Topics to be covered in this Basics 1 section: + The 260-day Map. Two basic cycles: 13-days and 20-days. Each 13-day week "octave" is displayed. The 13 cycles or circles of the 20-day Mayan month is charted. + The 20-day Mayan Month. The Five 4-day cycles. The 4 medicine hoop Directions. The Market Days every 5 days. + The 13 Numbers and their associated Tones. + The Four 65-day Seasons. + The 52-Years: Four 13-year Cycles. + The Gregorian calendar (Jan.-Dec.) + Easy Mayan calendar basics + Venus Rising and Mayan calendar adjustments + NEW >>>>>> Solar and Lunar Eclipse Table matched to Mayan Calendar
It's time to (1) preview the charts Rich designed and (2) learn about Mayan calendar basics.
But first, a recognition of influences...keep sacred company.
* * * * "Every Moment is a Divine Gift...Treasure It And Be Love."
Special Thanks to Jose Arguelles, Richard Graeber, Dr. David Stuart and Dr. David R. Hawkins.
* * * * "If one has not yet found Heaven within, then be certain of not finding it without." Henry Miller (paraphrased)
* * * * Mayan Calendar "Codice Madrid" (1 of 4 known to exist)
The Mayan calendar IS the universal time code to the unfoldment of Creation in space/time. It's very interesting. Back in the summer of 1987 many of my friends wanted to know all about it, especially after we heard it being described as both the world's most accurate calendar and an ancient Sun-Venus calendar that can track Venus, Mars, and the lunar and solar eclipses. My first word of advice for anyone getting started is...don't get hung up on the "meanings" of the 20 day sign symbols. They can be a snare. More people argue about the "meanings" of the 20 day sign symbols, and their "official" names, than anything else. They may reveal themselves to you differently than they do to someone else. Truth be, Dr. Hawkins states that, "Everything is imagination." The real key to actually "using" the 260-day calendar is knowing when the major shift points occur...when each 13-day week starts and when day 13 rolls around...knowing when the 20 day month begins and when it completes...noting the five 52-day shift points and when the Season Exchange Days occur within the four 65-day Seasons. There are only about four "original" calendars known to exist and they all highlight only the symbols for day 1 and day 13 in each 13 day week. The 20 day sign symbols you'll see here here are the best examples I could come up with after studying hundreds of original ones in various Mayan codice texts. I created them for my charts and all were drawn using "sacred geometry" pii spiral pattern parameters. This was back in the late 1990's while living in Sedona, Arizona...in the Land of the 260 Days. Sedona is the spiritual center of the southwest for Native American people and is located in northern Arizona, at the bottom of the huge rim of the Colorado plateau which covers four southwestern US states, and about a three hour drive from the Native American communities of the Hopi. The Hopi use the 260-day calendar and their language is the same as the Aztec of Mexico.
* * * * The ancient 260-day Mayan Calendar is the worlds most accurate calendar.
The Mayan calendar system exactly charts the orbits of both Venus and Mars, AND the Solar and Lunar eclipses!
"They knew the secret timing to the Great Lights in the sky."
The ancient 260-day Mayan calendar is composed of 20 (TWENTY) 13-day "weeks. " 20 x 13-days = 260...the total days in one full Mayan calendar cycle.
The 260 days are composed of many 13-day "weeks." 20 of them in all. And the calendar utilizes 20 day sign symbols which is the Mayan month of 20 days. It takes 260 days to journey through all possible combinations.
The 260-day cycle is about a week short of 9 months--the human birth cycle.
A series of four 13-day weeks together create a "bundle" of 52 days and FIVE (5) 52-day bundles together make the sacred Round of 260. 13 days x 4 = 52 days 52 days x 5 = 260 The chart below shows these 52-day shift points on a Map of the 260 days and upon reflection, it revealed itself to be... a Musical code...the Octave! utilizing the same "pattern" as a piano keyboard layout!
