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Vague Calendar of the MayaThe Maya's solar calendar is called "vague" because it only

approximates the 365 day calendar. Each of its 18 months has 20 days.

The final or twentieth day of each month makes use of the Maya's

concept of zero: Instead of its being numbered "twenty," it is

described as the day of the seating of the following month. That is, it

is an empty or zero spot that is waiting for the new month.he months of this agricultural calendar are:

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While the Maya are known for their phenomenally accurate, complex,

calculations of the orbits of stars, planets and moon, and precise

reckoning of the solstices and eclipses, there is also an effective,

but much more ordinary, almost easy to understand calendar. It wasn't

too easy, though: Only shamans could calculate it. The Calendar Round"It was used to name individuals, predict the future, decide on

auspicious dates for battles, marriages, and so on. Each single day had

its omens and associations, and the inexorable march of the 20 days was

like a perpetual fortune-telling machine, guiding the destinies of the

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The ancient Maya and other Mesoamericans used a 52-year pattern, a calendar round, referred to as a bundle -- like our concept "century" -- composed of two cycles which fit together like cogwheels with unequal numbers of teeth. 260-day Count

The Maya (Mayan, by custom, refers only to language) divided their year

into four quadrants with 65 days in each. We are unsure where the

number 260 comes from, but it might relate to the period of human

gestation or the interval between the planet Venus' emergence as

eveningstar and morning star. Regardless of where it comes from, the

260-day cycle is the first in the Calendar Round. It is made by

intermeshing the number symbols (dots for units and bars for fives)

from 1-13 with the glyphs for twenty days named after deities who carry

time acros the sky. Since it still keeps track of time,

priests today continue to use this "Tzolkin" calendar (also known as

Sacred Calendar, the Earth Calendar, the Sacred Almanac, and the Count

of Days) for divination. Vague Year or Haab A second, solar calendar (named "vague" because it only approximates the 365+ day calendar) is composed of 18 months with 20 days in each. The 20th day makes use of the Maya's concept of zero since, instead of its being numbered 20, it is described as the day of the seating of the following month. Unlucky Uayeb

At the end of the 18 months, an unlucky five day period (Uayeb) is

intercalated. Days are named according to both of these calendars

(Tzolkin and Haab), so a day could be 1 Imix 1 Pop (1 Pop being the

Maya New Year), but it would take 52 Vague years (18,980 days) before 1

Imix would line up again with 1 Pop. One problem with this system

(called the Calendar Round) is that it only keeps track of events

during its 52-year cycle, and makes no provision for keeping track of

events in earlier or future cycles.

The Maya dreaded the five intercalated days (Uayeb) and the end of the

52-year period. Towards the end of the longer interval, they feared the

gods might be dissatisfied with mankind and bring about the end of the

world. Long Count CalendarBut all this pales by comparison with the end of the 5125-year Long Count Calendar cycle which will be here in 2012. An Introduction to the Maya CivilizationThe Maya Civilization—also called the Mayan civilization—is the

general name archaeologists have given to several independent, loosely

affiliated city states who shared a cultural heritage in terms of

language, customs, dress, artistic style and material culture. They

occupied the central American continent, including the southern parts

of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, an area of

about 150,000 square miles. In general, researchers tend to split the

Maya into the Highland and Lowland Maya. By the way, archaeologists prefer to use the term "Maya

civilization" rather than the more common "Mayan civilization", leaving

"Mayan" to refer to the language. Highland and Lowland Maya

The Maya civilization covered an enormous area with a large

variation of environments, economies, and growth of the civilization.

Scholars address some of the Maya cultural variation by studying

separate issues related to the climate and environment of the region.

The Maya Highlands are the southern part of the Maya civilization,

included the mountainous region in Mexico (particularly Chiapas state),

Guatemala and Honduras. The Maya Lowlands

make up the northern segment of the Maya region, including Mexico's

Yucatan peninsula, and adjacent parts of Guatemala and Belize. A

Pacific coastal piedmont range north of the Soconusco had fertile

soils, dense forests and mangrove swamps. The Maya civilization was certainly never an "empire", inasmuch

as one person never ruled the entire region. During the Classic period,

there were several strong kings at Tikal, Calakmul, Caracol and Dos Pilas, but none of them ever conquered the others. It's

probably best to think of the Maya as a collection of independent city

states, who shared some ritual and ceremonial practices, some

architecture, some cultural objects. The city states traded with one

another, and with the Olmec and Teotihuacan polities (at different

times), and they also warred with one another from time to time.

Maya CalendarSince it still keeps track of time, priests today continue to use this

"Tzolkin" calendar (also known as Sacred Calendar, the Earth Calendar,

the Sacred Almanac, and the Count of Days) for divination.

The 260-day count - tzolkin

1 Imix

 

2 Ik

 

3 Akbal

 

4 Kan

 

5 Chicchan

 

6 Cimi

 

7 Manik

 

8 Lamat

 

9 Muluc

 

10 Oc

 

11 Chuen

 

12 Eb

 

13 Ben

Ix

Men

Cib

Caban

Etz'nab

Cauac

Ahau

 

also described in terms of type of animal:

AlligatorDeathMonkeyOwl

WindDeerGrassQuake

HouseRabbitReedKnife

LizardWaterJaguarRain

SerpentDogEagleFlower

 

The first day on this calendar would be 1 Imix. The second would be 2

Ik, followed by 3 Akbal. The thirteenth would be 13 Ben which would be

followed by 1 Ix, 2 Men, 3 Cib, etc. A period of 260 days brought the

calendar back to 1 Imix.

In case this is hard to follow, think of our calendar, which has

names for the days of the week as well as numbers for the days of the

month. In October, there are 31 days, but only seven weekday names, so

Friday, the 13th (similar to 1 Imix in that it is two terms) is

followed by Saturday the 14th, Sunday the 15th ... and then, by the

time names for days of the week run out, we're back to Friday, but with

a new number; this time, Friday, the 20th. It will be many months

before we start again by reaching a new Friday the 13th.

introduction to the Mayan Calendar

 

 

And so we begin our journey. There is much to

discover and much to learn about the Sacred Calendar. By the end

of this chapter we will have covered a lot of ground, and I will

be sharing some advanced ideas. In an effort to make this accessible

to the beginner, we should try to get a firm understanding of the basic

mechanics of several different cycles and how they relate. And don't

worry, a lot of the basics covered here will be repeated when necessary

throughout this chapter. I'll try to keep this introduction short and

simple. The full meaning of these interlocking cycles will be explored

in later sections.

 

There are two types of Mayan time keeping: 1)

the Venus Round system, consisting of the tzolkin, haab and the

Venus cycle, and 2) the Long Count. Let's start where it all

begins, with the tzolkin.

 

Tzolkin, Haab, The Year-Bearers and Venus

 

The Sacred Calendar, the Earth Calendar, the

Sacred Almanac, the Count of Days, the Tzolkin - all of these terms

refer to the 260-day cycle. The term Sacred Calendar, however, is

often used to denote the multiple interrelated systems, ie., the

entire framework of cycles. 260 days is roughly nine moons. The

cycle consists of 20 day-signs combined with a number from one

to thirteen. Each day is named by its number and day-sign, thus

giving a total of 260 unique days. The day-signs are glyphs, and on

one level are used in divination. Their meanings cover important

themes in Indian culture and can be loosely translated as follows:

 

 

 

I.AlligatorDeathMonkeyOwl

II.WindDeerGrassQuake

III.HouseRabbitReedKnife

IV.LizardWaterJaguarRain

VSerpentDogEagleFlower

 

 

 

These day-signs also have linguistic,

astronomical and mythical references. The order of the day-signs

is universal throughout Meso-america, and there is evidence that the

260-day Sacred Almanac has been followed unbroken for some 3000

years; Wind follows Alligator, House follows Wind, and so on. The

13-day number cycle parallels the sequential passage of day-signs.

In other words, 1 Wind is followed by 2 House, followed by 3 Lizard,

etc. In this way, 7 Jaguar (for example) occurs 40 days after 6

Jaguar. Most likely, the count doesn't "begin" on any specific day,

although the conventional listing begins with Alligator.

The way in which the day-signs have meanings on

many different levels of Mayan culture is characteristic of Sacred

Calendar studies. It would be difficult, indeed inaccurate, to

promote just one origin or use for the day-signs; the Calendar has

what I call "multiple meanings." So why is the 260-day cycle so

important? First and foremost, it corresponds to the 9-month

gestation period of human beings, which has everything to do with

growth and unfolding. It also corresponds to the interval between

Venus emerging as eveningstar and its emergence as morningstar

(about 258 days), the interval between the planting and harvesting

of certain types of corn, and is related to planetary cycles. Here

we see biological, agricultural and astronomical references.

The Haab

 

The 260-day cycle does not directly

correspond with any known astronomical period, yet it serves as a

common denominator to synthesize the cycles of Sun, Mercury, Venus,

Moon, Earth and and Mars (as well as the other planets). In essence,

it is the key factor of all the planetary periods. Strange to think

that it corresponds to our own gestation period. The solar cycle,

which is really the 365 days or so that it takes for the earth

to travel around the sun, was conceived as a partner cycle to the

tzolkin. It was called the haab (cycle of rains) and consists of 18

months of twenty days, with a short month of 5 days at the end.

Haab dates are indicated by a month name and a day-number. (Unlike

the tzolkin dates, the months and numbers of the haab follow like

our own month and days - e.g. 2 Zec in the haab is followed by 3

Zec, 4 Zec, 5 Zec and so on.) In one sense, these two cycles

represent the secular and sacred interests of the culture. The haab

is the obvious yearly cycle, while the tzolkin structures a hidden

dimension, closer to the sacred spirit realms. Together, the

tzolkin/haab serves as a framework for predicting eclipses, timing

festivals, and for scheduling visits to shrine sites. The nineteen

month-names we will use in this book come from the Yucatec Maya

language:

 

 

 

KayabZecSac

CumhuXulCeh

PopYaxkinMac

UoMolKankin

ZipChenMuan

ZotzYaxPax

Vayeb (5 day month)

 

 

 

The Tikal haab began on 0 Pop and numbered

months from 0 to 19. The Quiche and Ixil haab begins on 1 Kayab

and numbered months from 1 to 20. We will explore this further in

the next section of this chapter.

The Year Bearers

 

This is where it starts getting a little

tricky, and we start to see the mythological uses of the Sacred

Calendar. The quality of a year is determined by the day-sign which

falls on New Years Day - which is the first day of the haab. This

special day is called the year-bearer, or, to the modern Ixil Maya,

the mam. The 365-day haab is an approximation of the year. It is

referred to as the vague solar year, or casually, as the year. Since

the twenty day-signs divide into the 365-day haab 18 times with 5

left over, the year-bearer advances by 5 day-signs every year.

Furthermore, five goes into 20 four times; thus there are four

possible year-bearers. They correspond to the four directions and

(for the Quiche Maya) the four sacred mountains. In this way, the

Calendar's "windows to the New Year" are anchored in the directional

pillars of the cosmos. The year-bearer system, then, is the 4-year

cycle of senior day-signs which consecutively fall on New Year's Day.

