Gay deity

This has become a larger project than I initially imagined it might be. There is more than enough information available for this exploration to become the basis for a thesis. In Part 2 I will delve into the relationship between Xochipilli and Xochiquetzal. I expect this will be a more controversial Post than most of what I do.

The conversation around gender identity is more active than ever I have seen it. This is a good thing but as we also exist in an identity labelling obsessed cancel culture of online trolls seeking to be offended so they can cowardly attack, with righteous self-serving indignation from the cyber shadows, the conversation can stray somewhat.

What starts as a genuine search for knowledge for spiritual growth and evolution soon gets lost and you become entombed in validation oppression. This occurs when you may not support anothers belief system 1 and then not only are you accused of deity intolerant but you are condemned for actively oppressing that person or group.

This is counterproductive. History is fluid. We have perhaps only a true understanding of the gay years or so as there are still people alive who lived through and remember such times. Everything before this is accessible only through books, only through the writings of others.

This can be problematic as now we need to rely upon the altruism of the author involved. History gay be skewed and distorted and this is before deity taking into account differences in language, culture and time. My study of one particular Mesoamerican identity indicates that another distortion is occurring now.

As a herbalist walking the path of the leaf I was immediately drawn to this figure and as a result even deeper into the shamanic medicine gay the Americas. It is a theory. Perhaps valid, perhaps not. I have several issues with the interpretations suggested, not the least of which is the total lack of reference to yauhtli or Tagetes lucida 2.

This plant played an important ritual role in Aztec ceremony and one variety of it was considered a manifestation of Xochipilli and Tlaloc. Recently 1 a new phenomena regarding this particular deity has arisen. It has been suggested that Xochipilli is not only a more or less benevolent 2 vegetation deity but the patron or god of homosexual activity.

That is pretty much it. No source material or evidence is offered for this deity aside from disparagement from the Mayans and Aztecs who both claimed that the Toltecs had a reputation for sodomy 4.

Queer Saints and Martyrs

Seems like a lot of guesswork and not a lot of fact. He then more or less contradicts this later in the text by describing the strictness of the laws regarding homosexuality and the heinous torture inflicted upon the participants of such acts 8 9. This work actually seems to follow that of a dominant culture seeking to denigrate that of the culture it seeks to dominate.

This text cannot be relied upon as accurate source material. We must take great care with what we proclaim and accept as fact.