Venus brings love in our culture…to the Maya, it brought war.
Five hundred years before (150 AD), an Olmec stela called “La Mojarra” told the story of a warrior chief named Harvest Mountain Lord. The stela began by referring to a Venus phase cycle of 584 days. Then on one day of that cycle, during a solar eclipse, the chief and his supporters went to war. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mojarra_Stela_1).
In 2012 EYE OF THE SHAMAN this story is woven into the plot as the catalyst that disrupts JAGUAR PAW’S assention to the throne, destroys the Mayan “kingdom of light”, and propels the calendar into the hands of the DEATH LORDS.
FACT:
The Maya developed a recyclable Venus calendar called the DRESDEN CODEX that was accurate to one day in 500 years and a table of eclipses that still functions today. They also accurately calculated the solar year out to four decimal places, a did it at a time Europe was in the Dark Ages.
THE DRESDEN CODEX
One of the worldwide three existing mayan codices to survive the book burnings by the Spanish clergy in 1521 turned up in Dresden in 1739. How it got to Vienna, is unknown – also part of the story in 2012 EYE OF THE SHAMAN. It surfaces in World War II Germany – and is liberated – by the Russians.
At the collapse of the Soviet Union, an agent of our government brings it to America. Since then it has been the property of the state fiercely guarded by a DEATH LORD reborn in our time, and now head of clandestine government agency.
But perhaps the greatest living gift the Mayan have given to our world is the consciousness of the 26,000 year the Precessional Cycle. 2012 marks the end the Great Cycle. The Great Cycle is a 5,125 year period of time that began August 13, 3114 in the Gregorian/Julian calendar . December 21, 2012 marks a moment in cosmology when our Solar System passes across the galactic center.
The Maya woke us from our collective slumbering into consciousness.
Richard Oshen writer
Image from 2012 EYE OF THE SHAMAN.
King Pakal of Palenque knows his days on earth are coming to an end. It is now up to his son KAN BALAM ( Jaguar Paw) to protect the calendar from falling into evil hands. He who has the calendar, rules time.
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