Quetzalcoatl the bird shaman (by Sulis Feb. 2009)
Gathering books like future dreams
you float above the forest trailing green feathers
a hermit bird perched
on the edge of mysteries
Magician jester jonny gigolo
whose pantalooned dance
in homage to the moon
concealed dead serious intent to fly
Winged stalker between realms
of gravity and exploding light
god of wind and the morning star
love is inevitable
Love is a twelfth house kiss
Perhaps a part of you remembered
Teotihuacan, place of Tlaloc the water god
who let you go your way
Coatl the serpent contained you
encircled your enfolded potential
kundalini wound and earth bound
but you were only waiting
To take that unifying death-defying leap
plumes fanned out to symbolize
each manifest strength of nature -
fire, earth, water, air
A quetzal bird of rainbow plumage
and fine-fluted throat singing
you've flown high in cosmic space
and your voice carried farther than you think
A wizard-king in a jungle palace
you've been kind to mankind
fought off the obsidian jaguar of power
and stalled their gory sacrifice
But you're tired of strutting your stuff
tired of everyone's hopeless dreams
quetzal-coatl the plumed serpent
your dreams are the ones now
And if I could unfurl your wings I would
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For Joe, my personal bird shaman.
With thanks also to Daniel Pinchbeck for the inspiration of his book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. From Wikipedia: '[This book] examines prophecy through personal and philosophical approaches, and offers the hypothesis that humanity is experiencing an accelerated process of global consciousness transformation, leading to a new realization of time and space during this period. In 2012, he also explains the psi or extra-sensory perception research of Dean Radin, the theories of Graham Hancock, his own encounters with crop circles, a visit to calendar reform advocate José Argüelles, and his direct reception of prophetic material: the voice of the Mesoamerican deity Quetzalcoatl, began speaking to him during a 2004 trip to the Amazon in Brazil.'
The image below is one of many extraordinary crop circles - this one displaying a Mayan motif linked to Quetzlcoatl's headress - that appeared in Wiltshire, UK, this month.
More about Quetzlcoatl on Wikipedia.
