The Wheels of Time



The present calendar ends in the year 2012.

The Classic Mayan civilization left us a way to incorporate higher dimensional knowledge of time and creation. Leaving us the Tzolkin calendar. The Mayans invented the calendars we use today. 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" inter-mesh, one smaller than the other.


One is called the tzolkin, or Sacred Round.
The other is the haab, or Calendar Round.
The Tzolkin consisted of 13 months each 20 days long, and the Haab of 18 months
each 20 days long, and five rest days, thus making 365 days. The date was written
using both rounds. As both these wheels turned so passed the Mayan years.
Every 52 years the cycle began again.



The Maya began counting time as of August 31, 3114 B.C. This is called the zero year. All dates in the Long Count begin there, so the date of the beginning of this time cycle is written 13-0-0-0-0. That means 13 cycles of 400 years will have passed before the next cycle begins, which is December 27, 2012. The new cycle will begin as 1-0-0-0-0.

A day was called a "kin", and still is today. A 20 day month was a "uinal", one solar year was a "tun", 20 tuns a "katun", and 20 katuns were a "baktun", 13 of which take us back to the August 13, 3114 B.C. date. Another notable date is 9-9-2-4-8 or July 29, 615 AD when the great King of Palenque, Lord Pakal ascended to the throne.Using a vestigial system (they counted all the fingers and toes) and only three characters (we use ten) the Maya could string together very large numbers, these were read from the bottom up. So Pakal ascended on 9-9-2-4-8, that would read:

9 baktuns - 3600 years
9 katuns - 180 years
2 tuns - 730 days
4 uinals - 80 days
8 kin - 8 days

The Mayans understood the concept of zero, and wrote it like a shell. These numbers, if we begin at August 13, 3114 BC, will give us a date in the 7th century that corresponds to the date Pakal took the throne in Palenque. January 1, 2000 would be written 12-19-6-1-0 in the Long Count. The Sacred Round would be 9 Ahau and the Haab designation would be 8 Kankin. Thus the Calendar Round would be 9 Ahau 8 Kankin. For the Maya there was a time for everything and every thing had it's place in time. Their comprehension of time, seasons, and cycles was immense.

The Wheels of Time were exceeding fine for the Maya. To be able to predict the seasons and astronomical events, they utilized a calendar of two repeating cycles. Maya mathematicians could project this calendar millions of years in the past and the future, time had no beginning, no end.

The Mays recorded numbers with a system of bars and dots. A dot equals one, a bar stands for five. The smaller wheels together represent the 260-day Sacred Round; the inner wheel, with the numbers one to thirteen, meshes with the glyphs for the 20 day names on the outer wheel.

A section of a large wheel represents part of the 365-day year - 18 months of 20 days each (numbered 0-19). The five days remaining at year's end were considered evil. In the diagram, the day shown is read 4 Ahua 8 Cumka. As the wheels turn in the direction of the arrows, in four days it will read 8 Kan 12 Cumku. Any day calculated on these cycles would not repeat for 18,980 days - 52 years.

 

Why 2012 ?

 

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