About Us
History
This Teocalli was formed in 1992 at the request of Ill Sir Robert Wright of Nile Shrine Center. Ill Sir Robert Wright called 24 members of Nile Shrine Center to meet in the Gold room. At the meeting there were also present Officers for the Supreme Teocalli. CST 1991-1992 Willard Miller, PCST 1986/1987 Harvey Solomon Supreme Calpixque, Charles Walker Supreme Tlacuilo, and Master Artisan Warren Flagg.
This new Teocalli was numbered 111 was given the name "Mukilteo"
Who are we?
Local bodies of the 'Q' are called Teocallis (Tee-oh-cah-lees) and are located in or around the cities where their Shrine Centers are located. The members are referred to as Artisans.
Membership in the 'Q' is by invitation only and this honor is extended to Shriners who have excelled in their service to their local Shrine Centers.
Our philanthropy is to raise funds to assist in the transportation and lodging of patients and their guardians while being treated at the 'Shrine Hospitals for Children' of North America. Especially the hospital in Mexico City, it is the largest hospital in the Shrine Hospital system and services all of Mexico and most of Central America. We also support our local Shrine Centers and the Supreme 'Q'.
Nahuatl
Nahuatl (meaning "clear language" from the derivative word nawatlatolli) is the ceremonial language of the Order of Quetzalcoatl. Although it is difficult to ascertain what language the Toltecs actually spoke, the Aztec/Mexicas who claim the Toltecs as their ancestors were speaking Nahuatl when the Spanish arrived in the early sixteenth century. Today, Nahuatl is still spoken by approximately 1.5 million people in Mexico, mostly in the central and southern areas of the country.
Pure classical Nahuatl is rarely heard because the Spanish,in trying to put spoken Nahuatl into a written format, used many of their own language phonetic sounds to approximate the clicks and guttural sounds which marked pure Nahuatl. Translating these Spanish-influenced sounds into the Spanish written language caused many variations from pure Nahuatl.