New Global Warming Confab Opens With Prayer to Mayan Moon Goddess

I think the Global Warming zealots finally wised up and stopped holding their confabs in wintry northern cities where no one would take them seriously because they would get snowed out. Instead they moved it to Mexico, where no one will take them seriously because they are praying to a Mayan god who demanded human sacrifice of girls where men would wear the skin of the dead girls.

From the WaPo here:

With United Nations climate negotiators facing an uphill battle to advance their goal of reducing emissions linked to global warming, it’s no surprise that the woman steering the talks appealed to a Mayan goddess Monday.

Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, invoked the ancient jaguar goddess Ixchel in her opening statement to delegates gathered in Cancun, Mexico, noting that Ixchel was not only goddess of the moon, but also “the goddess of reason, creativity and weaving. May she inspire you — because today, you are gathered in Cancun to weave together the elements of a solid response to climate change, using both reason and creativity as your tools.”

“Excellencies, the goddess Ixchel would probably tell you that a tapestry is the result of the skilful interlacing of many threads,” said Figueres, who hails from Costa Rica and started her greetings in Spanish before switching to English. “I am convinced that 20 years from now, we will admire the policy tapestry that you have woven together and think back fondly to Cancun and the inspiration of Ixchel.”

Delegates from 193 countries are gathered in Cancun for the two-week meeting.

So just who was this goddess of the moon and weaving? According to a Mayan cultural site:

During this Mayan festival in the honor of Ixchel: the goddess of the Moon, beehives, fertility, medicine and weaving, a beautiful young woman was chosen by craftsmen and artisans to represent the goddess. This young woman was sacrificed by the priests and flayed.

Her skin was worn by a man who sat at a loom and pretended to weave, while the craftsmen danced around him in animal costumes. The ceremony was then completed when the worshippers engaged in bloodletting and then had a ritual bath.

To our modern sensibilities, this seems unbearably cruel, but to the ancient Maya, the offering of blood and life seemed to be the only suitable gift for their gods, for had not the gods themselves given their own lives to create the world? Once again, we cannot judge another age with the values of our own; only observe….and learn..

Love how they jammed an admonishment not to judge the culture. Bah! I’ll judge it by declaring that Cortez did the world a favor by bringing an end to this barbarianism. Savages and their filthy religions and false gods have no place in modern government, and it is just more proof that the Global Warming crew are a bunch of eco-worshipping idiots. Of course they want to end humanity. They should start by sacrificing themselves and maybe Ixchel will stop global warming. Its worth a try?