The Hummingbird
By Dave Gutknecht • February 2009
 It’s mid afternoon and I’m enjoying a Pacifico on the balcony when a hummingbird visits the ixora blossoms, a few feet to my left. Bandit, our cat, instantly freezes, his eyes continue to move and the tip of his tail quivers. The Aztecs revered hummingbirds, believing them to be the spirits of great warriors. They depicted the great god Huitzilopochtli (wheat-see-low’-po-tee), the sun god and god of war, as a humming bird armed with a fiery serpent. His name means humming bird of the south in Nahualt. It was he who led them to where an eagle perched on a cactus holding a serpent in its talons and there they built the great city of Tenchlitlan. He was a demanding god; the steps of the great pyramid at Tenchlitlan ran red with blood from those sacrificed to appease him. But the Spanish came and their Jesuit priests banished him. His temples were torn down, replaced by churches. Only images of him remained. Huitzilopochtli is gone. The hummingbird flits away, Bandit resumes his nap, and my attention returns to mysterious body of water below me.
Banderas Bay is beautiful but the land beneath it is tortured by titanic forces. To the west the Cocos and Riveras plates are being pushed under the North American plate. The bay is believed to have been formed when a super volcano imploded and the bay a volcano caldera. Baja California once nestled up to Punta de Mita on the north side of the bay but it has been pushed over three hundred miles to the Northwest. A block of the earths crust extending Southwest and Northwest from Guadalajara to the coast, including Banderas Bay is breaking away from the North American plate. A band of volcanoes mark the northern and southern boundaries, it is called the Jalisco block. Mysterious, titanic forces are focusing their energy on Banderas bay. Strange, bizarre things have happened here. Why?
Now geologists say there is a graben, which is German for trench or grave, on the bottom of the bay. Grabens form where there are two parallel fissures in the earth surface and the block in the center sinks. This in part explains the depth of the bay. The graben extends inland creating the Rio Ameca river valley and the flat area near the air port. They probed the bay and the valley with sound waves to map its extent. How strange. Such things do not happen in Kansas.
Recently fishermen noticed bubbles rising to the surface of the water off Bucerias beach, on the North side of the bay. When scientist investigated they found hot near boiling water and air issuing from vents in the sea floor. They have analyzed the gases and the hot water and think that it’s most likely the result of geothermal activity but they’re not sure. Strange, bizarre things continue to happen in and around Banderas Bay… Why here?
 Scientists continue to measure, test, and hypothesize but they miss the whole point; this is Mexico the home of Huitzilopochtli. Things happened because the sun god wills it to happen or allows it to happen. The volcano imploded and Baja California was moved three hundred miles to the Northwest because he willed it. Is Huitzilopochtli dead? He left Tenochtlitan but did he leave Mexico? It is my theory that he resides in the depths of Banderas Bay. His location is betrayed only by the bubbles from his breathing and heat emanating from his weapon, the fiery serpent. If you disrespect him or a warrior spirit he awakens and takes vengeance. It is said that a man in Las Juntas y Veranos harmed a hummingbird, he disappeared without a trace. So pilgrim, do not scoff, take care for Huitzilopochtli is here. While the strains of mariachi music drift up from the beach and hang in the air, the ghost of a fierce, long dead Aztec warrior hovers by my ixora…
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