Because the year began on different days for different Mayan groups,

there are 5 possible year-bearer systems, and they are indicated by

Roman numerals in the day-sign chart given above. In practice, however,

only the Type II system seems to still be in use, among the Mayan

groups of Highland Guatemala.

 

Venus

 

Venus has a 584-day cycle. In other words, it

will rise as morningstar approximately every 584 days. This was an

important cycle to the Maya. The astrolo-mythic adventures of Sun and

Venus were no doubt tracked closely by the early Maya, and there is

some reason to suspect that the tzolkin arose, in part, to structure

the related cycles of the two prominent celestial lights (Sun and

Venus). This is because the relationship between the solar and

Venus cycles is quite simple: 5 Venus cycles equals 8 haab. The

influence of the third celestial factor, the Moon, was built into

the tzolkin cycle itself. The cyclic relationship between Sun and

Venus indicates that Venus traces a five-pointed star in the sky over

a period of eight years. And eight is the musical octave, the number

of harmony. More on this later.

Since the twenty day-signs divide into 584

twenty-nine times with 4 left over, the Venus cycle begins on one of

5 possible day-signs. As with the year-bearer system, the Venus

day-sign system repeats sequentially, over and over. The beginning of

the Venus cycle is considered to be the day on which it emerges as

morningstar, about 4 days after inferior conjunction with the sun.

The five day-signs which indicate when Venus will emerge as

morningstar serve as a prediction mechanism; the Mayan

priest-astronomers thus tracked, charted and predicted future

morningstar appearances. When the number-coefficients are

considered (which we have ignored for awhile), the calculations become

a bit more complex, and the cycles become larger.

The Calendar Round

 

The first large cycle we come to is called

the Calendar Round. This is when all the possible combinations of the

tzolkin and haab are exhausted and the same tzolkin day and haab day

come together. For example, let's presume that the year-bearer 1 Wind

initiates a New Year. Now, the year-bearer day-sign alone will

return to initiate a New Year in only 4 years time, but when we

consider the 13 number-coefficients, then (13 x 4) = 52 years (or haab)

must pass before 1 Wind returns to initiate the New Year. This

52-haab cycle is called the Calendar Round. It was widely used by

the Aztecs as well as the Maya, and is still vaguely remembered by

the Ixil Maya of Guatemala. The math of this is as follows:

 

260 x 73 = 365 x 52 = 18,980 days

 

This, again, is the shortest time in which the tzolkin and haab can synchronize. But where does Venus fit into the picture?

 

The Venus Round

 

The big cycle of tzolkin, haab and Venus is

completed when they synchronize on the senior emergence day-sign, the

Sacred Day of Venus: 1 Ahau. The nature of the tzolkin, haab, and

Venus cycles are such that they all synchronize every 104 haab,

which just happens to equal two Calendar Rounds. The math:

 

260 x 146 = 365 x 104 = 584 x 65 = 37,960 days

 

This is an amazing calendrical accomplishment.

In addition, the Maya mythologized this sacred link-up in the Popol

Vuh and the Dresden Codex. The five possible day-signs on which

Venus could emerge as morningstar are recorded in the Dresden Codex

as: Flower (Ahau), Lizard, Rabbit, Grass and Owl. Ahau was the senior

day-sign of the five, and 1 Ahau was the Sacred Day of Venus,

representing the big synch of tzolkin, haab and Venus.

Let's take a little side track here - I'll

present a puzzle which we will return to and solve later. Look at

the cover of this book. The four day-signs above the title are of the

Type II year-bearer system, the one allegedly used in the Dresden

Codex. They are, from left to right:

Wind, Deer, Grass, and Quake.

 

The five day-signs at the lower border (one is

in the middle of the rising sun), are the five predictive emergence

day-signs from the Dresden Codex:

Lizard, Rabbit, Grass, Owl, and Flower.

 

Now let's think about this. Obviously, if the

three cycles of tzolkin, haab and Venus are to synchronize, then at

least one of the 4 year-bearers must correspond with at least one of

the 5 beginning day-signs of the Venus cycle. The one that does,

which I have placed in the middle of the rising sun, with Venus

rising on the left and the Mars glyph on the right, is Grass, not

Flower! Is our reasoning faulty? What is the truth behind this? Could

it be that Calendar Round and Venus Round observances were not

synchronized? Even though one VR equals exactly 2 CR's, it seems as

though (from evidence in the Dresden Codex) that during the Late

Classic Period the Maya had not yet synchronized Venus emergences

with Calendar Round beginnings. This imperfect situation, to a people

who apparently strived to reveal a harmony of the heavens, must have

been intolerable. As we will see, perhaps the Venus system in the

Dresden Codex was not the most perfect, and perhaps the Maya

continued to perfect the system - during a period of Mayan history

lacking in substantial data. So the smaller cycles of this dating

system, the tzolkin, haab and Venus cycle, are encapsulated by the

Venus Round, a period of almost 104 years. Here's a brief summary:

 

Tzolkin: 260 days. 20 day-signs combined with 13 numbers.

Haab: 365 days. 18 months of 20 days each, + a 5-day month.

Venus Cycle: 584 days between each morningstar appearance.

Calendar Round: Synchronization of tzolkin and haab every 52 haab (18,980 days).

Venus Round: Equals 2 Calendar Rounds. Synchronization of tzolkin, haab, and the Venus cycle every 104 haab (37,960 days).

The Long Count and the Great Cycle

 

Another time-keeping system was used by the

Maya. It is known as the Long Count because it deals with larger

cycles of time. It is written using dots to indicate placement values

(for example: 8.15.6.0.4). The leftward placements are of higher

value. The Long Count dating method is based on a hierarchal day-count

based on twenty. The above date represents the passage of 8 baktuns,

15 katuns, 6 tuns, zero uinals, and 4 days since the zero date.

The placement of this zero date has been a tough question for

Mayanists, and we will discuss this in detail in the next section. The

hierarchy of days is as follows:

 

 

 

LONG COUNT PERIODSNUMBER OF DAYS

1 day = 1 day1

20 days = 1 uinal20

18 uinal = 1 tun360

20 tuns = 1 katun7200

20 katuns = 1 baktun144,000

13 baktuns = 1 Great Cycle1,872,000

 

 

 

In this way, 1 Baktun equals 144,000 days, 1

katun equals 7200 days, 1 tun equals 360 days, and a uinal equals

20 days. Also of importance, in that it reveals the relationship

between humans and the cosmos is the term for the twenty-day period:

the uinal. The similar term uinac means person!

 

The 5-decimal Long Count dating system is found

on hundreds of inscriptions from the archeological record.

Fortunately, they often occur alongside tzolkin/haab dates, which

has allowed archeologists to correlate the two systems (they are

consistently related). As can be seen, the Long Count generates a large

period of time known as the Great Cycle. This period of 13 Baktuns

is about 5125 years in length, and is due to end in 2012 A.D. The

end date in 2012 is designated in the Long Count as 13.0.0.0.0 - which

means that 13 baktuns, or some 1,872,000 days have passed since the

Great Cycle beginning date. Specifically, the Great Cycle began on

the tzolkin date 4 Ahau, and will also end on 4 Ahau. The Long Count

seems to be the more abstract dating method. Yet, we will see that

the cycles it generates are strangely connected to planetary

phenomena and ultimately to the processes of human unfolding.

 

The Long Count and tzolkin/haab/Venus system

are theoretically unrelated, yet 37 Venus cycles = 3 katuns. Here

are two more connections between the "long" and the "short" counts:

1) 72 haab = 73 tun; 2) 13 tun = 18 tzolkin. Is this fortuitous, or is

there a deeper, hidden pattern at work? Both the Long Count and

tzolkin/haab are used together in many of the archeological

inscriptions throughout Mesoamerica. With these connection

points, a complex interweaving between the two methods of Mayan

timekeeping could be demonstrated. For now, this will have to serve

as a basic introduction to the mechanics of the tzolkin, haab,

Venus, year-bearer, and Long Count systems. Grasping all these

different systems and how they relate to each other can initially

be confusing. But hang in there, and if necessary, refer to this

section or to the Glossary of Terms (Appendix I).

The Julian and Gregorian Calendars

 

I should explain these two calendar systems,

as both are used in this study. The calendar system known as the

Julian calendar was established by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C., which

was the year 709 of the Roman Empire. It made the year-count more

accurate by adding an extra day every fourth year, thus approximating

the solar year to 365.25 days. (By comparison, the Maya had already

come up with their year-drift formula which more accurately

calculated the solar year as 365.2422 days.) The extra day was

probably not officially used until 8 A.D., during the reign of

Augustus. The expansion of the Roman Empire in the subsequent

centuries made this calendar widely recognized. The system of

numbering years by A.D. designation (Anno Domini) was instituted in 525 A.D. by the Roman abbot Dionysius Exiguus.

Since the Julian calendar is still slightly

inaccurate, a discrepency built up over the centuries, causing

problems in determining the occurrence of Easter. By the 16th

Century, Easter was slipping towards summer. The problem was resolved

by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. The reform resynchronized the

time-count with respect to the equinoxes by skipping ten days; in

other words, October 4th of 1582 was followed by October 15th.

However, the sequential cycling of the day-names of the week could not

be broken. This is an interesting fact. Remember, our week days are

named after planet-gods and mythical heros: Sun, Moon, Thor,

Wotan, and Saturn among others. It suggests a European feeling,

similar to the Mayan need to track an unbroken count of days, that

the cycling of day-gods was not to be fooled with.

The rule for leap year was also changed. In the

new Gregorian calendar a year which is divisible by 4 is a leap-year

unless it is divisible by 100 but not by 400. Thus, 1700, 1800, 1900

and 2100 are not leap years.

 

It took a while for the new calendar to be

adopted in all of the European countries, although Italy, Spain,

Portugal and Poland began following it immediately. Britain and

British Colonies didn't follow suit until 1752. English writers of

the time often indicated which system they kept by noting O.S. (old

style) or N.S. (new style). Russia was the last to reform; after

the Bolshevik Revolution January 31, 1918 (O.S.) became February 14,

1919 (N.S.).

 

Although it may be assumed that dates before

1582 are going to be in the old Julian calendar, I prefer to clarify

the matter by indicating (J) or (G) whenever necessary.

The Use of Julian Day Numbers

 

Astronomers have standardized a conventional way

of denoting dates, to simplify long range calculations. By this method

days are identified in reference to an unbroken count begun on January

1st, -4712 (J). The Mayan zero date of the Great Cycle is therefore

referred to by its Julian Day number, 584283. This just means

that 584283 days have elapsed between 1.1.-4712 (J) and 8.11.-3113

(G). Another important point is that -4712 is written 4713 B.C. In

other words, astronomers recognize a 0 year for calculational

purposes, whereas historians do not; there was never a "zero"

year. Therefore, -3113 is the same as 3114 B.C.; a given negative

year number is always one less than its B.C. equivalent.

This should serve as a basic introduction to

the Sacred Calendar cycles. From here, we will delve right into some

of the perplexing problems of the Calendar. I have compromised

the accessibility of what follows by gearing it toward the academic

community. In many ways I feel there are some valuable contributions

here. Yet, in my own thinking, the most valuable work spills

over into the mystical or visionary approach, which will joyfully

receive full expression in Chapter Three. But first, I will be happy

to share the present state of my calendar studies.

