Introduction To 
The Mayan Calendar

By Alun Joy Yaxk'in      

The Ancient Maya, and the remains of their cosmic culture, are still enshrouded in mystery and confusion. To this day, much of what archeologists base their findings upon is founded on guesses, not facts. Theories and speculations fill the history books. Like a giant cosmic joke, the riddles and puzzles left behind by the Maya are still as much a mystery today, as when discovered by the Spanish.

Maybe understanding the Tzolk'in with only the mental body was not the approach the Mayas themselves intended. If the Maya intended us to understand their knowledge of the universe they would leave remains behind to bridge all cultures, languages, and all levels of education. This is what the Maya have done. Without a doubt the knowledge of the cosmos is available to all who can open their hearts to the wonder and curiosity of the universe once again. The encoding of the calendar is intuitive and remembered with feelings. It is also very mental and can be learned with study. 

As daykeeper, Hunbatz Men has told me, we need to use all our bodies to remember everything. The physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies are needed. Without desire, wonder and curiosity there is no intention to remember. Without study there is no understanding. To reconnect to the cosmos and receive information from the Sun, as the Maya do, one must not only place intention by physical study, but a desire to remember. As we move our physical bodies into action to study, the intuitive side will just kick in, but desire is most important and essential. That's it! This is what the Maya intended.

The calendar with its twenty Sun/glyphs are cosmic memory activation tools that intuitively interacts with your body's memory-your DNA. The calendar is not only an incredibly accurate map of the cycles of the cosmos, it is also a tool to accelerate and activate your memory into recalling the truth behind the mystery of the cosmos. Each glyph is charged with precise information in the form of feelings or emotions to help active you in a very personal and individual way. Each person will remember their own personal perspective of the truth based on their place in the calendar system. This is not something you need to learn, it is something you will remember.

Have the courage to plow through the barrier of limitation and remember the totality of who you are, to live in your own personal integrity.
You will need to commit to this for a while. Memory activation does not create instant results. Activation takes place in stages and layers. At first you will find the sacred calendar quite mental. If you find yourself mentally fuzzing out when you begin to place your attention on these teachings, understand this is a common problem. You are just coming face to face with your own personal limitation program. You are hitting a time/space dimensional barrier and your body is saying "I can't do this, I can't remember everything. I can't be limitless." I say you can, and you will. It is your destiny to do so.

This is a new year challenge. Commit yourself to remembering the totality of who you are by following these calendars for one earth cycle, just a short 365 days. Place your intention for just a few minutes every day on the Mayan day instead of the linear Gregorian day. Get your body cycling with the cosmos again, instead of the ticking clock. Move into the undulating, spiraling, ascending energy of the cosmos. Watch the sun rise and set. Watch the moon rise and set. Soon you will begin to dream with more detail. You will feel more deeply. Understand more clearly. You will feel a part of a much bigger whole. You will remember little pieces of information. They will just pop into you head. If this sounds good to you, lets get started.

What is the Mayan Calendar?

The Maya understood twenty different calendars based on the cosmos. Some calendars go back as far as ten million years and are so difficult you would need an astronomer, astrologer, geologist, and a mathematician just to work out the calculations. Lucky for us we only need to work with three of these calendars. The calendars most important are the Haab and Tzolk'in. The Tzolk'in is the most important and the one with the most influence for humanity.

The Haab is based in the cycles of Earth. It has 360 plus five days, totaling 365 days. The Haab uses 18 months with 20 days in each month. There is a 19th month called a Vayeb and uses the five extra days. Each month has its own name/glyph. Each day uses a sacred sun/glyph.

The Tzolk'in is the sacred calendar of the Maya and is based on the cycles of the Pleiades. The cycle of the Pleiades uses 26,000 years, but is reflected in the calendar we are using by encompassing 260 days. It uses the sacred numbers 13 and 20. The 13 represents the numbers and 20 represents the sun/glyphs. The Tzolk'in has four smaller cycles called seasons of 65 days each guarded by the four suns of Chicchan, Oc, Men and Ahau. There are also portal days within the Tzolk'in that create a double helix pattern using 52 days and the mathematics of 28. This sacred calendar is still being used for divination by the traditional Maya all over the Yucatan, Guatemala, and Belize, and Honduras.