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The Mayan Calendar and the 13-Day Octaves of Time...
First off let's climb up to the top of the hill so that we can see the entire landscape.
Lets look at an overview of the 260 days on a map so we can see the entire picture, then we'll zoom in on the specifics.
The map that we'll use has the 20 mayan day sign symbols across the top and are read left to right, from the first symbol Water Lily Creature across to the 20th symbol Lord.
Also at the top are:
the four colors: yellow, red, white and blue
the medicine hoop directions and the year bearer symbols: white Night (east) blue Star (south) yellow Reed (west) red Flint (north)
the m market days every five days, which are also the Season Exchange Days in their time: Serpent, Dog, Eagle and Lord
and the red circles indicate the 52-day shift points and key levels of consciousness at levels: 200, 400, 600, 800 and 1,000.
Under the symbols are the 13 rows of 20 days which indicate the 13 months of 20-days each and the 13-day weeks.
Let's first look at a blank map with these key sections highlighted...
Now lets look at the 260-Day Map with the 13-day numbers for each week identified and also the Season Days marked with dotted lines and the day numbers from 1 to 260 listed in the left hand column along with the tones for each number and month...
The 260-Day Map The 260-days arranged into a grid of 13 twenty-day Months.
With the twenty 13-day Weeks and 20 symbols, the five 52-day cycles and four 65-day Seasons. Full Chart preview that you can order:
The 260-day map above has the 20 symbols at the top and under them are the 13-day weeks starting at the top right corner and moving across to the right. >>> So the first day is number 1 under the symbol Water Lily Creature (which I sometimes abbreviate to WL Creature in other charts and calendars.) Day #2 is number 2 under the symbol Wind, and so on until day #13 of 13 Reed.
There are 5 key transition points at the following Mayan days which signify the 52-day cycles (13 days x 4 = 52 days). Notice it takes 52 days for a yellow day number 1 to reappear again.
One night after work back in 1997 I had colored in the rows in which each 52-day cycle started. Something looked familar. I had colored in rows 1, 3, 6, 8, 11 and 13. Then I turned the chart sideways and...WOW!...saw a row spacing pattern similar to that of the black and white keys on a piano keyboard!
I had discovered by accident the musical scale connection to the Mayan calendar.
Just turn this chart sideways like I did that night to see the piano keyboard pattern.
The beginning day of each of the 52-day shift points are located at:
day # 1 = Ab in the 20-day row 1 yellow 1 WATER LILY CREATURE imix
day # 53 = A# in the 20-day row 3 yellow 1 REED ben row 3
day # 105 = C# in the 20-day row 6 yellow 1 SERPENT chikchan
day # 157 = D# in the 20-day row 8 yellow 1 EARTH kab'an day # 209 = F# in the 20-day row 11 yellow 1 WATER muluk and the G# point at the end of the last day #260 13 LORD ajaw which shifts away from G# into A flat (Ab) range at the beginning of day #1 1 WATER LILY CREATURE imix.
G# and Ab are the same note, but G# is what I call the "God Tone." It represents level 1,000 at the top of the scale of consciousness.
In the 13-day daily tone designations I use tone Ab to represent day 1 rather than G# because it indicates a movement away from G# towards A, so the first 20 days of the calendar are in Ab range.
Whomever designated the letters A-G for the musical scale notes really knew what they were doing.
20-Day Mayan Month The keywords to the 20-day Mayan month. The 20 symbols and keywords, grouped into 5 sets of four symbols with medicine hoop directions and market days identified.
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The following 20 Mayan day sign names in Mayan and English are the interpretations, except where noted, of Dr. David Stuart, who is considered to be the world's leading authority on Mayan glyph decipherment.
D.S. = David Stuart J.A. = Jose Arguelles
ENGLISH (D.S.) mayan (D.S.) English(J.A.) mayan(J.A.)