 

 

Arectyng my syght towarde the zodyake,

The sygnes xii for to beholde a farre,

When Mars retrogradant reuersyd his bak,

Lord of the yere in his orbicular,

Put vp his sworde, for he cowde make no warre,

And whan Lucina plenarly did shyne,

Scorpione ascendynge degrees twyse nyne.

 

- John Skelton - 1495WHO WERE THE MAYA

Definition: The ancient Maya lived in the sub-tropical area of

Mesoamerica that is now Guatemala, the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico,

western Honduras, Belize, and El Salvador. They flourished in the

Classic period of Mesoamerican history when they were living in

city-states characterized by: strong kings, very impressive astronomical and mathematical calculations, including: an accurate CALENDER

a concept of zero (used as a place holder in their base 20 counting system, notably in the vague calender)tables of eclipses,certain religious practices, including Human sacrifices , monumental buildings, including pyramids, reservoirs and terracing for control of the water supply, Heiroglyphical writing, and continual warfare. The Maya are also credited with creating a Ball Game precursor of soccer. Most of the cities of the Maya were abandoned by the end of the ninth century.

Pronunciation: My-yuh http://www.2013.net/multidim/mayas/time/tattvan.txtTattva Viveka Questions, Valum Votan (Jose Arguelles) answers Tattva Viveka is the name of a German magazine which describesitself as a "Forum for Science, Philosophy and Spiritual Culture," and is apublication of the Institute for Research of Sanskrit Texts (INES). Theeditor, Ronald Engert, recently posed the following questions for aninterview to be published in a forthcoming issue of Tattva Viveka. Becausethe questions and their answers clarify many subtle points regarding themessage and knowledge brought to light by Valum Votan in the process ofunderstanding his mission, we present them in the hope of spreading furtherlight on a subject of profound value for the future of the human species.In this Interview, the questions are signified by TV = Tattva Viveka, andthe answers by VV = Valum Votan)1. TV: You have a lot of knowledge about the meaning of the MayanCalendar, which basically is very different from that of the scientificapproach. In this sense, your approach is far more inspired and deals withspiritual implications. From where do you get this knowledge? What areyour sources? With which traditional shamans or Indians have you hadcontact? VV: My knowledge is derived from study, contemplation, andrevelation. The source of this revelation is Pacal Votan, AD 603-683,whose tomb was dedicated AD 692, long count: 9.13.0.0.0. My journey beganin 1953, one year after the discovery of Pacal Votan's tomb on June 15(Planetary Mirror), 1952. From Tony Shearer, 1969-70, I received thetransmission of the prophecy of Quetzalcoatl, the Thirteen Heavens and NineHells (note: the numbers "nine" and "thirteen," the same as the tombdedication), which was to be concluded August 16-17, 1987. Because ofTony's knowledge, I concentrated my attention on the Tzolkin, and in 1976,I connected the Tzolkin with the Haab as a daily count, synchronized onJuly 26, and so I began living the Mayan calendar. In 1983, I received avision concerning the dates of the end of the Ninth Hell, August 16-17,1987; from this vision came the conception of the Harmonic ConvergenceGlobal Meditation which commemorated the conclusion of the prophecy ofQuetzalcoatl, and signaled the final count-down to Winter Solstice, AD 2012. Between 1987 and 1997 was the ten-year Quetzalcoatl Project, duringwhich time the knowledge of the mathematics of the calendar and theprophecy cycle of Pacal Votan became completely known to me. Themathematics of the Maya, I discovered, is actually the mathematics of thefourth dimension and sheds light on a crucial error in modern science: themathematics of space cannot be used to measure time; only the mathematicsof time can fulfill this goal. The method of telepathically coded messageswas a key factor in my unraveling of the mathematics which led to thedecisive discovery of the Law of Time. The Law Time defines the artificialtiming frequency as 12:60, (twelve-month calendar, 60-minute hour) and thenatural timing frequency as 13:20 (thirteen tones, 20 solar frequencies).>From the dedication of Pacal's tomb, AD 692, to its discovery, AD 1952, was1260 years; and to the end of the Baktun count, 2012, 1320 years later. The prophecy cycle of Pacal Votan includes: The Lost Book of theSeven Generations or The Telektonon of Pacal Votan; the Nine Hells-ThirteenHeavens of Quetzalcoatl, and the Prophecies of the Book of Chilam Balam.The Book of Seven Generations is the key which is found in the ChilamBalam, and particularly the prophecy of Antonio Martinez, AD 1692, 1000years after the dedication of Pacal Votan's tomb. Science and revelationsupport each other and my purpose has been to fulfill the question asked inthe Chilam Balam, "Who will be the prophet who will be the priest tointerpret truly the Word of the Book?" This question concludes the"Prophecy of the New Religion." The new religion is not Christianity, butthe religion of UR which comes at the end time after the fulfillment of allof the prophecies. Besides Tony Shearer, I have had contact with numerous shamans andelders of native American and Maya traditions, including Sun Bear, ThomasBanyaca of the Hopi, Eduardo Calderon of Peru, and the Cherokee, DhyaniYwahoo. The Mayan, Hunbatz Men, came to me in 1985, and through him, wewere able to open Palenque as a sacred site, March 12, 1989. I have workedwith Domingo Diaz Porta and others of the Great Brotherhood; and this SolarMoon (March 23-29, 1998), we shall attend the Maya Congress in Solola,Guatemala with Mayan elders Alejandro Cerilo Perez and others.2. TV: Do you think that this knowledge is still alive in the MayanCommunity, and how far does the Mayan tribe play a role in the futurechanges of mankind? Will the Indians play a role or is it mainly a concernof white people? VV: My approach is called New Dispensation Maya. It is dependenton prophetic and scientific revelation. New Dispensation supports and is acomplete vindication of all indigenous Maya, and indigenous peopleeverywhere. Insofar as it is based on the Tzolkin, we are the same systemas the indigenous Maya. While recognizing the indigenous Maya, and allexisting indigenous people as biospheric caretakers, New Dispensation Mayais universal and is for everyone on the planet today. Germans in Frankfurtare not going to live by the traditions of the indigenous Maya, but theycan learn to live as galactic Maya, which is the purpose of the NewDispensation and its tools: the Thirteen Moon Calendar, Dreamspell,Telektonon, the Rinri Project, First World Peace, and the 20 Tablets of theLaw of Time.3. TV: What do you think about intercultural exchange and merging ofdifferent traditions? Will this be necessary for the new paradigm? VV: The new paradigm is a return of humanity to living in thenatural 13:20 timing frequency. This is the time which all indigenouspeople and all life in the biosphere lives in unconsciously. Now we are atthe end of history and only by living according to the 13:20 "Mayan" cyclesof harmony with nature will the human race survive its mistake of living inthe artificial time. This is the purpose of the Calender Change, replacingthe Gregorian with the 13 Moon (Tun Uc) calendar, July 26, 1998. The NewDispensation-New Paradigm recognizes the existence of globalized humansliving in industrialized environments and indigenous humans, those who haveresisted to varying degrees the efforts to seduce them into globalization.The indigenous people are to be caretakers of the biosphere; the newsociety will turn the Earth into a biospheric park; the now-globalizedhumans will evolve indigenous values into new galactic cultural forms to beshared by all people as one, this is called UR, the universal religion onEarth.4., 5., and 6. TV: What connection does the Mayan Calendar haveto the Native American Medicine Wheels? What role do the Zero Chiefs playin your understanding of the Mayan culture? For instance is HyemyohstsStorm telling us a completely different history of the Maya in his latestbook, Lightningbolt, than the Western scholars tell us? Do you agree withStorm's description or do you have other/further information about thehistory of the Maya and which one? Lynn Andrews describes in her book DarkSister, a cave in Yucatan, prepared hundreds of years before the Maya,where very old scriptures are stored. The characters seemed to LynnAndrews to be Sanskrit. Do you have any information about scriptures likethese? VV: I am aware of the Medicine Wheel and in the mid-1980s Iparticipated in ceremonies at Ojai Foundation, California, with HarleySwiftdeer, but I am not a student of the Medicine Wheel, so I am notqualified to comment about it. The Mayan Calendar, however, can organizeMedicine Wheels. Hyemyohsts Storm is an interesting man and I met him oncein 1972. His idea of Zero Chiefs is a correct idea. Most Western scholarshave a wrong idea or interpretation of Maya and indigenous people becausethey have the mentality of the "conqueror's superiority." Zero is a veryprofound concept, and is at the basis of the Maya fourth-dimensionalcivilization. But, as I wrote in the Mayan Factor (1987), the Maya"Zero-Chiefs" are interdimensional and galactic in origin, who had aspecific mission to leave the Law of Time on Earth. My mission has been todecode this Law for all humans at this time, and so my work fulfills theLaw of Zero in equalizing time for all people. As for Lynn Andrews, sheis gifted with a talented imagination. But there are texts or scriptureslike these, sometimes found on stone and other surfaces. They are galacticnotations, telepathically transmitted and received.7. TV: In the Maya codex Tro-Cortesianus there is a picture, whichseems to show a very old Vedic (Sanskrit) story: the churning of themilkocean (galaxy). There is a turtle, a rope, blackish and white personspulling the rope, the same protagonists as in the Vedic story. (See:Giorgio de Santillana/Herta von Dechend; Hamlet's Mill, David Godine,Boston, Publisher, 1992, fig. 50.) Do you see any connection between theold Vedic culture in India and the Maya? VV: Yes, there is a connection between Old Vedic and Maya. Mayaare a tribe of (galactic) navigators in the Vedas, and this is the sourceof the knowledge of the Kalpas, etc. of the Vedic civilization andtransmitted into Buddhist and Hindu thought. The image described shows theprinciple of polarity operating the zuvuya (rope), or universal memorycircuit, which squeezes wisdom (Law of Time) out of the galactic"milkocean" turtle. The common root and interest in chronocosmology ofVedic and Maya is also seen in the cultivation of yoga (Sanskrit: divineunion) and yok-hah (Maya: higher truth).8. TV: In the Maya calendar the number 104 is very important. Whatharmonic and numerological implications does this number have? VV: 104 is the number of the Arcturus Cycle. 104 = 52 x 2, 26 x4, and as 13 x 8 refers to the Harmony (8) of the Power of Time (13). Thegrand cycle of four 26,000-year evolutionary seasons, forms the grandArcturus cycle of 104,000 years. 104 is also the number of years tocomplete 65 Venus cycles and 146 Tzolkins.9. TV: In what relation does the number 104 stand to the holy numberof India, 108? VV: 104 + 4 = 108 = 104, Arcturus Cycle, + 4, the power ofself-defining form; 108 = 12 x 9, or 27 x 4; 27 = 3 x 9 = the power of theBolontiku (Nine Lords of Time and Destiny) in the unconscious. So malasare made with 108 beads in both Buddhist and Hindu traditions signifyingthe holy cycle of mantric repetition meant to arouse sublime insight fromthe unconscious.10. TV: In the Vedic Tradition we find the yuga-cycles, which are partof the Vedic calendar system. They are based in the 144,000 which alsoplays a role in the Mayan Calendar. What connection do you see between thetwo calendars or time-systems? VV: The Maya galactic notation and mathematic system functions ontwo cycles: the absolute cycle, which is the binary system: 1, 20, 400,8000, 160000, 3200000, 64000000, etc, where you see the system creating,among others, the sequence of I Ching and DNA (64); and the other cyclewhich is the relative or Vinal code, where the cycle follows the sequence,1, 18, 360, 7200, 144,000, 2,880,000, 57,600,000, etc. This relative timecount is actually a base nine, where all of the numbers numerologically addup to 9-this is the power of the Bolontiku. The Mayan count is the mastersystem, since it is base 20, vigesimal and not base 10, decimal. The Hinducount is derived from the relative Maya time count, either archetypallyfrom "akashic records,"and/or from an actual extra-dimensional contactpoint prior to "history" (the Thirteen-Baktun Long Count, BC 3113-AD 2012).11. TV: Many cultures like the Vedic are based on 12 (9 x 12 =108).The 13 is unknown or at least not recognized. But the 13 seems to be avery important number, which transcends the circle of 12. On the otherhand in Western tradition the 13 values as the number which brings badluck. (The 13 was a holy number in witchcraft, European pagan culture, andmaybe therefore had been brought to miscredit by the Christians). Whatmeaning does the 13 have in the Mayan tradition and what are the harmonicnumerological and spiritual implications given to 13? VV: Twelve is the number of the Cube of the Law, from which thecircle of 360 degrees is formed. The circle divided by 12 creates thebasis for the Babylonian calendar; and divided by 18 creates the Haab. Butthirteen is the supreme number of time, hated by the Babylonian priests forbeing the measure of the female cycle (13 x 28 = 364), and hence the basisof the superstition about thirteen in the Western civilization. As ourmathematical investigations have demonstrated, 13 carries the power ofcirculation in time, while a calendar based on 12 (theGregorian-Babylonian) creates entropic stasis. Thirteen is the supremespiritual tonal number which gives the thirteen-day cycle (the Wavespell)the power to inform our everyday lives with an intrinsic harmonicspirituality.12. TV: Another discredited thing in the Western understanding is theserpent. In the Maya culture the serpent represents wisdom and so on. Canyou please summarize your understanding, what the serpent means in theMayan mythology? VV: The Serpent, Chan or Chicchan, represents the life force,which is the source of innate (DNA) wisdom. To deny this wisdom is to denyour life force. Nah Chan, "Place of the Serpent," is the traditional nameof Palenque, seat of Pacal Votan's prophetic cycle, indicating this site asa place of wisdom. When the serpent flies, this wisdom is liberated. Thisis the underlying meaning of Kukulkan or Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent,which is also connected with the release of Kundalini in Vedic yogatraditions. Hence, Quetzalcoatl represents the kundalini of propheticrealization.13. TV: What will happen in 2012 and what preliminary symptoms arevisible right now? Please give us a positive view on the future because ofnegative and apocalyptic visions we have had enough! VV: In 2012, the Earth will be in a condition of rapid,unprecedented evolution and change due to the enlightenment of the humanspecies for having returned to living according to the natural 13:20 cyclesof time. The Calendar Change of 1998 will be seen as the final turningpoint of Babylonian civilization. The oneness of humanity will be theresult of the universal telepathy reawakened by returning to the naturalcycles. Because of this fact, there will no longer be any need ofgovernment, and humanity will have abandoned industrial technology for thedevelopment of spiritual, telepathic fourth-dimensional technologies.Creature comfort needs will be supplied by applications of solar andtelepathic crystal technologies. The human race will be living andfulfilling UR, the Universal Religion on Earth. The order of reality willbe known as the Dominion of Time. Everyone will be getting ready for thegreat moment of galactic synchronization, July 26, 2013, Yellow GalacticSeed, the completion of the telepathic construction of Timeship Earth 2013and the advent of the Planetary Manitou, the galactic brain on Earth.14. TV: On what are you working at the moment? VV: With my wife, Lloydine, I am currently coordinating the WorldThirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement and the creation of the NewWorld Calendar Reform Pact. This peace pact is being drawn up between theVatican, the author of the Gregorian Calendar, and the Nations of theEarth. The New World Calendar Reform is to be implemented by the Councilfor the Theology of Peace, a planetary spiritual assembly of all religionsand spiritual traditions to coordinate with the United Nations for thedestructuring of globalized human society and its creative tranformationinto peace on Earth.Thank you for the opportunity of clarifying many fine points.

