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I want to share an excerpt from the article by by Carlos Barrios of the Saq’ Be’ Organization. Notice two main points in addition to the spiritual prophecy of 2012.
1) Alternating 5,200-year cycles that were numbered Suns.
2) Each 5,200-year Sun cycle aligns with feminine energy or masculine energy.
Message from the Mayan
Elders - February, 2006
All this information has wakened the
interest of millions of people, but it has also created a lot of confusion and
fear, since the date of December 21 of 2012 has been used
as the date of the end of the World. However, this date points out the
beginning of a new cycle, which is marked in the tradition of the Mayan Elders
as a time of harmony and spiritual growing, this cycle is called the FIFTH SUN
and each of the previous ones lasted 5,200 years.
The first cycle was of a feminine energy
and fire was the element that ruled it.
The second cycle was of a masculine
energy and earth was the element that ruled it.
The third cycle was of a feminine energy
and air was the element that ruled it.
The fourth cycle was of a masculine
energy and water was the element that ruled it.
The fifth cycle is of harmony between the
masculine and feminine energy and the element that will rule it will be ether.
Each of these cycles last 5,200 years and
they have been affected by the polarity of the masculine or feminine energy and
of course they have also been affected by the
elements. Today we are at the door of the end of the fourth cycle, which ends
on December 20th of 2012, six years from now. During
these six years we will be witnesses to the confrontation of the Negative and
Positive forces, the eternal fight amongst polarity, the fight between the
Eternal Fire and the Eternal Ice, as the Great Masters have named it, rough and
magical times, prophetic times, as the Master, Don Pascual,
would have said.
http://sacredroad.org/article.php?story=2006021120273120
Thanks for your questions. The best way to answer them is one at a time. I will indent and use a different font for clarity.
I was very impressed with your work. I have gotten about halfway
through your work on Gen 5.
I am a little confused. Let me review what I think I understand
There are 260 days in a sacred year.
Yes, the 260-day-sacred-year was a practiced divinatory cycle of the
Mesoamerican cultures. The term Tzolken
Year is used when archeologists and others talk
specifically about the Mayan calendar.
There are 365 days in a solar year
Yes, 365 days is a standard year just like we
use today, without accounting for leap days.
360 hits the mid point of the solar lunar split.
Yes, 360-days are the centered whole number midpoint between lunar
years of 354-days or 355-days and the 365-day-solar-year.
questions are :
Are there 260 total sacred years of 260 days each and then the cycle
repeats?
A key feature of the ancient calendars is the concept of numerical
matching. Using this method, X number of
years can match any X number of days.
The 260-year-sacred-cycle that I have referred to in describing Adam’s
age applies this idea. The
260-year-sacred-cycle has 360-days per year for Adam. The pattern follows the Mesoamerican 52-year
Calendar Round which had 72-Tzolken-sacred-years x 52-Tun-years of 360-days
each for 18,720-days. The last 73 rd
sacred year of the Mayan Calendar Round results from 52-years x five nameless
days = 260 days.
or are there 260 days in a sacred year and you
can have any number of
sacred years?
There are 260-days in the sacred-year and you can have any number of
them. The significant multiples of
sacred-years are those found with the Mayan calendar, such as 73-sacred-years
in a Calendar Round. Mayan terms such as
the 360-day-Tun-year, 365-day-Haab-year, or the 260-day-Tzolken-sacred-year
refer specifically to the Mayan calendar.
Sister Aztec and Inca calendar used similar patterns with different
names. I am using the 260-day-sacred-year,
or 260-year-sacred-cycle in a generalized way for Adam.
for example you could have 540 sacred years?
You can have 540-sacred-years since that is X number of sacred-years,
or X-sacred-years. I keep the numbers
with the units and use hyphens with frequent terms.
Do you know about what the age of the earth is from the time of Adam?
No, what we have is an improved understanding about ancient time
reckoning and recording. The calendar of
Adam is a cross-sectional view of history, much like tree ring dating. I can say that ancient people were counting
in 400-year cycles typically called the Mayan Baktun.
Have you done any research into some of the larger cycles beyond the
solar and lunar?
You said you had read about half of Ages of Adam. Please look ahead to the Holy of Holies. The Holy of Holies expands the number of
multiples of lunar/solar to accomplish greater cycles. The 400-year-Baktun-cycle is specific to the
Mayan calendar. The similar
400-year-Long-Count is the generalized version.
A Great Cycle is the largest multiple I know of.
I am a little confused about some of your conversions.
You are saying that you can convert regular days into sacred days is
what I am getting.
The conversion you
identify is from 130-years having 360-days each, or 46,800 days. Divide the 46,800 days by 260-day-sacred-years
to arrive at 180-sacred-years. You
mentioned “Sacred-days” whereas I do not.
Sacred-days would likely be construed as a
misleading term. I have tried to earmark
certain time periods following the number X-units
format. I have developed a unique
vocabulary for frequent phrases such as the 800-year Generation Cycle.
I rendered this
conversion principle before the Holy of Holies to show the exchange between
260-day-sacred-years and 360-day midpoint types of years. An additional five extra days every year were
the nameless days, or Mayan Wayeb days. These five days were
usually treated as holidays (no servile work) and given special meaning in
nearly all versions of the 365-day-solar-year calendar. In modern times, the days from Christmas to
New Years are often celebrated. The Holy
of Holies (partially complete) will appeal especially for the primary age L/S
times of Enos and Mahalaleel.
Thanks for writing.
Let me know if you have done any other work as well.
Other works include
the short pieces on World Calendar Proposal, Christian Era Calendar and my
testimony section.
