This article is going to be a little different from many of my previous articles. As some of you have come to know, I am a member of the Federation of Aboriginal Nations of the Americas (FANA). Normally I write about what FANA has been doing or announcing ambassadorial roles or appointments of people to the different positions within the Federation.
Today I wish to share with you what one of the SandHill Band of Lenape and Cherokee Indians tribal members has been involved with for years.
Some of you are familiar with the appointment of Mazatzin (Maz) Casas Acosta as FANA’s ambassador to Mexico, Central, and South America, and AttaChé for Outreach and the Repatriation of Antiquities and Artifacts. Once again, some of you may be familiar with the Ambassador’s background. He is recognized as one of the leading authorities working with the Aztec Calendar, which you can find on his website: www.azteknology.com/clock. (Please click the 1st link below if you need to refresh your memory or are first timers to my articles.)
One of his goals has been to achieve global recognition of the Aztec Calendar, because as he puts it “this is not only a Mexican thing, neither an Aztec, of the Mayab or Indian thing…rather it is a Human Experience towards Personal Transcendence with Global Consequences”. After decades of study and travel, he had reached the conclusion that the Aztec calendar is the culmination of thousands of years of careful and respectful observation of nature and the cosmos by thousands of peoples across thousands of miles of our western hemisphere. He has developed his teachings to show that it can still be used today, as was intended.
Some of you may remember my article about FANA and the Garifuna Nation signing a cooperative agreement to rebuild ancient Trade Routes. (Please click the 2nd link below to refresh your memory or are first timers to my articles)
Now that you have some background to the aforementioned people and Nations, I would like to do this article on a special event being held at the Mexican Coalition located at 378 East 151st Street in the Bronx on March 16, 2024, from 2:00 to 6:00 PM.
This event celebrates the official recognition of the Aztec Calendar and the First Mexika New Year in the City of New York. Ambassador Acosta joined with the Garifuna Nation, with other North, Central, and South American Indigenous Nations, including the SandHill Band of Lenape and Cherokee Indians, in seeking recognition of the Aztec Calendar and getting proclamations to that effect. FANA has asked Ambassador Acosta to develop a teaching process that he can share with all the FANA members so we can all return to and walk with the rhythm of time, the rhythm of the cosmos.
Last year during his visit to New York for the 23rd Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations, at the invitation of the Consejo de Pueblos Originarios in New York, Ambassador Acosta met Commissioner Manuel Castro of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs. The Commissioner was very excited to learn that in San Francisco, California, Ambassador Acosta has been organizing an annual celebration of the new year on the Aztek calendar for 17 years and stated that he wanted to have a similar celebration in New York, that’s all the Ambassador needed! As the consultant for cultural integrity, Ambassador Acosta was responsible for placing the largest Aztek calendar on the CCSF Mission Campus front entrance, (Mazatzin the Last Tile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wus_EtY8xA).
So now in partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, and co-sponsored by the Consejo de Pueblos Originarios and the Comisión Mexicana who has provided the space, and with the support of all his FANA friends it has become a reality.
As a member of FANA and Ambassador Acosta’s friend, it gives me great pleasure to announce that Mayor Eric Adams of New York City has just proclaimed Monday, March 11th, 2024 as First Mexika New Year on New York Day.
It also gives me great pleasure to announce that the guest of honor is FANA’s Minister of International Affairs and Ambassador to the United Nations, Principal Chief Dr. Ronald Yonaguska Holloway of the SandHill Band of Lenape and Cherokee Indians (NY, NJ, PA)
Everyone is invited to attend this free, and history-making celebration.
So, if you live in the Metropolitan area, hop on a bus or subway to attend the festivities for a re-introduction to our cosmic identity and sacred responsibility by correlating your time and day of birth to the Aztec calendar days.
CALLING ALL AZTEK AND TRADITIONAL DANCERS TO: Mexican Coalition located at 378 East 151st Street in the Bronx on March 16, 2024, from 2:00 to 6:00 PM.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/12/2211242/-FANA-Ambassador-Acosta-One-of-the-leading-experts-on-deciphering-the-Aztec-Calendar
(https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/16/2199742/-FANA-and-the-Garifuna-Nation-of-Belize-sign-Cooperative-Agreement-Rebuilding-Trade-Routes)
Ambassador Acosta can be reached at: zemazatzin@hotmail.com, www.azteknology.com/clock
