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“The Aztec Sun Stone in Light of the New Fire Ceremony of 1507 CE” with Rubén G.Mendoza
The foundational cosmologies inherent to the reading of the Aztec Sun Stone are here traced through an analysis of the monument relative to the iconography of the Codex Borgia and that of the Borbonicus. Moreover, given the calendrical and iconographic correspondence obtained between the Sun Stone and select late 15th and early 16th-century codices and related period monuments, Professor Mendoza contends that the entire semasiographic system and iconographic ensemble represented points to its role in the commemoration of the last New Fire Ceremony celebrated by the huei Tlatoani Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin in 1507 CE. Furthermore, our presenter advances the revelation that the central deity of the Sun Stone is not, in fact, a representation of the diurnal Sun deity Tonatiuh, but rather the teoixiptla or deity impersonator of both the multidimensional Yohualtecuhtli (“Lord of Night” or Sol Nueve) and Itzpapalotl, the clawed “Obsidian Butterfly’ of Chichimec origins. The author argues that the Aztec Sun Stone, per se, was, in fact, the preeminent commemorative monument dedicated to the New Fire Ceremony of that momentous year.
Dr. Rubén G. Mendoza, PhD, RPA, is an archaeologist, writer, photographer and founding faculty member of the California State University, Monterey Bay. He is the former Chair of the CSU Monterey Bay School of Social, Behavioral & Global Studies. He completed the MA and PhD programs in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. He has published over two-hundred and fifty professional articles and books, as well as reviews, commentaries, and scores of published images spanning Precolumbian, Colonial, and California missions’ era art and architecture. His earliest studies of Mesoamerican iconography and cosmology were published as a freshman undergraduate, followed thereafter by an invitation to present before the centennial meetings of the International Congress of Americanists at the University of the Sorbonne. Recent papers interrogate Amerindian architectures of domination and technologies of terror and Mesoamerican Ritual Human Sacrifice, the subject of his latest edited volume.
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“Exploring the Maya Underworld” with Jim Reed
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Jim Reed is an Independent Researcher, Editor/Creator of The Aztlander, Editor/Creator of the Institute of Maya Studies’ IMS Explorer newsletter, and a Board Member of the IMS and The Maya Conservancy. The piecing together of ancient Maya mythology and cosmology, whatever difficulties it may involve, is not the utterly impossible challenge it once may have seemed. Broad new insights often seem ...
"The Impact of the Little Ice Age of 536 CE on Mesoamerica" with Dr. Joel D. Gunn
zhlédnutí 1,3KPřed 2 měsíci
The volcanic winters following 536 CE for a century were the most severe and protracted episode of climatic cooling in the Northern Hemisphere in the last 2,000 years. The volcanic winter was caused by at least three simultaneous eruptions of uncertain origin, with several possible locations proposed in various continents. The presentation is based on a forthcoming book 536 CE: The Impact of th...
“Feasts for the Honored Dead'" with Keith Eppich
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“Feasts for the Honored Dead: Mortuary Assemblages and Funerary Ceramics from the Classic Maya City of El Perú-Waka'" with Keith Eppich The ruins of El Perú-Waka', in the rainforest of the Laguna del Tigre National Park of northwestern Guatemala, have yielded a rich funerary tradition. This tradition includes eight major tombs and a dozen other, amply furnished burials. This presentation addres...
The Life of Yax Kuk Mo: Mover and Shaker in the Maya World with Janice Van Cleve
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Yax Kuk Mo was the king of Copan who founded a dynasty that lasted though 15 successors for the next 400 years. If that was not enough, there are clues that he had a very active and multi-faceted career before he even got to Copan. Following these clues was an exercise in connecting the dots - and some of the gaps between dots leave us wondering. I started on this journey doing some simple math...
“The White Bison: A Sacred Tradition Returns to Ohio” featuring Kari Noren-Hoshal
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The Legend of the White Buffalo Calf Woman remains one of the central stories of The Native American tradition. And it was from the White Buffalo Calf Woman, that we first learned about the existence of a rare leucistic variation of the Bison, Bison species called the “White Buffalo.” A white bison birth is just one in 10 million. Since 1997, this special bison herd has produced 25 white bison ...
Urban Life in the Distant Past: The Prehistory of Energized Crowding, with Michael E. Smith
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In this program as well as his new book, Michael Smith offers a comparative and interdisciplinary examination of ancient settlements and cities. Early cities varied considerably in their political and economic organization and dynamics. Smith introduces a coherent approach to urbanism that is transdisciplinary in scope, scientific in epistemology, and anchored in the urban literature of the soc...
Iconography of Cosmology - Cough-Free version !
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“Iconography of Cosmology of Early Classic and Late Classic Maya World View: Sky Band Above - Earth Band Below and Surface of the Underwaterworld Band” with Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth, Director of FLAAR Mesoamerica Hosted by Jim Reed Note: In the original version, Dr. Hellmuth was suffering from a severe cough left over from a bout with bronchitis. Now Dennis Lisonbee has removed the coughing. Enjoy...
“Reflective Transformation Imaging Reveals the Hidden Past at Izapa”
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with Dr. Jason Jones and Dennis R. Lisonbee The wealth of data preserved in Izapa’s incredible sculptural contextual record is truly astounding. It expands the understanding of the origins and rise of Mesoamerican antiquities and civilizations in most intriguing ways. The wealth of data preserved in Izapa’s incredible sculptural contextual record is truly astounding. It expands the understandin...
