Final Thoughts: Space, Place, Ritual, and Identity in Ancient Mesoamerica (original) (raw)
2015, Memory Traces: Analyzing Sacred Space at Five Mesoamerican Sites
It can't be that we just clear the land, that we just cultivate the earth, that we just dig and scrape. That can't be how it is. Rather, it must be as in the story in my opinion, as far back as I can tell. Because the earth is alive. The earth also has virtue. The earth is also just earth, but it has awareness. Therefore, it has remained like this. Back when the first man asked for work it was given to him. But the earth requested our bodies in return. That's how I have heard it. I haven't invented or dreamed it up.
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It can't be that we just clear the land, that we just cultivate the earth, that we just dig and scrape. That can't be how it is. Rather, it must be as in the story in my opinion, as far back as I can tell. Because the earth is alive. The earth also has virtue. The earth is also just earth, but it has awareness. Therefore, it has remained like this. Back when the first man asked for work it was given to him. But the earth requested our bodies in return. That's how I have heard it. I haven't invented or dreamed it up.
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