SERPENT chikchan Serpent chicchan
WATER muluk Moon muluc
REED ben Skywalker ben
EARTH kab'an Earth caban
The 20 Mayan day sign names are generally considered to be known. Any other key words to help explain them is completely subjective. Go from town to town in the maya lands and ask around and generally people there either don't know or don't say. There is disagreement even among the Mayan "elders" in different towns and regions. So while we generally know the basic maya names for the 20 day signs, their "inner meaning" and "usage" is strictly a personal understanding...as it should be. Feel free to explore your own personal interpretations and revelations as I did. That is when the real "knowing" begins. Dr. Hawkins likes to point out in his books that..."a thing IS what it is...that IS its' meaning."
Please allow me now to tell "my story" of the 20 day signs which I like to share when teaching a class. Before I do that please note that in the ancient Mayan codices the 20 day signs are shown grouped into four sets: by both the four colors and four medicine hoop directions. If you were standing somewhere in the Mayan lands... + the White people were located across the big waters to the East + the Blue/black people were located across the big waters to the South + the Yellow people were located across the big waters to the West + and the Red people were located to the North and so these were the four colors and directions of the medicine hoop, also identified as a rock circle with a cross pattern of four spokes that came together in the middle of the circle. The ancient people around the world were aware of each other. Most every Egyptian mummy has had their hair tested by hair analysis and every one had traces of cocaine present. The coca plant was native in those times only to Central and South America.
The 20 day signs follow a four-day pattern in order on the calendar: yellow, red, white and blue. The yellow day signs initiate each four day series. The red day signs shape what was initiated. The white day signs multiply what was shaped. And the blue day signs ripen what was multiplied. So the day signs have a relationship by color. When you scan the 20 day Month chart above, the yellow day signs all cross reference each other, the red day signs all cross reference each other, the white day signs all cross reference each other, and the blue day signs all cross reference each other.
So now it's time to share a part of my "version" of the story of the 20 day signs...
The most ancient forms of life began in the oceans, in the water, and changed from simple bacteria into more complex forms by genetic mutations. All physical life forms on earth, and all plants and creatures, arose from these early beginnings. All these forms have very simple awareness and search their surroundings for energy sources outside themselves. They are aware of their surrounding yet are not aware or concerned about the wants or needs of other life forms in their local environment. And over millions and billions of years of time all kinds of genetic mutations made possible all the forms of life we witness today. We humans still have at the base of our brains the primative "reptilian brain" wherein these primitive basic survival skills are imprinted and run 24/7. The first mayan day sign symbol is the WATER LILY CREATURE. Many aquatic plants have their roots in the muck and arise to the surface. This day sign signifies the most primative life forms and creatures which all have awareness but no concern for others. These life forms are very low on the scale of the 1,000 levels of consciousness. When we witness wild animal behavior we don't call it "bad," we just understand that wild animals are just trying to survive without concern for others. All levels of consciousness below level 200 are aware but also just trying to survive without concern for others. The "spiritual lightbulb" is NOT yet turned on or present. This survival instinct is present in all living things. It is the prime initiative and initiates all intention. They "know" not what they do, so we have compassion for them but we also "watch our backs," so to speak, when around them (as a general lesson--not literally, as in someone who is born on this day). The second mayan day sign is the WIND or breath of life. Every life form has a subtle non-physical energy pattern, essence and spirit which determines its identification and destiny coming into physical form at birth. Every thing has an "essence" or spirit group energy which makes it what it "is." The first thing we do after being born is to breathe and begin the first repetition, the first pattern, of a rhythm. These rhythms multiply and build into repetitive echo patterns, and so the third symbol is the NIGHT sometimes shown with multiple dots or stars in the sky. The Aztec calendar name for