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- 41: A Look At LSD And The Counter
- ... Braun a anthropologist-historian of the University of Mexico. After a dinner and discussion of philosophy, Braun told them that within the hot, tropical jungles of Mexico grows a power hallucinogen known to the Ancient Aztecs as Teonanacatl, or flesh of the gods. These magic mushrooms of Mexico had a long history surrounded by religious and ceremonial use. The Catholic Church feared this drug would encourage devilish worship in turn would ...
- 42: Convince Me There Is A God
- ... Jesus will come out of the sky with an army of angels and the battle of Armageddon will kill everyone on earth except Jehovahs Witnesses. Do you believe this solemn teaching of their church? - Aztecs skinned maidens and cut out human hearts for a feathered serpent god. Whats your stand on invisible feathered serpents? - Catholics are taught that the communion wafer and wine magically become the actual body and ...
- 43: Refutation to a Bias Suggestion
- ... have all molded their societies and laws around religion. As far as impact goes, look at the Spanish Inquisition. It is difficult for one to refute that Catholicism had little or no impact on the Aztecs of modern day Mexico. Even our laws today reflect the ten commandments given to Moses by God himself. We are forbidden by present day law in the United States of America to either steal or ...
- 44: Mayan Beliefs
- ... had dominated trade routes. The trade routes extended from the modern Mexico state of Guerrero to Costa Rica (Miller "Maya" Grolier). The Mayans had constant cultural and commercial contact from other tribes such as the Aztecs. They were with the central and coastal Mexican civilization that had influenced them and influenced other cultures (Harrison "History of Latin America" Grolier). The Mayans worshiped peace deities (Matthews 45). They also worshiped a creator ...
- 45: History of Percussion Instruments
- ... concussion instruments. They used different types of sticks and stones to produce the sound they were fond of. Certain types of bells were also used by the native Americans. Civilizations near Central America, like the Aztecs, used scraping idiophones for religious ceremonies. ( Percussion 657). The idiophone history was a pathway to the idiophones used today. The many different ethnic ways idiophones used in their begging are still used the same way ...
- 46: Werewolf Legends
- ... a werewolf country. The werewolf is basically a universal myth. In Mexico, the most widely spread version of the werewolf is the one called "nahual", which comes from the Nahuatl (the ancient language of the Aztecs, becoming thus, the universal language in the pre-Hispanic world)word "Nuahualli", meaning warlock. Since the Spaniards did not bring much on werewolves after colonizing Mexico, the ancient local legends on the subject became predominant ...
- 47: Chocolate History And The Growing Of Cocoa
- ... cocoa begins with cocoa trees which grew wild in the tropical rain forests of the Amazon basin and other tropical areas in Central and South America for thousands of years. The Maya Indians and the Aztecs had recognised the value of cocoa beans both as an ingredient for their special drink and as currency for hundreds of years before cocoa was brought to Europe. Christopher Columbus is said to have brought ...
- 48: A Look At Lsd And The Counter Culture Movement
- ... Braun a anthropologist-historian of the University of Mexico. After a dinner and discussion of philosophy, Braun told them that within the hot, tropical jungles of Mexico grows a power hallucinogen known to the Ancient Aztecs as Teonanacatl, or flesh of the gods. These magic mushrooms of Mexico had a long history surrounded by religious and ceremonial use. The Catholic Church feared this drug would encourage devilish worship in turn would ...
- 49: Mexico
- ... there are six that are considered to be the most influential. Each of these developed in a different time in the history of Mexico. They are the Olmecs, Teotihuacans, Toltecs, Mayans, Zapotec/Mixtec and the Aztecs. Mexico's first established culture was the Olmecs. They were very advanced and were able to organize into groups and set up many cities and villages. Most of their people were skillful farmers. They were ...
- 50: El Dia de Muerto
- ... to a Christian celebration. Death was never a reason for sorrow between the ancient Mexican's. They didn't consider it as an end to everything but a step toward other levels in nature. The Aztecs had various perceptions of their world. Some as simplistic as a "flat disc" surrounded by water, to a toad floating in a water-lily filled sea. In this world contained various directions with different associated ...
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