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27 pages of results. 161. The Calendar [Journals] [Aeon]
... situation would have existed every 312 years. If it was as detrimental as their interest indicates, then the effect of one such event would have lasted for one or more generations. Such an event would then render the Dresden Codex useless, which might explain why it was left in the cupboard when the Spaniards burnt the other books. Other Mayan Calendars If surprise attended the unique relationship of Venus as indicated by the Dresden Codex, what enthusiasm should we reserve for the Codex if the other major planets can also be integrated into their calendar systems? Not only does the theory proposed here hold up for the Maya Sacred Year of 260 days, it also holds up for two other ...
162. On testing The Polar configuration [Journals] [Aeon]
... (146) The subject is not our terrestrial world but the created land of the gods. The Ethiopic Book of Enoch reads: "I saw the four winds. . .these are the pillars of the earth." (147) In architectural renderings of Eden's four rivers, they too appear as pillars. (148) The Mayan Bacabs, identified as four streams of water, are the "four props of heaven." (149) In Hawaiian myth, the life elements radiate to four corners of heaven by means of the "four spirits," Tane, Rono, Tanaoroa and Tu-called "the Four male Pillars of Creation." (150) This ...
... hallmark of this whole subject."24 Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend in their book Hamlet's Mill, having made years of extensive study and analysis of ancient astronomy, make clear the view that speculation of the kind in which Sagan indulges is of little value. They state: '. .. it is an unsound approach to Mayan astronomy [or any ancient astronomy] to start from preconceived convictions about what the Maya's [or other ancients] could have known and what they could not have known: one should, instead, draw conclusion only from the data as given. That this had to be stressed explicitly reveals the steady decline of scientific ethics." 25 ...
164. The Cosmic Mountain [Books]
... god's lower limbs if the sun were joined to the mount only at the moment of sunrise? The true light god does not move, but remains fixed at the summit. The Single Leg Reflecting the assimilation of the great god to the cosmic mountain is the repeated characterization of the Mount as the god's single "leg." The ancient Mayans knew no greater god than Huracan, "the Heart of Heaven." In the Popul Vuh, the sacred book of the Quiche Maya, Huracan presides over the creation, bringing forth the first dawn. (214) The name Huracan means literally "One-Leg." Goetz and Morley render his name as "flash of a leg ...
165. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Five [Books]
... times in WIC. Lewis Spence, in his little book "The Popol Vuh" (1908), wrote of Brasseur that he was "a profound student of American archeology and languages" but that his "euhemeristic interpretations of the Mexican myths are as worthless as the priceless materials he unearthed are valuable." His attempt to translate a Mayan document known as the Troano Codex seems to have been particularly disastrous. According to de Camp & de Camp, in "Citadels of Mystery" (Fontana 1979 ed., p.10), Brasseur derived "a rambling account of a volcanic catastrophe" from a text which later turned out to be nothing more than a treatise ...
166. The Ninsianna tablets, a preliminary reconstruction [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Venus apart (= approximately 8 years), making it a near certainty that Venus was their prime cause. All scenarios tested have produced a rather weaker and less well defined deceleration at Event 9 (conceivably because the half-way point between the two other decelerations is associated with a superior conjunction instead of an inferior one). Comparisons with the Mayan Codices (Dresden and Paris), especially Gregory M. Severin's excellent analysis of the animals which make up the Mayan zodiac [17], could well lead on to further identification of the parts of the sky in which the critical conjunctions occurred. In passing, it is also interesting to note that the rate of roll of the ...
167. An Integrated Model for an Earthwide Event at 2300 BC. Part I: The Archaeological Evidence [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Machallila on the coast at about 2300 BC and the Early Espejo somewhat inland at about 2200 BC. Both of these dates are based on artifact similarities with the incumbent Valdivia C culture in Ecuador which has been radiocarbon dated fairly reliably [134]. In Central America, calibrated radiocarbon dating at Los Naranjos, Honduras places the beginning of the Mayan Jaral phase at about 2200 BC. Los Naranjos is an important Mayan ceremonial centre. Interestingly, a naturally burnt level was found under the first occupation level of the Jaral phase [135]. At this same time at about 2200 BC, there is palaeolinguistic evidence that the proto-Mayan language group began to break up; a group ultimately ...
168. Chapter23_end
... by sober and prosaic reasons, it remained to him first and last a "symbolic form," much as the Seven-ringed cup of Jamshyd, the magic Caldron of Koridwen, as the Cromlech of Stonehenge. The Untuning of the World, the dissolution of the Cosmos, was to come only with Descartes. It was said earlier concerning the Mayan astronomers that the connections were what counted. In the archaic universe all things were signs and signatures of each other, inscribed in the hologram, to be divined subtly. This was also the philosophy of the Pythagoreans, and it presides over all of classical language, as distinct from contemporary language. This was pointed out perceptively by a ...
169. Radiocarbon Dating The Extinction [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... elephants in ancient Central America did not then and still do not fit into the prescribed scheme of history, but because these carvings were undeniably authentic, everything possible and impossible was immediately put forward to explain them away'.... "What clinched the matter, however, was a careful search for and reappraisal of the extant original Mayan Codices-hieroglyphic texts on scrolls.... Brought to light were several dozen quite obvious elephant symbols,...."66 It has been suggested that ancient travelers from India brought the information to ancient Mayan culture which then represented the elephant. But somehow no depictions of water buffalo or the peacocks, were brought from India. ...
170. From Myth to a Physical Model [Journals] [Aeon]
... "born from the jar," while the Iranian Fravashi, Khumbya, is "the son of the jar." Muslim tradition echoes this theme in declaring that the soul of Mohammed preexisted in a vase of light in the world of spirits. Zelia Nuttall's study of Mexican symbolism confirmed the very same idea: the sacred man-child of the Mayans emerges from a vase. (Appropriately, the Mayan vase signified the "navel or center" of heaven, according to Nuttall.) The same symbolism of the vase has been documented in both China and the Americas by Carl Hentze and others. Presented below are the two most common Egyptian versions of the vase: Egyptian Vase Hieroglyphs ...
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