this symbols is the Temple and a variation on that word is "template." Some mayan ruins are both temples and astronomical observatories with slots in the walls and cielings to pinpoint stars during their yearly cycles. The temple is the template to the heavens above. All variations of the Night day sign have the wave pattern near the bottom. Notice the little triangle pyramid connected to the sky. These patterns are ripened into a code or SEED which is the base container containing all the instructions for further expansion. The seed is planted in a channel home base. The Aztec calendar names this day sign Corn Plant. I once planted Hopi blue corn seeds in a community garden in Sedona. First one knells down and says a prayer of blessing while holding five blue corn seeds. Then one picks up the planting stick and penetrates the earth, twirling it around to open up the mother earth. Then one places four seeds in the bottom, one for each direction, then one in the middle unto which the others will be supported by. Then one pushes the ground over the seeds with the planting stick and thumps the ground with a heart-beat rhythm to firm the loose soil. Then one stands up, takes one large step over the planting, and knells down again. The blue seeds are planted in rows with irrigation channels on each side. The water (energy) flows to where one channels it to. The seed begins to instinctually sprout root and stem, and this is represented by the day sign SERPENT. After sprouting, the root is grounded to mother earth and the stem naturally pushes up to seek the light. Within is all that is needed to be. This is the day sign DREAM. Close your eyes in the sunlight and see red. Like a stem cell which can potentially become any organ the body requires, one becomes what one truly is...shaped by local conditions and karmic possibilities to love, and work and be of service to the Divine. One changes course many times, throughout one eternal life with many earthly chapters, and the compass is set to the true direction that comes from within. The Divine dream, the movement of the 10,000 things, is forever intertwined in the physical dimensions. The night before my mother passed on, I dreamed of our family all on a boat braving a stormy flood. And she was singing to us..."Row, row, row your boat...gently, down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily. Life is but a dream." Grounded to the earth, growing up, seeking the light, with an inner truth and respect for the hoop of life, one Divine will branches to the many and gathers together that which sustains life. This is the work of our HAND. The Aztec calendar sign is a deer with antlers, symbolizing the one branching into the many. Isn't it amazing how our one awareness branches into our 10 fingers and 10 toes...our little family of 20. With so simple an example of our one will branching to our many, how then can we not fail but to also realize the Divine Presence branching to be with us and in us all?
That is quite a brain teaser right there...so let's stop and let you give it a go... "So, now go try it a little storytelling of your own..."
The 13 Numbers and Tones You will want to first preview the 1,000 Levels of Consciousness chart in The Basics 2 section.
There is no known ancient written texts explaining the meaning of the mayan 13 Numbers. We know that the numbers were written in a dot and bar notation style and always in black color. The number 1 is represented by one dot, the number 2 by two dots, the number 5 by one bar, the number 6 by one dot above one bar, the number 10 by two bars, the number 11 by one dot above two bars, and so on until number 20 which is represented by a clam shell symbol. I don't know where Jose Arguelles came up with his number qualities and names, and he doesn't mention where in his writings, at least at the time I moved on from his work around 1996. Maybe he has since then. It seems to be based on numerology. I had a problem with that. Not with him but on the general lack of explanations even the experts seemed stumped by. So you don't have to have any "meanings" for the numbers, unless it's out there that I don't know about which is a real possibility. Drop me a line if there is. I realized the connection to the 13 numbers to the musical scale in 1997 one night while temporarily living alone in an old 16-foot camper in Sedona, relaxing after a hard days work as a plumber at the public golf course just south of Bell Rock. I realized the connection of the numbers and musical notes to Dr. Hawkins levels of consciousness around 2005 and it created for me a fractal journey through the levels of consciousness, a Hero Journey that takes one through the Underworlds and Heavenly Realms. It created a way to study the 1,000 levels of consciousness on a weekly 13-day basis and also over the entire 260-day cycle.
