[Aztlan] MESOAMERICAN MUSHROOM-VENUS CULT FOUND ON EASTER ISLAND! (MN LECTURE-JUNE 12)

[Lori Hansen]

MESOAMERICAN MUSHROOM-VENUS CULT
DISCOVERED ON
EASTER ISLAND



“Internet Study Now Links Religious
Practices of Ancient Mexico, Guatemala, and South America to Easter
Island!”



Carl de Borhegyi







Thursday, June 12, 2008 (7 p.m.)

SOUTHDALE-HENNEPIN AREA LIBRARY (Berry-Young Room)
7001 York Ave. S. (Edina, MN)
FREE (DONATIONS WELCOMED)



Carl de
Borhegyi, son of the late Mesoamerican archaeologist Dr. Stephan F. de Borhegyi
(also known as Dr. Stephan “Borhegyi”) and a member of the Maya Society of Minnesota, will
give a PowerPoint presentation on both the unexplored significance of mushroom imagery
and Venus symbolism in the ceremonial art of Mesoamerica and South America and on
how this overlooked imagery and symbolism can now be seen within the religious iconography
of Easter Island.  Mr. de Borhegyi’s evolving
research, initiated by Stephen de Borhegyi in the 1950s, is shedding exciting new
light on the probable existence of a ”universal ideology” that could have originated
with the Olmec in Mexico and continued on in modified forms
within Maya, Toltec, Mixtec, Aztec, South American and later Easter Island
cultures from approximately 1500 B.C.E. to approximately 1500 C.E., a period of
about 3,000 years.  This “mushroom-Venus
cult” could have absorbed or superceded the minor religious practices of a vast
geographical area and may explain the almost obsessive need on the part of both
the Olmec and early Easter Islanders to create monumental stone sculptures.



Mr. de
Borhegyi resumed his late father’s pioneering research on Mesoamerican
religious iconography 12 years ago and the results of his endeavors have become
his personal evocation.  He credits new
technology and the visual resources that are now available on the internet –
such as the Maya vase painting photographs seen in Justin Kerr’s Maya Vase Database
on the website of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies,
Inc. (FAMSI) – with providing him with the means to expand Stephan F. de
Borhegyi’s early work.  Mr. de Borhegyi
has produced some convincing new material that will compel anthropologists to officially
recognize an ancient transcontinental belief system in the Western Hemisphere that
involved an intermingling of mushroom-based rituals with the observation of reoccurring
planetary phenomena and the veneration of the bird-oriented deities Quetzalcoatl
and Make-make.  He is excited to share his
findings with both colleagues and the general public in anticipation of a 2009
book release.







The June 12th presentation, entitled Hidden in Plain Sight, is
free of charge but suggested donations of any monetary amount would be greatly
appreciated and will be used to help fund a summer research project in Central
Mexico for Lori B. Hansen, an undergraduate student in Chicano and Latin
American Studies at the University of Minnesota and a member of the Maya
Society of Minnesota’s Board of Directors. 
Donors will receive two complimentary passes to the Maya Society’s
November 2008 lecture at Hamline University in St. Paul, MN.



For a full press release on the lecture, more details regarding the research
project in Central Mexico, or general information on the Maya Society of Minnesota please contact
Carl de Borhegyi (bdeborhegyi at hotmail.com),
Lori Hansen (pseudoscribe at msn.com),
or go to www.hamline.edu/mayasociety/.











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