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>

> Maya Calendars Vague Calendar of the Maya

> The Maya's solar calendar is called " vague " because it only approximates

> the 365 day calendar. Each of its 18 months has 20 days. The final or

> twentieth day of each month makes use of the Maya's concept of zero:

> Instead of its being numbered " twenty, " it is described as the day of

> the seating of the following month. That is, it is an empty or zero spot

> that is waiting for the new month.he months of this agricultural

> calendar are:

> * Pop

> * Uo

> * Zip

> * Zotz

> * Tzec

> * Xul

> * Yaxkin

> * Mol

> * Chen

> * Yax

> * Zac

> * Ceh

> * Mac

> * Kankin

> * Muan

> * Pax

> * Kayab

> * Cumku

>

> [<www.civilization.ca/civil/maya/mminteng.html> 10/17/00 Mystery of the

> Maya] Achievements of the Maya

> While the Maya are known for their phenomenally accurate, complex,

> calculations of the orbits of stars, planets and moon, and precise

> reckoning of the solstices and eclipses, there is also an effective, but

> much more ordinary, almost easy to understand calendar. It wasn't too

> easy, though: Only shamans could calculate it.

> The Calendar Round " It was used to name individuals, predict the future,

> decide on auspicious dates for battles, marriages, and so on. Each

> single day had its omens and associations, and the inexorable march of

> the 20 days was like a perpetual fortune-telling machine, guiding the

> destinies of the Maya. "

> [<www.civilization.ca/civil/maya/mmc01eng.html> 10/17/00 Maya

> Civilization] Bundle The ancient Maya and other Mesoamericans used a

> 52-year pattern, a calendar round, referred to as a bundle -- like our

> concept " century " -- composed of two cycles which fit together like

> cogwheels with unequal numbers of teeth.

> 260-day Count

> The Maya (Mayan, by custom, refers only to language) divided their year

> into four quadrants with 65 days in each. We are unsure where the number

> 260 comes from, but it might relate to the period of human gestation or

> the interval between the planet Venus' emergence as eveningstar and

> morning star. Regardless of where it comes from, the 260-day cycle is

> the first in the Calendar Round. It is made by intermeshing the number

> symbols (dots for units and bars for fives) from 1-13 with the glyphs

> for twenty days named after deities who carry time acros the sky.

>

> Since it still keeps track of time, priests today continue to use this

> " Tzolkin " calendar (also known as Sacred Calendar, the Earth Calendar,

> the Sacred Almanac, and the Count of Days) for divination.

> Vague Year or Haab A second, solar calendar (named " vague " because it

> only approximates the 365+ day calendar) is composed of

> 18 months with

> 20 days in each.

> The 20th day makes use of the Maya's concept of

> zero since, instead of its being numbered 20, it is described as the day

> of the seating of the following month. Unlucky Uayeb At the end of the

> 18 months, an unlucky five day period (Uayeb) is intercalated. Days are

> named according to both of these calendars (Tzolkin and Haab), so a day

> could be 1 Imix 1 Pop (1 Pop being the Maya New Year), but it would take

> 52 Vague years (18,980 days) before 1 Imix would line up again with 1

> Pop. One problem with this system (called the Calendar Round) is that it

> only keeps track of events during its 52-year cycle, and makes no

> provision for keeping track of events in earlier or future cycles.

> The Maya dreaded the five intercalated days (Uayeb) and the end of the

> 52-year period. Towards the end of the longer interval, they feared the

> gods might be dissatisfied with mankind and bring about the end of the

> world.

>

> Long Count Calendar

> But all this pales by comparison with the end of the 5125-year Long

> Count Calendar cycle which will be here in 2012.

>

> An Introduction to the Maya Civilization

> The Maya Civilization—also called the Mayan civilization—is the

> general name archaeologists have given to several independent, loosely

> affiliated city states who shared a cultural heritage in terms of

> language, customs, dress, artistic style and material culture. They

> occupied the central American continent, including the southern parts of

> Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, an area of about

> 150,000 square miles. In general, researchers tend to split the Maya

> into the Highland and Lowland Maya.

>

> By the way, archaeologists prefer to use the term " Maya civilization "

> rather than the more common " Mayan civilization " , leaving " Mayan " to

> refer to the language.

> Highland and Lowland Maya

> The Maya civilization covered an enormous area with a large variation of

> environments, economies, and growth of the civilization. Scholars

> address some of the Maya cultural variation by studying separate issues

> related to the climate and environment of the region. The Maya Highlands

> are the southern part of the Maya civilization, included the mountainous

> region in Mexico (particularly Chiapas state), Guatemala and Honduras.

>

> The Maya Lowlands make up the northern segment of the Maya region,

> including Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, and adjacent parts of Guatemala

> and Belize. A Pacific coastal piedmont range north of the Soconusco had

> fertile soils, dense forests and mangrove swamps.

>

>

>

>

> The Maya civilization was certainly never an " empire " , inasmuch as one

> person never ruled the entire region. During the Classic period, there

> were several strong kings at Tikal, Calakmul, Caracol and Dos Pilas, but

> none of them ever conquered the others. It's probably best to think of

> the Maya as a collection of independent city states, who shared some

> ritual and ceremonial practices, some architecture, some cultural

> objects. The city states traded with one another, and with the Olmec and

> Teotihuacan polities (at different times), and they also warred with one

> another from time to time.

>

> Maya CalendarSince it still keeps track of time, priests today continue

> to use this " Tzolkin " calendar (also known as Sacred Calendar, the Earth

> Calendar, the Sacred Almanac, and the Count of Days) for divination.

>

>

>

> The 260-day count - tzolkin 1 Imix 2 Ik 3 Akbal 4 Kan 5 Chicchan

> 6 Cimi 7 Manik 8 Lamat 9 Muluc 10 Oc 11 Chuen 12 Eb 13 Ben Ix

> Men Cib Caban Etz'nab Cauac Ahau also described in terms of type

> of animal: Alligator

> Death

> Monkey

> Owl

> Wind

> Deer

> Grass

> Quake

> House

> Rabbit

> Reed

> Knife

> Lizard

> Water

> Jaguar

> Rain

> Serpent

> Dog

> Eagle

> Flower

>

> The first day on this calendar would be 1 Imix. The second would be 2

> Ik, followed by 3 Akbal. The thirteenth would be 13 Ben which would be

> followed by 1 Ix, 2 Men, 3 Cib, etc. A period of 260 days brought the

> calendar back to 1 Imix.

>

> In case this is hard to follow, think of our calendar, which has names

> for the days of the week as well as numbers for the days of the month.

