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Author : Annabelle Howard
Release : 2005
Genre : Children's plays
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 231/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis As the Mayan Calendars Turn by : Annabelle Howard
Download or read book As the Mayan Calendars Turn written by Annabelle Howard. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perform this script about an ancient Maya love story.
Author : Benchmark Education Company
Release : 2005-01-01
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Book Rating : 701/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis As the Mayan Calendars Turn (Teacher Guide) by : Benchmark Education Company
Download or read book As the Mayan Calendars Turn (Teacher Guide) written by Benchmark Education Company. This book was released on 2005-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hunbatz Men
Release : 2009-12-29
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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Book Rating : 876/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The 8 Calendars of the Maya by : Hunbatz Men
Download or read book The 8 Calendars of the Maya written by Hunbatz Men. This book was released on 2009-12-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mayan daykeeper Hunbatz Men reveals the multi-calendar system of the Maya that guided the lives of his ancestors and how it can guide us today • The first book to reveal the secrets of the Mayan Pleiades calendar: the Tzek’eb • Explains how the Maya used their astronomical knowledge to guide their lives on Earth The Mayan Calendar has taken on special prominence with the imminent arrival of 2012, a date that many claim is the end of that calendar. However, as Mayan elder and daykeeper Hunbatz Men shows, the cosmological understanding of his ancestors was so sophisticated that they had not one, but many calendars, each based on the cycles of different systems in the cosmos. In this book he reveals for the first time the Tzek’eb, or Pleiades, Calendar of 26,000 years, which charts the revolution of our solar system around Alcyone, the central star of the Pleiades system. He also discusses the K’uuk’ulcan Calendar of the 4 seasons of the solar year and the wheel of the K’altunes Calendar, which is composed of 13 cycles of 20 years each that form a calendar of 260 years. In traditional Mayan culture the computation of time was not determined by simple economic or social motives. The calendars served the higher purpose of synchronizing the lives of human beings and their societies to the great cosmic pulsation, to the rhythm of the annual seasons, and to the other cycles that dictate changes upon Earth. Mayan understanding of the cosmic cycles was so exact that this knowledge could be used to influence all stages of life--from planning when to conceive (parents could choose not only the sex of their child but its vocation and future destiny) to plotting out the course of the entire society. Pyramids played a crucial role in applying this wisdom because, as Hunbatz Men shows, they were able to produce and transform energy in accordance with the cosmic cycles charted by the calendars. This book reveals for the first time the wisdom of the multi-calendar Mayan system and how it can help guide our modern world.
Author : Geoff Stray
Release : 2007-11-06
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 342/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Mayan and Other Ancient Calendars by : Geoff Stray
Download or read book The Mayan and Other Ancient Calendars written by Geoff Stray. This book was released on 2007-11-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only small, popular book on the important subject of ancient calendars. The study of heavenly cycles is common to most ancient cultures. The ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Babylonians all tried to make sense of the year. But it fell to the later Mesoamerican Maya to create a series of calendars that could be cross referenced. In doing so, the Maya discovered many strange numerical harmonics. Their lunar calendar was extremely accurate-far more so than the Greek Metonic cycle; they tracked Venus to an accuracy of less than a day in five hundred years and their tables could have been used to predict eclipses seven hundred years in the future. This book will provide a much needed compact guide to the Mayan calendar systems as well as covering the essentials of calendar development throughout the world.
Author : Gary C. Daniels
Release : 2012-11-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 465/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mayan Calendar Prophecies: Predictions for 2012-2052 by : Gary C. Daniels
Download or read book Mayan Calendar Prophecies: Predictions for 2012-2052 written by Gary C. Daniels. This book was released on 2012-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a look at the science behind the Mayan calendar, prophecies and mythology. The Maya believed multiple cycles governed civilization. They created various calendars to track these cycles. Their short count calendar tracked a 256-year cycle believed to control epidemics, famines, warfare and more. Scientists have found a 250-year solar cycle that also appears to affect epidemics, famines, warfare and more. Their long count calendar tracked a 5000-year cycle related to natural disasters and cosmic catastrophes. Scientists have also discovered that the Earth is subjected to periodic bombardment by comets and asteroids that plunges the world into long periods of darkness and cold. Mayan mythology appears to record such events and in some instances even the exact dates on which these catastrophes occurred in the past. By comparing these dates with ice core records, sedimentary records, and climate records, this book reveals the truth about civilization's darkest days. And what may lie ahead in the future.
