According to John Major Jenkins, Mayan midwives use the 260-day religious or ceremonial calendar to predict the expected birthdate of a baby. The calendar is called the Tzolkin (pronounced zol-keen). The midwives use the date of the first missed period plus 260 days to determine the expected birthdate.
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John Major Jenkins says that important Maya monuments in Izapa were carved between 400 BC and AD 100. He says that one of the stelae in the Izapa group says that the sun is reborn from the dark center of the Milky Way. In reading his article in The Mystery of 2012 I am not sure if the Izapa monuments contain the date December 21, 2012. In any case, Jenkins believes the Izapa monuments and their message are connected with the December 21, 2012 date.
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In ancient Mayan text, the god of the December 21, 2012 date is called “Ahau,” which refers to the god of the sun, the origin of time, a fitting god for the end of the world. However, to the ancient Maya, the end of the world came every 52 years when they destroyed their furniture and built new items and when they built new temples on top of existing temples and pyramids to mark the new world.
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According to the ancient Mayan text, the Popul Vuh, the first four humans who were the supernatural ancestors of the K’iche’ Maya, voyaged to and from a wonderful city to the east. They brought back with them benefits for their descendents, the K’iche’ Maya.
Robert K. Sitler says, in The Mystery of 2012, that he believes that the modern-day author Jose Arguelles and his Maya associate Hunbatz Men may have interpreted this ancient text as meaning that the ancestors of the Maya were extraterrestrials from the Pleiades.
I believe that the numerous ancient Maya myths about supernatural leaders traveling to and from a place in the east are the handed down memories of the Maya’s ancestors coming to and from Yucatan toAtlantis.
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In The Mystery of 2012, Robert K. Sitler, Professor of Latin Studies at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, says that the December 21, 2012 date is a 4 Ahau K’atun date which occurs approximtely every 256 years.
During a previous 4 Ahau K’atun in AD 987, a historical figure known as K’uk’ulk’an appeared. In the 1500s the date might have referred to the arrival of the Spanish.
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Each of the 20 days of the Mayan ceremonial calendar, the Tzolkin, was represented by a different god similar to the way our days of the week are overseen by a different planet (Sunday is Sun Day, Monday is Moon Day, etc.).
For example,
Imix, the god of the earth rules the first day
Ik, the god of moving air and wind rules the second day
Akbal, the god of the underworld, rules the third day
Kan, the god of maize and abundance, rules the fourth day
Copyright 2008 Carol Chapman
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I’m in British Columbia now and will be taking photographs for the 2010 Divine in Nature: With Inspirational Quotes from Edgar Cayce wall calendar. The scenery here is gorgeous.
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The calendar of the ancient Maya is more accurate than our present-day Gregorian calendar. However, the Mayan calendar system also appears to be quite complicated.
Here’s a bit of what I understand about it:
* A day is called a “kin.”
* It operates on a mathematical system of 20. (Omathematical system is a system of 10)
* A Mayan month is 20 days long and is called a “uinal.”
* A Haab or Tun is the name of the year-long calendar. It is made up of 18 uinals plus 5 days or 6 in a leap year. That’s 18 x 20 + 5 or 360 + 5 + 365 days.
* The Tzolkin is another calendar made up of 13 uinols or 13 x 20 = 260 days. The Tzolkin has been used by the Maya even to this day. It is a ceremonial calendar of religious observances.
* The Long Count Calendar measures an era or 26,000 years. It fell into disuse even before the Spaniards arrived in Yucatan in the 1500s.
I just finished my speaking event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This was my first time in Milwaukee, which I always associated with beer brewing and industrial manufacturing. I was pleasantly surprised to find Milwaukee to be a lovely city with landscaped parkland along the waterfront. They have an amazing art museum that looks like a boat under sail.
The people I met at the event, as always at an Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. function, were wonderfully warm and welcoming and also very knowledgeable about all kinds of spirituality subjects. In fact, I was quite impressed with the amount information people had about my topic–2012, the Maya and the Yucatan. Their involved listening and intelligent questions made the event full of life. Many people also shared with me personal experiences of spiritual awakening–a wonderful group that has gathered around dedicated volunteers who made me feel at home in their city.
At these events, I enjoy being billeted in private homes. This time, I stayed with a family, all of whom went out of their way to make me feel happy and comfortable. They even got me some rhubarb pie, a delicacy I haven’t tasted since I moved to Virginia. Yum, yum!
I feel happy that I was invited to speak there and also feel very lucky to have been in Milwaukee in May. The whole city was in bloom. The fragrance of flowering crabs and lilacs filled the air. A wonderful experience.
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There’s still time to register for the Milwaukee A.R.E. (Edgar Cayce) conference. Here are the details:
2012 : The Mayan Calendar and the Yucatan Peninsula with Carol Chapman
According to their calendar, the Maya believed that their world would end on Dec 21, 2012. But what will happen?
Part of the 2012 mystique stems from the stars. On the winter solstice in 2012, the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in about 26,000 years.
Carole Chapman is an internationally-acclaimed speaker, author, photographer, and radio personality specializing in new age and spiritual subjects including dreams, reincarnation, nature spirits, Atlantis, and life after death.
She has been researching 2012 and the Mayan calendar for many years, and is just returning from a research trip to the Yucatan for Jan 08
Presented by Milwaukee Area A.R.E.
WHEN
Saturday, May 17, 2008 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Central Time Zone
WHERE
Brookfield Knights of Columbus clubhouse
4700 N 145th St
Just South of where Lisbon meets Hampton
West on Hampton-sharp left on Lisbon
Brookfield, WI
USA
Location: Milwaukee area, Wisconsin
Contact: Kevin Reger 262-547-3262 or email at vfuller@wi.rr.com