Re: [-empyre-] re-skinning?

[claudia@anat.org.au]

hi, i know this in not research, but i would like to share you this woman, OUR 
MOTHER who is never mentioned in any HIS-(WHITE)-TORY book
- my passport used to say i was chilean,now i lost that one and it says i am 
australian, but i am not really i am something else i am not very sure exactly 
what, just cosmic powder that happened to be cluster in this most excellent 
form for a little while, maybe -  but certainly i do not accept or like the 
possible categories that are offered to me in this time in this patriarchal 
system in this space - not in race and not in gender

to my mother:MATLATZIN THE GREAT AND CORAGEOUS AZTEC WARRIOR

matlatzin - the woman we are not told about in any official version of the 
history of the conquest of the Americas, that i am aware of . . .

we know about Malitzin, Malinche, the traitor, the woman who fell madly in love 
with the chief of the European expedition to the LAND OF THE MEXICAS.

i am not interested in Malinche, on the contrary i believe it is time we learn 
to honour her counterpart, MATLATZIN

this is the young woman Hernan Cortez hated so much; he called this young woman 
la perra (the bitch) and she was never conquered ! ! !

matlatzin was young and beautiful when the war started; she was strong and 
extremelly intelligent, her name was related to the blue water and the last 
woman and her life energy to the blue butterfly. 

matlatzin was the commander in chief of the Aztec forces against Hernan Cortez.

when matlatzin finally had to accept defeat against Hernan Cortez, she had only 
one eye left, many of the fingers of her hands were missing, she was a ghost of 
the young woman full of energy she once was.

matlatzin was destroyed slowly but relentlessly as it was the great city she 
was born: TENOCHTITLAN.

matlatzin defended TENOCHTITLAN against the invaders until there was nothing 
left to defend, everything was completely destroyed; the great city of the 
Aztecs was gone for ever. Almost all the sacred books were burnt and their gold-
covers were melted and distributed amongst the victorious aggressors.

matlatzin recommended Moctezuma from the beginning "we have to stop this 
invasion from the root. If we do not act now we will regret it later, and later 
will be too late". This is what matlatzin told Moctezuma when he was still 
delivering what to do about the newcomers; but all the signs coincided with the 
astrology books, these were gods!

what to do, what to do? 

Moctezuma decided to offer hospitality to the gods and the rest is history . . .


shine matlatzin

blue butterfly

heroic mother

shine - shine - shine

shine upon us

EXTRACT FROM:
THE BITTER APPLE
http://www.parallelo-distance.net/claudia/bitter-apple/index.htm

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Quoting Adam Nash <adam@yamanakanash.net>:

> 
> >ive also been pretty interrested in  representations of gender and race on
> >the net in 3d multiuser worlds and note that most are tall white and male,
> >or women with impossible breasts..and wonder if anyone does reseacrh into
> >race in online worlds.  i know edward castronova just did a study (which i
> >habevent read all of)  which found women avatars (with identical skills )
> >are worth 30 percent  less in $ terms than male avatars when sold .. i was
> >wondering about african, japanese chinese, arab,  koori, sami, native
> >american, maori, etc  avaTars ?
> 
> (The guests probably have better leads on this, but in the meantime...)
> 
> Lisa Nakamura has done some study of this, in her book Cybertypes 
> (Routledge 2002), and also see Kali Tal's review of same at
> http://www.freshmonsters.com/kalital/Text/Reviews/Nakamura.html
> 
> Kali Tal has two essays that deal with issues of race in cyberspace:
> 
> The Unbearable Whiteness of Being (1995)
> http://www.freshmonsters.com/kalital/Text/Articles/whiteness.html
> 
> and
> 
> Duppies In The Machine, or "Anybody know where I can buy a copy of the 
> UPNORTH-OUTWEST GEECHEE JIBARA QUIK MAGIC TRANCE MANUAL FOR TECHNOLOGICALLY 
> STRESSED THIRD WORLD PEOPLE?" (1998)
> http://www.freshmonsters.com/kalital/Text/Articles/Duppies.html
> 
> Regards,
> Adam Nash
> 
> 
> 
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