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Uniiw (Uniw) or K’ank’in (Kankin) Mayan calendar Haab

I’ve been looking on the internet, trying to find an explanation for the 14th month of the Mayan Haab calendar being called both Uniiw (also spelled Uniw) and/or K’ank’in (also spelled Kankin). I know I’ve seen the explanation somewhere before. I think one name is used by one group of Maya and the other name is used by another group of Maya. But, I’m not sure and I don’t know which group uses which name. Does anyone out there know why “Uniiw” is written with “K’ank’in” beside it? Or why the Tortuguera Monument 6 2012 prophecy uses Uniiw (as translated by David Stuart) while just about every online description of the Maya calendars uses K’ank’in (or Kankin)?

December 21, 2012 falls on the 3rd day of the month of Uniiw in the Mayan year-long calendar known as the Haab

By the way, in referring to yesterday’s post on the Haab Mayan calendar date of December 21, 2012, the month of Uniiw (or K’ank’in) means “yellow sun” in the ancient Mayan language.

In the same way, December, in our calendrical system, means “ten,” because December was the 10th month of the year in the original Roman calendar until two more winter months of January and February were added.

I will be speaking on the topic of “Do Mayan Shamans believe the world will end in 2012?” at the Edgar Cayce Forum on October 26th at 7:30 p.m. at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. in Virginia Beach.

The December 21, 2012 date is Uniiw (K’ank’in) 3 in the Mayan Haab Calendar

There are three dates on Monument 6 in the Tortuguero Mayan ruin in the Mexican state of Tobasco, in the Yucatan Peninsula. The “third of Uniiw (K’ank’in) refers to a date in the 365 day Mayan calendar called the “Haab.” Here’s an excerpt from Wikipedia’s online article on the Haab:

The Haab’ is part of the Maya calendric system. It was the Maya version of the 365-day calendar known to many of the pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica. Unlike the Tzolk’in, another Mayan Calendar system with no obvious relation to an astronomical or geophysical cycle, the Haab’ approximated the solar year.

The Haab’ comprises eighteen “months” of twenty days each, plus an additional period of five days (“nameless days”) at the end of the year known as Wayeb’ (or Uayeb in 16th C. orthography).

Haab’

The December 21, 2012 Mayan prophecy names 3 dates in 3 Mayan calendars

As I said yesterday, this is the great epigrapher David Stuart‘s translation of the one and only 2012 prophecy in the Mayan glyphs:

“The Thirteenth ‘Bak’tun” will be finished
(on) Four Ajaw, the Third of Uniiw (K’ank’in).
? will occur.
(It will be) the descent(??) of the Nine Support? God(s) to the ?”

There are three Mayan calendar days in that prophecy:

1. A “Bak’tun” refers to a date in the Long Count Calendar.

2. An “Ajaw” refers to a date in the Tzolk’in Calendar, on the day called Ajaw

3. An “Uniiw” (or “K’ank”in”) refers to a date in the Haab Calendar during the month of Uniiw

That may sound complicated, but, if you were to look at our calendrical system, you could see that we do the same kind of organizing of our days. For example, today is:

Day 274 in the Year Long Calendar
Day 1 in the Month Long Calendar, this month called October
Day 6 in the Week Long Calendar, this day of the week called Saturday

Translation of the Mayan 2012 prophecy

I love the Mayan Mysteries of 2012: A Young Person’s Guide. It has information and links to articles about 2012. I mentioned a quote about 2012 from David Stuart in a previous post. He has translated the only ancient Mayan prophecy about December 21, 2012. It is carved on Monument 6 in the Tortuguera Mayan ruins in Tabasco, Mexico, in the Yucatan Peninsula. A fantastic sketch of Monument 6 is posted on the Mayan Mysteries of 2012 website. You can see it on this blog site–my post from two days ago.

Following, you’ll see the 2012 prophecy in Mayan and then below it, David Stuart’s translation from the Mayan Mysteries of 2012 website. You’ll notice that part of the prophecy are missing because the Mayan glyphs are not complete due to their age and the effects of weathering.

TaTzuhtz-(a)j-oom u(y)-uxlajuun pik
(ta) Chan Ajaw ux(-te’) Uniiw.
Uht-oom ?
Y-em(al)?? Bolon Yookte’ K’uh ta ?.

