The Greatest Myth of All
A heat wave in modern times is recorded with thermometers and Doppler images on the television screens. Amimals or children left in automobiles are the victims of such "extreme" temperatures. If the heat is too intense in the cities, the elderly, who do not usually have air conditioners and make do with floor or window fans, also succumb to the heat.
It is a time when swimming at the beach, or poolside is thought to cool one's body. However, the sun can burn even more near the water so that before the Ph sunscreens, many suffered even more pain and discomfort with sunburn and blisters after they arrived home from their "refreshing" dip in the ocean, creek, or pool.
Even before our era, people noticed extreme heat waves. Their descriptions of this type of event was recorded many times over the centuries. Some researchers thought the descriptions were no more than primitive tales to entertain during long evenings by the campfires. Others, saw that it was only the hellish part of old religions having nothing to do with reality.
Descriptions written into ancient manuscripts were considered to be too primitive to be taken seriously and became mythological concepts created to create fear, as when they were included in religious texts, or to entertain, as in the Iliad of Homer. As a result, there are many physical attributes of land, sky, and sea identified as "gods" and "goddesses" for want of better names, because the writers in acient times could not have possibly known about earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes or tornadoes.
Who do we think we are kidding? The people who could write were educated in schools, traveled over land and sea, and even took a flight or two on gliders. Hot air balloons many not have been an option, but a man gliding across the skies are described as early as Homer.1 (Lord Nacxit 2 probably is the Maya version of Homer's Nausithose.)
Homer's shield-shaped island, Scheria, is described as ", . . then do thou turn her to stone, hard by the land - a stone in the shape of a swift ship that all men may marvel and do thou fling a great mountain about their city."3 An island described as a shield enclosed by a great mountain could never have been "seen" by a person traveling on the sea.
Education in the schools may not have been very detailed, but the men that traveled made exactly the same type of observations that modern researchers have made today. Even their vocabulary is similar, except that many times, one cannot properly translate the words that were written because there are no grammars or lesson books for that language any more.
Young Ph.D. students, wanting to make their mark in the scholarly
world, will "translate" a written language, but creating a scenario in their
minds, the more salacious, the more readily accepted by the public. One
researcher actually took a modern poem from a little-studied language and
transformed it into an Inanna wedding of Sumer.
And so it was with Uxmal. Symbols of the "phallus" are found throughout the 33 foot wide "Temple of the Phallli," about a quarter of a mile south of the House of the Old Woman. Some of these images are even thought to have been used as gargoyles to divert rainwater from the roof.4
It was considered a bit strange to have so many phalli located in one Maya site, because as stated in the 1978 tourist guide ". . . it is very rare in Maya art." At that time, there was no inidcation that the phallus, or penis would become so popular a subject in the Maya glyphs.
Once the well-made "phalli" were described, no one even remembers that the eyes of each Chac on the corners of the other temples contain storm glyphs. Nor do they remember the strange little building within a pyramid called the "Palace of the Governor" that has a roof of feathers.
They do not even want to be bothered with the many "feathered serpents" found on the two walls of the ball court. No one questions the two dates, one on each ball court ring with only one day's difference, since there is no way to decipher the rest of the date because these pieces were "in an advanced state of destruction."5
Feathers of any kind, whether they be found on the serpents in the ball court, or on the roof within the pyramid in the Palace of the Governor, were only thought to be decorative additions to the walls. But the Maya do not just decorate, they, like other areas of the mesoamerican world, fill their images with as many clues to important events as they can.
In the Aztec area, such feathers were known to be symbols of fire. And even when a huge Chac mask
is decorated with three Aztec "year" signs around its head, there is no memory of such a symbolism for the Maya, even though the year signs were identified as similar to "the Mexican Tlaloc."6
With jagged lightning bolts in the four corners of the mask, this is no ordinary Chac. The only thing in the "Mexican area" that it can be equated with is the Tlaloc description on the huge Calendar Stone of the Aztecs. Tlaloc of the calendar stone is not a "god of rain" but a god of a special storm in the sky: a wind storm of fire. It is the female aspect of Tlaloc that brought the cooling waters. But even they boded no good since they flooded the land.
Leon-Portilla deciphered the texts in the early days, but no one even notices that the first sun was a "sun that was too close" to the earth? Does anyone believe that the sun could come "too close to the earth"?
But if it had been a comet from the direction of a blazing nova, a comet that entered our atmosphere and blazed out of our control. . . described by all religions, even the Bible,. . . would they believe it then?
-676 sun too close
-364 wind - monkeymen
-312 fires
-676 water - Moses concept 7
The next two "suns" brought wind and fire, but strangely enough, the two time elements (364 and 312) actually equals the first and the last time elements of 676 years. So instead of four suns, were there actually only three. Or else, the story of the four suns is so special that the text is no longer an accurate time schedule, but instead a code or cipher that tells us that the date of the event was 676 AD,and whose true name may have been The Fourth Sun.
