[Aztlan] maestro Ocelocoatl

[Archaeology Institute]

Dear Kelly,

	I have in fact heard presentations by Ocelocoatl, and can tell you that you need to brace for quite a bit of archaeology-bashing and discussions that use Greece and Rome as the yardstick for measuring Mesoamerican achievements.  Last time I heard
Ocelocoatl, he repeatedly used the term "arqueo-locos" to refer to archaeologists who have corrupted our understandings of Mesoamerican peoples.  He also made brief reference to Teotihuacan's founding at 4,000 BC...and the triangulation of the
distance from the earth to the sun based on the measure Pi-R-Squared as taken from the measures of the basal dimensions of the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan.  He also has presented a talk at our campus on repeated occasions in which he argues
that the whole of the Mesoamerican sacrificial complex, and blood sacrifice in particular, are fabrications of the Spanish empire intended to denigrate native peoples.  He argues that the bloody images of human heart excision contained within the
Codex Borgia are mere metaphors for giving one's heart to one's creator.  Anyway, I think you probably get my drift...que no?  PS: I accompanied a number of representatives of the Centro de Cultura Pre Americana to the "burial" place of Cuauhtemoc
in 1979, and found that the majority of those who were richly robed as the "ancestral elders," were in large part Mexican journalists and people of limited indigenous ancestry.  I found it ironic that those among the crowd who were clearly of
indigenous ancestry were not part of the core entourage in that circumstance in particular.

Best Regards,

Ruben G. Mendoza, Ph.D., Director
Institute for Archaeological Science, Technology and Visualization
Social and Behavioral Sciences
California State University Monterey Bay
100 Campus Center
Seaside, California 93955-8001

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