Presentation 1

 The Mayan Calendar is credited with predicting the end of the world.
This is utter and unadulterated bullshit. 

  Now, it might be the end of the "Whirled"; but only in the sense that a cycle of star patterns has come to an end.  Every 5128 years, this pattern repeats.   Each segment of this cycle is exactly 144,000 solar days in length.   Each 144,000 day cycle is called a Baktun.   Of the many varied calendar counts of this famous system, it is the Baktuns which this page decodes.

  Each step of the cycle represents the location of the Milky Way's Galactic Center in relation to a fixed point on Earth.    There are 4 specific points of reference that the Baktuns track.   When the Galactic center is on the horizon (eastern & western) at the apex (above the North Pole) of the Earth's Meridian and the Nadir (below the South Pole) of the Earth's Meridian. 

  The following images represent the visual differences between each of the segments of the cycle.    The BLUE line in each image represents either the Earth's Equatorial horizon line (horizontal) or the Earth's Meridian line (vertical).  The two YELLOW lines in each image identify the Galactic Equator and Galactic Meridian which intersect at the Galactic Center.  Each image is generated from the day and year indicated, precisely at midnight,  and from the location of Tikal, Guatemala. 

  I have searched the internet and several dozen Mayan 'translation' books.
 I have found no references to this understanding anywhere.. I believe that I am the first person to correctly demonstrate this understanding.

The Mayan calendar tracks the movements of the heavens in relation to the Mayan's view from Central America. In the Mayan mythologies; the West is the "land of the dead". This is associated with death because of the daily sunset. Like very many other ancient cultures (Egyptian, Sumerian, Chinese, Inca) myths, each night the sun must travel through the land of the dead to arise again in the East. This understanding is fundamental in the explanation of why the Mayans (and other astronomy based mythologies) feel that the 2012 period represents a "death" or end of time.

The astronomy that predicts our Solar system's crossing of our Milky Way galaxy's equator is correct. However there is no specific demarcation, and it is a several HUNDRED year process. It is the end of this process that concerns the ancients.
 

 The Mayan Baktuns, are a measure tracking the motion of the Galactic Center in the sky. The 13th of which is to BEGIN 12-23-2012.
(NOT 12-21-12!!! The predominant Calendar Correlation translation of 584,283 is incorrect.  The correct calendar translation Correlation is 584,285).

The Milky Way (as viewed from the ground) is considered the Tree of Life or /The White Way by the Mayans. In the Myths it is this Tree of Life that gives life to the world.

  There are 4 specific positions that are being tracked. These are: The Zenith, Western Horizon, The Nadir and the Eastern Horizon.

The Zenith is the spot in the sky that is directly above the North Pole. The top of the Earth's Meridian. The Nadir is the opposite, in the sky above the South Pole. Due to the Sun's porporsing (like a Dolphin or Porpoise swimming) motion as it revolves around the Galaxy: from the ground , the galactic center seems to cycle through the heavens from Zenith to W. Horizon to Nadir and E. Horizon.

This cycle of "East, Top, West, Bottom" mimics the daily cycle of the sun and as such, has the same types of mythological associations of a journey through the land of the dead. 

12-23-12 will mark the crossing of the Nadir (the pit of the land of the dead). The next expected Baktun position of the Galactic Center should be on the eastern horizon in the year 2407; however because of the crossing of the galactic equator, the skies will "turn upside down" and the "Top, West, Bottom, East" cycle is reversed (remember is is all about how it looks from the ground, nothing actually flips over).

Beginning in 2012 the reverse cycle begins and at the end of this 13th baktun period (3-29-2407) the Galactic Center will not rise in the East as expected, but on the Western Horizon in a "West, Top, East, Bottom" rotation. 
(This revelation should end the argument of if there are 13 or 20 ba'ktuns to 1 pik'tun.  The answer is 13 because of this association with the astronomical cycle:  see below).

That the Tree of Life/Galactic Center did not make it's crossing through the land of the dead and has re-arisen in the West "must signify" that the Galaxy/Tree of Life has died, and time has ended.
THIS WOULD BE THE POINT CONSIDERED THE END OF TIME/WORLD. 

