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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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.
In psychic reading 5750-1 Edgar Cayce says that “the altars before the doors of the varied temple activities,” resulted from an influence of the people from Mu or Lemuria.
When visiting Coba in the northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula, we found round stone altars in front of stelae or tall stone columns covered in Mayan hieroglyphics.
Were these altars, which were likely created during the Classic Period of the ancient Maya between about AD 300 to 900, the result of a Lemurian influence that started over 10,000 years earlier?
Copyright 2008 Carol Chapman
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One of our guides, during our 2008 visit to Yucatan, told us that it is very important to the Maya to build up their population. During the “Caste Wars” in which they fought against amalgamation into Mexico, they lost about half of their population. Today, big families are the hope for the future.
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Today I’m thinking about the Precession of the Equinoxes since the full cycle of the Mayan Long Count Calendar correlates with the 25,756 years it takes the earth’s axis to turn one full cycle.
As I understand it, the Precession of the Equinoxes can be compared to a spinning top that is not spinning straight up but at a slight angle.
One spin of the earth creates one day and takes 24 hours. One long circle of the spinning earth around the sun is one year or about 365 1/4 days.
If the earth’s axis of rotation was straight up and down, there would be no seasons.
Because the earth spins at an angle to its yearly rotation around the sun, we have seasons. Very simply, during the part of the year the top half of the earth is pointed toward the sun, we have summer. During the part of the year we are on the other side of the sun and are pointing away from the sun, we experience winter.
If the earth’s axis of rotation was not slowly (25, 756 years) describing a circle, there would be no Precession of the Equinoxes.
How does the Precession of the Equinoxes affect us? Over the thousands of years, the north pole will no longer point toward Polaris.
Did the ancient Maya know about the Precession of the Equinoxes?
For more on the Precession of the Equinoxes:
http://www.crystalinks.com/precession.html
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Adrian Gilbert, author of 2012: Mayan Year of Destiny says that the Maya burned their furniture, broke their pottery, and added sections to their pyramids at the end of every 52-year period.
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In 1552, the Bishop Diego de Landa thought he was doing the world a favor when he burned most of the “books” of the Maya. I say “books” because they consisted of painstakingly painted picture-letters called hieroglyphics. The books were made of fig tree material. And, although they are called books, they were more like a map that folds out accordion-style.
Bishop de Landa burned almost all the hieroglyphic records of the Maya’s history and religion as well as destroying many “idols,” inscribed stelae, and altar stones.
I assume Bishop de Landa was in the throes of Inquisition fever since the Spanish Inquisition was established in 1478 and was not officially abolished until 1823.
However, he did regret his actions and wrote all he could remember of the Mayan texts in: Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan.
He did the dastardly deed in Mani, a town in the Mexican state of Yucatan, southwest of Chichen Itza. When visiting Yucatan in January 2008, I drove through Mani. Today, it is a peaceful hamlet surrounded by orange orchards. You would never know it was once the scene of such a tragedy.
Copyright 2008 Carol Chapman
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There are only 3 books known to the Western World that are written in ancient Mayan hieroglyphics . They have been carried away from the Yucatan where the Maya live by explorers. They are:
According to Frank Waters in Mexico Mystique, they do not contain any historical information about the ancient Maya but only divinatory almanacs, eclipse tables, tables of the movement of the planet Venus, and religious material.
Copyright 2008 Carol Chapman
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