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Understanding
Sacred Geometry and the Mayan Calendar
By
Jean Adrienne
The Sacred Spiritual Calendar of the Maya is known as the Tzolkin. It
is a part of one of the four ancient Mayan codices that survived the
Spanish conquest of Central America. The Conquistadors destroyed most
of the culture of the conquered lands, but these four books were sent
to Spain when all other sacred Mayan writings were burned.
The Tzolkin describes the prophecy of time, the cosmic plan and the
evolution of human consciousness from the scientific perspective of
an ancient civilization that observed the cosmos for centuries. For
those who desire to study its deeper meanings, it allows a new understanding
of what it means to be a human being, and it assists us in knowing our
life purpose and direction.
The ancient Mayan calendar was the cosmology through which these people
understood their reality, and that they were living in a universe of
holy time under the existence of a God and a divine plan of creation.
The ancient Maya were able to see special rhythmic pulses of light and
dark, which they calibrated into seven lights and six darks, or thirteen
cycles of divine creation. They called these Gods or Sacred Energies
(Uinals) Procreation, Wind, Sunrise, Dance, Water, Moon, Rain, Intoxication,
Fire, Death, Flowers, Medicine and Highest Manifestation. To the Maya,
this meant that all cycles of physical and spiritual time in the universe
were interconnected. Today, these sequences of waves and frequencies
are known as biorhythms, but the Maya were aware of them 3000 years
ago. They codified the changing energies generated by the binary sequences
of light and dark into a spiritual tool providing insight into that
purely spiritual nature that influences and shapes human consciousness.
They found that Spirit is more important than matter and that consciousness
ultimately shapes the physical.
There are twenty days in a month on this calendar, with each day (Nahual)
equated to a natural phenomenon or totem animal. Thirteen (the Sacred
Energies) times twenty (days) equals 260 sacred days in the Mayan year
(also nine Gregorian months or the gestation time of a baby.) The calendar
relates to the human body as well. There are thirteen major joints and
twenty digits. There are also twenty amino acids in the body.
The Mayan people built unique four-sided pyramids throughout their lands.
These pyramids reflected both sacred geometry and their calendar. The
four sides represented the seasons. On each side of the pyramid are
ninety one steps. This number represents the addition of one plus two
plus three, etc., through thirteen. Multiply ninety one by four (for
the four sides) and you get three hundred sixty four. At the top of
each pyramid is a final step, making three hundred sixty five, or the
number of days in another Mayan calendar, the Habb, which was the agricultural
calendar that they used. This one equates to our Gregorian calendar,
and is based on the movement of the earth around the sun. The Tzolkin
calendar, which carries the feminine energy, moves twenty times faster
than the Habb/Gregorian, sun-based calendars, which carry the masculine
energy. Again looking at the pyramids, the angle of the ascent increases
by a factor of twenty, and relates to a cycle of time. The closer to
the top of the pyramid, the faster the cycles of time appear, moving
to zero point at the top.
The third calendar they used was the Tun. It consisted of 360 days and
five unlucky Uayeb days. This calendar has eighteen months, each with
its own glyph or Tun sign. These three calendars are interconnected
and work together. It takes fifty two years to complete a full cycle
of the three interconnected calendars. The Maya believed that when you
attained fifty-two years of age, you had achieved all of life's
goodness and difficulties and you became an elder of the community.
The thirteen creative energies repeat over and over. Every person is
born with one of these creative energies as their primary purpose. These
unique energies describe a person's distinctive traits and talents,
not unlike our astrological signs.
This summer's Venus transit is very important to the Mayan calendar.
Venus equates to Kulkulcan, or the Christ/Son energy. The Father energy
is represented by the Sun, so with this transit the Son (Hijo) passed
in front of the Father (Padre) signaling the beginning of a spiritual
explosion which will become manifest in 2005. Those who study this calendar
believe that this “new” spiritual reality will be that of
a more personal religion, as the individual begins to awaken to his/her
own Divinity and finds the Christ within. There are those that speculate
that this is the sound of the trumpet, heralding the end of time as
we know it. Certainly the Mayan calendar ends in the year 2012, but
my belief is that this does not mean the end of life on this planet.
I see this time as the beginning to our opening to Choice. We now can
choose to raise our vibration to match that of our beloved planet and
awaken to our power as creators. OR NOT – it's up to each of
us!
Jean
Adrienne provides Mayan astrology readings, karmic clearings, and workshops,
and is the author of Soul Adventures and developer of InnerSpeak. Contact
her at 404.934.0714 or jeanadrienne@mindspring.com.
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