In a state of oppression by the Spanish Conquistadores and in the presence of the Church Inquisition, a need to "hide" information would be indicated. By splitting up the numbers into two uneven segments, few readers would waste time adding them together or even notice that they equaled the first and the last segments of the four suns.
And in the meantime, since there are so many phalli in the one temple, then one must investigate the weird sexual habits of the ancient native population. But what if the "phalli" were part of the Greek sky observation? They saw that Zeus emasculated his father Kronos. They saw a bloody phallic image falling from where the two gods resided in the sky.
Images that are easier to comprehend as the castration of a god could also be a hugely different streaming red comet or meteorite as it entered our atmosphere not iridescent blue and green, but bright brilliant red, that eventually fell into the sea. Smaller ones could be images of meteorites as they fell into the gulf, The Doppler effec, used extensively in modern astronomy, would indicate that a blue or greenish comet would be passing us by, but one seen as a red color, would not only be entering our atmosphere, but orbiting (like the sun) nearer than any comet or meteor that ever came n ear the earth.
As it was, all ancient religions and myths take up the same story and indicate that there was a very strong, lasting heat wave that destroyed not only the vegetation, but also the people. Athens Greece, claimed that the frogs of the marshlands came into the city in great numbers, while the people, threw themselves into the wells in order to cool themselves off. Great burning lumps of substance, as large as elephants, fell to the earth according to India, while China told of their hero, I Hou, who shot down eight of the nine suns that were threatening our world. They also confirmed that a great bird with red claws was attempting to fill the ocean with pebbles.
So with an edificewithin a pyramid having a feather roof, we can then
look at a nearby stela, one of 15 flat stones with carved images.
The one described in the text is noted as Figure 24, but the description fits Figure 22 shown here. The central figure wears sky bands on his skirt and the roof over his head (not his headdress) is full of feathers. He stands on a spotted animal with a feather (fire) tail. If the spotted animal is a crude version of the (later) jaguar of the night sky, then it would explain why the roof of this structure in the pyramid is feathered and why this iconography contains feathers (fire) in the skies with a "god" at the upper right side blowing into a conche shell horn, reminescent of a sonic boom as the comet/meteorite entered the atmosphere.
It makes a lot more sense when you also consider the Courtyard of The
Cemetery some 660 feet west of the Ball Court. Four small altars at the foot
of the pyramid there are decorated with motifs associated with death, such as
skulls and cross-bones and it is to these macabre motifs that the group
in the Courtyard owes its name.
The panel above has three glyphs on the side. The first is the sky band,
the second the "Blind" god (probably the constellation Ophiuchus. See
The Radish and
the third, a hand throwing out the "bone of death" The central figure is a
primitive bearded Tlaloc-type dragon within the burning waters.
The three glyphs on the side of the panel below, I cannot
"read" however, the central figure is the quetzal bird having one hand as
a talon or claw, without a beard within the same roiling waters.
The two panels seem to be a pre-curser to the Temple of Quetzalcoatl in
Teotihuacán, with the bird image at the head of the serpent that is
coiled through the water and ends with the Tlaloc head at the tail filled
with the rattles of a rattlesnake, again indicating the noise made by the
comet/meteor that entered our atmosphere.
Hence, death through the agency of Tlaloc and his fire rain, not the life produced by penises is the main theme of Uxmal. A comet or meteorite with a fiery tail, recarved at the top end as a penis, was only to be noticed by those researchers interested in such things. Such misconceptions would ensure that these items are not lost. Those who knew about the comet/meteorite would be able to pass on such information to their children and grandchildren, without any loss of symbolism.
The Aztecs have the history of the "Birth of the Fifth Sun" to help
them recall their history. The Maya have their glyphic histories. That is
enough. Foreigners can call the event a myth or a religion, it does not matter
which as long as the information is safe.
1 Homer, Odyssey, VI - 1 - 11, The city of
Phaeacia. In old time
Phaeacia's sons possess'd the fruitful plains
O Hypereia, bordering on the fierce
. . . . At length arose
Godlike Nausithous, he, their leader thence
In Scheria plac'd them, an unneighbored isle
And far from all resort of busy man.
2 Thompson, *, p. 127: Nacxit is a name for Quetzalcoatl- Kukulcan - Ruler of the Chichen Itza.
3 Homer, Odyssey XIII - 153 - 158,
4 INAH (1978) Uxmal, Oficial Guide México
5 Ibid, p. 49.
6 Ibid, Figure 4, p. 14.
7 Leon - Portilla, M. (1977). Los Antiguos Mexicanos
através
de sus crónicas y cantares (©1961 ed.).
México: Fondo
de Cultura Económica. p. 40.