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Legend of 2012

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 14:57 - 9 Comments

The Distinctions Between Natural and Artificial Calendar Systems One Enlightens, The Latter Enslaves

The Universal Relevance of the Maya Calendrical System pt. 1

This 260 day Tzolkin Code chart is a 2 dimensional map of a cyclical process found in nature. The Tzolkin cycle is the hub around which the entire Maya-Meso-Amercan Calendrical system(MAC) is built upon.

There are 3 principle questions asked by those who encounter the complexity of the Maya-Meso-American Calendar system (MMAC).

Why and how did the Ancient Meso-Americans devise the worlds most elaborate calendrical system and what were the Meso-Americans tracking with their260 day Tzolkin cycle.

To the layperson hearing about the “end of the Mayan Calendar”, the question is–what’s the big deal about a calendar ending and what if any relevance does it have to my life so that I might bother looking into such an obscure topic?

The questions of relevance to those other than a calendrical researcher are perfectly understandable.

After all doesn’t the entire world operate by the West’s Gregorian calendar and why is one calendar better or more notable than any other.

Aren’t calendars simply tools for coordinating our activities with others and to mark certain days of cultural or personal significance?

On the surface it may seem simple and we don’t give it a second thought. It would not be inaccurate to say that one of our most basic assumptions about the inherited portion of ones culture is the calendar by which we coordinate our lives.

The assumption is that most of us don’t think to question its hour glass purpose, validity, authority, existence and even less its constitution.Much like we don’t question the existence of the sky or ground.

Yet many of us question or have questioned the existence of the “God” concept we in the Western world inherit. A question which by comparison seems paramount to the question of calendars.

My point is to demonstrate the all encompassing presence of the Western worlds calendar system and its “unquestionable” status.

Unquestionable because its presence, though felt, is so subtle and at the same time so pervasive that it’s easily assumed as a “given” background condition of our existence–similar to breathing. Continue…