By Kirby Vickery from the March 2016 Edition March is a busy month1. Mardi Gras and Ash Wednesday visit from year to year. Saint David’s Day is celebrated on the 1st. Saint Patrick’s Day comes on the 17th, and Saint Joseph’s is observed on the 19th. The Vernal Equinox arrives from the 19th to the 21st […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the February 2016 Edition In 1956 my father took an assignment from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to teach the pilots of Aero Mexico how to fly the air traffic control patterns required by all pilots over the United States. And with that and a brand new Studebaker President […]
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By Kirby Vickery from the January 2016 Edition Huitzilopochtli along with his ‘father’ and ‘brother,’ Quetzalcoatl (remembering the duality of most of the Aztec gods) were two of the most worshiped gods in Mexico, where he was associated with not only the Sun and War, but was the god of fertility and rain too. Rain […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the December 2015 Edition As a master’s student I selected a class in short story primarily because it was in those days that I discovered an interest in writing. In keeping with my goal of a complete education in American History, I selected my short stories in an area where it […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the November 2015 Edition When I was asked to write for The Manzanillo Sun I was told that I had an almost free hand as to what I wanted to write about as long as it dealt with Mexico and/or the Mexican people. This was all fine and good while […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the October 2015 Edition The subject of ‘where do things come from’ is hardly ever under the surface in our house. With a background really heavy into history, heading a continuing search for ‘dead words’ which lends itself to the historical beginnings of words and other concepts and being married […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the September 2015 Edition Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl (between 1568 and 1580 – 1648) was a Castizo Novohispanic historian. In 1612 he was governor of Texcuco, and in 1613 governor of Tlalmanalco. In spite of his illustrious birth, good education and obvious ability, he lived most of his life […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the August 2015 Edition Several of the early philosophic thoughts of Western Man originally had four elements. They were: Earth, Fire, Wind or Air, and Water. In ancient Greek times, Aristotle added a fifth called Aether (now you know where ‘ether’ gas comes from). He figured that the first four […]
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By Kirby Vickery from the July 2015 Edition In a lot of cases of mythological lore there are stories to teach or demonstrate. As such they have a tendency to carry an absolute power somewhere to add to the educational weight of whatever the story is about. What a person finds in an allegory from one culture […]
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By Kirby Vickery from the June 2015 Edition Over the past year I have had a lot of fun telling Aztec mythology stories. I have come to believe that their society was a lot closer to their mythology than other ancient peoples. For western man most all mythology belief has melded, into religion in one form […]
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