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last updated December 30th, 2006 and
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(5 Caban (Earth) / 10 K'ank'in - 57/260 -
12.19.13.16.17)

Maia
Maia (mâ´e, mì´e) noun
1.Greek Mythology. A goddess, the eldest of
the
Pleiades.
2.The brightest star in the Pleiades.
[Latin Mâia, from Greek, from maia, good mother, nurse.]
maya (mä´ye) noun
Hinduism.
1. The power of a god or demon to transform
a concept into an element of the sensible world.
2. The transitory, manifold appearance of the
sensible world, which obscures the undifferentiated spiritual reality from
which it originates; the illusory appearance of the sensible world.
[
Sanskrit
mâyâ.]
Maya (mä´ye) noun
plural Maya or Mayas
1. a. A member of a Mesoamerican Indian people
inhabiting southeast Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize, whose civilization
reached its height around A.D. 300-900. The Maya are noted for their architecture
and city planning, their mathematics and calendar, and their hieroglyphic
writing system. b. A modern-day descendant of this people.
Maya (mä´ye), related tribes of CENTRAL
AMERICA occupying the YUCATÁN and E Chiapas in Mexico, much of
Guatemala and Belize, and W Honduras, and speaking Mayan
languages
. They may derive from the
OLMEC,
or they may have originated c.1000 B.C. among nomadic tribes in N central Petén,
Guatemala, where there are evidences of a once-flourishing agricultural people.
Among indigenous American cultures the Maya emerge as undisputed masters of
abstract knowledge, with a system of hieroglyphic writing that they used to
record political and dynastic history. Their system of mathematics was an achievement
not equaled for centuries in Europe. The 365-day Mayan year was so divided as
to be more accurate than that of the Gregorian CALENDAR. Sculpture, used in
architecture, reached a beauty and dignity unequaled in aboriginal America.
Most of the population, estimated at 14 million in the 8th cent., lived in suburban
agricultural communities. Mayan history is divided into three periods. From
early in the Pre-Classic period (1500 B.C.?-A.D. 300), corn was cultivated.
Late in that period the calendar, chronology, and hieroglyphic writing developed.
In the Early Classic (300-600), Mayan culture spread throughout the area. The
greatest Mayan accomplishments in art and science occurred in the Late Classic
(600-900) at such centers as Copán, Honduras; Palenque, in Chiapas; and
UXMAL, in the Yucatán, all abandoned in the following century. At the
beginning of the Post-Classic period (900-1697) an invasion by Kulkulcán
(
QUETZALCOATL),
who conquered CHICHÉN ITZÁ, brought TOLTEC elements into Mayan
culture. The Toltec took Chichén Itzá, but were absorbed c.1200
by the Maya. In 1283 Mayapán became the civil capital. The century preceding
the Spanish conquest (1546) was dominated by civil wars and a series of calamities.
Today some 4 million Maya retain many elements of their culture combined with
that of the CONQUISTADORS. Numerous Mayan-derived dialects are spoken, and agriculture
and religious practices owe much to Mayan tradition. A 1994 uprising in Chiapas,
Mexico, drew most of its strength from the support of Mayan peasants.
World of the Maya
'The longest cycle in Mayan cosmology is the 26,000-year
cycle -- this is the cycle of our solar system around the
Pleiades
star cluster. This cycle ends on December 22,
2012,
and the closer we approach to that
time,
the more people will experience an accelerating collapse of linear time-based
(fear-based) conceptual structures. They will awaken from the spell of linear
time caused by lower mind conflicts. The collective resolution of these conflicts
will trigger even more people to transcend the complex of limiting illusions
that stem from the illusion of linear-sequential time. By 2012, the Mayan prophecies
say there will be a total collapse of time as we know it and an entry of humanity
into post-history. Post-history -- Gregorian year 2013 -- is entered at a point
known as galactic synchronization.
