Giants (Mesoamerican Giants)

 

Quinametzin (Mesoamerican Giants)

Quinametzin is a plural word and it has a few different implications behind it. For example, it sort of implies ancient, excessive, not the word big, but just like too much, or better yet, overgrown. See, the Nahuatl language is not descriptive; it's much more of something you have to assess and evaluate. A lot of names in Nahuatl you will find that they do not just describe what something is; the name will kind of also hold a judgmental characteristic to it. So, through the usage of Quin or Quinam, we kind of find that it links to characteristics like excess, heaviness or something that goes too far and for Tzin, we get implications of greatness or importance. So, they weren't saying that the Quinametzin were big people its more like they were saying excessive beings that went too far or beyond acceptable limits. Now that is not a fact, just a diagnostic, let's keep it pushing. They were not a species that lived among us humans, but rather the previous dwellers of this planet before we came into existence. See, the Quinametzin existed during the previous Suns or Sun, not the current one. Depending on the tradition or who you ask, they are mostly associated with either the first or the second sun. Now, let me explain, the Nahua cosmology is a different concept than most would think about cosmology today. They believe our world is going through cycles and the sun is just a star in the sky, but the framework for our system, representing a complete cosmic age, or the way reality works. So when the sun ends its like a reboot and update. The Nahua worldview does not have their gods getting things right the first time. You mean they mess up? No, they don’t mess up reality is tested, adjusted, destroyed, and rebuilt. I mean its just the scientific method, it ain't that deep. But anyway, what matters is why the Quinametzin existed then and not now, not which sun they existed in. Each sun created a different type of being and they were suited for their sun until it was time for change. So they were not mistakes, just expired solutions. The older suns were more physical and less ritually complex, focusing on power over finesse, so beings were produced that were stronger and heavier. As creation started to progress, the cosmos demanded something new and fit for this world, like awareness instead of strength and ritual instead of instinct. But the Quinametzin couldn’t adapt because they acted as if their power alone was enough and did not change how they lived when the sun demanded it. So, the sun collapsed and natural disasters fell upon them, reordering the earth, so they were not slain; the rules just changed, and the universe just outlived them. It seems that we humans just don’t live and learn, but the cosmos does, too. A couple of thousand years is like a couple of minutes to the cosmos, maybe seconds. You know, I hope this is making as much sense to you as it is to me. So, the Quinametzin become the mountains, hills, ruins, megaliths, sacred lands, which means they do not necessarily leave, but their bodies are essentially absorbed into the next world, and maybe that's why they literally were saying the giants built this, because in that case, they did not just do it with their hands but also their bodies. A cosmic continuity rather than just a metaphor. Now, what did the Quinametzin actually do? Well, when the Nahua people encountered massive unexplainable ruins, they credited them to the Quinametzin, but here is the thing, they were not thought of as architects, more like movers of the Earth. They lifted giant stones, shaped terrain and altered the landscapes, basically participating in the geology of the land today.  So if they did build the pyramids, it probably was not for ritualistic purposes; later humans ended up ritualizing the physical world. As I said, the Quinametzin are beings whose labors became landscape. Getting to the end here, so I want to discuss something of philosophical importance involving why the Quinametzin were the previous Earth dwellers before later humans. I described a bit in the beginning, but I have more to say because I do believe that it is important to realize. As I said earlier, each sun has different rules and the Quinametzin fell out of balance and the cosmos moved on, not because they were wrong but because they were correct for their sun. The current sun is thought to thrive on ritualism, offerings, reciprocity and conscious participation because it does not burn automatically, meaning it must be fed.

The Quinametzin were so self-sufficient that they didn’t actually need or long for anything and we all know when you don’t need anything, you don’t really have a reason to dream or seek better. On the contrary, humans are weaker. Why? Weakness requires cooperation, ritual dependency, awareness of mortality and the constant need for divine relationship. The giants did not need the gods the way that we humans do and our dependency is keeping the sun alive. We are not replacements, though. We are refinements. We are strong enough to act but weak enough to need help. Mortal enough to care and conscious enough to choose. So the Quinametzin had to go because the universe had to move on. I believe this is a very interesting philosophy because what would happen to our sun if the cosmos decides that it is time to move on? Would we have the ability to change with it, or is our attention already headed toward imbalance and we are becoming forgetful of what really matters because of self-sufficiency, much like the Quinametzin?