“Mexicayotl: The Philosophy, Beliefs, and Teachings" by Atekpatzin Young
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There has been a movement across North America toward a “way of life” rooted in indigeneity called Mexicayo. Mexicayo encompasses participation and belief in a contemporary Indigenous spiritual practice that embeds the individual in a community. It entrenches the individual in forms that express a return to indigeneity. Mexicayo is a dynamic expression of beliefs, spirituality, rituals, rites, ...
“Teotihuacan: A Social History of the Early Mexican Metropolis” with David M. Carballo
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In this presentation I approach Teotihuacan through a lens of social history, by which I mean an emphasis on social structures and the interactions of different social groups who inhabited the city or interacted with it within a broader sphere of influence. I focus on issues of urban daily life among diverse groups of Teotihuacanos, including neighborhood organization, craft production, governi...
Pictographs of Texas' Lower Pecos River: Narrative, Toponyms, and Connections to Mesoamerica
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Featuring Carolyn E. Tate, Professor Emerita of Pre-Columbian History at Texas Tech University. Hidden in hundreds of rock shelters along the Devils and Pecos Rivers near Texas’ border with Mexico are some of the most spectacular and oldest polychrome pictographs of North America. There are several distinctive styles among these pictographs, but the most complex and interesting is called Pecos ...
The Importance of the Early Preclassic Trade Routes over Land, River, and Sea, with Jim Reed
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I honor the ancient sea-merchants, who traveled back and forth from the Ecuadorian Pacific coast of South America, following the migrating turtles, to the El Salvadorian, Guatemalan, and Soconusco coasts of Mesoamerica. I honor the ancient land-merchants who traded products, and shared the new and evolving ideas about their spiritual and ceremonial inhabitants, along with intense observations o...
“A Sensory Approach to Exotica, Ritual Practice, and Cosmology at Chaco Canyon”with Robert Weiner
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Chaco Canyon (850-1200 CE) in northwestern New Mexico has been the focus of a century’s worth of archaeological research, but fundamental questions remain about the site’s status as the center of the Ancient Four Corners world. Rob outlines evidence for some components of a Chacoan religious movement in the form of artifacts (including imported Mesoamerican exotica), landscapes, and the cultura...
“Insights into the History of the Americas as Revealed by Ancient DNA” with Nathan Nakatsuka
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Ancient DNA has been an extraordinary tool to investigate population movements throughout the world. Here, we will discuss the basics of ancient DNA, statistical methods used for ancient DNA analysis and results from several studies in the Americas using ancient DNA, including some of the earliest population movements in Central and South America, and more regional studies of Patagonia, the And...
“My Apprenticeship with Maya Shaman Elijio Panti” with Dr. Rosita Arvigo
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“My Apprenticeship with Maya Shaman Elijio Panti” with Dr. Rosita Arvigo
“The Laymen’s Guide to the American Upper Paleolithic” featuring D. Clark Wernecke
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“The Laymen’s Guide to the American Upper Paleolithic” featuring D. Clark Wernecke
“A Different Perspective on the Hopi Creation Story” with Thomas O. Mills
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“A Different Perspective on the Hopi Creation Story” with Thomas O. Mills
“Making and Acquiring Tools: Stone Resources and Past Maya Economies” with Rachel Horowitz
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“Making and Acquiring Tools: Stone Resources and Past Maya Economies” with Rachel Horowitz
Maya Weavers: Weaving for Justice with Christine Eber
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Maya Weavers: Weaving for Justice with Christine Eber
A Visit to Baking Pot in Belize with Jaime Awe
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A Visit to Baking Pot in Belize with Jaime Awe
"Interpreting Hopewell Artifacts and American Indian Ceremonial Practices" with Brad Lepper
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"Interpreting Hopewell Artifacts and American Indian Ceremonial Practices" with Brad Lepper
"Maya Numbers and Computations" with Ximena Catepillán
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"Maya Numbers and Computations" with Ximena Catepillán
“Newly Discovered Masterpieces: Ancient Maya Figurine Molds” with Mark Van Stone
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“Newly Discovered Masterpieces: Ancient Maya Figurine Molds” with Mark Van Stone
“A Resplendent Tree Hiding In The Forest: the ‘Maya Cross’ at Palenque” with Carl D. Callaway
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“A Resplendent Tree Hiding In The Forest: the ‘Maya Cross’ at Palenque” with Carl D. Callaway
“Classic Maya Enema Ritual Iconography” with Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth; an Aztlander presentation
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“Classic Maya Enema Ritual Iconography” with Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth; an Aztlander presentation
Getting to know Frank Tzib: Belizean Ambassador of the Maya
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Getting to know Frank Tzib: Belizean Ambassador of the Maya
Middle Preclassic Excavations at Pacbitun 2022
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Middle Preclassic Excavations at Pacbitun 2022
Discovery of the Tomb of the Jade Jaguar at Tikal
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Discovery of the Tomb of the Jade Jaguar at Tikal
“Mesoamerican Influences on Southwest Rock Art” with Michael Ruggeri
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“Mesoamerican Influences on Southwest Rock Art” with Michael Ruggeri

