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