> In October, there are 31 days, but only seven weekday names, so Friday,

> the 13th (similar to 1 Imix in that it is two terms) is followed by

> Saturday the 14th, Sunday the 15th ... and then, by the time names for

> days of the week run out, we're back to Friday, but with a new number;

> this time, Friday, the 20th. It will be many months before we start

> again by reaching a new Friday the 13th.

>

>

>

> introduction to the Mayan Calendar

> And so we begin our journey. There is much to discover and much to

> learn about the Sacred Calendar. By the end of this chapter we

> will have covered a lot of ground, and I will be sharing some

> advanced ideas. In an effort to make this accessible to the beginner, we

> should try to get a firm understanding of the basic mechanics of several

> different cycles and how they relate. And don't worry, a lot of the

> basics covered here will be repeated when necessary throughout this

> chapter. I'll try to keep this introduction short and simple. The full

> meaning of these interlocking cycles will be explored in later

> sections.

>

> There are two types of Mayan time keeping: 1) the Venus Round

> system, consisting of the tzolkin, haab and the Venus cycle, and

> 2) the Long Count. Let's start where it all begins, with the tzolkin.

>

>

> Tzolkin, Haab, The Year-Bearers and Venus

> The Sacred Calendar, the Earth Calendar, the Sacred Almanac, the Count

> of Days, the Tzolkin - all of these terms refer to the 260-day cycle.

> The term Sacred Calendar, however, is often used to denote the

> multiple interrelated systems, ie., the entire framework of cycles.

> 260 days is roughly nine moons. The cycle consists of 20 day-signs

> combined with a number from one to thirteen. Each day is named by

> its number and day-sign, thus giving a total of 260 unique days. The

> day-signs are glyphs, and on one level are used in divination. Their

> meanings cover important themes in Indian culture and can be loosely

> translated as follows:

>

>

> I.AlligatorDeathMonkeyOwl II.WindDeerGrassQuake III.HouseRabbitReedKnife

> IV.LizardWaterJaguarRain VSerpentDogEagleFlower

> These day-signs also have linguistic, astronomical and mythical

> references. The order of the day-signs is universal throughout

> Meso-america, and there is evidence that the 260-day Sacred Almanac

> has been followed unbroken for some 3000 years; Wind follows

> Alligator, House follows Wind, and so on. The 13-day number cycle

> parallels the sequential passage of day-signs. In other words, 1 Wind

> is followed by 2 House, followed by 3 Lizard, etc. In this way, 7

> Jaguar (for example) occurs 40 days after 6 Jaguar. Most likely, the

> count doesn't " begin " on any specific day, although the conventional

> listing begins with Alligator.

>

> The way in which the day-signs have meanings on many different levels of

> Mayan culture is characteristic of Sacred Calendar studies. It would

> be difficult, indeed inaccurate, to promote just one origin or use for

> the day-signs; the Calendar has what I call " multiple meanings. " So why

> is the 260-day cycle so important? First and foremost, it corresponds

> to the 9-month gestation period of human beings, which has everything

> to do with growth and unfolding. It also corresponds to the interval

> between Venus emerging as eveningstar and its emergence as morningstar

> (about 258 days), the interval between the planting and harvesting of

> certain types of corn, and is related to planetary cycles. Here we see

> biological, agricultural and astronomical references.

>

>

> The Haab

> The 260-day cycle does not directly correspond with any known

> astronomical period, yet it serves as a common denominator to

> synthesize the cycles of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Moon, Earth and and Mars

> (as well as the other planets). In essence, it is the key factor of

> all the planetary periods. Strange to think that it corresponds to our

> own gestation period. The solar cycle, which is really the 365 days

> or so that it takes for the earth to travel around the sun, was

> conceived as a partner cycle to the tzolkin. It was called the haab

> (cycle of rains) and consists of 18 months of twenty days, with a

> short month of 5 days at the end. Haab dates are indicated by a month

> name and a day-number. (Unlike the tzolkin dates, the months and

> numbers of the haab follow like our own month and days - e.g. 2 Zec

> in the haab is followed by 3 Zec, 4 Zec, 5 Zec and so on.) In one

> sense, these two cycles represent the secular and sacred interests

> of the culture. The haab is the obvious yearly cycle, while the

> tzolkin structures a hidden dimension, closer to the sacred

> spirit realms. Together, the tzolkin/haab serves as a framework for

> predicting eclipses, timing festivals, and for scheduling visits to

> shrine sites. The nineteen month-names we will use in this book come

> from the Yucatec Maya language:

>

>

> KayabZecSac CumhuXulCeh PopYaxkinMac UoMolKankin ZipChenMuan ZotzYaxPax

> Vayeb (5 day month)

> The Tikal haab began on 0 Pop and numbered months from 0 to 19. The

> Quiche and Ixil haab begins on 1 Kayab and numbered months from 1

> to 20. We will explore this further in the next section of this

> chapter.

>

>

> The Year Bearers

> This is where it starts getting a little tricky, and we start to

> see the mythological uses of the Sacred Calendar. The quality of a

> year is determined by the day-sign which falls on New Years Day -

> which is the first day of the haab. This special day is called the

> year-bearer, or, to the modern Ixil Maya, the mam. The 365-day haab

> is an approximation of the year. It is referred to as the vague

> solar year, or casually, as the year. Since the twenty day-signs

> divide into the 365-day haab 18 times with 5 left over, the

> year-bearer advances by 5 day-signs every year. Furthermore, five goes

> into 20 four times; thus there are four possible year-bearers. They

> correspond to the four directions and (for the Quiche Maya) the four

> sacred mountains. In this way, the Calendar's " windows to the New

> Year " are anchored in the directional pillars of the cosmos. The

> year-bearer system, then, is the 4-year cycle of senior day-signs which

> consecutively fall on New Year's Day. Because the year began on

> different days for different Mayan groups, there are 5 possible

> year-bearer systems, and they are indicated by Roman numerals in the

> day-sign chart given above. In practice, however, only the Type II

> system seems to still be in use, among the Mayan groups of Highland

> Guatemala.

>

>

> Venus

> Venus has a 584-day cycle. In other words, it will rise as morningstar

> approximately every 584 days. This was an important cycle to the Maya.

> The astrolo-mythic adventures of Sun and Venus were no doubt tracked

> closely by the early Maya, and there is some reason to suspect that

> the tzolkin arose, in part, to structure the related cycles of the two

> prominent celestial lights (Sun and Venus). This is because the

> relationship between the solar and Venus cycles is quite simple: 5

> Venus cycles equals 8 haab. The influence of the third celestial

> factor, the Moon, was built into the tzolkin cycle itself. The

> cyclic relationship between Sun and Venus indicates that Venus traces a

> five-pointed star in the sky over a period of eight years. And eight

> is the musical octave, the number of harmony. More on this later.

>

> Since the twenty day-signs divide into 584 twenty-nine times with 4

> left over, the Venus cycle begins on one of 5 possible day-signs. As

> with the year-bearer system, the Venus day-sign system repeats

> sequentially, over and over. The beginning of the Venus cycle is

> considered to be the day on which it emerges as morningstar, about 4

> days after inferior conjunction with the sun. The five day-signs which

> indicate when Venus will emerge as morningstar serve as a prediction

> mechanism; the Mayan priest-astronomers thus tracked, charted and

> predicted future morningstar appearances. When the

> number-coefficients are considered (which we have ignored for awhile),

> the calculations become a bit more complex, and the cycles become

> larger.

>

>

> The Calendar Round

> The first large cycle we come to is called the Calendar Round. This

> is when all the possible combinations of the tzolkin and haab are

> exhausted and the same tzolkin day and haab day come together. For

> example, let's presume that the year-bearer 1 Wind initiates a New

> Year. Now, the year-bearer day-sign alone will return to initiate a

> New Year in only 4 years time, but when we consider the 13

> number-coefficients, then (13 x 4) = 52 years (or haab) must pass

> before 1 Wind returns to initiate the New Year. This 52-haab cycle is

> called the Calendar Round. It was widely used by the Aztecs as well

> as the Maya, and is still vaguely remembered by the Ixil Maya of

> Guatemala. The math of this is as follows:

>

>

> 260 x 73 = 365 x 52 = 18,980 days

> This, again, is the shortest time in which the tzolkin and haab can

> synchronize. But where does Venus fit into the picture?

>

>

> The Venus Round

> The big cycle of tzolkin, haab and Venus is completed when they

> synchronize on the senior emergence day-sign, the Sacred Day of Venus:

> 1 Ahau. The nature of the tzolkin, haab, and Venus cycles are such

> that they all synchronize every 104 haab, which just happens to equal

> two Calendar Rounds. The math:

>

>

> 260 x 146 = 365 x 104 = 584 x 65 = 37,960 days

> This is an amazing calendrical accomplishment. In addition, the Maya

> mythologized this sacred link-up in the Popol Vuh and the Dresden

> Codex. The five possible day-signs on which Venus could emerge as

> morningstar are recorded in the Dresden Codex as: Flower (Ahau), Lizard,

> Rabbit, Grass and Owl. Ahau was the senior day-sign of the five, and 1

> Ahau was the Sacred Day of Venus, representing the big synch of

> tzolkin, haab and Venus.

>

> Let's take a little side track here - I'll present a puzzle which we

> will return to and solve later. Look at the cover of this book. The

> four day-signs above the title are of the Type II year-bearer system,

> the one allegedly used in the Dresden Codex. They are, from left to

> right:

>

>

> Wind, Deer, Grass, and Quake.

> The five day-signs at the lower border (one is in the middle of the

> rising sun), are the five predictive emergence day-signs from the

> Dresden Codex:

>

>

> Lizard, Rabbit, Grass, Owl, and Flower.

> Now let's think about this. Obviously, if the three cycles of

> tzolkin, haab and Venus are to synchronize, then at least one of the 4

> year-bearers must correspond with at least one of the 5 beginning

> day-signs of the Venus cycle. The one that does, which I have placed in

> the middle of the rising sun, with Venus rising on the left and the

> Mars glyph on the right, is Grass, not Flower! Is our reasoning faulty?

> What is the truth behind this? Could it be that Calendar Round and

> Venus Round observances were not synchronized? Even though one VR

> equals exactly 2 CR's, it seems as though (from evidence in the

> Dresden Codex) that during the Late Classic Period the Maya had not

> yet synchronized Venus emergences with Calendar Round beginnings. This

> imperfect situation, to a people who apparently strived to reveal a

> harmony of the heavens, must have been intolerable. As we will see,

> perhaps the Venus system in the Dresden Codex was not the most

> perfect, and perhaps the Maya continued to perfect the system - during

> a period of Mayan history lacking in substantial data. So the

> smaller cycles of this dating system, the tzolkin, haab and Venus cycle,

> are encapsulated by the Venus Round, a period of almost 104 years.

> Here's a brief summary:

>

> Tzolkin: 260 days. 20 day-signs combined with 13 numbers.

> Haab: 365 days. 18 months of 20 days each, + a 5-day month.

> Venus Cycle: 584 days between each morningstar appearance.

> Calendar Round: Synchronization of tzolkin and haab every 52 haab

> (18,980 days).