Have you looked at the measurements of the temple or instance? or any
other number work in the Bible?
The early part of the OT uses the cubit measure. The Egyptian cubit measures from the elbow to
the most distal middle finger tip. Some
Egyptologists define a short cubit and a long cubit. Sizes range from 22 to 26 inches. The ark was a big boat to be sure. Actually, the calendars give me enough math for now.
I'm TRYING to find more info on Very Ancient
Calendars.
I can't seem to find info PRE (say) 700
BC. Did MOST very ancient calendars have
even, unchanging 30-day months? One
website stated that most or all nations CHANGED their calendar around the 8th
century BCE, with many adapting to a 29/30 lunar month instead of straight 30 day months.
I partially verified this
"fact", the Sumerians (roughly 3000 BC) had this 30 day each month
calendar, and the site mentions the Egyptian Calendar also
had 30 days months (but did have the knowledge to add the 5 extra days at the
end of the year).
However,
it states the Babylonian 2000 BCE calendar was already alternating lunar months
of 29/30 days each. Another site said
that "all" (I interpret this as "Most") ancient calendars
had the 30 day even month, not changing until the 8th century BCE.
Could you direct me to any available sources?
Again, what I'm trying to ascertain is: Did
MOST cultures (for what reason is a whole other question!) have a 30 day month
before 800 BCE?
THANKS SO MUCH for your time!
I appreciate your enthusiasm. Most people back then were using a 19-year lunar/solar calendar. A complete lunar year measures about 354-days and the solar year measures about 365-days. The 10-11 day difference adds up over 19-years. Babylonian and Jewish settlements were inserting 209-days of intercalation over 19-years in order to keep the lunar moon year on track with the solar year. Villages may have been at different places regarding the 19-year cycle.
Holy Bible Sacred Festival Calendar Figure 3 at the
website shows Babylonian influence for naming the months. Regarding the 360-day
length of year, I call this a middle position between the 354-day-lunar-year
and the 365-day-solar-year. Mayan and sister calendars of
I can help you with editing and layout for the booklet. Let
me know how it is going. Here is a link
you may enjoy,http://www.creation-answers.com/jubilee.htm
Hello. I read in an uncanonized
portion of what I think is scriptural writing ( I found while I was
searching for info. on biblical apocrypha ) that people would one day use
a count other than 364 when keeping count of the days and years, thereby
confounding the count as it were. If I wanted to find out what the date
is now, based on the 364 day year, where would I look? ( I would have to
get the date that this 364 day system had been abandoned, or talk to someone if
it is still used somewhere. I know there may be other considerations,
since I have read that people had ways of dealing with the extra day and a quarter
each year, if in fact it always has been necessary to make the year match the
solar cycle. I am of course interested in the very oldest of
systems. Can you help me or point me in the right direction? Thank
you so much.
I am unaware of a definite 364-day calendar year to current 2005
Gregorian Calendar correlation.
Revelations coming from the Dead Sea Scrolls show the 364-day calendar
year active up to the second century B.C.E.
I have included some links and various notes in the Holy of Holies section. The culture under
discussion needs to be identified. In
Ages of Adam, I referred to the Enochian 364-day
calendar year. Dr. Aberra
Molla wrote a fascinating piece about the Ethiopian
364-day calendar year. This calendar
system has ties with the Mayan Calendar and especially calculations involving
the 104-day-and-year single term. The
Mayan 104-year Venus Round is likewise traceable to the Babylonians. I am currently revising this part of Holy of
Holies as new information becomes available – so check back often. Try these links for more.
Ethiopic
http://www.ethiopic.com/calendar/ethiopic.htm
Hope this helps.
Just found your articles on the web when doing SEARCH, a quick question;Would the MAYAN calendars be perhaps the 'negative' "PROOF" to our BIBLICAL dating? Of course not. Mayan archeology is simply rediscovering the ancient authenticity of the Bible.
Reason I ask is just realised that there is a 'slogan' out-there on talk-radio..."King George to Hanoi George in just 230 years"...and it occured to me that George was a 'DRAGON KILLER'.. the reverse of which is...'Killer Dragon'! Never head this nor do I know what it means. For those who wish to 'spook themselves out' as was done with Harold Camping's "1994" (which incidentally was mentioned on TV other day as having been re-forecast as '2011') but the interest now in calendrics in relation to scripture and history seems to be growing...http://www.13moon.orghttp://www.lawoftime.orghttp://www.360calendar.comand http://www.1260-1290-days-bible-prophecy.org
I firmly believe that increased popularity in calendar science and Bible study shows people are expecting the seconding coming. I will visit these sites. Wuld like to pose second question if you don't mind, we know that the Masaai used the 1260, and the Celts had a 31-year, ( also a 36-year?) and a 62/64 month cycle which may have been Roman but wouldn't the Bible have a record or 'signature' which is the 'direct opposite' of the Mayan? A piece which fits in to both cultures?
Celts using a 12-month-year and a 36-year cycle indicate some early Roman Calendar influence. See the Zodiac pages at timeemits.com for more about early astrology and the Sumerian/Babylonian Calendars. Ben Franklin was a dabbler in math, and created a 260-total 'magic square'. HE also was a 'pyramidologist' Now, what is kind of odd as with Napoleon, the 'dabbling' was at EARLIEST point of contact in modern times Ben Franklin and many other early American were Free Masons and attracted to Egyptology. Consequently, they naturally associated themselves with lunar/solar calendar math. There are parallels between the Egyptian and Mayan Calendars. I plan to look into Ben’s ‘260-total 'magic square', Do you have anymore info?