“The Thirteenth ‘Bak’tun” will be finished
(on) Four Ajaw, the Third of Uniiw (K’ank’in).
? will occur.
(It will be) the descent(??) of the Nine Support? God(s) to the ?”

Guatemalan Mayan elder speaks on 2012

Guatemalan Mayan Indian elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun Photo: AP

Guatemalan Mayan elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun says he is fed up with being bombarded by questions about 2012 and the end of the world.

In an online “The Telegraph” article entitled, 2012 is not the end of the world, Pixtun says that the world will not end even though some people are saying that the Mayan calendar says that time will “run out.”

But most archaeologists, astronomers and Mayans say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, internet doomsday rumours and TV specials such as one on the History Channel which mixes “predictions” from Nostradamus and the Mayans and asks: “Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?” ` The Telegraph

I am especially interested in what Mayan elders are saying about 2012, because I will be presenting excerpts from my videotaped interviews of Mayan elders on 2012 when I speak at the Edgar Cayce Forum on October 26th at 7:30 p.m. on “Do Mayan Shamans believe the world will end in 2012?”

Tortuguera Mayan ruins contains 2012 date

Tortuguera Monument 6 showing the 2012 date and prophecy

A Sketch of Tortuguera Monument 6 with the Mayan 2012 date and prophecy from the Mayan Mysteries of 2012 website

On the left is an image of Monument 6 in the Tortuguera Mayan ruin in the Yucatan Peninsula, in the Mexican state of Tabasco. It contains the 2012 date. The Mayan glyphs on this stele, a tall flat stone carved with Mayan glyphs, has the Mayan Long Count Calendar date that is translated into December 21, 2012 in our Gregorian calendar. The image on the left is from the Mayan Mysteries of 2012: A Young Person’s Guide.

David Stuart quote on 2012

Here is an amazing quote from David Stuart, one of the world’s greatest translators of Mayan glyphs.

David Stuart’s parents were both archaeologists. I read a wonderful book by his mother about their experiences in the Mayan ruins in Coba, Yucatan. I’ve heard that David had a Mayan nanny. As a result, he is fluent in Mayan. At 16, he was deciphering Mayan glyphs, because he knew the language and the archaeology. He translated the one text on earth with the 2012 date on it. Half of the inscription on a stone stele is indecipherable because of weathering. The part of the glyphs that David could read say something about an ancient Mayan god named Bolon descending. From this comes all the whoopla about 2012? Here’s the quote from David Stuart I found on a website called, Exposing PseudoAstronomy.

From David Stuart, director of the Mesoamerica Center at the University of Texas at Austin:

“There’s going to be a whole generation of people who, when they think of the Maya, think of 2012, and to me that’s just criminal. … The whole year leading up to it is going to be just crazy, I’m sorry to say. I just think it’s sad, it really just frustrates me. People are really misunderstanding this really cool culture by focusing on this 2012 thing. It means more about us than it does about the Maya.”

Speaking Events: The Advent of the Fifth Root Race

It’s been another day of writing descriptions of seminar topics. Today, one of the topics I wrote about is called, The Advent of the Fifth Root Race. The “root races” are an extremely “far out” topic associated with the types of people that populated Lemuria and Atlantis. The Austrian occultist Rudolph Steiner and the Ukrainian mystic Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky also wrote about them. My main source for information on the root races are the psychic readings of Edgar Cayce. As far out as this topic is, there are many people who are intrigued by it. I will be discussing the root races, and specifically the advent of the fifth root race, on Thursday, April 18th, in the evening, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.

Atlantis and its Colonies in Egypt and Yucatan

Today I enjoyed putting together a summary of a speaking event I’ve given before called, “Atlantis and its Colonies in Egypt and Yucatan,” except, in the past, I only included Egypt. I am happy to be including Yucatan since I’ve traveled to Yucatan four times to videotape footage for my travelogue: Yucatan Travel: Cancun to Chichen Itza. I will be giving the Atlantis and its Colonies in Egypt and Yucatan day-long seminar on Saturday, April 21st, 2012, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. More details to follow.