Lady Xoc
Posted: October 18, 2016 Filed under: Mexico, the California Condition, Wonder Trail Leave a comment
from wikicommons, photo by Michel Wai
The ruler, Shield Jaguar, holds a torch while his consort, Lady Xoc, pulls a rope studded with what are now believed to be obsidian shards through her tongue in order to conjure a vision serpent.
says Wiki about Lintel 24 from Yaxchilan, a site in far southern Mexico, along the Usumacinta River, the border to Guatemala.
photo by me, Helytimes
Yaxchilan is not easy to get to. You have to take a boat like this:
Helytimes!
In the river there are crocodiles, in the towers of the ruins there are bats, everywhere there are spiders.
You won’t find Lintel 24 there though. It’s at the British Museum in London. It was cut out and sent there by Alfred Maudslay.
Slay.
What the hell was up with Lady Xoc? She appears on another lintel, Lintel 25:
Sailko
her obsidian tongue piercing rope worked, and now she’s seeing the Vision Serpent as she bleeds into a bowl.
Michel wal again
Read more about Yaxchilan, Bonampak, how we figured out how to read Mayan inscriptions, and the mysteries of what the hell Lady Xoc and her friends were up to in my book:
I believe you’ll enjoy it as much as this baby does. Amazon or your local indie bookstore, perhaps, for instance, at Spellbinder Books, way up in Bishop, CA.
this one from google maps
There’s a lot to like about Bishop.
Helytimes 