Maya: Those Who Gaze at the Center
In an article published in the pages of The Mystery of 2012, John Major Jenkins says that the Mesoamericans called themselves the “nik wak’inel” or “those who gaze into the center.”
Then, he asks the question, the center of what?
He replies that the ancient Mesoamericans identified three centers. They are:
- The center of the North or the Polestar represented by what they called “Seven Macaw” which was the seven stars of the Big Dipper constellation
- The center of the sky overhead or at the zenith. This they called Quetzalcoatl which was in the area of the Pleiades constellation
- The center of the Milky Way Galaxy which is presently in the last three degrees of the constellation Sagittarius.
Copyright 2008 Carol Chapman
