The Maiden and the Sage seated at a table - Venti coffees.
Sage: Miley, imagine I'm with Cortez and his entourage of conquistadors. Montezuma and his priests have invited us to watch a sacrificial ceremony ..., and we watch a half dozen splendidly dressed young girls stepping up the pyramid steps, eventually to stand close to where we stand. Once at the top each girl is handed a basket of vegetables, and then led to the edge of a pit where a raging fire burns below. One of the preists will push the girl to topple down into the pit. We're told later that the Mayan priests sacrifice girls to appease their gods who may return the favor by allowing a bountiful yield of crops next year. One of the girls brought a bloodcurdling scream out from the pit, and I imagine Cortez and I turning to look at each other. The expression on his face is of a calm but loathsome repugnance. I imagine Cortez ...? A devout Christian. On a mission, always the frame of mind. The Lord has put him here for a reason. The adrenaline is quick ..., he's realizing the Mayans, ... that their days were numbered.
Back at camp later that day Cortez began the discussion on how we were to go about destroying these pagans ... by the grace of God, in the name of Jesus.
Maiden America: From the way you tell it Cortez doesn't sound like the devilish type of guy others make him out to be, actually. There were reasons for the ..., what the history books say what happened then and there.
Sage: He was what he was, 'ya know? Islam actually isn't much different then the Mayan religion. Were anyone today seeking to know and understand the Creator,...? Islam and the words and thoughts generated by a reading of the Qur'an do not express the will and the intentions of the Creator to us, its human creation. All the promolgation of thought by their sages is baloney.
Maiden America: How can you say that? How 'ya know?
Sage: Did the treatise come from one of theirs? Why me instead of a learned sage from any of the major religions? That treatise was suppose to come from one of those types, those who devote their entire lives to such thoughts. That treatise shouldn't have originated from the likes of someone like me. Why did the Creator allow me to think the thoughts that led to the writing of that tome?
Maiden America: Maybe the Creator isn't hanging out with -- them.
Sage: Exactly. I doubt very much the Creator wants one more goofball religion with all the silly rituals for us humans to act upon the earth with.
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... to be continued. I'm not done, ... thunkin' 'bout this.
I'm 644. Miley is 214. And to imagine constructive, mature dialoge with Miley "Maiden America" Cyrus, the Rock Star ... is quite inspiring. :-)
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1 comment:
I was hoping a keen mind would’ve corrected me at this late date. Cortez and his crew hung out with the Aztecs, not Mayans.
So it goes … .
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