Calendars and methods of keeping time, or methods of quantifying what we sense as reality is as natural to humanity as time and the universe itself. Are these time keepers unique to the human species or do other lifeforms use some sort of calendars to forecast, predict, or prophecy future events. Do other lifeforms quantify time as it relates and record these measures on a clock of one sort or another. This is the calendar.
To humans calendars have been used in one form or another to record events related to Man and Society, or Man and Evolution of Man, or Man and the Universe, or Man and Machine, or for any number of quantifiable events that one or all of the five senses can detect.
A calendar is a measure of reality. But it doesn't stop at the five senses. Some calendars or timekeepers delve into the mysteries of the metaphysical or supernatural world. Not everyone is a believer in the phenomenon of spirits and the esoteric but those who do buy into the concept overlook, and have overlooked, the nay sayers doubt and have built systems of measurements to quantify the ethereal sixth sense and beyond.
This is my link index to the many such systems of measuring this or that, otherwisely known as calendars that have come about through the ages.
Recently the Aztec Sunstone and the Mayan Codex have been gaining momentum in popularity. Where a few years ago most Westerners were satisfied with looking at the Gregorian Calendar to guide them in their daily lives, today many are getting curious as to why The Mayan civilization used a set of calendars different from the good ole' Gregorian one. Experts in Maya culture have opened pandora's box by predicting that December 21, 2012 is Mayan prophecy about to come to fruition.
But these predictions are only the interpretation of mortal men. These experts are not Gods. They are fallible humans. Interpretation is very subjective.
Throw in the works of interpreters of all types of calendars and researchers of timekeeping methods and point these towards a specific time in the universe and you have conconted a sorcerers' magic spell.
It's not so much what will happen from here to December 21, 2012 as what people will buy into that will determine what cults will rise from the interpreters pitch (fork);)and what leaders will lead and who will live or die as a result of the wizards' of interpretation of the timekeepers realm.
As far as i'm concerned it's all good entertainment and it's all set on a very small wave within the great wave that is the cosmic time clock. Time is a quantity. Sensible humans have free will even in bondage and determine what is right and wrong, who is selling a good pitch and who is selling a pitchfork, and who they will follow.
The Calendar is a wonderful thing. If you have the time.........is it time yet, who's got the time.....time..tim...ti....t....i.....
The Aztec Sunstone - Cosmic Sun Stone - Spiritual Aztec Calendar
3114 + 2012 = 13.0.0.0.0 The 2012 Battle of the lords may be what this is all about. Lord Yokte Ku'h may be looking to the womb of the mother of creation thinking of an escape route along Ophiucus. Or is Lord Yokte Ku'h a master of one of the halves of Serpens constellation.
The Fibonacci Numbers : Connections within the Mathematics and the Calendrical Systems of Ancient MesoAmerica..........by Valerie Vaughan
Without the use of a fractional system the Mayan managed to measure the cosmos very accurately. Their methods could handle astronomically large time frames. Over centuries of stargazing they may have pinpointed the all of the planetary cycles and maybe deeper cosmic cycles. All of this may have started with a divining calendar and moved into incrementally more diverse and complex counting and measuring methods.
Valerie Vaughan looks into the correlations that may exist between the Mayan method and other pattern recognition systems.
The Maya Correlation Problem.....This is a classic work on the three counts that make up the Mayan Calendar.
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