The Source Field Investigations (52 page)

The Maya, and many other indigenous Mesoamerican cultures, gave every day a name—for a total of twenty days. This twenty-day period was called a
veintena
in many pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures. It was also referred to as a
winal
in the Maya calendar, as well as in the Zapotec and Mixtec cultures. It seemed to serve the same basic function as a month does in our own calendar system. Eighteen winals of twenty days each were counted up to get 360 days, or a
tun.
Then an additional five “nameless days,” called
nemontemi
in many cultures and
wayeb
in the Maya calendar, were added in to get our typical 365-day earth year—so you had eighteen twenty-day months in a year, plus the five nameless days added in.
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This whole system of counting the earth year was collectively known as the
Haab.
Interestingly, the nameless days were considered to be a dangerous time, where the boundaries between the mortal realm and the underworld dissolved. Allegedly, rambunctious spirits could get through during this time and cause disasters to occur.
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This might be the result of a thinning of the veil between space-time and time-space—given a more supernatural explanation. It is also interesting that if the 360 days represent a perfect sphere—a harmonic geometry—then perhaps those five days are where we lose symmetry . . . and the coherence is broken.

The twenty-day cycle was considered to be an astrology system, where each of these days had a particular character or quality to it. Their counting system also went one through twenty—unlike our own, which only goes one through ten. And despite their meticulous tracking of the Haab, or solar year, they also followed other cycles at the same time. Even though they counted twenty days as the veintena or winal, they also gave each day a number, which they called the
trecena
cycle. Strangely, these numbers only count up to thirteen—and then on the fourteenth day you start on the number one again. That means that the twenty-day and thirteen-day cycles don’t line up until 260 days—or thirteen times twenty. This 260-day cycle was known as the
tzolkin—
and it is considered the oldest and most important timing system throughout all Mesoamerican regions, appearing earlier than the very first Maya inscriptions that ever featured it.
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It took years of detective work for me to track down the answer of why the ancients were so interested in these cycles—and I only found the answer late in 2009, while I was putting the research together for this book. Professor Robert Peden, from Deakin University’s School of Sciences in Australia, crunched the numbers and wrote up his discoveries in 1981—but never published the results. It didn’t actually appear online until 2004—but it answered all my questions beautifully.
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In short, the tzolkin is nothing less than the ultimate cycle that links all the planetary orbits, and their geometry, together with one single common denominator—or at the very least Venus, earth, the Moon, Mars and Jupiter. Furthermore, it is the only cycle that is under a hundred years in length that can do this—with an accuracy better than one day in one hundred years.

If this sounds confusing, let me explain how it works. Take fifty-nine tzolkin cycles and add them up. This is almost exactly the same length of time as forty earth years, with 99.6 percent precision. Forty-six tzolkins equals 405 lunar months, at 99.7 percent accuracy. Sixty-one Venus years is 137 tzolkins, with 99.2 percent precision. Three tzolkins give you one Mars year—at 97.2 percent accuracy. And lastly, 135 tzolkins add up to eighty-eight Jupiter years—with 99.7 percent perfection. I was really blown away when I saw this—and hardly anyone who writes and lectures about the Maya calendar knows about it. In regards to this counting system, Peden quotes Coe in 1966.

Peden explains this further in his own words.

The next cycle the Maya tracked was called the
katun,
made up of twenty 360-day tuns, for a total of 7,200 days. This is a little less than twenty years in length—and only fifty-four days less than a Jupiter-Saturn conjunction. One of the first books I read about ancient mysteries was
Our Ancestors Came from Outer Space
by Maurice Chatelain
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—and he found that the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction also tied in with a variety of cycles in our solar system. He felt that the correct katun should be 7,254 days, to match the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction perfectly, which I do not think is true—but it doesn’t appear to be an accident that they are so close. There is a definite resonance there. When you consider that earth’s orbit is only a little over five days away from being a perfect 360 days per year, the precession of the equinoxes is a little less than the ideal harmonic value of 25,920 years, and the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction is only fifty-four days away from being a perfect 7,200 earth days, this may all be the result of a catastrophic planetary explosion in what is now the Asteroid Belt—as Dr. Tom Van Flandren has compellingly argued.
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The solar system would still be harmonic in the aftermath of such an event, but perhaps not as perfect as it once was. It may be that all these cycles are ultimately being driven by galactic energy fields, as we will see—and the solar system may have fallen a bit out of sync with the galaxy . . . at least for now.

Here’s what Chatelain had to say about this cycle.

Notice that Mercury was not present in Peden’s analysis, and Mars was the weakest of the cycle connections—but here Chatelain found very nice alignments. It’s important to point out that Chatelain was director of communications for NASA’s Apollo program, and very familiar with complex calculations like this. I should also mention that at least three different insiders I spoke to—each of whom made a compelling case that he had worked in classified top-secret projects—told me earth has a natural twenty-year cycle that forms a direct conduit between different periods of time.