The whole thing is about astronomy. Unfortunately, nothing "magic" is going to happen. Lots of con-men are going to get rich, capitalizing on the uneducated and paranoids of our culture, but plan your earnings and savings for life long beyond 2013


 

The BaK'tuns of the Mayan Calendar




the First Time
Mayan Date: 0,0,0,0,0
8/11/3114 BC
Exactly Midnight
Western Horizon View From Tikal, Guatemala
The Galactic Center is setting exactly on the Equator.


144,000 days later....

1st BaKtun
Mayan Date: 1,0,0,0,0
11/15/2720 BC
 Exactly Midnight
Nadir View From Tikal, Guatemala
The Galactic Center is exactly on the nadir of the Meridian.


144,000 days later....

2nd BaKtun
Mayan Date: 2,0,0,0,0
2/22/2325 BC
  Exactly Midnight
Eastern Horizon View From Tikal, Guatemala
The Galactic Center is rising exactly on the Equator.


144,000 days later....

3rd BaKtun
Mayan Date: 3,0,0,0,0
 5/21/1931 BC
Exactly Midnight
Apex View From Tikal, Guatemala
The Galactic Center is exactly on the Apex of the Meridian.


144,000 days later....

4th BaKtun
Mayan Date: 4,0,0,0,0
8/16/1537 BC
Exactly Midnight
Western Horizon View From Tikal, Guatemala
The Galactic Center is setting exactly on the Equator.

 


 


5th BaKtun
Mayan Date: 5,0,0,0,0
 11/25/1143 BC
 Exactly Midnight
Nadir View From Tikal, Guatemala
The Galactic Center is exactly on the nadir of the Meridian.


 

144,000 days later....

6th BaKtun
Mayan Date: 6,0,0,0,0
3/6/748  BC
  Exactly Midnight
Eastern Horizon View From Tikal, Guatemala
The Galactic Center is rising exactly on the Equator.

 


144,000 days later...

7th BaKtun
Mayan Date: 7,0,0,0,0
6/1/354 BC
  Exactly Midnight
Apex View From Tikal, Guatemala
The Galactic Center is exactly on the Apex of the Meridian.


144,000 days later...


8th BaKtun
Mayan Date: 8,0,0,0,0
8-25-0041 AD
Exactly Midnight
Western Horizon View From Tikal, Guatemala
The Galactic Center is setting exactly on the Equator.

 


144,000 days later...

9th BaKtun
Mayan Date: 9,0,0,0,0
12-6-435 AD
 Exactly Midnight
Nadir View From Tikal, Guatemala
The Galactic Center is exactly on the nadir of the Meridian.


144,000 days later...

10th BaKtun
Mayan Date: 10,0,0,0,0
3-20-830 AD
Exactly Midnight
Eastern Horizon View From Tikal, Guatemala
The Galactic Center is rising exactly on the Equator.


144,000 days later...

11th BaKtun
Mayan Date: 11,0,0,0,0
 6-12-1224 AD
Exactly Midnight
Apex View From Tikal, Guatemala
The Galactic Center is exactly on the Apex of the Meridian.


144,000 days later...

12th BaKtun
Mayan Date: 12,0,0,0,0
9/15/1618 AD
Exactly Midnight
Western Horizon View From Tikal, Guatemala
The Galactic Center is setting exactly on the Equator.

 


144,000 days later...

13th BaKtun
Mayan Date: 13,0,0,0,0
12/23/2012 AD
 Exactly Midnight
Nadir View From Tikal, Guatemala
The Galactic Center is exactly on the nadir of the Meridian.

and the beginning of the 13th BaKtun 
is not the end of the world; it is the beginning of the last baKtun, 
which when it is completed in 144,000 days 
will represent the end of the whirled.


Now... why the Mayans thought the World was coming to an end.....

The former pattern would predict that the Galactic center should be rising in the East; however, it is not.  It is instead, rising in the West  (see below), remaining "in the land of the dead". 


14th BaKtun - Eastern Horizon View
Mayan Date: 1, 0,0,0,0,0
3-28-2407 ad
(Yes, there is now an extra zero.. 13 ba'ktuns to a Pi'ktun,
the odometer has rolled over and a new "First Time" begins)

The former pattern would indicate that the Galactic center should be rising in the East; however, it is not.  It is instead,


14th BaKtun (Western Horizon view)
3-29-2407 ad

The Tree of Life rising in the West, remaining "in the land of the dead". 


and.. just to demonstrate the cyclic validity of this decipherment..
144,000 days later....

