KindaGamey

edit: I am never going to finish this post. I still had loads more to type and didn’t.
It’s just been sitting there in the Drafts column and I don’t want it there anymore.

So here you go. -the KG that exists Sunday May 15th, 2011 @ 10:49 in the am, a very different KG from the other nice fellow that wrote this.

Excerpts from The Book of Destiny Unlocking the Secrets of the Ancient Mayans and the Prophesy of 2012
by Carlos Barrios, Mayan Elders Council

Tula: The Mother Civilization

p. 49

According to stories told by Elders from the most traditional tribes, the Maya are descended from a mother civilization called Tula, or Tulán, which gave rise to all of the mysterious and powerful civilizations of the Mediterranean, and the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula. It is the source of all our traditions. In many Mayan languages, “Tula” means “mother’s breast” – the place where our forebears drank of knowledge.  The original civilization was located on a continent, now gone, in the middle of the Atlantic.

(what if it wasn’t another continent now gone, what if it was already taking place undersea? or on a different planet? or what if the earth was in a different location in the solar system? listen to this account and try and, if you let your imagination run wild and don’t think of the maya as primitives, figure out what this event beyond words is trying to relate. -KG)

The Popol Vuh give the following account:

From there we came, from Tulán Zu. That is where our first fathers were created: B’alam K’itze’, B’alam Aq’ab, Majukutaj, and I’ki’ B’alam.

From there they came, from the East…. Many left, each with their families, multiplying there in the east. Still in darkness, before the sun had dawned and there was light, they were all together doing many things there in the east. Without knowledge of food, they lifted their faces to the sky and did not know how to leave it. There they were, there in that sweetness, white men and black men. From them the different generations of the world are descended…

(Watch for the “…”, that’s not me. Every time it seems the Popol Vuh is about to discuss the nature of those from whom all are descended, he gives us an ellipses and shoves it under the rug. Hmm… also, did it not sound like we came from a time or orbit when we had no sun? Read it again. If a race evolved on a dark planet wouldn’t they have an incredible knowledge of the movement of the stars? There wouldn’t be food without sun. That makes me want to make a black-paneled comic strip. You could only see in reverse, blots of dark objects against a star-scape.)

They did not have idols then, but all spoke the same language. They followed the mandate the Creator had given them, Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth, waiting for the Sun to rise.

(“They did not have idols then?” and instead spoke the same language. So having an idol meant adopting a new language? Were idols the gods from above whom we chose to worship? From which we carved physical idols as representations and worshiped those as gods on Earth? If we followed the mandate of a creator (Tao) then we were probably an organically organized (stable) society; as in, not unbalanced because nature follows the mandate of the creator and nature is symbiotic with the universe/larger and smaller natural systems.)

From there we came, that is where we were given our names. There they came together to await the dawn, to wait and watch for the star that comes before the sun when it rises.

From there we came, that is where we divided, they said to one another. Thus they were sad and felt pain because they had no food or sustenance. Only the roots of sweet cane did they smell, and it was as if they were eating but in reality they were not.

(“That is where we were given our names; that is where we divided.” What were you before division? One god? One creature? One race with no individuality? Were each of these men a direct descendant of a particular deity/being and that is why they each were given a different deity, language, and name? Thus creating the varied races and cultures of the world? Is the Earth a melting pot where separate races could combine their human DNA? Are aliens not alien?)

(“There they came together to await the dawn,” it sounds like they are awaiting the first dawn on earth ever. The first time either the earth was moved into position to have a sun, or that something was moved towards us, or even ignited such as in 2010. The book 2010 says that it is Saturn that ignites into a new sun, not Jupiter as in the movie. There seems to be no light and no vegetation in this new land and they are awaiting a star to signal the coming of the new sun. In a strange detail, it mentions that “only the roots of sweet cane did they smell.” Can you smell roots? I can’t. Perhaps they had abilities we did not? Perhaps they had sensors that could detect vegetation was present that wanted to rise, but required light to pull it through the soil? Perhaps they were seeking a planet which could sustain life?)

