KW & CJ enjoying their drinks.
KW likes Star Trek and CJ likes Star Wars.
Tour guides enjoying their beverages and reading some magazines.
Hey Bonnie Belle (that's the tour guides sister-n-law). Saw this in the book store. It is a kit. Tour guide told me to tell you he would like one of these for next Christmas. Not the kit, the finished Nativity.
Mirror Mirror on the Wall.
The ancient Aztecs used metal mirrors to start fires and decorate their clothing and head gear. The god Tezcatlipoca's name means "smoking mirror".
The superstition that breaking a mirror brings seven years of bad luck dates to the ancient Romans, who believed it took seven years for a soul to be renewed. One might avoid the curse, they thought, by burying all the broken pieces deep underground.
Archimedes was said to have used bronze mirrors to focus the sun's rays and set fire to a Roman fleet attacking Syracuse.
The early Catholic Church forbade priest to own mirrors, considering them objects of vanity and sin. Tenth-century Pope John XII warned, "The Devil can conceal himself in a phial or a mirror.
Tezcatlipcoa: He is the god of the nocturnal sky, god of the ancestral memory, god of time and the lord of the North, the embodiment of change through conflict. Together with his eternal opposite Quetzalcoatl, he created the world.
Quetzalcoatl: The god Quetzalcoatl, is the feathered Serpent or Precious Twin. He is the god of intelligence and self-reflection, a patron of priests. Quetzalcoatl is a primordial god of creation, a giver of life. Quetzalcoatl is also called the white Tezcatlipcoa, to contrast him to the black Tezcatlipoca.
KW was reading a book on the Aztecs. Thus endeth the History lesson.
TTFN:
Cortez was believed to be Quetzalcoatl by Montezuma, thus aiding their conquest of the Aztecs (it's in one of my talks).
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