Shamanic Dismemberment, and Rememberment!

Mayan Sacrificial Knife.
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The spiral Beast, Quetzalcoatl,

dismembers my world undone!
Sacramental sacrifice

cuts through to the bone.

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Libidinal life reverses into fire;

death's mortido ignites the black desire.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,

catabolic disintegration I must trust.

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The winged Serpent, invoked,

devours me unto the grave;

so that She, the rebirther,

can remember me remade.

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Through death to life restored,

dawns the quantum Light of Day.

The sun-like Son crowns forth,

born of a Serpent raised.

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The Shaman is born of a pregnant 
Serpent, Quetzalcoatl, after
undergoing death and dismemberment

in "the belly of the Beast."

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The Shaman enters the Spirit of the winged Serpent, Quetzalcoatl. Philip Gardiner, writes: "The snake's hole, the shamanic wormhole in consciousness, led him to the 'root of heaven,' which recalls the world-wide motif of the serpent at the foot of the Tree of Life. Quetzalcoatl is said to have left the country on a barge or raft supported by snakes, floating away across the water and promising to return as a 'once and future king.'"
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The Serpent is the Shaman's vehicle of transport across to the over-world of archetypes. He enters the Spirit realm through Quetzalcoatl (quetzal means bird, and coatl is serpent). The Shaman undergoes the secret and feminine process of transformation, riding the quantum wave of gestation, as consciousness develops its full and sublime potential.
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Somehow he stays with the wrathful Creature as she devours and rebirths at the same time. Consumed and consummated, the Shaman shape-shifts from human (hu = of the soil, humus) to divine being, born of a Serpent wise.

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Egyptian winged Serpent.

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