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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