In 2005 I was stranded in Cancun, Mexico. I was on my honeymoon and a few days after arriving, Hurricane Wilma came and destroyed the area. I nearly almost died, because of my foolish decision.
Prior to the storm, I got to visit the pyramids of Chicken Pizza - I mean Chichen Itza. While there, I bought the above small statue that Daemon is posing near.
Here it is again...
The statue is made of bone and represents the ancient Mayan rain god, Chaac.
Chaac (also spelled Chac or, in Classic Mayan, Chaahk [t͡ʃaːhk]) is the name of the Maya rain deity. With his lightning axe, Chaac strikes the clouds and produces thunder and rain. Chaac corresponds to Tlaloc among the Aztecs. source
Around this time, I was heavily interested in the Mayan culture - It was also prior to 2012 (end of the Mayan calendar), so my ex-wife and I indulged into visiting it. I was foolish, however. One night before our visit to the pyramid I got really drunk off of blue tequila and on the full moon called out to the Mayan gods. We had a top level suite with a balcony, and I was naked and drunk when I called out to them. I asked for the ultimate Mayan experience... boy did I get one.
One day after the visit to the pyramid I awoke to cries of evacuation. I was confused as the tv was showing sunny skies all week. Our parents were calling in telling us to get out of Cancun - Hurricane Wilma was on its way.
It was too late to leave
Sadly, the hurricane was too close at this point. The monster storm (still recorded as worst hurricane recorded) had grown quick over night out of nowhere and was headed our way. We had to evacuate with the resort and travel to an abandoned technical college.
We got to the building we were going to bunker down in. It was a two story building and I made the correct decision to go to the room on the top level and the furthest away from the direction of the storm.
When the storm arrived, it was really bad. People were stuffed in these classrooms, and each room had a wall of glass showing outside. They had boarded up the building, but things got so bad that we had to find things to put against it. We found bed mattresses and put them up.
At this point the storm was just hovering over us. I didn't think it was ever going to leave.
Water was flooding the building. The bathrooms were caved in and broken. People had to pee/poop in buckets which caused bad sanitary conditions. People were getting sick, and one guy had a heart attack and couldn't be saved. It was bad.
On the last night the storm was over us I was one of the few men willing to hold their bodies against the mattresses to prevent the glass from shattering onto the women and children in the room. In the late night, I managed to get a chair and sit and hold my back against them. During that time I held my statue, and had a conversation with Chaac. I said "Chaac, you cannot kill me - you will not hurt anyone else here. LEAVE!" I then in meditation pose imagined a force field forming from me protecting everyone.
The storm howled so much. It was like screaming shrieks. I kept focusing on this and then all of a sudden the storm began to die down, and it moved onto the US. I obviously felt relief, and thanked Chaac and I learned my lesson. Don't mess with the Mayan gods!
My adventure was not over - I had to survive Mexico in shambles and try to evacuate. Without going into great detail we did in fact survive, and got back to the US a few weeks later.
Years later I learned about my own heritage of being Nordic, and one of my favorite gods is Thor.
Respect the gods
In Norse mythology, Thor (/θɔːr/; from Old Norse Þórr) is a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, oak trees, strength, the protection of mankind, and also hallowing and fertility. The cognate deity in wider Germanic mythology and paganism was known in Old English as Þunor and in Old High German as Donar (runic þonar ᚦᛟᚾᚨᚱ), stemming from a Common Germanic *Þunraz (meaning "thunder"). source
I have a huge Thors hammer tattoo to protect me from gods like Chaac. Still, I respect the Mayan gods. They are still down there and one day I would love to visit again.
I am sorry I conjured this storm. I did not understand my magickal powers at the time. I know a lot of people suffered from that storm, and it was my fault. :(
It's just uncanny to me how things work, on a synchronicity level. It's also a lesson for me I had to learn the hard way, that you need to be careful with what you ask for, because might just get it. :)