Who Are the Mayans? part 2

Between 2500 BC and AD 250, the Mayan civilization was the most recognizable and developing bunch of humanity on the face of the earth. They lasted roughly 700 years before disappearing as part of a major force in the planet. That's not to say, they all died out, for there are Mayans alive today.

The ancient Maya civilization mainly shared a religious belief, operating on several different languages. And although sharing the same political belief, battles between cities were frequent, also noted were human sacrifice that was not something rare. The Mayans are famed for their three separate calendars, and their method for keeping track of time are very long and complicated. The three calendars were that of the Haab calendar, the Tzolkin which was used mainly for ceremonial purposes, and then the Long Count, used primarily for historical purposes considered to hold the predictions for the end of a Long Cycle. Because after 5,125 years, the Mayan Long Count calendar ends in December,2012. There are also nine writings, which contribute to the predictions of the calendar that were done by the Mayans and Spanish beliefs, deriving from the 15th and 16th centuries. Chilam Balam is what they call it.

If the alignment of the Sun with the center of the Milky Way happens, as the Mayans predict -- they mean that the winter solstice, elliptical equator and the galactic equator should become aligned, and the world will witness a coincidence of multiple heavenly bodies in the same celestial longitude, and this will be an event that will happen for the first time in 26,000 years. Astronomers have agreed that this astronomical event may be taking place on such a date.

One other significant interpretation derived from a Mayan Calendar prediction is that there have been four past Sun cycles which had vanished at the end of their cycle, causing great destruction to the world. According to the calendar we are at the moment within the 4th Sun cycle, which started 5,106 years ago, and this is predicted to come to an end on Dec. 21, 2012, in which case, it is believed that it shall cause destruction just like the previous four sun cycle ends have. However, some scientists believe that the destruction caused might not be the end of the world as we know it, but perhaps a form of destruction that will cause catastrophes within the world to change it.

Carlos Barrios, an historian and anthropologist, is reputed to have said that people write about prophesy in the name of Maya. They say that the world will end in Dec 2012 and Barrios claims that the Mayan elders are angry about this. According to them the world will not end. It will be transformed. There is in fact, a difference.

The Mayans had an amazing understanding of mathematics, and astrology which is why faith is being put in them for these predictions. Supposedly, they predicted the invasions of foreigners into their land, in the correct year that the Spanish did actually invade. However, if this was true why wouldn’t they have done something to stop it? You’ll know why in a little while.

The Mayan comprehension of time, seasons, such as the lunar cycles, the Solstices and Equinoxes, has proven to be accurate, vast and sophisticated. The Maya developed 17 different calendars some of them claiming to chart time accurately over a span of more than ten million years. The particular Mayan Calendar that has steadily drawn global attention since 1987, is called the Tzolkin or Long Count. The calendar was derived ages ago and based on the cycle of the Pleiades. As such, it is held sacred.

With indigenous calendars, the native Mayans have kept track of important turning points in history. For example, the daykeepers who studied them identified one important day in the year One Reed, Ce Acatel, as it was called. That was the day when an important ancestor was prophesied to return, “coming like a butterfly.” In western calendar, the One Reed date correlates to Easter Sunday, April 21, 1519, the day that Hernando Cortez and his fleet of 11 Spanish galleons arrived from the East at what is today called Vera Cruz, Mexico.

When the Spanish ships came toward the shore, the native people were waiting and watching to see how it would go. The billowing sails of the ships did remind the people of butterflies skimming the surface. See what the image of “butterfly” mean in esoteric language. Used as a symbol of transformation, the caterpillar is seen as it wriggles out of its larvae as if to die, but in truth, the ugly caterpillar becomes a stunning, radiant butterfly. A human being is thus compared to a struggling catterpillar as it goes into the metamorphosis of a beautiful butterfly in its spiritual ascent to the higher realms of consciousness.

This event initiated a new era, one that was anticipated through the calendars. The Maya termed the new era: the Nine Bolomtikus, or 9 years each representing 9 vast cycles of time. See the image of the Pyramid and what the 9 levels of the pyramid symbolize as given in Part 1 of the Mayan Calendar of my website “Forest of Stars.”

As the 9 cycles unfolded, the Mayan land and freedom were at times taken away from the people. Disease and disrespect dominated. What happened with the arrival of Cortez lasted until Aug 16, 1987 – a date people refer to as Harmonic Convergence. Millions of people took advantage of the latter date to share in ceremonies at sacred sites, praying for a smooth transition to a new era, the World of the Fifth Sun.

From that 1987 date until now, Mr. Barrios says,” We have been in a time when the right arm of the materialistic world is disappearing, slowly but inexorably. We are at the cusp of the era when peace begins, and people live in harmony with Mother Earth. We are no longer in the World of the Fourth Sun, but we are not yet in the World of the Fifth Sun. This is the time in-between, the transition period. As through transitions there is a colossal, global convergence of environmental destruction, social chaos, wars, and on going Earth changes.”

Thus, Carlos Barrios says, we have foreseen the rise of a New Earth via the simple, spiral mathematics of the Mayan Calendar. It will change. Everything will change. It will be the start of a new era resulting from and signified by solar meridian crossing the galactic equator, and the Earth aligning itself at the center of the galaxy of the Milky Way. And the World of the Fourth Sun will indeed end. The result is true to the idea of Transformation – Death and Rebirth. The key is not on focusing on death, but on the rebirth!!


Then the Cosmic Cross or the Cross of Christ will appear as the Sun conjoins the intersection of the Milky Way and the plane of the ecliptic. This Cosmic Cross is considered to be the embodiment of the Sacred Tree of Life, a tree remembered in all of the world’s spiritual traditions. Some observers say this alignment with the heart of the galaxy in 2012, will open a channel for cosmic energy through the Earth, cleansing it and all that dwells upon it, raising all to a higher vibration.

This process has already begun, Mr. Barrios suggests. “Change is accelerating now and it will continue to accelerate. “ If the people on earth can get through the 2012 date in good shape, without having destroyed too much of Earth, Mr Barrios says, we will rise to a new, higher level of life.”
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