Mexico.

Jazmin was my hostess in Mexico City, as well as her son Omar and daughter, Katrina. Thanks to them for all they shared. Thursday last I went to the Bosque (forest) to see the butterflies....and oh my god. There are trillions of them there. It was much better than last year's trip there. This year I also walked up the mountain seeing I needed to get the exercise and also save the money.

Day traveling around Valle De Bravo, and the Monarcha Preserves, in the high pine covered mountain, to see the beautiful butterflies and their mating dances and the males ending of life. As we travel to the Monarch butterflies:

On the next weekend we travel thru Silver mine country of Mexico, where we would stay for two days to visit the city of Ixcateopan, in the state of Guerrero Mexico.

The plan was to be apart of a celebration of Cuauhtemoc's life, and to be apart of some ceremonies around the Red Road and this cultural event, held here each year at this time. (March 26th) The story goes that when Cortez came he killed a young warrior king Cuautemoc. His mother took him from the hanging tree and hid his body. After 6 generations the person who held this secret of the family, saw the sign that the mother had told the people that would come (which was her sons pictured as having value). well, the one day the Mexican government printed a coin with his picture on it.....this was a sign, so the person who h

elps this secret in the family for all these years told of the resting place of this young man....who by the way was even more loved by the people of all Mexico that they called him the peace chief....so 

the officials of Mexico in the state of Guerrero looked into this....and found the remains of this wondrous young man, he was 23 when they hung him to take the power of the hearts of the people and turn them into Catholic based people.

The most interesting part was over time his resting place was covered by the catholic church that stands in its place today..... not only was it there the whole time, but it was also visited by the people all over Mexico that understood that this is the resting place of this man, but not a soul ever thought it would be found in the ground under the church where the actual pulpit was or altar of the church. Well, since then people come each year to this place and dance this special kind of ancient dance called the danza....and they do it all night for two days....this little mountain town that boasts only the large deposits of Marble. Yes all the streets are cobbles of marble...as well as the foundation are made of this.

Anyway the church folks immediately of course built another church as this old one was the resting place of this king....and now there is a glass bed of his bones and the remaining items he had on his body at the time of his death

. I took pictures and movies of this dance to give a feeling of the whole town. Food flowe

d from everywhere....people came and chokes the streets finding a bed or camping is the only option in many cases as the people there are not tourist minded. This was amazing to see and be a part of for two days....but two days without sleep took its toll on me today. 

So I am resting and packing for Morelia.

Then went on Friday to Teotihuacan.... you can see the website of this one..... it is the biggest in the whole of Mexico.... see this site. it is a good one. 

There we met with the man I had met 6 years ago and was taken to the powerful understanding of this place....he is the guardian elder of this place and the main history keeper of the town and its ceremonies. He took us to the palace of the kind and behind the closed doors and chains to keep out the visitors we did ceremony with him.... a little kitty came to sit in our laps and be with us while there.... outside as I told some of you there was a big lightening storm and rain that they so needed flowing until we stopped the ceremony..... in fact the lightening beings were with me for most of the week. Then the Pyramid in the whole of Mexico (the pyramid of the fire) and then here.

I had the best pulque here too and the older tequila....dangerously smooth. Thought I am not a drinker of such things. 

HISTORY of Pulque is the old drink of 24 hours of fermentation of the Maguey in less than a day the drink will be ready, the old wine of the Gods that still in certain corners of the Mexican plateau is continued producing and that all the family farmers consumes on a daily basis. Given to its antiquity and the symbolism that surrounds so much to the plant, the maguey, like its product pulque, this practice turns out to be a true ritual, the hymn of the farmer to an old world as soon as forgotten. From the moment in which old the Mexicans domesticated the maguey with the purpose of to take advantage of not only their juice, chewing the pulp, but its fibers to weave their clothes, their thorns to sew, the stem of the flower - greatest in the world like beam, to make ceilings and walls. its foods, the skin of these to make paper and, finally, its sweet sap to satiate the thirst of the man since then and for that reason was naturals who the maguey acquired deity title today.

I got to see the outside that night of the BIG church dedicated to Guadalupe....and hear all about its history and controversies too....but I was too cold and tired to get out of the car and go inside that night around 10:30pm. Another time.

Walked the 800 steps to the top of a hill or pyramid which was the central of all Mexico....it was the place where the new fire was lit each year....and the last time a fire was placed there was for one day was a torch for the Mexico World Olympics was help there.....funny that no ceremony can be done there now, but people can have picnics, play football on the top and do anything else but no fire ceremony....seems odd.

Seen the floating lands and its canals, of old Mexico, built on plants, soil and then plants, that cause the land to float. Old days of Styrofoam, hee hee! It is on a system of canals, full of water bird life and many colorful flat bottom barge like boats. There people on their boats came to sell us all sorts of goodies.....lunch was the best buy.

Have done a lot in a short time here, thanks to Jazmin's hummingbird nature to get around. It was all wonderful.