The "octaves of consciousness" levels and key words correspond to the musical scale octave and correspond to the 13 mayan months and years and the 13 mayan days of the week as follows:
1-13 LEVEL TONE KEY WORDS
1 Being Alive Ab existence, primal, ego, instincts (levels 1 > 76)
2 Being Clever A animal, drives, forces (levels 76 > 153)
3 Being Integrity A# moral, integrity, warm, kind (levels 153 > 230) Note: The first 3/5 of this day is below level 200.
4 Being Family B respectful, fair, balanced, considerate, stable, trust (levels 230 > 307)
5 Being Harmony C inspire, willingness, acceptance, forgiveness, humor (levles 307 > 384)
6 Being Wise C# meaningful, understanding, reason, happiness (levels 384 > 461)
7 Being Love D loving, reverence, revelation, benign (levels 461 > 538)
8 Being Bliss D# joy, miracles, unconditional love, healing (levels 538 > 615)
9 Being Peace E enlightened, Self, I Am, no mind/ego (levels 615 > 692)
10 Being Pure F Pure Consciousness, Sage, Is, I (levels 692 > 769)
11 Being Clear F# Teacher of Enlightenment, chakra clearing (levels 769 > 846)
12 Being Realized G Full Realization of Divinity, God as Logos (levels 846 > 923)
13 Being Divine G# Divine Radiance, avatar, final surrender (levels 923 > 1,000)
Because our space/time continuum is a 20/13 fractal set, the 1,000 levels are cycling through each 13-day week.
Every 13-days the energy "potential" cycles through the same pattern as through the 260 days... only increasing in POWER potentials by about 76 levels of consciousness each day.
So our Hero Journey takes us through a dimensional "mini-underworld" every 13-days, days 1 and 2 occur in "the Wilderness," but only for 48 hours, (not for 40 days and nights like on the calendar, during the first two Mayan months!) where "negative" energy field influences that calibrate below level 200 lurk then, halfway through day 3 we enter into the First Inner Heavenly Realms where the positive emotional influences of levels 200-399 build up in spiritual Power, then on day 6 the Second Higher Heavenly Realms bring Reason and on day 7 the Celestial Heavenly Realms of Love on day 8 the Third Enlightened Heavenly Realms bring Bliss, Peace and Enlightenment and day 11 brings Fourth Divine Heavenly Realms of Divine Being into ones' Awareness unto day 13 and the final doorway. And according to the native american Hopi and Aztec people... There is prophesy surrounding the arrival of the "Blue Star."
Is this related to the 8th Mayan day sign symbol blue STAR "lamat"?
The very last 13-day week on the Mayan calendar is blue STAR lamat week. This most spiritually powerful 13-day week leads up to the last day of the calendar, situated on the end/beginning ~ alpha & omega ~ of the 260-day wavelength, at the junction of the most powerful time warp energy field.
If day #260, blue 13 LORD ajaw, calibrates on up to level 1,000, which is divinity, then the arrival of blue STAR week signals the coming of both the end and the beginning
; Easy Basics: Lesson 1
The Mayan Calendar with Rich Eagle
Introduction to the Roman and American Calendars Keys to the Roman 12-month ‘Gregorian’ calendar (Jan.-Dec.) For thousands of years people have been using a Roman calendar with the 12 named months of January through December. The 12-month calendar system was originally developed by a Greek man for the Roman Empire, and then it later became the official calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. The 12-month Roman calendar is a seasonal Sun calendar. It was, and still is, used to track the 365 and ¼ -days it takes our Earth to orbit once around our Sun. The rising and setting of the Sun on the horizon, especially if sighted correctly with stone markers, can identify the exact day of spring equinox and with it the return of the growing seasons, which is important to know especially