> Venus Round: Equals 2 Calendar Rounds. Synchronization of tzolkin,

> haab, and the Venus cycle every 104 haab (37,960 days).

>

>

>

> The Long Count and the Great Cycle

> Another time-keeping system was used by the Maya. It is known as

> the Long Count because it deals with larger cycles of time. It is

> written using dots to indicate placement values (for example:

> 8.15.6.0.4). The leftward placements are of higher value. The Long

> Count dating method is based on a hierarchal day-count based on twenty.

> The above date represents the passage of 8 baktuns, 15 katuns, 6 tuns,

> zero uinals, and 4 days since the zero date. The placement of this

> zero date has been a tough question for Mayanists, and we will

> discuss this in detail in the next section. The hierarchy of days is as

> follows:

>

>

> LONG COUNT PERIODSNUMBER OF DAYS 1 day = 1 day1 20 days = 1 uinal20 18

> uinal = 1 tun360 20 tuns = 1 katun7200 20 katuns = 1 baktun144,000 13

> baktuns = 1 Great Cycle1,872,000

> In this way, 1 Baktun equals 144,000 days, 1 katun equals 7200 days,

> 1 tun equals 360 days, and a uinal equals 20 days. Also of

> importance, in that it reveals the relationship between humans and the

> cosmos is the term for the twenty-day period: the uinal. The similar

> term uinac means person!

>

> The 5-decimal Long Count dating system is found on hundreds of

> inscriptions from the archeological record. Fortunately, they often

> occur alongside tzolkin/haab dates, which has allowed archeologists

> to correlate the two systems (they are consistently related). As can be

> seen, the Long Count generates a large period of time known as the

> Great Cycle. This period of 13 Baktuns is about 5125 years in length,

> and is due to end in 2012 A.D. The end date in 2012 is designated in

> the Long Count as 13.0.0.0.0 - which means that 13 baktuns, or some

> 1,872,000 days have passed since the Great Cycle beginning date.

> Specifically, the Great Cycle began on the tzolkin date 4 Ahau, and

> will also end on 4 Ahau. The Long Count seems to be the more abstract

> dating method. Yet, we will see that the cycles it generates are

> strangely connected to planetary phenomena and ultimately to the

> processes of human unfolding.

>

> The Long Count and tzolkin/haab/Venus system are theoretically

> unrelated, yet 37 Venus cycles = 3 katuns. Here are two more

> connections between the " long " and the " short " counts: 1) 72 haab = 73

> tun; 2) 13 tun = 18 tzolkin. Is this fortuitous, or is there a deeper,

> hidden pattern at work? Both the Long Count and tzolkin/haab are used

> together in many of the archeological inscriptions throughout

> Mesoamerica. With these connection points, a complex interweaving

> between the two methods of Mayan timekeeping could be demonstrated.

> For now, this will have to serve as a basic introduction to the

> mechanics of the tzolkin, haab, Venus, year-bearer, and Long Count

> systems. Grasping all these different systems and how they relate to

> each other can initially be confusing. But hang in there, and if

> necessary, refer to this section or to the Glossary of Terms (Appendix

> I).

>

>

> The Julian and Gregorian Calendars

> I should explain these two calendar systems, as both are used in

> this study. The calendar system known as the Julian calendar was

> established by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C., which was the year 709 of

> the Roman Empire. It made the year-count more accurate by adding an

> extra day every fourth year, thus approximating the solar year to

> 365.25 days. (By comparison, the Maya had already come up with their

> year-drift formula which more accurately calculated the solar year as

> 365.2422 days.) The extra day was probably not officially used until 8

> A.D., during the reign of Augustus. The expansion of the Roman

> Empire in the subsequent centuries made this calendar widely

> recognized. The system of numbering years by A.D. designation (Anno

> Domini) was instituted in 525 A.D. by the Roman abbot Dionysius

> Exiguus.

>

> Since the Julian calendar is still slightly inaccurate, a discrepency

> built up over the centuries, causing problems in determining the

> occurrence of Easter. By the 16th Century, Easter was slipping towards

> summer. The problem was resolved by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. The

> reform resynchronized the time-count with respect to the equinoxes

> by skipping ten days; in other words, October 4th of 1582 was

> followed by October 15th. However, the sequential cycling of the

> day-names of the week could not be broken. This is an interesting fact.

> Remember, our week days are named after planet-gods and mythical

> heros: Sun, Moon, Thor, Wotan, and Saturn among others. It suggests

> a European feeling, similar to the Mayan need to track an unbroken

> count of days, that the cycling of day-gods was not to be fooled with.

>

> The rule for leap year was also changed. In the new Gregorian calendar

> a year which is divisible by 4 is a leap-year unless it is divisible by

> 100 but not by 400. Thus, 1700, 1800, 1900 and 2100 are not leap years.

>

> It took a while for the new calendar to be adopted in all of the

> European countries, although Italy, Spain, Portugal and Poland

> began following it immediately. Britain and British Colonies didn't

> follow suit until 1752. English writers of the time often indicated

> which system they kept by noting O.S. (old style) or N.S. (new style).

> Russia was the last to reform; after the Bolshevik Revolution January

> 31, 1918 (O.S.) became February 14, 1919 (N.S.).

>

> Although it may be assumed that dates before 1582 are going to be in

> the old Julian calendar, I prefer to clarify the matter by indicating

> (J) or (G) whenever necessary.

>

>

> The Use of Julian Day Numbers

> Astronomers have standardized a conventional way of denoting dates, to

> simplify long range calculations. By this method days are identified in

> reference to an unbroken count begun on January 1st, -4712 (J). The

> Mayan zero date of the Great Cycle is therefore referred to by its

> Julian Day number, 584283. This just means that 584283 days have

> elapsed between 1.1.-4712 (J) and 8.11.-3113 (G). Another important

> point is that -4712 is written 4713 B.C. In other words, astronomers

> recognize a 0 year for calculational purposes, whereas historians

> do not; there was never a " zero " year. Therefore, -3113 is the same

> as 3114 B.C.; a given negative year number is always one less than

> its B.C. equivalent.

>

> This should serve as a basic introduction to the Sacred Calendar

> cycles. From here, we will delve right into some of the perplexing

> problems of the Calendar. I have compromised the accessibility of

> what follows by gearing it toward the academic community. In many ways

> I feel there are some valuable contributions here. Yet, in my own

> thinking, the most valuable work spills over into the mystical or

> visionary approach, which will joyfully receive full expression in

> Chapter Three. But first, I will be happy to share the present state of

> my calendar studies.

>

>

> Arectyng my syght towarde the zodyake,

> The sygnes xii for to beholde a farre,

> When Mars retrogradant reuersyd his bak,

> Lord of the yere in his orbicular,

> Put vp his sworde, for he cowde make no warre,

> And whan Lucina plenarly did shyne,

> Scorpione ascendynge degrees twyse nyne.

>

> - John Skelton - 1495

>

>

>

>

> WHO WERE THE MAYA

>

> Definition: The ancient Maya lived in the sub-tropical area of

> Mesoamerica that is now Guatemala, the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico,

> western Honduras, Belize, and El Salvador. They flourished in the

> Classic period of Mesoamerican history when they were living in

> city-states characterized by:

> * strong kings,

> * very impressive astronomical and mathematical calculations,

> including:

> * an accurate CALENDER

> * a concept of zero (used as a place holder in their base 20 counting

> system, notably in the vague calender)

> * tables of eclipses,

> * certain religious practices, including Human sacrifices ,

> * monumental buildings, including pyramids,

> * reservoirs and terracing for control of the water supply,

> * Heiroglyphical writing, and

> * continual warfare.

> The Maya are also credited with creating a Ball Game precursor of

> soccer.

> Most of the cities of the Maya were abandoned by the end of the ninth

> century.

>

> <http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/mesoamerica/p/010909maya.htm>

> Pronunciation: My-yuh

>

> http://www.2013.net/multidim/mayas/time/tattvan.txt

> Tattva Viveka Questions, Valum Votan (Jose Arguelles) answers

>

> Tattva Viveka is the name of a German magazine which describes

> itself as a " Forum for Science, Philosophy and Spiritual Culture, " and

> is a

> publication of the Institute for Research of Sanskrit Texts (INES). The

> editor, Ronald Engert, recently posed the following questions for an

> interview to be published in a forthcoming issue of Tattva Viveka.

> Because

> the questions and their answers clarify many subtle points regarding the

> message and knowledge brought to light by Valum Votan in the process of

> understanding his mission, we present them in the hope of spreading

> further

> light on a subject of profound value for the future of the human

> species.

>

>

> In this Interview, the questions are signified by TV = Tattva Viveka,

> and

> the answers by VV = Valum Votan)

>

> 1. TV: You have a lot of knowledge about the meaning of the Mayan

> Calendar, which basically is very different from that of the scientific

> approach. In this sense, your approach is far more inspired and deals

> with

> spiritual implications. From where do you get this knowledge? What are

> your sources? With which traditional shamans or Indians have you had

> contact?

>

> VV: My knowledge is derived from study, contemplation, and

> revelation. The source of this revelation is Pacal Votan, AD 603-683,

> whose tomb was dedicated AD 692, long count: 9.13.0.0.0. My journey

> began

> in 1953, one year after the discovery of Pacal Votan's tomb on June 15

> (Planetary Mirror), 1952. From Tony Shearer, 1969-70, I received the

> transmission of the prophecy of Quetzalcoatl, the Thirteen Heavens and

> Nine

> Hells (note: the numbers " nine " and " thirteen, " the same as the tomb

> dedication), which was to be concluded August 16-17, 1987. Because of

> Tony's knowledge, I concentrated my attention on the Tzolkin, and in

> 1976,

> I connected the Tzolkin with the Haab as a daily count, synchronized on

> July 26, and so I began living the Mayan calendar. In 1983, I received

> a

> vision concerning the dates of the end of the Ninth Hell, August 16-17,

> 1987; from this vision came the conception of the Harmonic Convergence

> Global Meditation which commemorated the conclusion of the prophecy of

> Quetzalcoatl, and signaled the final count-down to Winter Solstice, AD

> 2012.

>

> Between 1987 and 1997 was the ten-year Quetzalcoatl Project, during

> which time the knowledge of the mathematics of the calendar and the

> prophecy cycle of Pacal Votan became completely known to me. The

> mathematics of the Maya, I discovered, is actually the mathematics of

> the

> fourth dimension and sheds light on a crucial error in modern science:

> the

> mathematics of space cannot be used to measure time; only the

> mathematics

> of time can fulfill this goal. The method of telepathically coded

> messages

> was a key factor in my unraveling of the mathematics which led to the

> decisive discovery of the Law of Time. The Law Time defines the

> artificial

> timing frequency as 12:60, (twelve-month calendar, 60-minute hour) and

> the

> natural timing frequency as 13:20 (thirteen tones, 20 solar

> frequencies).

> >From the dedication of Pacal's tomb, AD 692, to its discovery, AD 1952,

> was

> 1260 years; and to the end of the Baktun count, 2012, 1320 years later.

>

> The prophecy cycle of Pacal Votan includes: The Lost Book of the

> Seven Generations or The Telektonon of Pacal Votan; the Nine

> Hells-Thirteen

> Heavens of Quetzalcoatl, and the Prophecies of the Book of Chilam Balam.

