The Tzolkin (updated 2014) by Raah Sirus

To the ancient peoples of Mexico; known to themselves as the Maya, Aztec, Toltec and Olmec tribes, the sacred calendar called the Tzolkin or 260-days is central to their entire culture. To us it acts as a guide to their way of life and how they relate to the world around them. It describes a view into their world, one in which, like in many ancient cultures, there is a strong relation to specific numbers, patterns, dimensions, elements, animals, plants and so on. In its structure it is a matrix or harmonic module of 13 x 20, which can be drawn in the space of a portrait frame with 13 squares across (columns) by 20 squares in height (rows).

It was through observing the nature of the human body, that the ancient tribes of Mexico discovered the mathematical codes of the Tzolkin. The reason why 13 and 20 are its foundational numbers is due to the human bodys 13 major articulations and 20 fingers and toes. In addition the 260 days of their sacred calendar approximates very closely the approximate number of days of human gestation (37 weeks or 37x7=259 days). At Izapa in Guatemala there are temples that were built in specific places on the world grid, which experience alignments that result in a 260 day cycle between Aug. 11th and Apr. 30th (2012). These two dates signify the occurrence of the solar zenith at 15 north of the equator, when the sun is directly above the centre of the sky at midday. The Mayan Long Count (one of their longer calendars) which ends on Dec. 21st 2012 commenced on Aug. 11th 3114 BC. The duration of the Long Count is 1,872,000 days, or 7200 x 260. Here we can see the exact measurement of a 5,125 year cycle that completes precisely on the winter solstice, and which began on a day that represents the origins of the Long Count itself. The Tzolkin displays very intricate harmonics through its design, which allowed the ancient tribes to have an advanced understanding of time. To the Maya there is no past or future, indeed there is no word for past or future in

the Mayan language. Their view of time was akin to the fractals found throughout nature in fern cones and ammonite shells. It is an infinite harmony of numbers that truly allowed them to behold the 4th dimension of time clearly. Their understanding of time could enable us to also experience a mind that goes beyond linearity into a radial consciousness, one where everything and everywhen is connected all at once. For instance when the 260 days of the Tzolkin are multiplied by 365 (the number of whole days in one Earth year), the total is 94900 days. This calculation allows us to know when their combined cycle renews or when both calendars begin again on day 1 respectively. When 5, (the lowest common denominator of 260 and 365) is taken into consideration, 94900 reduces to 18980 days, which is a total of 52 Earth years or 73 Tzolkins. Here we can see a fractal mirror to the number of weeks in the current calendar (52), the week being a geometric cycle of 7 days. These types of number harmonics are not coincidences; they are a synchrony that spans time and space across our whole planet and the cosmos. Indeed, where would we be today if we had no 7 day week? It would be a very different world out there would it not. Disorder would reign supreme, and entropy would be the order of the day. However the nature of the cosmos is synchrony, therefore it is inevitable that we as sentient human beings shall regain our original, true and rightful state as beings living in complete harmony with the biosphere and the infinite realms of the universe.

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References: The Call of Pacal Votan by Jose Arguelles (Altea Publishing, 1996) Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 by John Major Jenkins (Bear & Co., 1998) www.infinity-codes.net