Tibetans,
Egyptians,
Cherokees,
Hopi
and Mayans refer to this same 26,000-year cycle in their mystical belief systems;
and each also developed calendars based on this great cycle.' From 'Introduction
To The Mayan Calendar' by Mark Rice and Yari Jeada
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the scenes on Yavin for the first
_Star
Wars_ was filmed at Tikhal in Guatemala
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"...the word maya, by which this peculiar un
reality
is described, is not necessarily a term of contempt, as if the world were merely
an illusion to be dismissed. Maya also means art and
magic,
and thus a seeming solidity evoked by divine power. But under the spell of this
power, one does not feel oneself entirely a victim. However obscurely, one knows
or feels that the source of this enchantment is in some roundabout way oneself
- as if being alive and human were to have got oneself deliberately lost in
a labyrinth."
Alan
Watts, _The Two Hands of God_, (1963)
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Today, in our era of new
information
technology, we are busy erecting our global communication
networks
and World Wide Webs. But in the Yucatan peninsula the Mayan people succeeded
in dealing with the same problem that computer network managers face today:
how to keep their 'network' of culture and civilization from 'crashing.' Their
solution was to create their own sort of world-wide web -- one that symbolically
linked the Mayan world in a web of interconnected ritual centres, through which
passed people, trade, knowledge of the arts and sciences, and another type of
sacerdotal information I have called "Kukulcan."
The problem then, as today, was to maintain
an information network where the number of
nodes
and links would lead to the most secure and efficient reciprocal exchange
of information. In thinking of information today, we inevitably think only
in terms of secular
0's
and 1's, and not in the older sense of the word which corresponds to the
'good news,' say, of apostolic Christianity -- prophetic and apocalyptic
information, too.
With the sacbe system, the Maya people came up with
the right 'kludge' to keep their post-Classic civilization integrated and functioning.
The apocalyptic imagery surrounding the destruction of the sacbes should not
be taken literallly; blood came out not because some physical roads were pulverized
but instead what the Maya saw as the metaphorical arteries of their living world
were blocked and cut off. People no longer walked the sacred routes, or honored
the spirits and deities to which they belonged, and so they became ghastly haunts
of aluxes and half-forgotten things. But this didn't mean the end of the system.
In half-remembered ways, the Maya still speak of the paths between their cities,
now driven underground by the Spanish conquest, waiting for Kulkulcan to return
and revive them. But as indigenous people work at creating their own networks
of communication using the new technologies of radio,
Internet,
and multimedia, one cannot help in thinking that
trickster
Hermes
may yet come back in another guise, and the blood of the stars will once again
flow.
- Steve Mizrach aka Seeker 1
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Maya Religion
The Mayas believed that the universe had been, and would
continue to be, created and destroyed multiple times, and that each such cycle
lasted somewhat longer than 5000 years. By their estimate, the current universe
would be destroyed in the equivalent of the year AD
2012.
The Mayas conceived of the earth as the back of a giant alligatorlike reptile
floating in a pool. Above the earth was a heaven with 13 levels. Below the earth
was an
underworld
with 9 levels. The entire universe was linked by a
green
ceiba
tree that stood at the center of the world, its branches extending into the
heavens and its roots into the underworld.
"I'll give you another instance.
You know the way everybody's into weirdness right now? Books in all the supermarkets
about
Bermuda
triangles,
UFO's,
how the Mayans invented television. That kind of thing?" - Miller to Otto in
the film
_Repo
Man_ (vhs/ntsc)
(1984)
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Inca or Maya treasure - during the conquering of the
Americas by the Europeans in the 17th and 18th centuries, much of the wealth
of the Incas and Mayas disappeared. Usually rumored to have been buried or sunken
at the bottom of lakes, some researchers believe that it's possible that a group
of Incas or Mayas, possible with the help of sympathetic Europeans, stole away
with the wealth and buried on
Oak
Island out of the reach of the conquerors.
Kepler
studied sphere packing pretty
intensely
and knew that you get the same fcc packing if you start with a layer of
spheres packed in a square arrangement and nest the next layer in the valleys
so formed. If you taper off as you go upwards, this looks kind of like a Mayan
Temple, so I call it "Mayan temple packing".