> The Book of Seven Generations is the key which is found in the Chilam

> Balam, and particularly the prophecy of Antonio Martinez, AD 1692, 1000

> years after the dedication of Pacal Votan's tomb. Science and

> revelation

> support each other and my purpose has been to fulfill the question asked

> in

> the Chilam Balam, " Who will be the prophet who will be the priest to

> interpret truly the Word of the Book? " This question concludes the

> " Prophecy of the New Religion. " The new religion is not Christianity,

> but

> the religion of UR which comes at the end time after the fulfillment of

> all

> of the prophecies.

>

> Besides Tony Shearer, I have had contact with numerous shamans and

> elders of native American and Maya traditions, including Sun Bear,

> Thomas

> Banyaca of the Hopi, Eduardo Calderon of Peru, and the Cherokee, Dhyani

> Ywahoo. The Mayan, Hunbatz Men, came to me in 1985, and through him, we

> were able to open Palenque as a sacred site, March 12, 1989. I have

> worked

> with Domingo Diaz Porta and others of the Great Brotherhood; and this

> Solar

> Moon (March 23-29, 1998), we shall attend the Maya Congress in Solola,

> Guatemala with Mayan elders Alejandro Cerilo Perez and others.

>

> 2. TV: Do you think that this knowledge is still alive in the

> Mayan

> Community, and how far does the Mayan tribe play a role in the future

> changes of mankind? Will the Indians play a role or is it mainly a

> concern

> of white people?

>

> VV: My approach is called New Dispensation Maya. It is dependent

> on prophetic and scientific revelation. New Dispensation supports and

> is a

> complete vindication of all indigenous Maya, and indigenous people

> everywhere. Insofar as it is based on the Tzolkin, we are the same

> system

> as the indigenous Maya. While recognizing the indigenous Maya, and all

> existing indigenous people as biospheric caretakers, New Dispensation

> Maya

> is universal and is for everyone on the planet today. Germans in

> Frankfurt

> are not going to live by the traditions of the indigenous Maya, but they

> can learn to live as galactic Maya, which is the purpose of the New

> Dispensation and its tools: the Thirteen Moon Calendar, Dreamspell,

> Telektonon, the Rinri Project, First World Peace, and the 20 Tablets of

> the

> Law of Time.

>

> 3. TV: What do you think about intercultural exchange and merging

> of

> different traditions? Will this be necessary for the new paradigm?

>

> VV: The new paradigm is a return of humanity to living in the

> natural 13:20 timing frequency. This is the time which all indigenous

> people and all life in the biosphere lives in unconsciously. Now we are

> at

> the end of history and only by living according to the 13:20 " Mayan "

> cycles

> of harmony with nature will the human race survive its mistake of living

> in

> the artificial time. This is the purpose of the Calender Change,

> replacing

> the Gregorian with the 13 Moon (Tun Uc) calendar, July 26, 1998. The

> New

> Dispensation-New Paradigm recognizes the existence of globalized humans

> living in industrialized environments and indigenous humans, those who

> have

> resisted to varying degrees the efforts to seduce them into

> globalization.

> The indigenous people are to be caretakers of the biosphere; the new

> society will turn the Earth into a biospheric park; the now-globalized

> humans will evolve indigenous values into new galactic cultural forms to

> be

> shared by all people as one, this is called UR, the universal religion

> on

> Earth.

>

> 4., 5., and 6. TV: What connection does the Mayan Calendar

> have

> to the Native American Medicine Wheels? What role do the Zero Chiefs

> play

> in your understanding of the Mayan culture? For instance is Hyemyohsts

> Storm telling us a completely different history of the Maya in his

> latest

> book, Lightningbolt, than the Western scholars tell us? Do you agree

> with

> Storm's description or do you have other/further information about the

> history of the Maya and which one? Lynn Andrews describes in her book

> Dark

> Sister, a cave in Yucatan, prepared hundreds of years before the Maya,

> where very old scriptures are stored. The characters seemed to Lynn

> Andrews to be Sanskrit. Do you have any information about scriptures

> like

> these?

>

> VV: I am aware of the Medicine Wheel and in the mid-1980s I

> participated in ceremonies at Ojai Foundation, California, with Harley

> Swiftdeer, but I am not a student of the Medicine Wheel, so I am not

> qualified to comment about it. The Mayan Calendar, however, can

> organize

> Medicine Wheels. Hyemyohsts Storm is an interesting man and I met him

> once

> in 1972. His idea of Zero Chiefs is a correct idea. Most Western

> scholars

> have a wrong idea or interpretation of Maya and indigenous people

> because

> they have the mentality of the " conqueror's superiority. " Zero is a

> very

> profound concept, and is at the basis of the Maya fourth-dimensional

> civilization. But, as I wrote in the Mayan Factor (1987), the Maya

> " Zero-Chiefs " are interdimensional and galactic in origin, who had a

> specific mission to leave the Law of Time on Earth. My mission has been

> to

> decode this Law for all humans at this time, and so my work fulfills the

> Law of Zero in equalizing time for all people. As for Lynn Andrews,

> she

> is gifted with a talented imagination. But there are texts or

> scriptures

> like these, sometimes found on stone and other surfaces. They are

> galactic

> notations, telepathically transmitted and received.

>

> 7. TV: In the Maya codex Tro-Cortesianus there is a picture, which

> seems to show a very old Vedic (Sanskrit) story: the churning of the

> milkocean (galaxy). There is a turtle, a rope, blackish and white

> persons

> pulling the rope, the same protagonists as in the Vedic story. (See:

> Giorgio de Santillana/Herta von Dechend; Hamlet's Mill, David Godine,

> Boston, Publisher, 1992, fig. 50.) Do you see any connection between

> the

> old Vedic culture in India and the Maya?

>

> VV: Yes, there is a connection between Old Vedic and Maya. Maya

> are a tribe of (galactic) navigators in the Vedas, and this is the

> source

> of the knowledge of the Kalpas, etc. of the Vedic civilization and

> transmitted into Buddhist and Hindu thought. The image described shows

> the

> principle of polarity operating the zuvuya (rope), or universal memory

> circuit, which squeezes wisdom (Law of Time) out of the galactic

> " milkocean " turtle. The common root and interest in chronocosmology of

> Vedic and Maya is also seen in the cultivation of yoga (Sanskrit: divine

> union) and yok-hah (Maya: higher truth).

>

> 8. TV: In the Maya calendar the number 104 is very important.

> What

> harmonic and numerological implications does this number have?

>

> VV: 104 is the number of the Arcturus Cycle. 104 = 52 x 2, 26 x

> 4, and as 13 x 8 refers to the Harmony (8) of the Power of Time (13).

> The

> grand cycle of four 26,000-year evolutionary seasons, forms the grand

> Arcturus cycle of 104,000 years. 104 is also the number of years to

> complete 65 Venus cycles and 146 Tzolkins.

>

> 9. TV: In what relation does the number 104 stand to the holy

> number

> of India, 108?

>

> VV: 104 + 4 = 108 = 104, Arcturus Cycle, + 4, the power of

> self-defining form; 108 = 12 x 9, or 27 x 4; 27 = 3 x 9 = the power of

> the

> Bolontiku (Nine Lords of Time and Destiny) in the unconscious. So malas

> are made with 108 beads in both Buddhist and Hindu traditions signifying

> the holy cycle of mantric repetition meant to arouse sublime insight

> from

> the unconscious.

>

> 10. TV: In the Vedic Tradition we find the yuga-cycles, which are

> part

> of the Vedic calendar system. They are based in the 144,000 which also

> plays a role in the Mayan Calendar. What connection do you see between

> the

> two calendars or time-systems?

>

> VV: The Maya galactic notation and mathematic system functions on

> two cycles: the absolute cycle, which is the binary system: 1, 20, 400,

> 8000, 160000, 3200000, 64000000, etc, where you see the system creating,

> among others, the sequence of I Ching and DNA (64); and the other cycle

> which is the relative or Vinal code, where the cycle follows the

> sequence,

> 1, 18, 360, 7200, 144,000, 2,880,000, 57,600,000, etc. This relative

> time

> count is actually a base nine, where all of the numbers numerologically

> add

> up to 9-this is the power of the Bolontiku. The Mayan count is the

> master

> system, since it is base 20, vigesimal and not base 10, decimal. The

> Hindu

> count is derived from the relative Maya time count, either archetypally

> from " akashic records, " and/or from an actual extra-dimensional contact

> point prior to " history " (the Thirteen-Baktun Long Count, BC 3113-AD

> 2012).

>

> 11. TV: Many cultures like the Vedic are based on 12 (9 x 12 =108).

> The 13 is unknown or at least not recognized. But the 13 seems to be a

> very important number, which transcends the circle of 12. On the other

> hand in Western tradition the 13 values as the number which brings bad

> luck. (The 13 was a holy number in witchcraft, European pagan culture,

> and

> maybe therefore had been brought to miscredit by the Christians). What

> meaning does the 13 have in the Mayan tradition and what are the

> harmonic

> numerological and spiritual implications given to 13?

>

> VV: Twelve is the number of the Cube of the Law, from which the

> circle of 360 degrees is formed. The circle divided by 12 creates the

> basis for the Babylonian calendar; and divided by 18 creates the Haab.

> But

> thirteen is the supreme number of time, hated by the Babylonian priests

> for

> being the measure of the female cycle (13 x 28 = 364), and hence the

> basis

> of the superstition about thirteen in the Western civilization. As our

> mathematical investigations have demonstrated, 13 carries the power of

> circulation in time, while a calendar based on 12 (the

> Gregorian-Babylonian) creates entropic stasis. Thirteen is the supreme

> spiritual tonal number which gives the thirteen-day cycle (the

> Wavespell)

> the power to inform our everyday lives with an intrinsic harmonic

> spirituality.

>

> 12. TV: Another discredited thing in the Western understanding is

> the

> serpent. In the Maya culture the serpent represents wisdom and so on.

> Can

> you please summarize your understanding, what the serpent means in the

> Mayan mythology?

>

> VV: The Serpent, Chan or Chicchan, represents the life force,

> which is the source of innate (DNA) wisdom. To deny this wisdom is to

> deny

> our life force. Nah Chan, " Place of the Serpent, " is the traditional

> name

> of Palenque, seat of Pacal Votan's prophetic cycle, indicating this site

> as

> a place of wisdom. When the serpent flies, this wisdom is liberated.

> This

> is the underlying meaning of Kukulkan or Quetzalcoatl, the plumed

> serpent,

> which is also connected with the release of Kundalini in Vedic yoga

> traditions. Hence, Quetzalcoatl represents the kundalini of prophetic

> realization.

>

> 13. TV: What will happen in 2012 and what preliminary symptoms are

> visible right now? Please give us a positive view on the future because

> of

> negative and apocalyptic visions we have had enough!

