Subjugation of one portion of the population and elevation of another, has been produced by dominant cultural mythology since large scale cities were built with ritual centers devoted to the enactment of such separation. Civil rights have always evolved by a redefinition of cultural myths. The dominant Old World ritual and mythical systems based on federal monotheism; absorbed most of the planet during the Age of Discovery; New World myth and ritual was largely erased to guarantee subjection of native populations. Current Third World efforts to regain global civil rights would be greatly enhanced by an effective use of the pre existing mythologies of indigenous peoples.

Egypt, China, Sumeria, India, Israel, the Muslim Caliphate, the Holy Roman Empire, Crete, Greece, the Aztecs and Incas; are all examples of organization and structure in societies derived from myth and rituals. The shift from universal visionary expieriace in hunter gatherer vision quests in the puberty rites, is gradually replaced by public ceremony in agricultural societies; culminating in a priesthood buttressed by large scale architecture and written scriptures. Standing armies converting the surrounding tribes into slaves and tribute states, follows the mythology of the god kings mandate from heaven to subjugate the demonic forces surrounding the ritual centers of the gods. During the Age of Discovery Christianity and Islam came to subjugate and dominate the bulk of the planet under the mythological motivations of their core ritual centers, national capitals and the associated rituals of ownership and control, federal monotheism. The demonizations of native traditions were enforced by gunpowder and scripture with an average of 85% dead before conversions were complete. The surviving populations now struggle with marginalization, poverty and ignorance in every corner of the globe.

Carl Jung demonstrated that a Snake, a Bird and a Woman were universal root myth components of all pre agricultural societies; representing deep secret knowledge, vast elevated perspectives, and the endless generative powers of nature. The localized versions of these essential images in indigenous cultures provided Jung and his associates with the evidence of a universal collective unconscious; the origin of intelligence and organization in the human specie. They theorized that the entire civilized world was deeply scarred by the imposition of literate rational verbal ego structures over the pre existing natural intelligence triggered by the visionary experiences of tribal cultures. The crippled neurotic products of modern society had become obsessed with money and power and status; and only a submission to the depths of the collective unconscious could restore sanity to a mad world. A revival of pre literate myth and ritual and the reemergence of Third World peoples from subjugation will produce a planet free from psychotic domination by finance and force; the heaven on earth of all peoples deepest beliefs.

Modern elites now hold sway over subjugated peoples primarily by economic leverage and armed force supported by historical mythology. As history and government have replaced myth and ritual; the understanding of pre literate cultures derived from the collective unconscious has become increasingly difficult. With the widespread influences of mass media in all its forms; a post literate society finds itself even more removed from the roots of deep human understandings. Religious warfare based on scriptural interpretations is completely disconnected from the visionary origins of those very writings motivating these conflicts. Our current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are as much derived from mythological misunderstandings as they are by economic forces. A global reexamination of our emergence from the collective unconscious through a reevaluation of human organization and intelligence before literacy, can lead to global solutions now inconceivable to a post literate planet.

The Aztec dual gods of Wisdom and Peace and War and Wealth offer a perspective on the historical development of federal monotheism in the Old World. Just as Rome openly acknowledged Mars the war god as the bringer of their wealth and power; so did the Aztecs honor Smoking Mirror as the patron of their capital city. Just as the Hebrew war lord had a dual nature with war against infidels and peace to all true believers incorporated into its myth and scriptures, so did every advanced culture of the Old World have some form of war and peace personified. The elites who administered these ritual formulas kept both generals and kings in thrall to the myths that formed their social systems. From slaves to administrators of provinces all were united in the dominant forms embodied in their origin stories and enacted by the royal priest crafts. Here in San Diego County are the geological features that gave the Kumeyaay shamans the same leverage that massive architecture did for the large scale agricultural societies; the Great Snake, the Bird and the Woman at the root of the collective unconscious of the human species; the key to unlocking the intelligence of our Ancestors, the very springs of history itself.

Mass media is the current form of the shamanic structuring of the tribal mind; the use of images and meanings to give form to daily life and shape the conceptions of the people. That modern culture is derived from economic models and not pre literate mythology, its structure and motives based on unconscious drives are apparently logical and rational; although the same central themes of the god king and the surrounding legions of darkness are very apparent. Every religious war currently engulfing our planet is based in this tribal imagery. The Kumeyaay were unique in all the world in having a high shaman pre pharoic style of democratic semi federal organization. This illumination of the most invisible link in the evolution of modern societies would allow a reevaluation of the unconscious motivations that generate religious warfare. The great grand father of the Feathered Serpent of the Aztecs and of Smoking Mirror his opponent can be traced to the Potrero mountains; the center of the Kumeyaay nation. The Bird and the Woman and the Snake at the root of human psychology and history have the potential to alter the course of our evolution as a specie; if our rational minds can see deeply enough into our unconscious motives.