The Solke calendar is the sacred calendar of the Mayans, based on the cycle of the Pleiades. The period of the Pleiades is 26,000 years, but it is reflected in the calendar we use as 260 days. Their calendar year began when Mayan priests first noticed that the sun appeared in the form of the sun in the east, just before the dawn light of the sun obscured the sight of the stars. At first, the Mayans knew that they were from the Pleiades, or "Tzab-ek" (tail of rattlesnake) as the Mayans knew it.
The relationship with the Pleiades and the Mayan world is written in the Mayan holy book. It was passed on to my grandmother and grandfather in their consciousness. This is an important record.
The elders said that the universe came from the Pleiades. About ten years ago, through the Hubble telescope, people found a place where stars were born in a huge spiral form and originated from the Pleiades. Outside the spiral is a completely empty space. In order to match the precession of the Milky Way, the Mayans also observed the precession of time through the Pleiades. Alcyone, the central star of the Pleiades, is located at 30 degrees in Taurus, near Orion. Alcyone in Taurus represents the goddess of the earth. The course from Alcyone is about compassion, higher wisdom and vision, and earth consciousness.
Many have been guided from the Pleiades. Alcyone occupies a prominent position in Mayan astronomy. The Mayans believed that this was the home of their ancestors. The Pleiades system is called Seven Sisters, and our sun is aligned with Alcyone every 52 years. In Mayan cosmology, the precession of the Pleiades is tracked by using the calendar circle (52 years) and the new fire ceremony. In the early pre-classical site of Giust, the central square seems to have a celestial line that is consistent with the rise and fall of the Pleiades. Today, the Mayans in Guatemala used the Pleiades to start their year's sowing.
However, many researchers believe that the 260-day period from one zenith transit of the sun to the next zenith transit defines the length of the 260-day component of the calendar cycle. In the area between Cancer and Capricorn, some days the sun will pass directly overhead at noon. At that time, vertical objects had no shadow. There is such a day on the Tropic of Cancer, June 22nd, the solstice of summer. On the tropic of Capricorn, this day is1February 22nd, the winter solstice. On the equator, the transit of zenith divides a year into two equal halves. Between the equator and the Tropic of Cancer, the transit of the zenith of the sun divides a year into a longer part and a shorter part. The former is south of the zenith and the latter is north of the zenith. The distance between zenith and summer solstice is always equal. At latitude 14 47'2 1 ",there is a 2 60-day zenith transit interval. The transit dates are April 30th and August 13. 1 3 August is one of the classic Maya creation days, which adds credibility to this explanation.
Perhaps the most famous star cluster in the sky, the Pleiades can be seen from the depths of light-polluted cities without binoculars. Also known as Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades is one of the brightest and closest open clusters. The Pleiades contains more than 3,000 stars, about 400 light-years away and only 13 light-years in diameter. What is very obvious in the above photo is the blue reflection nebula surrounding the brighter cluster. Low-quality, dim brown dwarfs have also been found in the Pleiades cluster. ([I] Editor's note: [/i] The prominent diffraction peak is caused by the telescope itself, which may distract attention or enhance the aesthetic feeling, depending on your point of view. )
Maya civilization in ancient times is a mysterious "lost" civilization, and its secrets are hidden in the mysterious tropical jungle. There are a large number of undiscovered ancient cities in Maya area. When one day comes across such urban architectural communities by chance, they bring people amazing and wonderful landscapes.
Mayan architecture, pyramids, astronomical observatories, palaces, stadiums, monuments, and various sculptures are exotic and give people strange reverie. And an indecipherable hieroglyphic system seems to be a difficult and attractive riddle, which contains so many mysteries of the past and creates more mysterious psychological effects for us.
With a unique spiritual effect, the Mayan stone tablet engraved with hieroglyphs stands quietly and solemnly in the depths of the tropical jungle. Their shapes make people feel strange, their carvings are wonderful and ingenious, and their decorations are varied, which is quite different from the works of other nationalities. What kind of history do they want to show people by sticking to the land of great changes?
Maya civilization is a great civilization created by Indian ancestors in Central America in isolation from ancient civilizations in Asia, Africa and Europe. It is the most outstanding representative of human achievements in the New World before Columbus arrived. He has made great contributions to science (astronomy, calendar, engineering, mathematics), agriculture (corn, tomato, cocoa, tobacco planting), culture (hieroglyphics, chronicles), art (sculpture, painting) and many other aspects.
It can even be said that the other two civilizations in this vast territory of the western hemisphere-Aztec civilization and Inca civilization-are not enough to compete with Mayan civilization. As far as writing is concerned, the Mayans have reached unparalleled maturity and exquisiteness before and after A.D. There are more than 2,500 Chinese characters engraved on the steps of a pyramid, while the Incas are still in the primitive stage of knotting notes, while the Aztecs imitate the Mayans, from orange to orange.
If the best measure of barbarism and civilization is whether a nation has a complete system of words and symbols, then this chemical theory will clearly prove the degree of wisdom achieved by the Mayans. Usually we just talk about four ancient civilizations: ancient Egypt, Babylon, India and China, but this is not a scientific expression. In recent decades, international historians tend to have a more general view of the "four civilized regions", that is, the civilized regions in the eastern Mediterranean (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Phoenicia, Greece, etc. ), South Asian subcontinent civilization area (India and its surrounding areas), East Asian civilization area (China and its surrounding areas), Central and South American Indian civilization area (Maya, Aztec, Inca).
We can see that Egypt and Babylon have merged, but they are only 1000 km apart, and they influence each other. * * * has many common characteristics. India and China still occupy an unshakable position, while Indian civilization headed by Maya has won an important "permanent seat" in the hall of human civilization. It can be said that the civilization of Central and South America, headed by the Mayans, has become another great source of human wisdom, which has gathered all the glory of our species.
It can be said that today we have reached the understanding that studying the intellectual achievements of the Mayans is to understand our human wisdom itself.
Modern archaeology dispelled the romantic atmosphere that pervaded the Mayan world to some extent. People take pains to list the unearthed Mayan artifacts, and science is really mechanical and indifferent; The plain description of the magnificent building seems to be discussing one of our construction projects today; The analysis and discussion of the ecological environment in Maya area seems to be a chapter in an introductory textbook of geography and biology. The way of life of the ancient Mayans was only restored with a rash theoretical framework.
You can't blame archaeology. This can only reflect that the study of Mayan civilization, which is not sufficient at present, needs further development. The method of archaeological science is the most effective means we can use; Instead of complaining, we should be really glad that it constantly destroys people's romantic logic and dispels the mysterious fog. Only after a tedious and calm objective description can we grasp the basic facts of Mayan civilization. Only by truly grasping its basic facts can the wisdom contained in a civilization be presented to us.
People sometimes tend to be mysterious and unconsciously pursue some kind of "distance beauty". Yes, when we know nothing about the basic facts of Mayan civilization, a little bit of jade will be transformed into mysterious and romantic pictures by our free and unrestrained personal imagination and the social communication effect of spreading information repeatedly. At this time, the Mayan pyramid-shaped altar temple was said to be a gift (heritage) from the "other world" that human beings could not reach, and the Maya's extremely high knowledge of astronomy and mathematics was said to be the gospel brought by aliens. ...
If we refuse to go near the Maya world and make a real observation, then we will even regard the wisdom achieved by "people and my compatriots" (Maya is a branch of our human pride) as the performance of "non-human races" (aliens, gods and supernatural forces in parallel mysterious worlds).