The Magic of Cacao

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TIMESTAMPS
00:35 Talk outline
03:18 Traditional beverages made with Cacao
04:28 The metate (metatl) y mano (metlapil)
06:27 Preparing cacao seeds for making beverages
08:38 Cacao blanco (Theobroma bicolor)
10:00 Chocolate atole
10:48 Bu’pu
14:55 Cacao vessels and varieties of ancient beverage
16:51 Foam on traditional Cacao-based beverages
17:11 Ancient Cacao beverages made without maize
20:27 Cacao, empire and slavery
21:30 Reconstructed traditional Mesoamerican Cacao beverages
23:54 The pharmacology of Theobroma cacao
24:27 Medicinal compounds in Cacao - polyphenols
29:24 Xanthines (caffeine, theobromine, theophylline)
32:30 “Fairy dust” compounds - biogenic amines, salsolinol, GABA, anandamide etc.
34:29 Cacao and Psilocybe mushrooms
37:01 Health benefits of dark chocolate
39:59 Chocolate consumption and decreased risk of death
42:14 Cacao as a hedonic modifier
44:38 Cacao as an anti-phobic substance
46:36 Cacao and the microbiome
48:26 Cacao and the stars
48:33 Curandero Diego’s uses of Cacao and the Old World Venus archetype
51:00 Señora Ca’al, the midwife and Cacao (Venus archetype)
52:15 Ix Chel & Chac exchanging Cacao
53:43 Cacao classified using Old World astrology (including the myth of Quetzalcoatl and Cacao’s origins)
57:45 Quetzalcoatl (a Mesoamerican Venus god)
57:59 Cacaxtla mural of a Venus god with Maize and Cacao
59:20 Maize as Sun, Cacao as…Moon?
1:01:06 Cacao in mythology
1:01:22 The Axis Mundi in the Perennial Philosophy
1:02:16 The Mayan World Tree - the wakah chan
1:04:28 Theobroma cacao as the world tree
1:05:35 “Portals”, “vision serpents” and sacrifice in Mesoamerican religion
1:09:52 Theobroma cacao as an ancestor-tree
1:12:02 The K’iche Maya “Hero Twins” saga (from the Popol Vuh)
1:18:34 “Two fish”
1:20:32 Codex Borgia illustration of “the creation of the universe”
1:22:20 Lacandon Maya “god pots”
1:23:21 Cacao in Renaissance European alchemy
1:25:01 Homeopathic “chocolatum” provings
1:25:46 Chocolate in Traditional Chinese Medicine
1:26:12 Summary of mythic themes of Theobroma cacao
1:28:01 Magical uses of Cacao
Full list of references may be found in the published work “The Secret Life of Chocolate” www.aeonbooks.... or, for those in the U.S., bit.ly/3dVRX1d