Installment #3 Mayan Calendar and the prophecy of the Five World Ages
The diversion of the spiritual energies that occurred at a specific
point in the history of the evolution of human consciousness had a
very detrimental effect on humanity as a whole in regards to the on-
going process of re-agglutination that was slowly bringing the
species back together after millennia of isolation. Because this
diversion appears to have caused many human groups to turn away from
the ancient covenant that had bound them to the spirit of the Earth
Mother the process of agglutination took a very ugly turn and the
gradual and relatively peaceful reunion turned into a bloody clash
of cultures, religions and races in many areas of the world. That is
why it is vital to explore the questions posed here.
These questions are at the heart of the meaning that many of us read
into the Mayan Calendar Long Count. To us it is no coincidence that,
after the obvious diversion of spiritual energies that seems to have
occurred at a specific point in the history of the evolution of
human consciousness, the original theme of that evolution is being
restored at our present period of time. And the reason that it is no
coincidence is because we believe we see the explanation of this
phenomenon in the intricacies of Mayan calendrics.
The first question that I brought up above has to be addressed first
carefully in order to then address the second one; "When did access
to the media that was created in the year 24,000 B.C. slip out of
the hands of those who created it?" To be specific, we believe that
it happened around the year 3114 B.C. about 5,200 tuns ago (a little
over 5,100 years ago) around the beginning of the era that
historians call the Bronze Age. We believe however that the process
by which this loss was effected actually began much earlier, almost
a full 5,200 tuns before, during the era that historians call
the "New Stone Age" (Neolithic Times).
The second question: "How and why did this event take place?" is
best answered by explaining certain facts in the history of human
development.
As stated earlier, the era of spiritual publication was first
established around the year 24,000 B.C. At that time, humans learned
to effectively externalize the intricate spiritual metaphysical
urges and expressions that had been privately experienced by all
members of the species for eons. This publicizing of spirituality
also effectively expressed in a very public manner, an unspoken
compromise between the members of the species and the spiritual
forces of the cosmos, personified by the Earth Mother or "Mother
Nature". This compromise expressed itself in a series of rules and
mores which were followed and adhered to faithfully by all humans
for centuries.
These rules and mores were taken for granted as the way one was
supposed to live and no one even doubted that there was any other
way that people ought to comport themselves. It was the recognized
law of existence and regulated all aspects of the individual's life
in the human community. Some of these habits included prayers
uttered by a hunter over the carcass of a fallen prey animal before
it was slaughtered, prayers uttered before a tree before it was
felled or carved, fasts observed before the initiation of specific
activities, the systematic limitation of harvest of certain prey
animals, the ritual limitation of time for carrying out certain
activities that, if extended indefinitely, might be detrimental to
the immediate environment. This complex of traditional habits and
mores became part of the life of each and every member of the
community and expressed a sense of respect for the elements of
Nature that controlled and kept in check the destructive tendencies
of human activity. This respect was dictated by the obvious
vulnerability that each human sensed when confronted with the
awesome uncontrollable power of Nature. It was that sense of awe
that kept the species true to the compromise and raised this
compromise to the level of a true covenant. Nature, for its part,
was seen as the perennial provider, which certainly maintained the
community and kept the people from dying as long as the rules and
traditions were observed.
This condition continued virtually unchanged throughout the first
three 5,200-tun World Age periods of the Long Count Sequence, as I
mentioned earlier, a period of roughly 15,600 years. Then things
began to happen that affected this state of affairs. At around the
time of the beginning of the fourth World Age period, the Ice Age
glaciers began to melt away. The average temperature of the Earth
rose and huge ice-covered areas of the planet became available for
human habitation where no human had been able to live before. The
large game animals, woolly mammoths, giant bison, and others, which
had characterized the life experience of Paleolithic humans
disappeared because their habitats changed dramatically. The climate
and geography of the planet became so radically altered that the
whole culture of the Ice-Age humans had to change in order for them
to adapt. During this period of 5,200 tuns, humans began
experimenting with husbandry and the era now known as the "Old Stone
Age" ended, giving way to what has been identified in the region of
the Middle East, India, Central America and China as the "New Stone
Age" (Neolithic), and the accompanying traditions of plant
cultivation and animal domestication. This was a dramatic moment in
human evolution. Subsistence hunting and gathering evolved into
primitive gardening and animal-herding in many regions. The security
of food-supply that these activities afforded the New Stone Age
humans (Neolithic), combined with the fact that these food-supplies
could be stored in inordinately large quantities, and also could be
taken away by force from someone else who was also storing it, began
to create in the minds of many humans a change in attitude toward
the environment and toward each other. This change in attitude
appears to also have been aggravated by the fact that the
technological inventiveness that had maintained the species for
generations was now threatening to become a source of egotistic
arrogance.
Installment #4
Mayan Calendar and the prophecy of the Five World Ages
The security afforded by these revolutionary changes of the Neolithic
era, combined with the inflated perception of self-importance,
created in the minds of certain humans a new attitude toward Nature
and Mother Earth. This new attitude did not affect all humans at the
same time. And, in fact there were many human societies that were not
affected at all, and there are still human societies today around the
globe that were somehow never affected by this spiritual virus. They
still live in complete observance of the ancient covenant between
humans and the Earth Mother which was established in the year 24,000
B.C.
However there were societies in many parts of the earth that did
succumb to the temptation of the new disease and began very gradually
to release themselves from the ancient covenant. Many humans began to
perceive Nature as an exploitable resource rather than a bountiful
Mother. They began to perceive the living organisms, animals and
plants for which they had always previously maintained the highest of
respect, as chattel, as property. Even fellow human beings were
perceived as a resource to be exploited. This change in attitude
allowed those human communities to drift farther and farther away
from the sacred covenant. The surface of the earth began to be
divided up into parcels that individual humans could exploit.
