09 November 2012
Flint was the eighteenth of the twenty prehispanic symbol. Its design is a knife or razor made of stone. It seems that this design is formed by the area of intersection between two circles. I believe that the flint is the symbol of the solar eclipse, tonatiuhcuallo in Nahuatl, caused by the interposition of the moon between the earth and the sun
In an annular eclipse of the Sun is very clear to see how the sun king is maimed by a portion of your disk. The mutilated portion is a tecpatl . Also during a total solar eclipse can be seen as the flint widens to cover the entire Sun
Within twenty days ring calendrical opposite the rabbit this flint and symbolizes the moon. The rabbit represents the full moon and the new moon flint. The hollow center is made of maguey sap called to extract water and honey which is produced pulque, resembles a pot that was represented in the codices as the pot of the moon. When is full of white sap is at its full moon phase. In mythology the rabbit takes drunk that water and leaving the empty pot, new moon, is just a stone, the tecpatl , inside, the stone covering the hollow of the maguey, to protect the ritual of liquid rainfall and dust.
The process of extracting juice from the maguey is repetitive, the void is filled in a few days and the liquid is extracted leaving it empty until refilled to repeat the process.The operation resembles the processes of full moon and new moon.
Flint was associated with the moon and still to this day remains in the memory of indigenous myth of care for pregnant women in an eclipse. If they are not protected with a flint knife or scissors, the child in the womb may be born with a cleft lip. This lip recalls the shape of the mouth of the rabbits and they were associated with the moon.The rabbit, visible in the full phase of the satellite, was drawn in some codices loading to the moon.
In the mythology of India is exactly like this picture and not just the rabbit but the deer that loads the Sun Funny thing is the knowledge that the Chinese also seen on the face of the moon rabbit.
Flint was part of the pre-Hispanic symbols for years. The first year was the house, the second rabbit, reed third and fourth flint.
This Trecena starts with 1 Etznab (Flint/Mirror) – reflection, spiritual warrior, self-sacrificing healer and defender,
facing the truth with strength.
To the Ancient Maya, Flint symbolized the consciousness of duality, right and wrong, good and evil,
faith and fear, the spiritual warrior who, through his actions, chooses the ethical and moral path.
There is evidence of another ancient interpretation of the Flint glyph. According to Tony Shearer in
Beneath the Moon and Under the Sun, there was a Maya story told to Friar Juan de Cordova
on the day of Flint about a light coming from the Sun as a Solar Beam bringing with it the “Book of Days”
which we know as the sacred calendar or Tzolkin.
“On the day we call Tecpatl ( Flint ) a great light came from the northeastern sky.
It glowed for four days in the sky, then lowered itself to that rock
(the rock can still be seen at Tenochtitlan de Valle in Oaxaca ).
From the light there came a great, a very powerful being
who stood on the very top of the rock and glowed like the sun in the sky.
There he stood for all to see, shining day and night.
Then he spoke, his voice was like thunder, booming across the valley.
Our old men and women, the astronomers and astrologists,
could understand him and he could understand them.
He (the Solar Beam) told us how to pray and fixed for us days of fast and feasting.
He then balanced the “Book of days,” (Sacred Calendar) and left,
vowing that he would always watch down on us, his beloved people.”
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