The Nine Underworlds of the Maya
In his article “The Nine Underworlds,” Swedish researcher Carl Johan Calleman, Ph. D., says that the three most important pyramids of the ancient Maya were built in nine levels to represent the nine levels of the Mayan underworld.
The three most important pyramids he refers to are:
- The Temple of the Inscriptions in Palenque
- The Pyramid of the Jaguar in Tikal
- The Pyramid of Kukulcan in Chichen Itza
In the article, which is printed in The Mystery of 2012: Predictions, Prophecies and Possibilities, he says that the nine levels represent nine different creations. Even the Maya today reenact ceremonies in which they honor previous creations, for example, a previous world in which monkeys, not man, had prominence.