Communal domain became private property and resources became the
subject of ferocious competition. Scattered, isolated disagreements
and disputes over tribal and clan territory evolved into organized
turf warfare. The technological skills that had previously been used
to sustain and nurture human life and enhance sacred media was turned
to the sinister intention of providing weapons whose only purpose was
the destruction of human life. Spiritual warriors turned into
systematic, wholesale mass murderers.
Into this situation entered a cadre of spiritual leaders, direct
inheritors of the ancient shamanic tradition of former times, but
with a new agenda. These spiritual leaders began to distort the
original message of the ancient covenant. They began by restricting
the belief systems of the people that they were supposed to be
serving. By becoming belief-regulators, they imposed their orthodoxy
on their fellow community members. They imposed their interpretation
of spirituality on the rest of the community, ridiculed and
persecuted spiritual leaders who attempted to maintain the original
tradition of open-mindedness, individual communication with the
spirits and innovation. They pontificated from a self-appointed
position of infallibility and became some of the most important
proponents of the new arrogant attitude toward natural resources.
They championed the concept of privatization of resources as well as
the means by which those resources were to be processed.
The priests of the New Order began the tradition of amassing great
quantities of surplus resources, surplus grain from temple-controlled
farmlands, precious metals from temple-controlled mines, etc. These
were resources that they could then personally control, thereby
making the community dependent on their willingness to share it,
thereby imposing their control over the community. Temporal leaders
saw the advantage of aligning with these spiritual leaders and their
new spiritual agendas and forged a new covenant, one between the
chiefs and the priests of the new spiritual order. Together these
tyrants, "priest-kings" became virtually unstoppable.
By the end of the fourth World Age, around 3114 B.C. the stage had
been set for a complete transfer of control. Access to the
spiritual "publication" system trail blazed by the early shamans of
the Ice Age was wrested away from the dreamers and shaman-artists in
many human communities. Total control of spiritual publishing, ritual
and the Arts passed into the hands of the new priests-bureaucrats.
These priests took one form of spiritual publication technique in
particular and saw the potential for enormous control in that form of
Art. It was the art of drawing. They realized how permanent a drawing
was. They realized that above all of the other media for the
expression of spiritual publication, a drawing could not only outlast
a dance or a song or a poem, but could be made portable and be
carried by anyone (not necessarily an artist, or a skilled performer
or a trained shaman or priest) and the message of that drawing could
reach others even in the absence of the originator of the message.
This turned the art of drawing into a powerful means of propaganda
and the priests of the new order were keen on refining its use.
Originally the shamanic drawing, petroglyph or pictograph, was a
rather ambiguous expression. It allowed the individual who looked at
it to commune with the spirit realm through its esthetic magic,
through the interpretive filter of culture and tradition, without
fully restricting his or her own personal individualized experience.
This was far too open-ended for the restrictive agenda of the new
priests. They insisted on a narrow, constricted interpretation of
spiritual expression that followed their own limited socio-political,
economic agenda and excluded the dreams and aspirations of anyone who
did not agree with them.
To eliminate ambiguity and secure a more controlled message, the
priests of the new order tinkered with the symbolic images of
shamanic drawing and created a new symbolic system that could more
accurately express their dogmatic message. This new system of symbols
reduced language to a visual form and actual words took on fixed
shape. Writing had been created.
At first, writing looked a great deal like its predecessor, drawing.
It was, in fact, "picture-writing". In many communities, artists who
were good at drawing were drafted by the new priests to be the first
scribes. Eventually, however, writing became an unique art form in
itself, independent of drawing. It was able to immortalize poetry and
the lyrics of songs, prayers. Writing always had the potential of
becoming a powerful new medium which could be used by the people to
reassert their autonomy from the priests of the new order and so the
new priests jealously guarded its secret creating "hieroglyphics"
(literally, "Priest-writing"), a secret writing system to which only
priests had access. The influence of the kind of selfish egotistic
mentality that these new priests embodied was felt all over the
world, even in areas not directly controlled by the new priests and
even areas where writing never reached. It was the era that the
ancient Mayas identified as the time of Itzam Yeh (also known as
Seven Macaw). They portrayed this mythological individual as an
egotistic, demonic strutting bird, full of his own self-importance
and attempting to impersonate the true sun, standing in the place of
the true sun and not permitting the sacred system of cycles that the
rising and setting of the sun represents. By precluding the system of
cycles, Seven Macaw eliminated cyclic rhythm, which is at the root of
spiritual creativity and re-birth. That was exactly what the take-
over of all of those late Neolithic arrogant peacocks actually
accomplished with the help of hieroglyphic writing, and by the year
3114 B.C. they were ready for a grand take-over. To a great extent,
in key areas of the world, they succeeded and restricted the natural
rhythm of cycles in the human communities that they controlled and
severely repressed the creative spirit that is at the root of the
ancient covenant between the human species and the Earth Mother. A
number of important developments took place at the opening of the
Fifth World Age in 3114 B.C. Writing became established as the
official expression of spiritual thought in an ever increasing number
of world-cultures. The metal alloy known as bronze was perfected
after centuries of experimentation with the much softer copper. The
development of bronze weapons established organized warfare as the
hallmark of the agenda of the new priests and their political allies.
The Neolithic age had finally given way to the Bronze Age in many
parts of the world.
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