Anthropology museum

Saturday Oct 17

THOUGHT:  "CHARITY IS HAVING PATIENCE WITH SOMEONE WHO HAS 
                        LET US DOWN.  IT IS RESISTING THE IMPULSE TO BECOME
                        OFFENDED EASILY.  IT IS ACCEPTING WEAKNESSES AND SHORT
                        COMINGS.  IT IS ACCEPTING PEOPLE AS THEY TRULY ARE.  IT
                        IS LOOKING BEYOND PHYSICAL APPEARANCES TO ATTRIBUTES
                        THAT WILL NOT DIM THROUGH TIME.  IT IS RESISTING THE
                        IMPULSE TO CATEGORIZE OTHERS.      Thomas S. Monson

I had a meeting at my clinic so Peg let me drive over there alone.  The whole trip took about 2 1/2 hours - had a great meeting with the doctors that help me in the clinic on the temple grounds.  When I got home we decided to go an see the Anthropology Museum.  We waited with about 15 people for the regular bus but soon realized it wasn't coming.  We walked down Palmas Blvd and came to a taxi stand.  The reason the buses were not coming is that there was a large demonstration on the main blvd through Chapultepec park where the museum is to downtown.  The taxi took us to the back of the museum and it really wan't crowded.  We spend time looking at Pre-classical ruins (nephite ruins before Christ came) and the classical ruins (1 - 400 AD when the most intricate and beautiful ruins were constructed in Mexico) and the post classical - mostly built on top of classical ruins - usually of inferior workmanship - this includes the Aztec time.  We saw the Aztec Calander and a head dress of Quetzal feathers, pictures painted on a wall of dark skin and light skin warriors with elephants in the background, and a jade burial mask of the classical era - probably of a nephite prophet.  We caught a bus to our favorite taco restaurant and had alambres (mixed meat of chicken, beef and pork with onions, green chiles and lots of cheese served with guacamole sauce, pineapple chuncks, fresh onions and cilantro.)  Very good on wheat tortillas with Horchata to drink.  We go home and watched a little U of U football.

The Anthropology museum in Mexico City

Skeletons on display in Pre-Aztec room

Artifacts found at various sites in Mexico

More bones

Almost Asian appearance

More artifacts
This is how they viewed women!
Sister Griffin wanted to be in the pic!
Can you see her face?

Aztec (now called Mexica - x having a sh sound)

Found near Teotehuacan

Plumed serpent - Quetzalcoatl

The pyramid at Teotehuacan is from the classical era (100 - 400 AD) or the time when the Nephites flourished

Representing Tlaloc -or God the Father

Supposedly the wife of Tlaloc or mother god

Beautiful Stellas

Stone boxed made to hold records

Sacrificial stone from Aztec times

Intricate carvings on sacrificial stone

I thought this one looked just like me

Temple Mayor in Tenochtitlan - center of Mexico City
The big main Cathedral is built on top of this site
and it is sinking!

Aztec calendar stone
We had our pic taken in front of this
38 years ago on our honeymoon!

Some of the few Mayan codex's left

How they were buried

Jade burial mask of important king about 400 AD

Tomb where he was found

Baby burials

Notice two different skin tones of the warriors

Thin gold plates with inscriptions

Outside the museum

Looking out to Reforma -main road through down town and the park

with the Griffins at La Onda for tacos after the museum!

Sunday Oct 18 - One of our sacrament speakers spoke of using he Melchizedek priesthood - his first blessing as a green elder in the field.  It brought to memory my first priesthood blessing.  I had been in Queretaro for 4 months.  Two sisters would come to our little house where we held services in the main floor and slept upstairs.  They came urgently one Sunday morning reporting that their 10 year old sister was ill.  When we got there the 10 year old had had hiccups for 5 days - they had taken her to 2 different doctors and nothing helped.  She was unable to sleep much and it interfered with eating.  My companion told me to give the blessing (I didn't even know how to say hiccup in Spanish).  Most blessings you can leave without knowing if your blessing did any good but with blindness and hiccups it is pretty evident right after if you had enough faith.  She gave one big hiccup right after the blessing but over the next 20 minutes she was fine.  We gave the young women some friendship bracelets that Rachel's ward young women had made with a note from each one.  I hope some of them email and make friends.  Tonight we have the annual stake high priests meeting at the stake center which is about 30 minutes away in traffic from us.  Had a great day.

Upstairs in our chapel

The young women of the Palmas ward - they received friendship bracelets from our grand daughter's ward
The girl in the center behind with a white jacket on is
Kaylee's new friend!  Her name is Raquel!