Komentáře

  • @thequietone9785
    @thequietone9785 Před 5 dny

    This is brilliant, Dr.Lepper! Thank you for putting 100 years of misinterpretation to rest. I have always personally thought the Serpent Mound was Hopewellian, aesthetically, but am now thoroughly convinced, thanks to you, that it was created by Late Woodland, Ft. Ancient peoples and clearly still relates to historic Native American mythology. Exciting stuff!

    • @aztlander7143
      @aztlander7143 Před 5 dny

      Thanks for your comment. I've reached out to Brad to do another presentation for us next year.

  • @ChiquitaBanana-si5qq
    @ChiquitaBanana-si5qq Před 17 dny

    I think I found the tribe that supposedly preceded the Hopi. I know, it sounds impossible, but I’m pretty sure. The art fits.

  • @nrgpirate
    @nrgpirate Před 20 dny

    Yet another misinformed person who goes off the Berengia Theory that has been disproven. Nathan has got it completely wrong. Asians didn't migrate into the Americas, Native Americans migrated and became sub-asian groups. The further south you go, the older the records, south to north and East to west migration.

  • @Mayan.Embodiment
    @Mayan.Embodiment Před 29 dny

    At @20:13 your cutout of the Sun Stone also resembles the 8 points of Hunab K'u. BTW, Ruben, what's your Mayan birthday?

  • @chrisandres6698
    @chrisandres6698 Před měsícem

    A Mexican dark mirror universe, the forest behind the forest, a luminous darkness: night Sun - the more I learn about the ancestors the more smoky our obsidian reflection moves to a deeper level of the mystery. Thank you!

  • @GazelamAle
    @GazelamAle Před měsícem

    To much I believe and not enough I think.. centipedes don't glow in the dark. Maybe if you had a uv flashlight.

  • @shermanatorosborn9688
    @shermanatorosborn9688 Před měsícem

    40:19 he said maize is self reproductive ????

  • @claraallen12
    @claraallen12 Před měsícem

    43:00 Oh heck no to that camp spot !! LOL!!!

  • @Awkward147
    @Awkward147 Před měsícem

    czcams.com/video/xGfES9iaeZQ/video.html

  • @theriveroffaith852
    @theriveroffaith852 Před měsícem

    Why is no one talking about those who traveled the ocean, from the Polynesian areas to areas like Peru?

  • @scottharding4336
    @scottharding4336 Před měsícem

    Dr. Teeth does give an entertaining and informative lecture.

  • @ximenacatepillan4735
    @ximenacatepillan4735 Před měsícem

    Bravo!!!

  • @paddy9398
    @paddy9398 Před měsícem

    ❤👍💯

  • @GalaxyNewsRadio_
    @GalaxyNewsRadio_ Před měsícem

    New favorite channel

  • @Mayan.Embodiment
    @Mayan.Embodiment Před měsícem

    LEGENDARY presentation, Sir Reed.

    • @aztlander7143
      @aztlander7143 Před měsícem

      Thank you, sir! I enjoyed putting it all together.

