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ANCIENT MAYA
Ancient Mayan culture can be traced as far back as 2600 B.C. and began to flourish as an empire around A.D. 250 in the region known as Mesoamerica.
The vast span of this civilization took place in what is today known as Central America, and included the Yucatan Peninsula. Guatamala, Belize, Western Honduras, and El Salvador, along with the Mexican states of Chiapas and Tabasco.
The mystery surrounding the Mayan people , their rise to prominence, their eventual decline and virtual collapse has been a fascination to countless researchers. They seem to have been influenced by an earlier race of people who inhabited the same general area. These were the Oltec people.
The Maya were highly skilled architects. The elaborate stone temples and pyramids they built, without metal tools, are the testimony of an advanced civilization that predates accomplishments in Europe.
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They had a keen knowledge of astronomy and hieroglyphic writing. They devised complex farming methods, huge irrigation systems and underground reservoirs for storage of rain water.
Archeological artifacts show a highly creative society, producing beautiful pottery, stone carvings, and intricate weaving designs.
Yet their most important contribution to the world was the mystical calender they devised. which astounds modern scholars with it’s accuracy, even though it was designed hundreds of years before our present Gregorian calender.
The Mayan sacred system revolved around a cosmic idea of Time. Their intuitive science of Time Cycles indicate a sacred mathematical formula which follows the cycles of the Sun and planets.
The year 2012 was forcast by the ancient calender makers to mark the completion of a 5000 year cycle of Time, according to the Mayan Prophecy.
MAYAN CALENDAR
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