Current With The Past

Everything Is Stories

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Originally released in 1969, Dave Bixby’s Ode to Quetzacoatl is considered an underground classic in the psychedelic folk genre. With tracks such as “Drug Song” and “666″, the album remains dark, revelatory, and spiritual even in the 21st century. For years, rumors of Bixby’s disappearance and death spread amongst listeners. No one knew his story or his whereabouts or what influenced him to create an album dedicated to a Mesoamerican deity. He was a mystery. In this episode Everything Is Stories finds Dave Bixby in Northern Arizona where he shares his incredible adventures with hallucinogens in the 60s, a Christian cult in the 70s, sailing the open sea alone in the 80s, and what exactly influenced him to produce an album named after a feathered serpent. Produced by Garrett Crowe, Mike Martinez, and Tyler Wray. Music by Dave Bixby with additional music by Khris Reinshagen of Nostilevo and Men of Bissau. Transcripts are available at everythingisstories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.6	Ketzal Kortle is a legend of a man who walked through the Americas who had Christ-like abilities.
0:58.3	The Toltecs called him Kessikotel after the Ketzel bird.
1:01.1	He never said what his name was.
1:03.8	And the Mayans call him Kluklaklan, and another name was Wara Kocha.
1:09.4	And this was a Christ-type person that there's legends and artifacts.
1:15.0	There's the Temple of Ketsalcoteau down by Mexico City,
1:18.0	and there's writings that have been found to talk about this man and the things that he did.
1:23.3	I felt that Christ, the Spirit, has visited this planet throughout creation in one form or another.
1:31.4	Gandhi could be Christ.
1:33.3	Okay.
1:33.8	You and I could be Christ if we discipline ourselves.
1:36.8	So Christ is a way of being.
1:39.1	Jesus, the man, kind of ushered that into our planet and show, he says, what you've seen me do, you can do.
1:46.4	My whole premise, and I have to go back to where I was at, because I've been asked this question before,
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