Theresa Danley's Blog – June 2012 Archive (2)

The third significant calendar used in Mesoamerica is the Long Count Calendar.  This is the big one.  This is the one best known as the Mayan Calendar, a version of which is still being used by the Quiche Maya today.  It’s the calendar blamed for 2012’s anticipated apocalypse, or celebrated for the coming new age of humanity’s evolution.

It’s also the calendar…

“…the New Ager felt Quetzalcoatl’s energy soaking into his pores—an energy stripped from the surface of Venus and transported to him on the rays of sunshine. He rejoiced in the glow, in the feeling of the Venus Transit.”  -excerpt from EFFIGY

Not to be excluded from the list of astronomical bodies finding relevance amongst the cultural mix of…