when one is farming. The most recent version of the 12-month calendar, the 400+ years old Roman Catholic ‘Gregorian’ calendar, is actually just a slightly modified revision of the ‘Julian’ calendar, the second Roman Empire calendar system created in 46 BC. The Julian calendar was ordered into use by decree of Emperor Julius Caesar, in the year 709 of Rome (46 BC), as the official business and court calendar for his colossal Roman Empire. This new 12-month calendar system (with an extra day added in every four years) was brought to the attention of the Romans by a Greek man named “Sosigenes” Sosigenes had observed that every fourth year the rising and setting of the Sun at the winter solstice would arrive a day earlier than expected, as seen and marked on the horizon from previous winter solstices. He realized that the calculated length of each Earth ‘year’ was 365 days but was actually, in reality, about a quarter day, or 8 hours, longer. 365-days plus a quarter turn. So he developed a leap-year calendar that took into account that ‘extra day’ that needs to be added every four years, divided the year into 12 months, and accounted for the shorter winter season and the longer summer months by assigning 2 less days for February and 1 more for August. The Emperor Julius Caesar had known that the current Roman calendar system was not very accurate. The Roman calendar in use then, before 46 BC, did not even track the entire winter months! The Greek calendar maker did present his theory to the Roman courts. He discussed his new calendar, a 12-month calendar with the number of days in each month alternating and adjusting, along with his facts about that the Earths’ yearly 365-day cycle needing to be adjusted extra one day every four years. With this new calendar system it would allow the Romans to forecast, accurately predict and ‘control’ time. Special days could be planned and designated months in advance with exact accuracy. Julius Caesar issued the decree to implement the 12-month leap-year calendar system and he also named the calendar after himself. This new ‘Julian’ calendar reformatted the day-to-day life of everyday people within the Roman Empire. It re-set the marketplace days and the official court days, and the ‘holidays’ (or holy days). It created the idea of the 7-day week and ‘holy day’ each week on ‘Sunday.’ Caesar gave names to the days of the week and the 12 months of his new calendar after various Roman gods, goddesses, planets, numbers, a relative (and former Caesar), and an important Roman family clan. Here they are… NAMES OF THE 7 Days: tHE gREGORIAN & jULIAN CALENDARS (Latin = Old English = English) Dies Solis = Sun’s Day = Sunday Dies Lunae = Moon’s Day = Monday Dies Martis = Tiw’s Day = Tuesday Dies Mercurii = Woden’s Day = Wednesday Dies Jovis = Thor’s Day = Thursday Dies Veneris = Frigg’s Day = Friday Dies Saturni = Seterne’s Day = Saturday NAMES OF THE MONTH: tHE gREGORIAN & jULIAN CALENDARS January = Januarius. Janus - the two-faced god of doorways, beginnings, and endings. February = Februarius. Februa - festival of purification. March = Martius. Mars - planet and god. April = Aprilis. Aphrodite - the goddess of planet Venus. May = Maius. Maia - one of the seven Pleiadian sister goddesses. June = Junius. Juno - the god of Jupiter, and the name of a Roman clan. July = Julius. Julius Caesar - the Roman general and statesman. August = Augustus. Caesar Augustus - first Roman emperor, and nephew of Julius. September = September. Septem (seven in Latin) - seventh Roman month. October = October. Octo (‘eight’ in Latin) - eighth Roman month. November = November. Nove (‘nine’ in Latin) - ninth Roman month. December = December. Decem (‘ten’ in Latin) - tenth Roman month. But the Greek inspired Roman ‘Julian’ calendar system was still not quite exactly accurate.