  • @chrisr6142
    @chrisr6142 Před měsícem

    The histories literally call them olmeca xicallanca lol

  • @stephenolson532
    @stephenolson532 Před měsícem

    Peyote buttons were quite the influencer😮

  • @forestjohnson7474
    @forestjohnson7474 Před měsícem

    Monarch butterflys" a pollinator" migrate and navigate by the earth's electromagnetsphere.

  • @forestjohnson7474
    @forestjohnson7474 Před měsícem

    Did you consider looking into woodhenge as well, in your work, interesting note: Ceasar said the Druids didn't know who built the Henges, the druids were just using them.

  • @SaturnRooster81
    @SaturnRooster81 Před 2 měsíci

    Magnetism runs at 90° to Electricity Feminine and masculine

  • @SaturnRooster81
    @SaturnRooster81 Před 2 měsíci

    The entire complex of Palenque aligns to the triple conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter.

  • @kabuti2839
    @kabuti2839 Před 2 měsíci

    Absolutely fascinating, I'm going to study these images. Thank you!

  • @kabuti2839
    @kabuti2839 Před 2 měsíci

    This is so fascinating. I always wanted to be an archeologist, but that wasn't written in the stars for me, had to settle with figuring out dream 'language" instead, (by accident). Not complaining, lol.

    • @aztlander7143
      @aztlander7143 Před 2 měsíci

      I love my dreamworld. Can't wait to see what will happen each night. Thanks for commenting. Keep looking at more Aztlander videos.

  • @joelgunn8847
    @joelgunn8847 Před 2 měsíci

    Thanks Juan. Debiasing has been one of my guiding objectives since reading Restall's 2003 book on myths of the Spanish "conquest". It makes understanding of the environmental effects much less encumbered by extraneous, ethnocentric information. Joel

  • @juanmoa2504
    @juanmoa2504 Před 2 měsíci

    Thank you for your unbiased studies

  • @songofseikilos8659
    @songofseikilos8659 Před 2 měsíci

    b.s

  • @Rubin_Schmidt
    @Rubin_Schmidt Před 3 měsíci

    Yax K'uk Mo carried a handbag and wore goggles. He came from the outside to found an empire ???

  • @cangonj65
    @cangonj65 Před 3 měsíci

    ..was there january 2024 love it! many changes! there were American students Cahal pech summer 1998! i was San Ignacio 4 month.! Dr Jaime Awe! How can talk to you! a phone number! please!

    • @mayaspirituality
      @mayaspirituality Před 3 měsíci

      You can only contact Dr. Jaime at his university email address; easy to look up.

  • @marvinmartian6516
    @marvinmartian6516 Před 3 měsíci

    It’s is interesting that you see isis with the feather and headband and wings just like a pow wow dancer. I am part Cherokee on my moms side and her maternal haplogroup goes back to ancient Egypt Mesopotamia preflood anotolia people talk about ancient Egyptians in America being pseudoscience and there being no evidence but quite frankly I wouldn’t exist if that were the case.

  • @darlahenri8095
    @darlahenri8095 Před 3 měsíci

    Thanks, most interesting, some truths.

  • @marvinmartian6516
    @marvinmartian6516 Před 3 měsíci

    I kinda feel like the apkalu were holding corn and corn pollen in the bag not a pine cone.

  • @maryjones5710
    @maryjones5710 Před 3 měsíci

    Dr Awe has such a brilliant name and is a wonderfully enthusiastic teacher, apart from all his other tremendous qualifications. I enjoyed this so much, thank you to all involved.

    • @aztlander7143
      @aztlander7143 Před 3 měsíci

      Hello, Mary.Thanks for making a comment. Yes, Jaime Awe is a very special person. I have interacted with him for years and have met his family. Can you believe he once asked me to join him on a tour of the Belizean cave of Actun Tunichil Muknal and I refused because I didn't want to get all wet !

  • @franceselaineanderson1556
    @franceselaineanderson1556 Před 3 měsíci

    Good presentation, very interesting.

  • @davidcrews2151
    @davidcrews2151 Před 3 měsíci

    Dr Awe, what became of the area you named the "Ticket (or Toll) Booth" that we were excavating around 2004 there at Baking Pot?

    • @aztlander7143
      @aztlander7143 Před 3 měsíci

      Hello, David. Jaime Awe will not respond to your comment here. You need to contact him at the university and ask him about it. If you worked under him, he'd probably like to hear from you.

  • @AaronthePedantic
    @AaronthePedantic Před 3 měsíci

    The spaghetti analogy was the most efficient way anyone has ever been able to explain to me how different populations interact with each other.

  • @ukaszlewinski9875
    @ukaszlewinski9875 Před 3 měsíci

    P r o m o s m 💥

  • @brettcross9941
    @brettcross9941 Před 3 měsíci

    They were summoning cosmic powers!