Their passage over the sea when they came was clear, as if there were no sea at all. They crossed over on stones. They came here, and the stones were protruding in a row in the sand when they came. Stepping-stones they are called, pulled up out of the sand that path they used to cross the sea, which divided and they came here.

(Here the sea divides and stones rise from the sands to bring them to the new land. Or did they part the sea of the Milky Way and make a galactic path as planets rose like stepping stones to meet their feet?)

Here we will not see the dawn of the sun on the face of the earth, they said when they came. They left the path and surely fell asleep along the way. One of the tribes that woke up continued to watch the star that signaled the coming of the sun.

This was the sign they thought was the dawn when they came from the east. Their faces were one when they came from there, such a great distance away.

p. 51

The Memorial of Sololá, also known as the Annals of the Kaqchikeles, tells a similar story:

I shall write the stories of our first fathers and grandfathers, one of whom was called Jakawitz, the other Saqtekaw. In the stories they told, from across the sea we came from a place called Tulán, where we were begotten, where our mothers and fathers gave birth to us. Oh, our children! So said the fathers and grandfathers who were called Jakawitz and Saqtekaw, they who arrived in Tulán, the men who begot us, the Xajila’…

(Elipses again! From the glossary: Xahil – A tribe within the Kaqchikel people that came with the others from Tula. The Xahil were the ones who parted the sea with their magic staff.)

When we arrived at the gates of Tulán, we went to receive a red staff, and thus we were given the name Kaqchikele.

Oh, our children, said Jakawitz and Saqtekaw. Let us thrust the tips of our staffs into the sea, and soon we shall cross the sea on the sand, using the colored staffs we received in Tulán. And so we crossed over the row of sand when the bottom of the sea had parted. All rejoiced when they saw the sand in the sea.

(The bottom of the sea parted? They were at the bottom of the sea, or an earthquake split the seabed and water retreated? This is sounding pretty moses-esque, no?)

The Venus Moon

These are not direct from the Popol Vuh, this is Don Carlos talking:

p. 71

In the Popol Vuh, for example, we read that million of years ago Venus was one of Jupiter’s moons. It fell out of orbit as a result of some kind of collision, possible with a giant meteorite, and passed very close to the Earth, affecting our planet’s axis and causing earthquakes, floods, and geographic changes.

Don Isidro tells us that this is the reason Venus is so important to our tradition. As our Elders remember it, Venus was responsible for the great cataclysms. Known as the Vukuk Kakix, it was thought it was as great as Heart of Sky. Its teeth made of gold shone when it smiled, reflecting brightly. It wanted to trick everyone by saying, “I am the Sun. I am the Moon.” For a while Vukuk Kakix actually did appear bigger than both the sun and the moon. It had two children, Cabrakan and Zipakna. Zipakna would form big hills and mountains while his brother slept. When he was done, he would rest and his brother Cabrakan would shake the Earth and destroy the mountains, changing the course of rivers. These two were finally defeated by humans. Heart of Sky, hearing the please of human beings, rearranged the sky and left Vukuk Kakix in its current orbit, punishing its arrogance and forcing it to announce the coming of the Sun and the Moon.

The Pleiades Cluster

p. 74

The purest Mayan tradition says that we are intimately related to the cluster of stars known as the Pleiades, the origin of reality, the manifestation of life, and all knowledge. Our first guides, the B’alameb’ B’alam K’itze’, B’alam Aq’ab’, Majukutaj, and I’ki’ B’alam, lived on the Earth to settle and spread our tradition and once they restored harmony to the planet, after a great punishment, they wrapped themselves in the Pixom Q’aq’al, or Sacred Cloak, and left for their father’s homeland, Tulán, in the infinite space of the Pleiades. Further, according to the Popol Vuh, the deity Zipakna killed the Four Hundred Boys who rose up to the sky and became stars in the Pleiades.

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p.s. If you are into .torrents, The History Channel’s Ancient Aliens series is pretty interesting and not dismissive.
The Yes Men released their documentary on torrent as well.