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Title: Maya Mysteries


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Maya Mysteries
  • Cosmogenesis

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Calendar Round
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Long Count Units
  • 1 kin (day) Kin
  • 20 in Vinal
  • 360 kin (approx 1 solar year) Tun
  • 7,200 kin (approx 19 solar years) Katun
  • 144,000 kin (approx 394 solar years) Baktun
  • 2,880,000 kin (approx 7,900 solar years)
    Calabtun
  • 1,152,000,000 kin (3,152,000 years) Kincheltun
  • 23,040,000,000 kin (63,040,000 years) Alautun

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The Fourth Sun
  • 13 baktuns make up one sun or age of the world
  • We are currently in the 13th baktun of the fourth
    sun
  • The age of the fourth sun began on August 11th,
    3113 BCE and will end on December 21st , 2012 CE
  • What is the significance of this end date?

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Ahau Pacal Votan
  • Pacal, through his divine kingship represents the
    sun
  • The world tree represents the milky way and the
    ecliptic
  • Pacal is entering the underworld

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Chart 1 Full view
Chart 2 30 Degrees
Chart 3 5 degrees
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Long Count and Seasonal Quarters
  • Long Count katun beginnings will conjunct
    sequential seasonal quarters every 1.7.0.0.0 days
    (194400 days). This is an easily tracked Long
    Count interval. Starting with the katun beginning
    of 650 B.C.
  • Long Count Which Quarter? Year 6.5.0.0.0 Fall 650
    B.C.
  • 7.12.0.0.0 Winter 118 B.C.
  • 8.19.0.0.0 Spring 416 A.D.
  • 10.6.0.0.0 Summer 948 A.D.
  • 11.13.0.0.0 Fall 1480 A.D.
  • 13.0.0.0.0 Winter 2012 A.D.
  • Note that the last date is not only a katun
    beginning, but a baktun beginning as well. It is,
    indeed, the end date of 2012.6

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Crystal Skulls
  • Mysterious origins
  • Carved against the grain
  • Nearly anatomically perfect
  • Supernatural Phenomena relating to Crystal Skulls
  • Many crystal skulls found all over Mesoamerica
  • Some considered ancient, others crafted recently
  • Quiche Maya Myth of the 13 Skulls

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Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull
The Damned thing just shouldnt be
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