Pentagram of Blood #5

St. John, New Brunswick, Canada

Point Five

   St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. The fifth and final point on the Pentagram of Blood. Up until this point I have explored many different explainations as to why each point has come to be. From supernatural portals being unknowingly left open at the Pyramid of the Sun in Mexico, potential curses gone wrong in God’s Lake, the Bermuda triangle and the Air Ion Theory in Miami, to the San Andreas Fault that runs within miles of Los Angeles. What’s so special about St. John? What makes this different from the others, and how does it connect to the PoB?

     In order to have a potentially full understanding of what has happened within St. John’s history, we’ll have to travel back to point one of the PoB. All the way back to the Pyramid of the Sun, and the rituals performed their by the Aztecs. 

 Fire has always been, and will forever remain, a major fundamental element in the universe. It can give as much as it can take away. This was especially true in regards to the Aztecs and giving “life” to the sun. Every fifty-two years – which marked the complete cycle of the Aztec calendar year – a fire was ceremoniously transferred from temple to temple, then home to home. All other flames were extinguished in preparation for this ceremony known as the Aztec New Fore Ceremony, or Binding of the Years Ceremony, which took place in November. This would ensure the renewal of the sun every fifty-two years, and if this ritual failed it meant the end of the Aztec civilization. I feel as if the quote below from Historian Jacques Soustelle best explains the Aztecs reasonings behind performing this ritual.

“At bottom the ancient Mexicans had no real confidence in the future, their fragile world was perpetually at the mercy of some disaster: there were not only the natural cataclysms and the famines, but more than that, on certain nights the monstrous divinities of the west appeared at the crossroads, and there were the wizards, those dark envoys from a mysterious world, and every fifty-two years there was the great fear that fell upon all the nations of the empire when the sun set on the last day of the ‘century’ and no man could tell whether it would ever rise again (114).”

-Jacques Soustelle, Historian

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/866/the-aztec-new-fire-ceremony/

 

The duties of an Aztec priest are centered around maintaining the sacred fire, making sure that it would perpetually burn. Much like the Aztecs other rituals, the fire ceremony also involved a living human sacrifice. The fire would be lit in the chest cavity of the victim. Their heart was cut from their chest while they were still breathing by a high priestess who was dressed as the god of fire, and donned a turquoise mask.

Xiuhtecuhtli, or “Turquoise Lord”, is the Aztec God of Fire, and considered to be the creator of life. The God of Fire is said to have many representations and guises such as a stopped, toothless old man that carries an enormous brazier on his head. He is also represented by the insignia of Xiohcóatl, the serpent of fire that is characterized by a nose of horn decorated with seven stars. 

Xiuhtecuhtli’s pillar of fire is said to run through the cosmos from Mictlan (the underworld) to Topan (the heavens). As discussed in the first PoB post, it is believed that the tunnels under the Pyramid of the Sun are a sort of portal to the underworld and possibly the very beginning of the ley lines. Since part of the Fire God’s power reaches into the underworld, it can be easily be assumed that the god’s power could have leaked into those ley lines. Another theory could be be that Xiohcóatl, the serpent of fire, could have found it’s way through a portal and into the ley lines while one of these rituals were being performed.

     What if in some way, instead of creating all of the fires that have occurred since the time of the Aztec’s ritual, the power of Xiuhtecuhtli feeds off the fires of the North American continent? Thus keeping the fire god’s power continuously fueled enough to move through the ley lines both ancient and new. A decent example of this would be a fire that took place on June 20, 1877 in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada.  

    It’s on this day that high winds carried a spark said to have originated from the Kirk and Daniels Mill. As the story goes, the spark found its way through an open door, and landed on a pile of hay causing it to ignite. The hay in question was located on the second floor of the Fair Weather Warehouse. By the time the fire extinguished itself, it had reduced two fifths of the city to ash and rubble. In total eighteen people lost their lives: four were struck by debris, twelve to burns, and two by drowning when they attempted to save their property in boats. Four months later another fire broke out on October 20th. This time, it began in a woodhouse and created its own wind. The flames had consumed blocks of three and four story houses (estimated at about one hundred twenty buildings).  

     Almost exactly one hundred years later on June 22, 1977, a fire broke out in a detention center. The cells of the detention center were usually meant for overnight usage (mostly for people to sleep off their drunkenness when they become too rowdy). Around the time of the fire there were a number of inmates that were transferred from the St. John County Jail. The cause for this relocation was due to three separate and intentional mattress fires breaking out about a week prior to the detention center fire. It still remains unknown as to who set those fires, or whether it was one or more person(s). The cause of the fire remains unknown, but was said to have started in one of the padded overnight cells on the second floor. It was described as being a flash fire, and the police had trouble trying to open the doors due to the heat jamming the locks/doors. In the end, twenty prisoners lost their lives by smoke inhalation.  

   It seems as if it’s too much of a coincidence that the Great Fire of 1877 and the Detention Center Fire of 1977 happened only within days of being exactly one hundred years apart. Could this be a recurring pattern possibly caused by the fire god’s loose power? Where every one hundred years and change there’s a large fire that breaks out, taking the lives of as many people as possible? It’s pretty imaginable that this could be a pattern started by Xiuhtecuhtli hundreds of years after the god’s flame leaked into the ley lines. I cannot help but wonder what 2077 has in store for St. John, New Brunswick, and theories will only then be proven or disproven.  

     Supernatural and paranormal happenings occur in all shapes, forms, and various levels. Not every person in this world – or those who live on a point or along its lines – will experience ghostly episodes in their lifetime. Those who do may or may not understand what they just encountered, some may even choose not to believe and explain it away. People die everyday from various causes. Could each of the deaths, killing or otherwise, be seen as a sacrifice to the ley lines and Pentagram of Blood? Thus fueling its power much like the deaths at the Pyramid of the Sun created its potential beginning?  

***Stay tuned for Post Number 6: The Basilisk, posted by August 30th, 2022!***

Definitions:

Xiuhtecuhtli- 1.) (“Turquoise Lord”) Aztec God of Fire, also considered to be the creator of life (all life). 2.) Said to be believed to be a representation of the divine creator Ometecuhtli.

Xiohcóatl- Serpent of Fire, the insignia of the god of fire. Characterized by a nose of horn that’s decorated with seven stars.

“Binding of the Years Ceremony”- Every fifty-two years (end of a complete cycle in the Aztec Calendar) fire was ceremoniously transferred from first temple to temple, then home to home in November.

Sources:

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/866/the-aztec-new-fire-ceremony/

http://www.gendisasters.com/new-brunswick/15677/st-john-nb-detention-center-fire-june-1977

http://www.gendisasters.com/new-brunswick/8731/st-john-nb-fire-jun-1877

https://www.cbc.ca/archives

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Xiuhtecuhtli

http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Wa-Z/Xiuhtecuhtli.html

https://www.worldhistory.org/Xiuhtecuhtli/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/New-Fire-Ceremony

Googled Xiuhtecuhtli pronunciation

Image Sources:

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/641/the-mask-of-xiuhtecuhtli/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:THE_GREAT_FIRE_AT_ST._JOHN,_N.B._JUNE_20TH_1877.jpg

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/896/the-aztec-calendar/

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g154960-Saint_John_New_Brunswick-Vacations.html