One Earth Year = 365-days, 8-hours, 11-minutes and 14-seconds In the next century, in the year 730 the Anglo-Saxon monk St. Bede the Venerable told the Church of his discovery that the Earth year is actually 11-minutes and 14-seconds longer than the previously thought 365 and one-quarter days, and that the Julian calendar was now a couple of days off, a couple of days behind. But no one in the Church acted on his information. The ‘extra’ 11-minutes and 14-seconds each year continued to accumulate so that after another 800 years, by the mid-1500’s, the Julian calendar date count was 10 days off, in relation to marking the observable annual movements of the Sun. It would be like a date being written as March 11 when it was really March 21st. The Julian calendar was running 10 days behind its own conceived schedule. The adjusted Calendar of Pope Gregory the 13th Beginning in the mid-1520’s the European Spaniards, whose king of Spain had been sponsoring his armies of European men to “explore” and subjugate the newly ‘discovered’ American continent, began returning with looted ‘artifacts’ from the Aztec and Mayan cities and some were taken to Rome, usually by way of Jesuit missionary journeys. Sometime before the year 1572 a Jesuit astronomer by the name of “Clavius” took on the time problem that the Julian calendar was experiencing. Clavius attended the Roman Catholic Church courts of Pope Gregory the 13th in 1572 where he proposed that the Pope adjust and correct the Church calendar. Clavius must have described how that the 365+one-quarter day Julian leap-year calendar system had a very small problem: That each Earth year is actually 11 minutes and 14 seconds longer than 365.25 days; and that those yearly extra 11-minutes and 14-seconds keep adding up, so that after 128 years it totals up to one full day; and, so that is why the calendar is off now by 10 days. Clavius then explained his simple 3-part solution. (1) If the leap-year is omitted at the end of every 100 years, and (2) if every 400 years the leap-year day is left in, then the Church calendar could keep an accurate count over the next 20,000 years! And, (3) the calendar must be adjusted ten days forward. “In the year of Our Lord 1582,” ten years later, Pope Gregory the 13th issued a decree officially resetting the Roman Catholic Church calendar forward ten days, so that after October 4 came October 15. Those two days would have been interesting to experience! This realigned the Church calendar so that the spring and autumn equinox and the summer and winter solstice points would appear again on the appropriate calendar days. This 10-day adjustment was very important to the Church for the setting of certain religious ceremonial dates, notably Easter which depends upon the calculation of the first full moon after the spring equinox. And so began the ‘new’ Gregorian calendar count of the days… the calendar of Pope Gregory. Various countries around the world began using the new readjusted Church calendar count over the next 100 years. There was probably some resistance to the changing of the dates by those using the old Julian calendar count, for all different types of personal and legal reasons. 230 years later, the growing English colonies in America ‘officially’ changed over to the new Gregorian calendar count in 1752. The Ancient 260-day Calendar of the Americas By the time of the new ‘Gregorian’ calendar in the year 1582 the 260-day calendar (the “Tzolkin” in Maya language--pronounced ZOL-kin), had already been in use for thousands of years throughout the Guatemala highlands and Mexican Yucatan lowlands. Before even the establishment of Rome as a town, and two-thousand years before the arrival of the Europeans, the 260-day calendar had been invented and in use. The Aztec and Hopi version of it was used throughout Mexico and the southwestern United States by the 1200’s. There is also reported evidence showing that the Indonesian island people of Bali share similar customs of the Maya-Aztec peoples. The Mayan 260-day calendar pre-dates the Aztec 260-day calendar by thousands of years. The Mayan (and Aztec) calendar is a 260-day calendar that weaves together two basic time cycles. One of the two time cycles is the Mayan ‘month,’ 20 days long with 20 unique SYMBOLS assigned to each of the 20 days of the Mayan month. The other smaller time cycle is the Mayan ‘week,’ 13 days long and associated with the NUMBERS 1 through 13, drawn using dot and bar notations. One dot equal 1, one bar equals 5, and one shell equals 20. Within each 260-day calendar cycle are 20 weeks. (20 x 13 = 260) Each of the 20 Mayan 13-day weeks signifies a unique spiritual journey of 13 days. These two cycles, in combination, create the 260-day sacred Mayan calendar and its storytelling. 