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Fig. 2. Squares-ville Packing (or Mayan Temple)
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Pyramid of Kukulcan was so precisely constructed that
it is, in
reality,
an astronomical clock giving notice of the spring and fall equinoxes as well
as both the winter and summer solstices. The sun strikes the pyramid during
each equinox in such a way as to give the impression of a serpent undulating
up or down its surface, depending on the time of year. There are 91 steps on
each of the four sides.
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The Great Ballcourt is 545 feet long and 225 feet wide
overall. It has no vault, no discontinuity between the walls and is totally
open to the sky. The Great Ballcourt has no curved surfaces. Each end has a
raised "temple" area. A whisper from one end can be heard clearly at the other
end 500 feet away and through the length and breath of the court. The
sound
waves
are unaffected by wind direction or time of day/night.
Archaeologists engaged in the reconstruction noted that the sound transmission became stronger and clearer as they proceeded. In 1931, Leopold Stokowski spent 4 days at the site to determine the acoustic principals that could be applied to an open-air concert theater he was designing. Stokowski failed to learn the secrets of the Maya.
"Acoustically the court is amazing. A conversation at one end can be heard 135 metres away at the other end; and, if you clap, you hear a resounding echo. A remarkable feature of the Ball Court is its acoustics. A person standing in one of its ends may whisper and be heard 170 meters afar. Or may drop a coin and the sound travels that distance. The court has no vault. It is open to the sky and has no continuity between the walls, the prescenium, and the throne of the bearded Man. If one stands in the center of the court, near one of its walls and claps the hands, he will hear at least nine times the echo of the clapping. Also, if one yells. This phenomena seems to be unique." ["Thru the Lense, Guide to the Ruins of Chichen Itza," by Jose Diaz Bolio, 1971]
"If it were a moonlight night and he wanted
to give his guests a special treat, he ordered a phonograph
concert in the Ball Court. Tarsisio and the servants set up the phonograph
in the north temple, where the back wall slopes forward and forms a perfect
sounding board. At the opposite end of the court, the servants supplied
cushions and the guests sat on a raised dais among the half-ruined
pillars of the south temple that extends 80 feet across the end of
the Court. The acoustics were amazing, for the audience could hear perfectly
the strains of Sibelius, Brahms, and
Beethoven.
The total effect was indescribable. The brilliant Yucatan sky formed
a great overhead dome, the
moon
cast ghostly light on the stone walls and the north temple, and the
calm air, rarely disturbed by a breeze, added a sense of mystery to
the setting. After the performance the guests, awed by the uncanny effect,
walked quietly back to the Casa Principal through the moonlight,
still under the
magic
spell. One of the visitors in 1931 was Leopold Stokowski, who spent
four days with Morley. He brought the latest recordings of his Philadelphia
Symphony Orchestra and played them in the Ball Court, at the Castillo,
and at the Temple of the Warriors. One staff member believed that if Stokowski
"and Morley could have found a sponsor, their plan to conduct a symphony
with instruments all over the place would have gone through.
We'd have loved it too." Actually, Stokowski had a far more serious
purpose, as he and Morley attempted to learn the acoustical secret of the
Ball Court. At the time, the conductor was designing an open-air
theater for concert work. He and Vay spent hours placing the phonograph
in different positions in the Ball Court in order to determine the reflecting
surfaces. Theoretically, the structure should have had poor acoustics,
but as every visitor to Chichen knows, it possesses amazing properties
of sound. After days of experiment, they failed to learn the secret, which
remains one of the unsolved mysteries of ancient America." ["Sylvanus G.
Morley" by Robert Brunhouse, 1971.]
"'Chi cheen Itsas' famous 'Ballcourt'
or Temple of the Maize cult offers the visitor besides its mystery and
impressivearchitecture,
its marvellous acoustics. If a person standing under either
ring claps his hands or yells, the sound produced will be repeated several
times gradually losing its volume. A single revolver shot seems like machine-gun
fire. The sound
waves
travel with equal force to East or West, day or night, disregarding the
wind's direction. Anyone speaking in a normal voice from the
'Forum' can be clearly heard in the 'Sacred Tribune' 500 feet
away or vice-versa. If a short sentence, for example, 'Do you hear me?'
is pronounced, it will be repeated word by word. Parties from
one extreme to the other can hold a conversation without raising
their voices.
