KUKULKAN •

Kukulkan, also spelled K’uk’ulkan, /kuːkʊlˈkɑːn/ ("Plumed Serpent", "amazing Serpent") is the name of a Mesoamerican serpent deity that was worshipped by the Yucatec Maya people of the Yucatán Peninsula before the Spanish conquest of Yucatán. The depiction of the Feathered Serpent is present in other cultures of Mesoamerica. Kukulkan is closely related to the deity Qʼuqʼumatz of the Kʼicheʼ people and to Quetzalcoatl of Aztec mythology. Little is known of the mythology of this Pre-Columbian era deity.

#Mayan

“The worship of Odin (Wotan or Wuotan in the High German form) spread from west Scandinavia during the warlike Folk Wandering [editor's note: Völkerwanderung] and Viking era to the Vandals and Langobards, and to the Saxons in Lower Saxony and in England, but it always predominantly appealed to the local princes and their retinue and to the skalds of the princes' courts, to whom the war God was also the God of poetry. Perhaps it is the name which is the unique feature of Odin that reaches back into Indo-European antiquity, for its root is derived from the Indo-European word vat meaning “to be spiritually excited”, and as such it is still preserved in Sanskrit, in Old Iranian and in Latin, where it corresponds to the word vates, meaning a seer or a poet.”

Hans F. K. Günther, The Religious Attitudes of the Indo-Europeans (1967)
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“Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations.
Mythologies are not invented; they are found.
You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience.”
   
- Joseph Campbell

#Meme #Greek