260-Day Time Tracking with Venus – The ‘Twin Star’ Many cultures around the world noticed the rising and setting patterns of Venus, but the Olmec and Maya cultures of Mexico and the Guatemala Highlands in Central America were the first to create a 260-day Venus calendar, regarded now as the most accurate in the world. When the planet Venus rises in the East, in the pre-dawn skies as the “Morning Star,” it is the 3rd brightest light in the sky after the Sun and the Moon. Venus rides bright in the early morning pre-dawn eastern skies for 236 days or approximately 8 months. Then Venus disappears behind the Sun for 90 days, slowly spinning away, farther and farther from Earth, hidden away from view behind the other side of the Sun. After those 90-days circling unseen around the backside of the Sun, Venus can be seen rising again just after sunset in the West twilight skies. It is there, in the early evening western night skies that Venus will shine for 250 days as the “Evening Star.” Then every night just after sunset in the western skies, we see Venus getting brighter and brighter as it moves towards Earth, closer and closer on its approach towards us. Then, just as it gets really bright, Venus disappears for 8 days. For those 8 days Venus moves hidden across the front face of the Sun, between the Sun and the Earth. It’s at these moments, every 19 months, when our nearest neighborly planet Venus passes in close by Earth. After 8 days transiting in front of the Sun, unseen by the strong daylight glare, Venus reappears, at dawn, near the edge of the Sun, at sunrise in the East, and again as the Morning Star, and swiftly soon the brightest light before dawn. These rising and setting patterns of the planet Venus are repeated on average about every 584.92 days, or every 19 months. These Venus fly-by patterns repeat exactly five times every 8 years, during five different months of the year. Let’s examine the 8-year pulse, the 8-year rhythm, of Venus. It is a VERY important rhythm. Indeed, it is a rhythm that we can connect to the musical scale, a truly sacred rhythm that holds the key to understanding the musical encoding of time in our solar system. If we could super-speedup time and watch the orbits of the planets around the Sun from high above our solar system, we would see that over every 8-year period of time Venus exactly aligns between the Sun and the Earth 5 times, creating a spiraling 5-pointed star pattern around the Sun. A five-pointed star pattern is exactly the same kind of pattern designs detected within the double-helix spiral blueprints of genetic DNA, in the cells of all living creatures on Earth. The key to the accuracy of the Maya calendar is that it is based upon the exact rising and setting dates of the planet Venus, as was recorded within the ancient Maya painted paper sacred texts. Maya astronomers recorded the exact Mayan dates that Venus would appear and disappear in the sky over 8-year cycles of time. Whole tables of calculations concerning Venus and the Mayan symbol for ‘Ahau’ (LORD) are documented in the Mayan papers. Mayan symbols representing the planet Venus are drawn placed next to the Mayan calendar day of Ahau. So, Mayan calendar accuracy Rule #1 was: Every 8 years the first sighting of Venus rising in the eastern dawn sky should occur on the Mayan day Ahau (LORD). The first sight of rising of Venus on the specific Mayan calendar day of Ahau every eight years determines the correct Maya calendar day for accuracy. Like the Gregorian and Julian calendars the Mayan calendar must be also be adjusted, except that one day must be subtracted every ten years. Because of the length of the Venus year, 225 days (actually 224.7 days), those partial missing days of the Venus year every year (.3) begin to add up so that the Venus-Sun alignments occur 3 days earlier every 10 years. So even with the 2 extra leap-year days added in every 8 years an additional day must be subtracted to the keep the Mayan calendar aligned to the rising of Venus on Ahau (LORD) days. Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Venus Days .3 .6 .9 1.2 1.5 1.8 2.1 2.4 2.7 3.0 This then raises challenging questions, such as: How can one subtract one day? Where does that Mayan day go? And just WHEN does the adjustment take place if needed? We must realize that the 260-day calendar is really tracking an invisible ‘vibrating energy field’ that the planets are always moving through and since the planets do not have exact circular orbital patterns, the orbital revolutions we observe mathematically have variations that do not overtly appear at first as simple Earth time calculation formulas and so we have to adjust the calendars to compensate. It is an energy field that is being tracked and it is actually a little less than 260 days in duration. So little by little every day, every month and every year the Mayan calendar slowly slips backward so that for instance the Mayan New Year appears now in mid-January rather than in March as it did in the 1500’s.
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