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The
Long Count
Calendar
The Long Count
is an astronomical calendar which
was used by the Mayan civilization
to track longer periods of time.
A completed cycle is estimated
to be
2,880,000 days
which is about Maya 7885 solar
years. The Mayans believed that the
universe is destroyed and then
recreated at the start of each cycle
which was
estimated to be December 21 2012 which
was also met with a rare celestial
alignment between the sun and our
galaxy, one that has been
slowly
converging for thousands of years.
By recreation of the universe at the
end of the long count calendar, the
Mayans were talking about the turn
into
the new
millennium and the destruction
andthe catastrophic events that have
already occurred
over the decade since we turned into
our new
millennium.
Now let us explore the science and physics
behind the monuments found in Izapa and will refer to the
above figure as we proceed for clear
understanding. In
Mayan myth, the winter
solstice sun is deity called Hunahpu, also
known as First Father.
The Popol Vuh, the Mayan sacred
book
talked
about setting the stage
so that the Hero Twins’
father Hunahpu can be reborn, thus beginning
of a new World Age which is our millennium.
The dark-rift or the Xibalba
which the Mayans referred to is the
place where the Sun meets the Milky way; a black ridge
along the Milky way
caused by interstellar
dust clouds. The Mayan symbolized this black region to
be a birth canal of the cosmic mother for it is through the
birth canal of the
Milky Way that the solstice sun will be
reborn. The birth canal between the
legs of the throne figure is analogous to the dark-rift in
the Milky Way, a
prominent feature along the
Milky Way. Here, the head is the sun, and the splayed legs
frame the birth canal that is the dark-rift in the Milky
Way. Below
this head is a ball and ring,
which refers to the symbolism of the ballgame the
upside-down serpent head on the left side has solar lord "ahau" face in its
mouth which indicate, the
convergence occurring over the distant horizon.
Interpretation
of this iconography found in Izapa suggests that
indeed the ancient
sky watchers in Mesoamerica apparently have strong
a cosmological
understanding of the impending alignment
and a celestial precession of the
equinoxes and considered it to
be of such importance to
be a major
transition
point, the Creation of a New World Age. In this way,
the Long Count calendar
and Popol Vuh
Creation Mythology portrayed on
Izapan monuments work together
to describe the future
astronomical alignment.