First, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Christopher Michael Escobedo Sr. I am a father of five and married to an Afganistan War Veteran. When I was 15, a spirit visited me in my dreams. Being raised by a father who didn't believe or go to church, I turned from God, and I was blinded from my vision until 2016, when I was 35. I woke up to realize I had not told many people about my vision and the powers I inherited from it. I started to research God and learn about things I had never thought to question. First, God was never the name in the original text of scripture. Instead, the Tetragrammaton was used to name our creator with the letters YHWH. These letters are so interesting to me because they represent both male and female, while the name God means a male deity. The name Jesus was also made up as Aramaic, which Yeshua spoke does not have a J, instead the son of YHWH was named Yehoshua or Yeshua. Next, I started to understand that Moses and Yeshua were both African, as that part of the world was known as Africa until Europeans renamed it the Middle East of Europe. This would mean that Yeshua was raised seeing Africans crucified throughout the countryside as a warning against pushing back against Rome. This is why Yeshua started a revolution against European supremacy over 2000 years ago. He told his disciples to sell everything and buy swords for all those that don't have one. I learned so much that I was ready to become a priest, but when I told this to my European priest, he said that I couldn't become a priest because I had children. I was so confused that I prayed about it and was given a path forward. Before I could go another step towards YWHW, I was to learn about myself and where I come from. And so my journey of learning and teaching about Chicano history began. Here is what I understand about American history.
In the beginning, only the ocean, darkness, and monsters were created by Huitzilopochtli, Tezcatlipoca, Xipe Totec, and Quetzalcoatl, known as the four directions. When the Gods witnessed the chaos of the world and of Cipactli, they knew they had to change things. Cipactli was a giant sea monster crocodile that was so large it would feed on other creations. The four Gods of the North, East, South, and West decided that Cipactli needed to be destroyed because his appetite would eat all other creations. They pulled the monster in four directions, and the land, animals, and people poured out of its body, creating the world we know today.
As Chicanos, we are Indigenous Americans and have many different creation stories across Turtle Island.