The Mayan calendar has counted days for more than five thousand years, but comes to an end December 21, 2012. Some say the calendar and universe end together. A modern retelling of the Mayan creation story Popol Vuh, 2012: Under the Witz Mountain takes you to the birthplace of mankind, the creation volcano Witz, where women and men, animal spirits and ancestors, are racing together to the end of time.
Release Date: Sometime before the universe ends
days remaining until the end of the age |
My name is Filomena. I’m building a website even though I grew up in a house without a toilet. The walls were sticks. They still are; in Matapalo nothing’s changed since the freakin’ stone age. When I was fourteen and started developing, I slept in my clothes. I knew if I could see out, anyone in the street could look in and see me. That was before I was old enough to want to show myself, only I didn’t know it could be dangerous until it was too late. I lived as a woman, but living like one didn’t make me one.
But my point here isn’t to let my whole story spill out, but just to say I’ve come a long way from not having a toilet or a phone to being on the net. I learned a few things about computers in my brief career as a college student, but computers were more primitive then, and I still have much to learn. I hope the next time you visit Witzmountain.com, I will have figured out how to do a blog. I think it would be fun.
Suerte amigas (and amigos) F.
I did it! Check out the blog at Filomena
The Long Count
There is an element of Mayan time in the circles of a labyrinth, and the movement of Mayan life reflects what for us is an escape and meditation. Mayan calendars are circular, cyclic, repeating themselves and reflecting our reality of days and nights, solar years and planting cycles. They all turn back on themselves, all save one. The Long Count alone is linear, a long march from beginning to end. In the labyrinth we walk in turning circles, but the walk takes place within the boundaries of a beginning and an ending.
Today's Long Count Date
Baktun |
Katun |
Tun |
Uinal |
Kan |
The mathematics of the Long Count are simple, as simple as any counting, only instead of counting just fingers, and putting a one in the new place whenever we use up all ten (1-0), the long-count counts fingers and toes, and you put a one in to represent twenty. So, after nineteen comes 1-0, and then you start over with the digits. The only exception is in going from months to years. Since 18 twenty-day months are almost a solar year, this counting ends at eighteen before resuming the base-twenty number system, so:
1 day is a kan
20 kan (days) is a uinal
18 uinal is a tun (360 days)
20 tun is a katun
20 katun is a baktun.
A baktun is 144,000 days, and the calendar, beginning to end, is 13 baktun, one age of the universe.
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Ahpú
Ahpú, called Hunter, was adopted and grew up in Pennsylvania maple sugar country, not knowing his own original name, or anything else from his ancestral homeland, like the true meaning of the sap that flows in trees. Blood in a vein, sap resin from a tree, or melted wax from inside a church candle -- they're all Itz, the sacred substance that binds us to the divine.
Hunter lives in a world of farm-work and video games, and struggling with high school Spanish despite his complexion. Maple sap is just hard work - and good eating! He lives in a world of maple sugaring and maple pies, maple fudge, maple-almond cookies and maple you-name-it. He put together the Ahpu's Maplecamp page to share some of his favorites.
Canadian maple pie is now posted! This recipe Ahpú brought back after visiting the monastery St. Benoit du Lac!
For this and other recipes follow the link below!
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While Ahpú harvests maple sap, his brother Celio harvests copal sap in Guatemala. Celio's sacred pom incense is used in the fire ceremony to close the distance between heaven and earth. Here, on the painted dome ceiling of a gazebo in Comolapa, next to Celio's market stall, the four races of men are created on the Witz Mountain. They are the black corn people, the yellow corn people, the white corn people and the red corn people.
The Year 2012
The 2012 Page is collection of articles and essays that explore the different aspects of the 2012 Mayan End Date. The Maya were a stone-age people who had not invented the wheel, and yet their understanding of the galactic center was remarkably similar to ours, and they were able to calculate with precision and 1000 years in their future the exact time that the solstice sun would eclipse the galactic center -- December 21, 2012.
Explore 2012 sunspot predictions and their possible consequences, the astronomy of 2012, star gate theories, 2012 from the perspective of a Baltimore channeler, 2012 cut into Crop Circles, and ancient Chinese predictions for a 2012 end date coded into the I Ching. Other essays include 'The Tree and the Cross,' 'Mi Casa es Su Casa said Montezuma to Cortés: did Quetzalcoatl Promise to Return?,' and 'The Case for Apocalypse.'
Now Posted! 2012 notations, from Sr. Ronaldo Similox, Mayan Spiritual Guide from Chimaltenango, Guatemala and the Kaqchikel Maya.
Read 'The Case of Apocalypse' now on the 2012 Page!
For Mayan End Date essays on the 2012 page, go to
Don’t forget election day, and to vote for our own Alcalde Erubiel Duarte! Trucks will stop along the camino central and take you to your polling place. There will be sandwiches, and beer for the men. We must remember that his personal confessor and friend, the beatified and Blessed Padre Pena, is in heaven with the angels, and only Erubiel can bring the power of heaven to bear on the injustice of our sorrows. Pray for success! Vota Erubiel!