>

> VV: In 2012, the Earth will be in a condition of rapid,

> unprecedented evolution and change due to the enlightenment of the human

> species for having returned to living according to the natural 13:20

> cycles

> of time. The Calendar Change of 1998 will be seen as the final turning

> point of Babylonian civilization. The oneness of humanity will be the

> result of the universal telepathy reawakened by returning to the natural

> cycles. Because of this fact, there will no longer be any need of

> government, and humanity will have abandoned industrial technology for

> the

> development of spiritual, telepathic fourth-dimensional technologies.

> Creature comfort needs will be supplied by applications of solar and

> telepathic crystal technologies. The human race will be living and

> fulfilling UR, the Universal Religion on Earth. The order of reality

> will

> be known as the Dominion of Time. Everyone will be getting ready for

> the

> great moment of galactic synchronization, July 26, 2013, Yellow Galactic

> Seed, the completion of the telepathic construction of Timeship Earth

> 2013

> and the advent of the Planetary Manitou, the galactic brain on Earth.

>

> 14. TV: On what are you working at the moment?

>

> VV: With my wife, Lloydine, I am currently coordinating the World

> Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement and the creation of the New

> World Calendar Reform Pact. This peace pact is being drawn up between

> the

> Vatican, the author of the Gregorian Calendar, and the Nations of the

> Earth. The New World Calendar Reform is to be implemented by the

> Council

> for the Theology of Peace, a planetary spiritual assembly of all

> religions

> and spiritual traditions to coordinate with the United Nations for the

> destructuring of globalized human society and its creative tranformation

> into peace on Earth.

>

>

> Thank you for the opportunity of clarifying many fine points.

>

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dear souvik ji ever since shri ganapathi stapathi (famous vastu expert in south india )and shri karan singh ( frm kashmere roayal family and famous congress leader frm kashmere ) resported there is strong connection of Mayan with indian vedic culture i am investigating this aspect of Mayan and vedic culture Also the vastu texts has name of Maya also surya sidhantha has name of Maya asura And there is elephant and Lotus motiffs available in all their architecture and most of the measuremnt used in their architechture is indian i dont know abt Lotus but i know indian elephants is found in max in asia That article was collected frm various sources frm internet this mail triggered my curiousness #####"I got a look at the colorful picture from the codex, which is a book made from

bark, with pictures painted on the pages, kept in a rare collections in our

library. They would not permit me to copy it. Line drawing of this picture can

be seen in a book by Thompson (Vedic cosmology or something like it).

I have also seen a picture on some piece of pottery, which shows a breathtaking

similarity to 'aarti' being waved with the accompaniment of bell ringing! Of the

paraphernalia, there is a conch too!!

It was a long time ago. That was when I first started teaching astronomy and got

interested in cultural astronomy. I realized that I did not know even Indian

astronomy. So I never went back to Mayan astronomy.

Thanks

Narahari Achar"#########Thanks regrds sunil nair , "Souvik Dutta" <explore_vulcan wrote:>> Dear Sunil-ji,> > This is a wonderful article.> > Thanks for sharing.> > Regards> > Souvik

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Dear souvik ji if narahari ji is true ,if stapthi ( means vedic vastu expert ) is correct ,or what shri karan singh reported is corect we cannot call it a co incidence ( even i heard a budhist monks a lecture ,a srilankan budhist ( i think a westerner ) monk as he visted this places and done some meditation there in Mayan pyramids ).or even a farmer Agricultural communities Parallel devlpmnt as all Hindu ceremonies u can see there except Human sacrifice ( tho some secrt sects used to does it in india too ) eevn i heard of their Blf that some Dark bearded PPl who came frm sea to enlighten them ( i think they r indian sidhas may b Rishi agastya 's disciples ) rgrds sunil nair , "sunil nair" <astro_tellerkerala wrote:>> > dear souvik ji> > ever since shri ganapathi stapathi (famous vastu expert in south india> )and shri karan singh ( frm kashmere roayal family and famous congress> leader frm kashmere ) resported there is strong connection of Mayan> with indian vedic culture i am investigating this aspect of Mayan and> vedic culture> > Also the vastu texts has name of Maya> > also surya sidhantha has name of Maya asura> > And there is elephant and Lotus motiffs available in all their> architecture and most of the measuremnt used in their architechture is> indian> > i dont know abt Lotus but i know indian elephants is found in max in> asia> > > That article was collected frm various sources frm internet> > this mail triggered my curiousness> > #####"I got a look at the colorful picture from the codex, which is a> book made from> bark, with pictures painted on the pages, kept in a rare collections in> our> library. They would not permit me to copy it. Line drawing of this> picture can> be seen in a book by Thompson (Vedic cosmology or something like it).> I have also seen a picture on some piece of pottery, which shows a> breathtaking> similarity to 'aarti' being waved with the accompaniment of bell> ringing! Of the> paraphernalia, there is a conch too!!> It was a long time ago. That was when I first started teaching astronomy> and got> interested in cultural astronomy. I realized that I did not know even> Indian> astronomy. So I never went back to Mayan astronomy.> Thanks> Narahari Achar"#########> > > Thanks regrds sunil nair> > > , "Souvik Dutta"> explore_vulcan@ wrote:> >> > Dear Sunil-ji,> >> > This is a wonderful article.> >> > Thanks for sharing.> >> > Regards> >> > Souvik>

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Dear Sunil-ji,

 

Thanks for sharing. I also have some very limited insight into Mayan culture

which I shared with my students in a presentation.

 

I will send you my paper off the group.

 

Regards

 

Souvik

 

, " sunil nair "

<astro_tellerkerala wrote:

>

>

> Dear souvik ji

>

> if narahari ji is true ,if stapthi ( means vedic vastu expert ) is

> correct ,or what shri karan singh reported is corect we cannot call it a

> co incidence ( even i heard a budhist monks a lecture ,a srilankan

> budhist ( i think a westerner ) monk as he visted this places and done

> some meditation there in Mayan pyramids ).or even a farmer Agricultural

> communities Parallel devlpmnt as all Hindu ceremonies u can see there

> except Human sacrifice ( tho some secrt sects used to does it in india

> too )

>

> eevn i heard of their Blf that some Dark bearded PPl who came frm sea to

> enlighten them

>

> ( i think they r indian sidhas may b Rishi agastya 's disciples )

>

>

> rgrds sunil nair

>

>

> , " sunil nair "

> <astro_tellerkerala@> wrote:

> >

> >

> > dear souvik ji

> >

> > ever since shri ganapathi stapathi (famous vastu expert in south india

> > )and shri karan singh ( frm kashmere roayal family and famous congress

> > leader frm kashmere ) resported there is strong connection of Mayan

> > with indian vedic culture i am investigating this aspect of Mayan and

> > vedic culture

> >

> > Also the vastu texts has name of Maya

> >

> > also surya sidhantha has name of Maya asura

> >

> > And there is elephant and Lotus motiffs available in all their

> > architecture and most of the measuremnt used in their architechture is

> > indian

> >

> > i dont know abt Lotus but i know indian elephants is found in max in

> > asia

> >

> >

> > That article was collected frm various sources frm internet

> >

> > this mail triggered my curiousness

> >

> > ##### " I got a look at the colorful picture from the codex, which is a

> > book made from

> > bark, with pictures painted on the pages, kept in a rare collections

> in

> > our

> > library. They would not permit me to copy it. Line drawing of this

> > picture can

> > be seen in a book by Thompson (Vedic cosmology or something like it).

> > I have also seen a picture on some piece of pottery, which shows a

> > breathtaking

> > similarity to 'aarti' being waved with the accompaniment of bell

> > ringing! Of the

> > paraphernalia, there is a conch too!!

> > It was a long time ago. That was when I first started teaching

> astronomy

> > and got

> > interested in cultural astronomy. I realized that I did not know even

> > Indian

> > astronomy. So I never went back to Mayan astronomy.

> > Thanks

> > Narahari Achar " #########

> >

> >

> > Thanks regrds sunil nair

> >

> >

> > , " Souvik Dutta "

> > explore_vulcan@ wrote:

> > >

> > > Dear Sunil-ji,

> > >

> > > This is a wonderful article.

> > >

> > > Thanks for sharing.

> > >

> > > Regards

> > >

> > > Souvik

> >

>

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dear Souvik ji sure ,thanks i am waiting for ur article or teaching notes which u prepared in ur presentationsrgrds sunil nair , "Souvik Dutta" <explore_vulcan wrote:>> Dear Sunil-ji,> > Thanks for sharing. I also have some very limited insight into Mayan culture which I shared with my students in a presentation.> > I will send you my paper off the group.> > Regards> > Souvik> > , "sunil nair" astro_tellerkerala@ wrote:> >> > > > Dear souvik ji> > > > if narahari ji is true ,if stapthi ( means vedic vastu expert ) is> > correct ,or what shri karan singh reported is corect we cannot call it a> > co incidence ( even i heard a budhist monks a lecture ,a srilankan> > budhist ( i think a westerner ) monk as he visted this places and done> > some meditation there in Mayan pyramids ).or even a farmer Agricultural > > communities Parallel devlpmnt as all Hindu ceremonies u can see there> > except Human sacrifice ( tho some secrt sects used to does it in india> > too )> > > > eevn i heard of their Blf that some Dark bearded PPl who came frm sea to> > enlighten them> > > > ( i think they r indian sidhas may b Rishi agastya 's disciples )> > > > > > rgrds sunil nair> > > > > > , "sunil nair"> > <astro_tellerkerala@> wrote:> > >> > >> > > dear souvik ji> > >> > > ever since shri ganapathi stapathi (famous vastu expert in south india> > > )and shri karan singh ( frm kashmere roayal family and famous congress> > > leader frm kashmere ) resported there is strong connection of Mayan> > > with indian vedic culture i am investigating this aspect of Mayan and> > > vedic culture> > >> > > Also the vastu texts has name of Maya> > >> > > also surya sidhantha has name of Maya asura> > >> > > And there is elephant and Lotus motiffs available in all their> > > architecture and most of the measuremnt used in their architechture is> > > indian> > >> > > i dont know abt Lotus but i know indian elephants is found in max in> > > asia> > >> > >> > > That article was collected frm various sources frm internet> > >> > > this mail triggered my curiousness> > >> > > #####"I got a look at the colorful picture from the codex, which is a> > > book made from> > > bark, with pictures painted on the pages, kept in a rare collections> > in> > > our> > > library. They would not permit me to copy it. Line drawing of this> > > picture can> > > be seen in a book by Thompson (Vedic cosmology or something like it).> > > I have also seen a picture on some piece of pottery, which shows a> > > breathtaking> > > similarity to 'aarti' being waved with the accompaniment of bell> > > ringing! Of the> > > paraphernalia, there is a conch too!!> > > It was a long time ago. That was when I first started teaching> > astronomy> > > and got> > > interested in cultural astronomy. I realized that I did not know even> > > Indian> > > astronomy. So I never went back to Mayan astronomy.> > > Thanks> > > Narahari Achar"#########> > >> > >> > > Thanks regrds sunil nair> > >> > >> > > , "Souvik Dutta"> > > explore_vulcan@ wrote:> > > >> > > > Dear Sunil-ji,> > > >> > > > This is a wonderful article.> > > >> > > > Thanks for sharing.> > > >> > > > Regards> > > >> > > > Souvik> > >> >>