the
glorious lily of the Great Water!“  

– Hieroglyphic text from Denderah

One can find depictions of the blue lotus flower in almost
every Ancient Egyptian temple and much of the sacred art.

The blue lotus was a symbol of rebirth as the flower closes in the evening and re-opens every day of its life-cycle.

In one of the
Egyptian creation myths a blue lotus, son of Nun and Nuit, emerges from the
primordial waters and opens, creating the world. 

It is also interesting to note that the blue lotus when
ingested has mild psychoactive properties not unlike MDMA. A favorite Egyptian pastime
was to drink wine that had been steeped in dried lotus flowers.

In my visions I sometimes see the scribe-priests of Khemenu,
after a long day copying and creating scrolls, walk down to the banks of the
Nile to enjoy the cool air. They would sail on small barges, drinking the blue
lotus wine late into the evening. As Nuit revealed her glory above they would participate
in what gnostics later called the, “Feast of Love.”

Today, on the sixteenth day of September, 2018, the first
day of the Feast of the Cyprians, I have completed the first draft of the book,
“Emergent Magick.” For over a year-and-a-half my beloved Thoth has been a
guide, an inspiration, and at times a harsh task master. So I bring to him this
offering of a crystal blue lotus flower, in gratitude for his aid in this great
accomplishment.

Praise Djhuety!

Now the hard work begins. Editing, lay-out, more editing,
re-writing, more editing, and production. It needs to be the best I can make
it, in honor of all those who inspired its creation. Stay tuned, as we will be
asking for help in the coming months with all that is necessary to bring the
book to print.