January 27, 2009

• Ixcuina

  I’ve had my fill of severed things, of rotting hearts and prosthetic limbs. The stench of decay is a symptom of the singular dysfunction of man. Keep it to yourselves. I’ve worn your flesh for thousands of years, long enough to have your stretch marks and scars imprinted on my own. I have my exit, my route 666. There’s a kind of annihilation involved in the discarding of cardinal sins. The compunction of the infidel, God the saviour, woman the temple. No more sacrificial booty please. No more bloody foetuses. No more absolution. My two faces have become one and even the bitch in me refuses purity from time to time. Sick am I of smearing shit in the creases around your eyes as you eject into the whole of your mistress. Your concubine. Your whipped hide and broken feet. The syringes make for delicate digits around my hips when I swear you in, and the blood trickles with her bleed every month until the gut begins to swell. The tentacled beast does its thing but it has nothing to do with you. It’s barbaric, the things you expect of me. I am no savage. Just a little stained. Just a little old and worn. I’ve lived too long in the filth of you. I need a little me-time.

  The above nonsense was inspired by Ixcuina. In Aztec mythology,  Ixcuina (also known as Tlazolteotl) is the Goddess of filth/sins and midwives and the patroness of adulterers. She eats the sins of men (but only if they are confessed to her), usually those of lust and infidelity, and is often represented wearing the skin of a sacrificial victim. She is identifiable by the soot stain on her nose and the cotton on her headdress. Known as the Mistress of Spinning and the Patroness of Sex. Often connected with the moon.

  She is known to have had 4 phases – The first as a brilliant, delightful young moon; the second as a sensual young woman with a want for excitement; the third as a priestess, forgiving sins and giving blessings to married couples. And in the fourth she became a monster, destroying lovers and stealing fortune. Often seen as a representation of the changeability of women in general – 2 faces – that of filth/lust, but also that of purification and confession.

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