The Mayans believed in the importance of time. By recording it on their calendars, they believed they could transcend it. Believing that catastrophes were sent by gods dependent on time, they keenly observed the passage of time but without the aid of precision instruments – no clocks, telescopes, or hourglass. To the Mayans, knowing time meant knowing the processions of the stars and therefore the future.
Mayan organization of time
In the beginning was the figure 13, the symbol of time.
Birth of man – the union of 13 with 20, or 260 years or the Sacred Round Calendar
Life of man – union of the Sacred Round time and solar time, or 52 years.
Life of the world – 52 times 20 – 1,040 years
Life of the universe – five worlds, or 1,040 times 5 – 5,200 years.
Mayan time starting point: 3114 B.C
Each world has 1,040 years.
The end of the Mayan fourth world: 1046 A.D
The Mayans believed they lived in the fourth world. The height of their civilization occurred between 2000 B.C. and 900 A.D. Is it likely that during the ninth century, a congress of astronomer-priests convened at Xochicalco to discuss the coming catastrophe and seek out ways to divert it? Did they deliberately decide to flee their cities giving up everything to avoid disaster? For the Mayans, extremely bad drought, heavy deforestation, and land exhaustion was happening towards the end of the ninth and tenth centuries. Perhaps the astronomer-priests averted total disaster but at a high cost. By the time the Spanish conquistadors arrived, the Mayans had forgotten their beautiful, magnificent cities even once existed.
The period in which we live in now is the fifth world. It is also the final world.
2012 A.D. – This date marks the end of the 13th 400 year period. A significant date, according to the Mayans. But what will happen?
Nasa predicts the height of a severe solar storm.
Some predict polar shift.
Others say, like the Mayans, we may be predicting disaster but will the solution come at a high cost similar to their outcome?
5 responses so far ↓
1 Jenny Ralph // Jan 14, 2011 at 1:26 pm
I have huge respect for the stories and predictions of the Mayen peoples. We have to remember that we the human race have free will to change things and as we have progressed and evolved through the centuries, we must have made a differance. I believe enough of a differance that the world will be saved.But just in case (GOD WILLING)!!
2 PEDRO RETAMAR // Feb 15, 2011 at 12:40 pm
LOS MAYAS ERAN MAS SABIO QUE NOSOTROS Y VIVIAN EN COMUNION CON LA NATURALESA NO COMO NOSOTROS LLA LOS ANSESTROS LES DEJARON UN MENSAGE QUE NO SUPIERON ENTENDER POR ESO LOS CONQUISTADORES LES VENCIERON,ESCLAVISARON…QUALQUIER PERSONA QUE TENGA CAPASIDAD DE ANALISAR SE DA CUENTA QUE ALGO NO CUADRA.NO DESENDEMOS DEL MONO COMO DISEN NO EXISTE TAL EVOLUCION ES MAS TANTO EN LA BIBLIA JUDEOCATOLICO COM EN LA DE LOS TURCOS,SON MAS ANTIGUA QUE EL HOMOSAPIEN ASIN QUE PORQUE UN MAYA VA APERDER TIEMPO EN DIBUJAR LAS LINIAS DE HASKA QUE SOLO SE VE DESDE LO HALTO COMO CONSTRUIERON CIUDADES DONDE NOSOTROS NO PODEMOS HOY,COMO SAVIAN QUE HAY 13 PLANETE EN EL SISTEMA NUESTRO COMO NO SERIA MEJOR RECONOSER QUE DESENDEMOS DE OTRA CIVILIZACION MUNCHO MAS AVANSADA QUE NOSOTROS Y QUE SE FUERON PERO NO TODOS PUDIERON IRSE NO AVIA SITIO PARA TODOS Y NOSOTROS SOMOS SUS DESENDIENTE POR ESO HAY TANTOS EDIFICIO CON MAS DE 20000AÑOS EN PIED Y QUE NOSOTROS AVEMOS OLVIDADOS DE UTILIZAR NUESTRO CEREVELO QUIZA ES ESO QUE NOS QUERIAN DESIR LOS ESCRITO QUE PRONTO VOLVERAN A SALVAR LOS QUE PUEDAN QUIEN SAVE TODO ES UNA HISTORIA MAS QUIEN TIENE LA VERDA ABSOLUTA YO NO
3 Mario A. C. // Apr 17, 2011 at 11:56 pm
I have always heard that each world is actually 5,125 years long, totaling close to 26,000 years which is tied into the precession. Still, I do believe there are definite correlations with regards to us and our planet, plus the cosmos equating somewhere along the five worlds within each 5,125 year world you have written about here. Thanks for the insight!
4 admin // Apr 19, 2011 at 6:51 am
Dates were taken from the book Mayan Enigma by Pierre Ivanoff published by Delacorte Press in 1971. Many breakthroughs in Mayan research occurred after this date. More up-to-date information can be found elsewhere.
However, it is one of favorite books on the Mayans and Pierre Ivanoff did a lot exploration and field research on the subject during the 1960′s and 1970′s.
“Mayan civilization inexplicably disappeared. During the tenth century A.D., several hundred years before the arrival of the Spaniards in America, the Mayans suddenly and for no apparent reason abandoned all their big stone cities…” – Mayan Enigma: the search for a lost civilization
“The Mayans invented a solar “civil” year of 365 days. We know, however, that they made calendrical emendations and developed a more precise notion of solar time than that embodied in our own calendar. Thus, the true sidereal year (that is, the exact amount of time it takes the earth to revolve around the sun, as determined by the precision instruments of modern astronomy) consisted of 365.2422 days. In our Gregorian calendar — making due allowance for leap years — the year has 365.2425 days, while the year of the ancient Mayans numbered 365.2420 days. . . . we learn that the Mayans never ceased throughout the centuries to study astronomy. Their observations were recorded carefully and exactly on long strips of fattened bark rubbed with limestone and folded like an accordion.” — Mayan Enigma, pp. 86-7
5 thhheenobelone // Feb 1, 2012 at 7:36 am
grow a pair of nuts were not dieing people
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