After traveling to Mexico and visiting the ruins at Chichen Itza, it has become more apparent than ever that the Mayans and other cultures in those parts were on to ...something!
Today is 8 Deer on the tzolkin calendar!
Check out some things I have been reading about this :
From 7 Wind
Imagine a comprehensive cosmology of numbers which unites the workings of both the material and spiritual realms. Imagine it to be based upon the ancient systems of the I Ching and the Golden Proportion. Furthermore, imagine this brilliant philosophy as a revival and completion of Kepler's obsession with a "harmony of the heavens" based on the five Platonic Solids. You have just imagined the Mesoamerican Sacred Calendar.
The Gregorian calendar is given a secondary place in these calendars for a reason. In a sense, the Mayan haab and the Gregorian year serve the same purpose. They both refer to the civil or secular count of days - the obvious yearly cycle of the earth around the sun. The Maya preserved a 365-day approximation of the year, even after they realized a more accurate method for tracking the true solar year. They did an amazing thing by combining the haab count with a sacred count, the tzolkin, which symbolizes the mysterious inner dimension of reality.
In this way, the two aspects of human experience, the sacred and the secular, the inner realm and the outer realm, are synthesized into one comprehensive cosmo-conception. The world view which thus follows is a complete acknowledgement of spirit in matter; one in which the processes of the microcosm and macrocosm mirror each other.
By comparison, the Gregorian system, though mathematically more accurate, provides only a lifeless cosmos of clockwork drudgery, an endless ticking of the minutes, hours and days. The Maya recognized that our sense of time defines the depth of experience of a culture, and then endeavored to model the fantastic nature of the multidimensional cosmos that they perceived around them. If the tzolkin/haab becomes our primary time reference, only secondarily related to the Gregorian system (as a convenience), we may begin to embrace a more complete and mature attitude towards life on earth.
Nice! Well Put. So I have become very interested in taking up the Calendar of Ye Old Times ! I have read several times about how the patriarchal Gregorian system is just messing with everything and we need to get back to a Matriarchal based system involving being in tune with natural cycles and the moon and everything... now I just need a garden to harvest!
If you are interested in finding out more about the Mayan tzolkin and what day it is, check out this site:
http://www.aquasoul.com/MayanUpdates2012.html
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| Mayahuel was the female divinity associated with agave and pulque, a creamy fermented agave drink |
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| I love this depiction of Cortez and Moctezuma II... |
An interesting take on all this 2012 stuff:
If we look back into the tapestry of time we can pick out a couple interesting events which mark significant breakthroughs in consciousness and technology. For example, the birth of agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution, roughly 11000 years ago, signaled a major turning point for mankind. The invention of the wheel and written language between 4000 – 3000 BC also represent significant advances in human technology. Likewise, the Industrial Revolution, which occurred roughly 300 years ago represents another turning point in the wave of time. Most recently, we have crossed through the Computer/Information Revolution which occurred only 30 years ago.
There are a few important aspects of this unfolding picture that we may want to consider. Each period of the harmonic time wave, that is to say periods between major advances, is increasingly shorter in duration than the cycle which preceded it. Also, each respective period of the time wave is characterized by accelerated levels of new things happening faster and faster and in unprecedented, unpredictable ways. If we project this pattern of acceleration into the future, we find that the rate of ingression into novelty becomes mind-boggelingly exponentiated in a very short period of time.
For instance, we can expect a 400 day cycle in 2011-2012 when we will experience more transformation than in all the previous cycles combined. Similarly, a 6 day cycle before the Dec 21, 2012 date will exhibit even more dramatic levels of hyper-accelerated transformations. There is a dwell point here in our near future which attracts everything like a Black Hole, indeed the conceptual interplay of various dimensions at the crossroads of 2012 seems to reflect the nature of a singularity. In the last 135 minutes before we encounter this singularity, 18 such transformations, comparable to the appearance of life and the invention of language will be crossed. Thirteen of these evolutionary quantum leaps will be crossed in the last 75 x 10 -4 seconds of the Great Cycle.
I imagine we will witness the end of third-dimensional existence. I imagine we will realize what it means to be human. I imagine we will realize what it means to die. Moreover, I imagine we will realize what it means to be consciousness. To summarize, I imagine we will realize what it means to be light vibrations of eternal divine love. Each one of us will encounter our True Self. This will be the fulfillment of an ancient promise we made to ourselves a long, long time ago at the other end of time. I imagine that the human race will consciously realize the broadest sense of infinity. In fact, there’s no doubt in my mind because in the broadest sense, all this has already happened an infinite number of times. The key is to remember that it’s all One Love. In closing, I’d like to state that everything contained in the project is make-believe. Imagination creates reality, so create your reality with imagination. The fruit is in the seed. Do you remember? ”Evam maya e ma ho” All hail to the harmony of all mind and nature.
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| Temple of Kukulcan, Chichen Itza |
Something else that to me is much more sophisticated than the Egyptian pyramids everyone always talks about is that the number of steps on the Temple of Kukulcan (aka Quetzelcoatl) is that each side has 91 steps, the top temple "step" equaling 365, the number of days in the haab calendar.
The 5 days of the week, multiplied by the 4 sides of the pyramid give you the 20 day mayan month
The 9 platforms of the pyramid divided in two from the staircase in between them, give the number of months in the mayan year - 18!
The picture I have posted is on one of the solstices when the temple is aligned just so so that the shadows from the sun make it look like there is a serpant descending from heaven! Now that would be a sight to see!
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