"Cizin is a Maya god of death and earthquakes. He is the most important Maya death god in the Maya culture.
Scholars call him God A."
The name Cizin probably means stench.
Cizin comes from the root "ciz" which means flatulence.
His name is said to mean Stinking One
According to Lacandon myth when a person dies Cizin burns the soul on his mouth and his anus.
When the soul complains Cizin douses the soul in cold water, causing the soul to complain more leading Cizin to burn them until the soul disintegrates into nothing.
Then, it is believed the soul goes to the god Sucunyum, who spits in his hand to clean the soul, so the soul can go where it likes."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cizin
"the work had been renamed
Ah Puch Is Here
in reference to the Mayan Death God.
Straight Arrow Books in San Francisco agreed to publish the proposed work in 1971 as a "Word/Image novel,"
"Ah Pook Is Here was a collaboration between author William S. Burroughs and artist Malcolm Mc Neill. It began in 1970"
"Burroughs reads from Ah Pook Is Here on his 1990 recording Dead City Radio; this recording, in turn, formed the soundtrack to the animated short Ah Pook Is Here directed by Philip Hunt and featured music by John Cale."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ah_Pook_Is_Here
"Dead City Radio is a musical album by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs, released by Island Records in 1990.
The CD is a collection of readings by Burroughs set to a broad range of musical compositions. It was produced by Hal Willner and Nelson Lyon, with musical accompaniment from John Cale, Donald Fagen, Lenny Pickett, Chris Stein, alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and the NBC Symphony Orchestra, among others. It was dedicated to "Keith Haring, at the Apocalypse."
'Willner came up with the idea for the album after booking Burroughs for a December 1981 spot on Saturday Night Live, in which he read
"Twilight's Last Gleaming" over a pre-recorded NBC Symphony Orchestra rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Later, over drinks, the two bonded over their love of actress Marlene Dietrich, and Burroughs began singing the German standard "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt" (Falling in Love Again), a song associated with the actress.
Willner likened Burroughs to "true Americana," saying:
"He should be right up there in front of a map or a railroad track or a flag, as you might see John Wayne or Johnny Cash."
Most of Burroughs' readings from the album were recorded at his home in
Lawrence, Kansas between
December 12 and 15 1988"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_City_Radio
"The Vietnam War
(also known as Second Indochina War, Vietnamese-American War or American War in Vietnam) lasted from 1 November 1955 to 30 April 1975.
It was fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and North Korea,
and South Vietnam was set up by the United States and supported by South Korea, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. "
'The Vietnam War was very controversial, especially in the United States.
It was the first war to
feature live television coverage .
and the first major armed conflict that
the United States lost.
The war became so unpopular in the United States that President Richard Nixon eventually agreed to send American soldiers home in 1973"
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
"The war made potential farmland useless, as it was bombed and affected by Agent Orange.
The economy crashed because inflation was high and so unemployment was common, and there was poor health care"
'Many veterans came back with PTSD and were not treated well;
people who opposed the war saw them as killers,
and people who supported the war saw them as losers."
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