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Today
(June 5) is 10 Pop
The
formation symbolizes 10 days; the four corners of each segment symbolize
the four directions of wind (East, South, West and North) that refer to
the day.
One of the
Mayan calendars is the so called Haab: traditionally this is the
wandering calendar-year that consisted of 365 days without any leap
days. However, nowadays there is a lot of confusion when the Haab (the
day “1 Pop”) starts. According to me, nowadays the Haab has leap-days
and starts on May 26 (0 Pop) and May 27 (1 Pop) each year. The Haab
followed tradition until the year 1755: in that year, June 5 was 1 Pop
or new year’s day, but since the year 1757 new year starts on May 26 (0
Pop) and May 27 (1 Pop), and June 5 (the date of the formation) is the
date 10 Pop.
The
evidence
The
formation reveals some remarkable facts that support this theory. First,
we can consider the date 10 Pop in the Mayan year that started before
the beginning of the Great Cycle in the year -3113. We know from Maya
research that August 11, -3113 (proleptic Gregorian date) was a date
8 Cumku at the end of the Mayan year. Based on this fact, we are
able to determine the day 10 Pop that Mayan year, which is September 7,
-3114. Secondly, we can consider the most recent years, before the year
1757, in which June 5 (the formation’s creation date) was a date 10 Pop.
This was the case in the years 284 to 287. The year 284 was a special
year, because in this year the year 1 of the Coptic calendar started and
in the year 284 the sidereal zodiac (according to Vedic tradition: the
star Spica = 0 degrees Libra) and tropical zodiac were identical, which
happens only once each 25,800 years. The days 0 Pop to 10 Pop (May 26
until June 5) of the year 284 were also characterized by a heliacal rise
of the Pleiades. Furthermore, we should consider the first year in which
10 Pop was June 5 and synchronization with the Gregorian calendar took
place. This was the date June 5, 1757, 10 Pop. It is interesting to
consider the time span between these four dates (September 7, -3114;
June 5, 284; June 5, 1757 and June 5, 2016).
It turns
out that the time span between these dates are an exact multiple
of 100 or even 1000 days. This perfectly matches the information of the
formation (which refers to 10 days)!! The exception is the year 1757,
for which there is a deviation of 2 days (we find the relationship with
June 3, 8 Pop). I found the following relationships (exact values!):
September
7, -3114, 10 Pop (new moon) until June 5, 284, 10 Pop: 1,241,000 days (=
3400 × 365 days)
September
7, -3114, 10 Pop (new moon) until June 3, 1757, 8 Pop: 1,779,000 days
September
7, -3114, 10 Pop (new moon) until June 5, 2016, 10 Pop (new moon):
1,873,600 days
June 5,
284, 10 Pop until June 3, 1757, 8 Pop: 538,000 days
June 5,
284, 10 Pop until June 5, 2016, 10 Pop (new moon): 632,600 days
June 3,
1757, 8 Pop until June 5, 2016, 10 Pop (new moon): 94,600 days
In future,
the calendar will continue to follow the Pleiades, which means that the
year ends with a conjunction of the sun with the Pleiades (on May 20 or
May 21). This requires an additional leap day each 160 years. Hence, the
calendar follows the sidereal (the year that is related to the stars),
not the tropical year (the year that is related to the seasons).
Orientation
One of the
ten points of the formation point towards sunrise and moonrise (the mean
of both is 56 degrees East of North) on June 5, 2016, new moon.
Location
The
formation is close to the roads A303 and B3089. The day 10 Pop is the 11th
day of the Vinal Pop (starting with 0 Pop). We can remarkably easy
combine the numbers 303, 3089 and 11 as follows: 303 × (2 × 3089 + 11/2)
= 1,873,600.5. This number only differs a half from the longest time
span of 1,873,600 days!
Marc
Smulders |
