Zabet Pucket: Siren of Cedar Creek

noun /ˈsīrən/ 

sirens, plural

• An alluring women or winged creature whose singing causes unwary travelers to crash into rocks

 

 

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home.  In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.  The eternal youth of Nature may renew your own. Go quietly, go alone; and no harm will befall you.  If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living

You dont need to explain that to John Laird, the current California Secretary for the State's Resources Agency.  He built a million dollar trail leading to San Diego’s infamous Geological Phenomenon Cedar Creek Falls from 2009-2011.  Cedar Creek Falls is one of the sacred pools of the Inaja natives in California.   “God” has cared for these phenomenons, saved them from drought, rock avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

The million dollar trail into the Falls was temporarily closed by the U.S. Forest Service after a hiker fell 80 feet on Wednesday and died of massive head injuries. The closure is also based on concerns expressed by people who live on Thornbush Road, a cul-de-sac in the San Diego Country Estates area of Ramona, that ends at a trailhead into the Falls.  Residents have complained about hundreds of people who have used the trails on weekends. Some visitors have urinated in gardens, left trash and been drunk and disrespectful.  Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all.

On a positive note we haven’t dammed it up yet.  One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.   I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving he can outwit nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority

In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we have been taught.  Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

“Man is nature's sole mistake.”

William S. Gilbert

From SEX WITH ANIMALS

Siren of Cedar Creek To the eyes of a man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. The innate allure of the high desert oasis waterfalls of San Diego county will forever be a psychologically unquenchable obsession.   A tiny but real affair. With an imagination the rock-scapes seem to model familiar forms of bodies and faces.  Francis Bacon once said in an interview with David Sylvester, “Man’s greatest fascination is with himself, second are animal, and lastly nature. noun /ˈsīrən/  sirens, plural A women or winged creature whose singing causes unwary travelers to crash into rocks A woman who is considered to be alluring or fascinating but also dangerous in some way An eel-like American amphibian with tiny forelimbs, no hind limbs, small eyes, and external gills, typically living in muddy pools A device that makes a loud prolonged sound as a signal or warning- ambulance sirens

Priapus and Flora

Tlazolteotl (Whose name can be variously translated as "Earth Goddess", "Filth Goddess" or "Dirt Goddess") is the Aztec and Toltec Goddess of Guilty Pleasures, who both inspires and forgives carnal acts.  Said to remove sins from Her worshippers by absorbing them into Herself. The punishment for adultery under harsh Aztec law is death; but if the offender confessed to Tlazolteotl they were absolved and the law would not touch them. However, a person was only allowed one confession per lifetime, so people would leave it as long as they could!
Tlazolteotl is shown nude (except for Her jewelry) on a red broomstick holding a snake.

The hermit Jappan, after abandoning his family, made his home in the desert and committed himself to devotion to the Gods. Tlazolteotl, rather insulted by his renunciation of the world, went to him to "console" him. He fell for it and was easily seduced by Her. When the Gods found out, They cut off his head and changed him into a scorpion.


Tlazolteotl is considered one of the Nine Figures of the Creation of the World, which also include Chalchiuhtlicue and Her husband Tlaloc, as well as being one of the thirteen Companions of the Day. Perhaps because of this, Tlazolteotl is sometimes called "the Mother of the Gods".


Alternate spelling: Tlazolteutl, Tlacolteutl.

From SEX WITH ANIMALS

From SEX WITH ANIMALS

From SEX WITH ANIMALS