The 8 Calendars of the Maya by Hunbatz Men

Author:Hunbatz Men
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mayan Studies/New Age
ISBN: 9781591439875
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2010-02-25T00:00:00+00:00

Indicates the position of the Moon at its greatest northern declination, coinciding with March 21.

Western sunset point, coinciding with March 21 each year: the spring equinox.

Indicates the position of the Moon at its maximum southern declination, coinciding with December 21.

Geographic south.

The Great Idol of Tiwanak’u, Bolivia

Forms of Mesoamerican calendars can be found throughout the Americas. One example is the so-called Great Idol of Tiwanak’u. In reality a monolith representing a priest of Pachamama (literally, “Earth Mother”), it has been referred to by Eurocentric archaeologists as the Bennett Monolith, after Wendell Bennett, the archaeologist who unearthed it in 1932, where it had been buried in the complex of ruins on the Bolivian altiplano called Tiwanak’u. This monolith measures 7.30 meters in length by 1.30 meters in width and is intricately carved with the same iconography found at the Gateway of the Sun, at the same site, including the same calendar inscriptions. It is necessary to study this statue carefully, as did the Austrian naval engineer, geomorphologist, and naturalized Bolivian Arthur Posnansky, who visited the ancient site while it was being excavated and became so mesmerized that he later dubbed himself the Apostle of Tiwanak’u. He later wrote about how he dragged himself in the mud to lie underneath the monolith, then being excavated, and, candle in hand, removed the mud off the back of the statue with his fingernails, marveling at the intricate carvings thus exposed. Posnansky was responsible for removing the statue from Tiwank’u to the Bolivian capital of La Paz. It was returned to the native Aymara people at Tiwanak’u in 2002.

Posnansky wrote, “The idol of Tiwanak’u holds what appears to be a vessel (keru) in its left hand, which may be a clepsidra (hourglass). In his belt appear a series of lobsters, which are possibly equivalent to crayfish, namely, the zodiacal sign of the Age of Cancer” (see figure 3.7).

Let us analyze Posnansky’s last comparison. Taking European astrology, with its origins in Greek mythology, into consideration, we might mention that the ancient Greeks drew their astrological and astronomical knowledge, along with a great deal of their culture, from the Egyptians. For example, if we examine the form of the Great Sphinx of Egypt, we will see that its body resembles that of the lion (Leo). For this reason, we can infer that the figure of the crayfish in the belt of the monolith of Tiwanak’u represents the sign of Cancer.

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