15th BaKtun (Apex View)
Mayan Date: 1, 1,0,0,0,0
6-30-2801 ad
Exactly Midnight
Apex View From Tikal, Guatemala
The Galactic Center is exactly on the Apex of the Meridian.

The Tree of life has risen in the West, and is now at the Apex in the sky, it will continue on to set in the east and eventually rise again in the west, continuing this cycle until it reaches 1,13,0,0,0 ( 2/24/9898 ad)
and the whole thing reverses again to a cycle that rises in the East
and sets in the west.  Not yet convinced??

How about a look at "The Codex Fejérváry-Mayer" which is an Aztec Codex of central Mexico. It is one of the rare pre-Hispanic manuscripts that have survived the Spanish conquest of Mexico. As a typical calendar codex tonalamatl dealing with the sacred Aztec calendar – thetonalpohualli – it is grouped in the Codex Borgia group. Its elaboration is typically pre-Columbian: it is made on deerskin parchment folded accordion-style into 23 pages. It measures 16.2 centimetres by 17.2 centimetres and is 3.85 metres long.

The earliest history of the codex is unknown. It is named after Gabriel Fejérváry (1780–1851), a Hungarian collector, and 
Joseph Mayer (1803–1886), an English antiquarian who bought the codex from Fejérváry. In 2004 Maarten Jansen and Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez proposed that it be given the indigenous name Codex Tezcatlipoca, from the Nahuatl name of the godTezcatlipoca (who is shown, with black-and-yellow facial striping, in the centre of its first page), although it is not certain that its creators were Nahuas.[1]     (Thanks Wikipedia!!)

In this image we see repeating patterns of 13 and 20.
While this image is currently associated with
the 260 day cycle of the "Haab"
which is identified to track the cycle of Venus,
like the greater calendar, this too has several meanings.
Count the little dots. 
Each section of dots number 13.
There are 20 bars or poles (or sets) of 13 dots.
we also see the 4 quadrants of the Mayan mythology, which represent the
4 orientations of the compass, and of the 4 Ba'Ktuns positions, with the Tree of Life presented in each.  Notice in each of the 4 quadrant images, in each, the Tree of Life has a bird sitting at the intersection of the "trunk & branches", each bird if facing in the direction of the movement of the current cycle.  Rising East, North, setting West, and South. 


Additionally, I challenge the idea that the 20 Baktuns compose 1 Piktun.
I support an interpretation of 13 Baktuns in each Piktun.
13 Baktun = 1,872,000 days  = 5128 solar years
5 Piktuns = 25,640 solar years
The Precession of the Equinox = 25,765 solar years.
Subsequently 20 Piktuns (5 Piktuns per Precession) = 4 Precessions of the Equinox.  
20 Piktuns are known as a "Kalabtun", which, considering the relationship  observed regarding the 4-cycle sequence of the Baktuns, the correlation seems obvious.

Incredibly, if one operates from a mathematical foundation of 13 baktuns
per Piktun and 20 piktuns per Kalabtun  consistently utilizing 20 and 13
as the bases for each larger increment of the calendar, it allows one to find a number that is precisely 93,312,000,000 days or 255,479,796 solar years.
Which is an astronomically large number, not unrelated to the Galactic Year  (orbit of sun around entire galaxy) of 250,000,000 years - a figure which is yet still of some scientific debate.   

   This brings into the realm of possibility the conception that the Mayan culture understood the nature of the Universe in a much more significant and substantial way than previously considered.   

Particularly, when a (yet unnamed) calendar number 5 decimal places larger than the Kalabtun, calculates to a figure equivalent  to 16,400,000,000 years.  Could the Mayans have understood and quantified the age of the Universe itself?  

Pretty amazing huh? 

As we cross the galactic plane, our view of the cosmos changes perspective a little bit; however, nothing cosmic or calamitous is going to happen.
 

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Thoughts, Challenges and bomb threats to : David Atriedes

 

 

End of presentation # 1.  
Be on the look-out for the revelation of the identity of the Mayan "Night Gods" aka the "Lords of the Night" in presentation # 2
 

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