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Eb – The Road

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The road less travelled, but the road nevertheless!

I have been following the Tzolkin path for several rounds now. When I find something of interest, I follow with an explorative and intense interest in understanding and dccoding.

The Tzolkin is the innermost ring of the Mayan and Aztec Codex calendars. Many of the outer rings have been long lost in this age of quarrel and misfortune. But this innermost ring survives!

The ancients looked to the path of Venus in the skies and noted her 260 day cycle rising as a morning star and then her 260 day cycle as an evening star. This suggested the duality that our material realm has on a structural level. The shamans and priests quested for understanding and they were given the 20 days. They also learned that a 13 day cycle, called a Trecena, would hold the energies of a particular day through a 13 day cycle, with an ascension of 6 days in which the seeker would experience their quest for understanding and completeness followed by the seventh day, which was the peak of the pyramid and then a further 6 days in which the student became aware of the compassion and nurturance of the Divine in their life.

Many histories have been handed down over generations that give credence and verification to this living philosophy. Regarding Eb, there is the relevant history of the woman named Malinchi or Dona Marina. The translation of her name in Spanish suggests that she was born on 1 Eb. This woman was born a princess but raised as a slave to Aztec lords – she had no great reason to feel any affection toward the Aztec overlords. Bestowed upon the conqueror Cortez as a gift, her rage against her former masters, the Aztecs, led her to provide assistance to Cortez in toppling Montezuma’s empire. She was his translator, lover, spy, and perhaps his principal strategist when it came to Native psychology. Hence some have called her the great traitor who betrayed her people to the Spaniards. Paradoxically, she also became the mother of the mestizo race by bearing Cortez’s child, the first known union of Aztec and Spaniard. So she is the mother of the Mexican people, as well as being the great betrayer. Such histories show us that life on this realm is rarely straight-forward and easy! The testing conditions themselves are the means by which we can break through illusion and find our strength.

Ancient Sites

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As we take a more educated look into remaining ancient sites & places on our planet, we find our instinctual, more-deeply-rooted intelligence giving us clues to our connection with the everything.

Unhindered by a mind heavily involved with the work of accepting and rejecting information and an intelligence deeply-scattered by trust issues, the ancient person would have had all possibility to immerse themselves in the all-that-is and applied wisdom. Of course, life on this planet of temporariness and death can never bring an absolute peacefulness, but relative to our experience, theirs would certainly have been more immersive.

There has been a ton of speculation around what the purpose of these sites was; astronomical observatories, gathering places for tribal festivals and ritual and many more ideas, but my take on them is that they were places of gathering and rituals on the wheel of the year, where people could come and immerse themselves in asking the question, ‘How does our experience here of bringing children into the world, securing food and water to sustain us and experiencing conflict relate to you, the huge vast horizon of eternity with all your variegatedness and beauty? what is the connection between us and you? you are the strength of eternal mother and eternal father – please protect us & guide us!

The movements of the shining celestials were noted year after year after year until their paths and cycles become clear. Then stone structures were erected to connect the movements with the lives of the people and the people would gather at certain times to see the movement of the bright luminaries in the defined boundaries of correctly-aligned standing stones. I can just imagine that at such times, those people would have felt a strong sense of belonging to the eternal vastness and it’s mysterious life force.

Is that not the same strong desire to feel connection with eternity as we feel, even in our dissociated and impersonal world?

Images depict Gobekli Tepe in modern day Turkey

You never know where your next inspiration may come from!

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I have always been a seeker of knowledge. It is written into my code. As a child in the 60’s, I used to observe everything and everyone with great interest. Things were externally more interesting back then in that sense. But now, as we all begin to travel within, we have so much online content and tons of information available at a click. AI has turned up to help us with this.

You may have noticed websites and posts turning up in your field of vision. Don’t think that it is all AI marketing. No! Go to the moment before that thought and wonder if it was your own intuition that brought your attention to that thing. Let it draw you in initially and if it really doesn’t resonate – back off and go somewhere else! If it does resonate, explore and you will find something that is going to lead you on your forward trajectory.

So, I wanted to tell you about a wordpress site that has recently inspired me. It is ‘Jaguarwisdom.com’. The author is Debra and she has created a site about the Tzolkin Wisdom Calendar of the Mayans. The ancient Mayans and other Mesoamerican people saw wisdom and insight in the movement of Venus in the sky. It was the only planet that had a dualistic aspect, meaning they observed her rising as a morning star and after a brief period out of vision, she emerged again as an evening star. This total transit is 520 days. The Tzolkin or innermost calendar is 260 days. 260×2=520. Other calendars existed and a few are known. Much was lost by the destructive impact of the European colonials.

When you spend time and explore the 20 days and 13 trecenas (13 day cycles), you begin to see that it is a truly holistic system, connecting us with higher consciousness. This can be compared with the Gregorian calendar, which stems from the old Babylonian tax system calendar, which some consider to be one of the main reasons behind the chaotic state of the world. Better to be in the flow than enslaved to a shambling authoritarian system.