  • @donald2665
    @donald2665 Před 4 měsíci

    Back in about August of 1993 my Wife and I were driving on the Southernmost Paved Road traveling West out of Del Rio, TX, toward Alpine and in between Del Rio and Alpine TX we stopped at a Road Side Store where an American Indian was managing the small country store, and we struck up a conversation as he had some fossils and other curious items in the store. He explained to me that several years previously that he had been hunting in the Mountains or hills near his Store location in Texas and came across a clear foot print in the rock - I am not at all sure if on a creek bottom or hill side but my impression that the foot print was in rock on a hill side, or lower portion of it. He attempted to re-trace his steps at times but was unable to locate the foot print in rock. This reminds me of the foot prints at white sands NM, which in a Geographical sense is not all that far away distance wise, and likely of similar time line. It always stuck in my mind, and I have never forgotten the American Indian who told me about his find of the well defined foot print in rock.

  • @alquelegusteok
    @alquelegusteok Před 4 měsíci

    Great work! It will be great to have it with Spanish subtitles

  • @belgone2001
    @belgone2001 Před 4 měsíci

    Fascinating!

  • @cosmicwifi1329
    @cosmicwifi1329 Před 4 měsíci

    🤍🦋❤️

  • @alanschannel1495
    @alanschannel1495 Před 4 měsíci

    Thank you so much for this! I am Isthmian through my grandmother who spoke the Olutec Popoluca/ La lengua Mixe!

  • @JMYaden
    @JMYaden Před 4 měsíci

    This is a brilliant application of technology, well done Dr. Stone! I very much appreciate your desire to shift the viewers eye away from the fabrications of elite life and onto those of the common people. Whatever we can learn about a culture from its most privileged individuals may be comparatively small when considered next to what can be learned by studying the lives and crafts of their constituents. Also, I am happy to admit that had to watch this presentation TWICE before I realized that almost everything I was seeing was a digitally inverted image. Bravo, Dr. Johnson!

  • @shravaka6241
    @shravaka6241 Před 4 měsíci

    The Mexico Calendar you presented was the "Aztec" Calendar.... The snake on the Pyramid you presented was from Chichen Itza in the Yucatan and the name is K'ukuulkaan, it is a "feathered" serpent (Mayan). The Aztec "feathered" serpent was called "Quetzaicoatl". These snakes were extremely Sacred as they embodied "Christ Consciousness/Wisdom". Given the connection the Mayan's had with the Hopi, one must conclude that the Hopi snakes (Guardians) must also embody Sacred energetics/dynamics. And thus play an important role in "Ceremony", In Lak' ech,

    • @thomasmills2160
      @thomasmills2160 Před 4 měsíci

      Morning Shravaka6241, Thank you for the information. The energetics/dynamics you speak of may be earths path through space and it's wobble. all the best. tom

  • @alanschannel1495
    @alanschannel1495 Před 4 měsíci

    I worked for Dr. CLARK while an animation student at BYU!

  • @alanschannel1495
    @alanschannel1495 Před 5 měsíci

    My background is BYU Animation 2018. I love listening to VR and AR applications for ancient archeological sites! Also my fam history is Mixe Zoque. I am loving all this!

  • @jbyrd655
    @jbyrd655 Před 5 měsíci

    So what do the genetics say? I think 'transient' might be another word that needs some clarification...

  • @JMYaden
    @JMYaden Před 5 měsíci

    This is a superb presentation, one of the best Aztlander has to offer. Perhaps it is needless to say, but surely Dr. Callaway's expertise as an art historian gives him an edge when discussing glyphic imagery.

    • @aztlander7143
      @aztlander7143 Před 5 měsíci

      Muchas gracias, sir! Thank you for your comments.

  • @abberepair8288
    @abberepair8288 Před 5 měsíci

    I found similar artifacts in NW WI. Along the upper St Croix River. Lots of artifacts. I have reason to believe it was an ancient village

  • @JMYaden
    @JMYaden Před 5 měsíci

    It would be very interesting to make a study of other cultures who take enemas for their intoxicating as well as purgative properties. Perhaps learning about the practices of other cultures can shed some light on the subject. Dr. Hellmuth's call for everyone to get involved is intoxicating in itself. I will do some research. Fantastic presentation!

    • @mayaspirituality
      @mayaspirituality Před 5 měsíci

      Great to hear from you and know you're still actively involved! Jim

    • @JMYaden
      @JMYaden Před 5 měsíci

      @@mayaspirituality Thank you, Jim! Hope all is well with you!