Cancun talks start with a call to the gods

[Geee]

Washington Post:


With United Nations climate negotiators facing an uphill battle to advance their goal of reducing emissions linked to global warming, it's no surprise that the woman steering the talks appealed to a Mayan goddess Monday.

Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, invoked the ancient jaguar goddess Ixchel in her opening statement to delegates gathered in Cancun, Mexico, noting that Ixchel was not only goddess of the moon, but also "the goddess of reason, creativity and weaving. May she inspire you -- because today, you are gathered in Cancun to weave together the elements of a solid response to climate change, using both reason and creativity as your tools."

She called for "a balanced outcome" which would marry financial and emissions commitments from industrialized countries aimed at combating climate change with "the understanding of fairness that will guide long-term mitigation efforts."

[Valin]

Geee

 

One wonders if these clowns have any idea about the nature of Mayan or other pre-columbian religions were like?

 

 

Can we say human sacrifice? I'm not just talking about the Aztecs, they all did it.

[righteousmomma]

the ancient jaguar goddess Ixchel... was not only goddess of the moon, but also "the goddess of reason, creativity and weaving"

 

Oh, I am so inspired.

 

What a typical example of post modern political correctness --pandering, deceptive, slithering, lying, misleading humanistic, empty worded feminism bull crap. No logic. No common sense. No reason. No truth.

 

Btw if anyone wants to get more inspired by this aged grandmother goddess of midwifery with jaguar ears and Howling Monkey children go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixchel

 

I particularly like - on behalf of inspiring feminists everywhere - this:

Cult of Ixchel

 

In the early 16th century, Maya women seeking to ensure a fruitful marriage would travel to the sanctuary of Ix Chel on the island of Cozumel, the most important place of pilgrimage after Chichen Itza, off the east coast of the Yucatán peninsula. There, a priest hidden in a large statue would give oracles (Cogolludo). To the north of Cozumel is a much smaller island baptized by its Spanish discoverer, Hernández de Córdoba, the 'Island of Women' (Isla Mujeres) "because of the idols he found there, of the goddesses of the country, Ixchel, Ixchebeliax, Ixhunie, Ixhunieta, only vestured from the girdle down, and having the breast covered after the manner of the Indians" (Landa). On the other side of the peninsula, the head town of the Chontal province of Acalan (Itzamkanac) venerated Ixchel as one its main deities. One of Acalan's coastal settlements was called Tixchel 'At the place of Ixchel'. The Spanish conqueror, Cortés, tells us about another place in Acalan where unmarried young women were sacrificed to a "goddess in whom they put great trust and hope", possibly again Ix Chel.

 

Oh, if only we still had such inspiring deities to turn to.

[Geee]

I found it kind of fitting that the Earth Worshippers of Global Warming should start their conference with idol worship!