Next we take twenty katuns of 7,200 days to get the
baktun,
which weighs in at 144,000 days—or 394.3 years. In
Beyond 2012,
Geoff Stray pointed out that this is very close to the time it takes earth’s inner core to make one complete rotation. Let’s not forget that earth’s core appears to be a dodecahedron, based on the most accurate modeling we now have available. In modern times, it wasn’t until 1996 that we found out the core is rotating slightly faster than the rest of earth—and takes about four hundred years to complete one cycle.
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Specifically, Drs. Xiaodong Song and Paul G. Richards, from Lamont-Doherty, the earth sciences division of Columbia University, discovered there was a nearly vertical line in earth’s core—where seismic waves moved faster through this area than anywhere else. The line was tilted about ten degrees off of earth’s rotational axis—which led them to conclude earth’s core was actually on a slightly different axis than the exterior. After studying thirty-eight earthquakes between 1967 and 1995, as well as other seismic data, Columbia made its official press release.

Could this be what the Maya calendar was tracking? Think about it—the core is a dodecahedron. It’s three-quarters the size of the Moon, and is almost thirteen times denser than water—meaning it has 30 percent more mass than the Moon.
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When we think about how much of an effect the Moon has on our oceans, creating the tides, it’s clear that the core exerts a powerful force. And since the core is a perfect dodecahedron, that means it may also be creating its own time portals. “Natural stargates” may be more likely to occur when geometric vortex points on earth’s surface line up with this geometry in the core. If it takes four hundred years for this geometry to make a full circuit inside earth, then every day within that four-hundred-year cycle will be different in terms of the alignments. That may be why the Maya used the baktun as their largest cycle—other than the full calendar itself. It is a compelling idea—but if it’s really true, then I would also expect this four-hundred-year cycle should be doing something else that we can measure. Then we could make an even greater case for why the ancients would be so interested in tracking this cycle. I found a study by Takesi Yukutake, from 1971, that clearly spelled it out.

The small-scale cycles of forty years are, of course, exactly two katuns in length—again forming a very nice fit with the Maya calendar cycles. And even in 1971, Yukutake was aware that not only was there a four-hundred-year warming and cooling cycle on earth, there were also small changes in the rotational speed of earth’s core that took about four hundred years to cycle through. (This was rigorously proven in 1996, as we said, but obviously there had been some leading evidence well before then.) In general terms, the Medieval Warm Period ran from 1000 to 1400, the Little Ice Age ran from 1400 to 1900, but the up-trend began in 1800—right in tune with the cycle. That also means we are now at the exact halfway point. It’s been two hundred years since earth began warming up again. That should also mean the temperatures will start going down again, since we’re about to pass the top of the wave—and we may already be seeing that happening.

I found even more supporting evidence when I read the work of Finnish scientist Timo Niroma, who explores the idea that solar activity is, in some way, directly related to planetary cycles. For example, Jupiter has an 11.86-year cycle, and the generally accepted average value for the sunspot cycle is 11.1 years.
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Naroma often uses “the Elatina data”—meaning he tracks the year-to-year variations in the amount of radiation we find in a 680-million-year-old rock sample from Elatina, South Australia, in 1982. There are 9.4 meters of laminations that span a total of nineteen thousand years of time.
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It isn’t until we head into the fifth large Web page of his analysis that we find multiple references to a two-hundred-year sunspot cycle that has been found in Elatina and other sources. The solar activity is believed to be responsible for the cyclical changes in earth’s temperature.

Naroma quotes at least five different scientific studies that found a two-hundred-year cycle in the amount of solar radiation reaching earth. One thing we do have to keep in mind is that this may not actually be a solar cycle. It is possible that the rotation of earth’s geometric core determines how much solar radiation, or how little, can actually get through earth’s protective shield at any one time. The geometric relationships of the core may be causing the solar radiation levels and the overall temperature levels on earth to rise and fall in an obvious two-hundred-year pattern of change—perhaps by changing the permeability of the magnetosphere.

It is utterly fascinating to realize that the Maya appear to have been tracking this exact same earth cycle for thousands of years. I don’t think they’d be very interested in long-term warming and cooling cycles, if that’s all it was. However, if this system also controls when the time portals open, then that cycle becomes much more interesting. Let’s not forget that in this new physics model, there are multiple geometries that we have to look at—and they all nest together. So earth’s core is only one of the geometries we have to look at. There could very well be others, appearing in the different spherical layers within earth, that would be even more difficult for our scientists to detect at this point. Each of them would probably have a different rotational period. There may, however, be a way to locate them—by studying their effects.

Is there any additional proof that the Maya calendar may have been used to track time portals? There certainly appears to be. Two German scientists, Graznya Fosar and Franz Bludorf, made a stunning discovery in 1998. They found what appears to be a vertical line in the earth’s energy fields, which rotates along at 1.86 degrees of longitude per day—for a total of about 194 days. Two of these cycles add up to 388 days. The reason why this line is so important is that if you happen to be in the wrong place on earth when it crosses over you (or the right place, depending on what you’re trying to do), a portal into time-space apparently opens.