The Mayan people understood and recorded the cyclical nature of time. All ceremonies or rituals were closely associated with celestial and terrestrial cycles which they observed and inscribed in separate calendars. Mayan priests interpreted these cycles, offering prophetic wisdom about the future - using number relations from the interlocking changes in their calendars.
The night sky presented itself as a window that displayed supernatural doings. The constellations and planets told stories of the gods who behaved in both predictable and unpredictable cycles. When a planet moves retrograde due to the movement of the earth, or appears to disappear from the sky - stories were told of the underworld gods and their journey of transformation. The Maya calendar uses 3 different dating systems in parallel: The Long Count, Tzolkin and Haab. READ MORE