"This transmission of sound, as yet unexplained,
has been discussed by architects and archaeologists. Most of them used
to consider it as fanciful due to the ruined conditions of the structure
but, on the contrary, we who have engaged in its reconstruction know well
that the sound volume, instead of disappearing, has become stronger
and clearer.... Undoubtedly we must consider this feat of acoustics
as another noteworthy achievement of engineering realized millenniums
ago by the Maya technicians." ["Chi Cheen Itza" by Manuel Cirerol Sansores,
1947]
There's a considerable history to Mayan architecture, and although the pyramid we ascended was a work added to periodically, with each generation of ruler, there is a strong sense of overall design. Remember that the Mayan calendar is much more accurate than the Roman, and that their mathematical skills are, as yet, not fully accounted for. Perhaps their sense of sound in general is worth study?
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Crop
Circle formation 2000
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Yet, to evoke the Maya of Central America is at the
same time to evoke a curious
resonance
from the East, from India. After all, Maya is a key Hindu philosophical
term meaning "origin of the world" and "world of illusion." The word Maya
in
Sanskrit
is further related to concepts meaning "great,""measure,""mind,""
magic,"
and "mother." Not surprisingly, we find that Maya is the name of the mother
of the Buddha. And in the
Vedic
classic, _The Mahabharata_, we read that Maya was the name of a noted astrologer-astronomer,
magician, and architect, as well as the name of a great wandering tribe of navigators.
Not only in ancient India, home of high
metaphysics
and spiritual adventure, do we find the name Maya, but also farther to
the west. The treasurer of the renowned boy-king of
Egypt,
Tutankhamen, was named Maya, while in Egyptian philosophy we find the term
Mayet, meaning universal world order. In Greek mythology, the seven
Pleiades,
daughters of Atlas and Pleione and sisters of the Hyades, number among
them one called Maia, also known as the brightest star of the constellation
Pleiades. And finally, we know that our month of May is derived from
the name of the Roman goddess, Maia, "the great one," the goddess of spring,
daughter of Faunus and wife of Vulcan.
- Jose Arguelles - _The Mayan Factor_
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Paleopuritanism and Neopuritanism
...As psychologist Theodore Schroeder pointed out, "obscenity" is the modern form of "black magic." Both concepts are operationally meaningless; there is no instrument which, pointed at a book or painting, will tell how much "black magic" or "obscenity" is in it. These things are in the nervous system of the observer. Attributing them to books, art, ideas, etc., in the external world, and seeking to punish the perpetrators, is the same kind of hallucination that produced the witch-hunts in which nine million innocents were killed.
Clarification of this issue explains what the
Buddhists mean by "maya." One could lead a group of both old Puritans and
new Puritans through a gallery featuring photographs of flowers without
any problem arising, even though flowers are the genitals of plants, as
everyone who passed Botany 101 knows. However, try to navigate that group
through an exhibit of photos of animal genitalia and almost anything could
happen, when the emotional imprints are activated. The external stimuli
(natural sexuality) are the same, but the imprints are different. Contemplation
of this parable should clarify what Buddha meant in saying that most people
see only their own "maya" and never experience objective fact at
all. Of course, if the exhibit featured human genitalia... a great deal
of angry speech about "smut" from the first group and "sexism" from the
second would be heard. All of this speech would confuse the internal glandular-emotional
emergency imprint with the objective external stimuli, and there would
be a desire to punish the photographer.
-
Robert
Anton Wilson - _The
Illuminati
Papers_
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Without doubt the most famous
and enigmatic ancient
crystal
is the skull, discovered in 1927 by F.A. Mitchell-Hedges atop a ruined temple
at the ancient Mayan city of Lubaantum, in British Honduras, now Belize.
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free jazz release _Mayan Temples_ CD by
Sun
Ra Arkestra on Black Saint (1992)
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