“The name AMERICA or AMERRIQUE in the Mayan language means, a country of perpetually strong wind, or the Land of the Wind, and sometimes the suffix ‘-ique’ and ‘-ika’ can mean not only wind or air but also a spirit that breathes, life itself. Who exactly is the ” Spirit of the Air” that they worshipped? According to the Popol Vuh, the sacred, indigenous Maya narrative of creation, he was the great “feathered serpent” creator deity known as Q’uq’umatz; a god considered by scholars to be roughly equivalent to the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl and the Yucatec Mayan Kukulkan. America came from Amaruca. Manly P. Hall gives more insight in The Secret Teachings of All Ages: ”These Children of the Sun adore the Plumèd Serpent, who is the messenger of the Sun. He was the God Quetzalcoatl in Mexico, Gucumatz in Quiché; and in Peru he was called Amaru. From the latter name comes our word America. Amaruca is, literally translated, ‘Land of the Plumèd Serpent’..
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 08:42:51 +0000
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