Mayan Prophecies and Calendar


The Maya kept time with a combination of several cycles that meshed together to mark the movement of the sun, moon and Venus. Their ritual calendar, known as the Tzolkin, was composed of 260 days. It pairs the numbers from 1 through 13 with a sequence of the 20 day-names shown below. It works something like our days of the week pairing with the numbers of the month. Thus you might have 1-Imix (similar to Sunday the 1st) followed by 2-Ik (just as you would have Monday the 2nd). When you get to 13-Ben, the next day would start the numbers over again, thus 1-Ix, 2-Men etc. It will take 260 days before the cycle gets back to 1-Imix again (13 x 20).

The symbols shown below represent the 20 day-names and are identified with their Yucatec names, pronunciation and approximate translation. The name, meaning and symbol can vary in different Maya languages. Also, each day can be represented with more elaborate glyphs known as "Head Variants" - a formal writing system which can be loosely compared to our script alphabet versus our print alphabet.

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 IMIX
ee mesh
waterlily, world		  IK'
eek'
wind		 AK'BAL
ok bol 
night-house		 K'AN
k' on 
maize
 CHIKCHAN
cheek chon
snake		  KIMI
kee me
death		 MANIK'
ma neek'
 hand		 LAMAT
la mot 
Venus
 MULUK'
mul ok'
water		 OK
ak 
dog		  CHUEN
chew in
monkey		  EB
eb
tooth
BEN
ben 
reed		 IX
eesh 
jaguar		 MEN
men 
eagle		 KIB
keeb 
soul
KABAN
kah bon
earth 		 ETZ'NAB
ehts' nob 
flint, knife		 KAWAK
kah wok 
storm		 AHAW
ah how 
Lord



The Classic Mayan civilization was unique and left us a way to incorporate higher dimensional knowledge of time and creation by leaving us the Tzolkin calendar. The present calendar ends in the year 2012. By tracking the movements of the Moon, Venus, and other heavenly bodies, the Mayans realized that there were cycles in the Cosmos. From this came their reckoning of time, and a calendar that accurately measures the solar year to within minutes.The "Calendar Round" is like two gears that inter-mesh, one smaller than the other. One of the 'gears' is called the tzolkin, or Sacred Round. The other is the haab, or Calendar Round. 


  
 
      
       
      





  
 
      
      
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