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Death from the Sun Stone (Miquiztli)  A skull with death marks on it and the glyph for star as its eye is shown in this glyph. The sequence of glyphs with Death following Serpent suggests that death follows the force that gives movement in life. The symbol for star in the eye of Death first appears in the sequence of glyphs here, suggesting the promise offered with an eye to the stars. "The god of this day is Tecuhciztecatl. In the creatiaon myths, he jumped into the fire to become the Moon. At first, he blazed as brightly as the Sun, but the other gods thought it wasn't such a good idea to have two Suns. So they smashed a rabbit on his face, dimming it, and giving him his place as the Moon". Death glyph from the Dresden Codex for the Mayan calendar. 
Death on the Sun Stone corresponds with
Death (Cimi for death) in the Dresden Codex.
Taken from
Chichen Itza in the Yucatan (southern Mexico), the
principles expressed with Sun Stone glyphs emphasizing
ritual in central Mexico were applied to
Venus at Chichen Itza in southern Mexico.
The 20 glyphs in the Sun Stone are arrayed in a circle around the head representing the sun in the center of the megalith  THE BEGINNING
The Sun Stone memorializes the
Five Suns, or
five eras of the world, at the time Mexico's first pyramids were
built at Teotihuacan circa
300BC. Literally meaning "The City of The Gods", Teotihuacan was renowned as the city where they did not die but awakened from a dream. Although the 12-ton megalithic Sun Stone is sometimes erroneously called the Aztec calendar, the Aztecs went into the pyramid business during the 13th Century, a relatively recent period compared to construction at Teotihuacan that started 1,600 years earlier. The Aztecs, who built their capitol city 35 miles south of Teotihuacan on the dry lake bed where Mexico City is now located, were never associated with Teotihuacan but assimilated the knowledge of the more ancient pyramids from the Toltecs. The Toltecs, who entered the Mexico Valley at the precise moment in history that the original builders of Teotihuacan left the valley, settled around the Teotihuacan pyramid center circa 700AD. After the brief but bloody Aztec conquest of the Mexico Valley in 1224AD, the Aztecs declared themselves the heirs of the Toltec tradition. The Aztecs subsequently assimilated the Toltec's peaceful deity, the Feathered Serpent (Quetzalcoatl), as a secondary figure under the Aztec's own God of War. Toltec craftsmen familiar with the Teotihuacano tradition carved the Sun Stone that the Aztecs assimilated as their own, as they had adopted the Feathered Serpent under the Aztec God of War. Ultimately, the pyramids at Teotihuacan influenced the ancient civilization of the Americans from Central America to Canada and served as the model for the 20-glyph calendar of the Mayan empire that reached its classical period circa 435AD. Like the Great Pyramid, the builders of Teotihuacan left only their mathematics and astronomy as signatures; and, like the builders of the Great Pyramid, those who built Teotihuacan remain unidentified. Among the mathematical achievements of ancient Mexico is the invention of zero around 300BC at the time construction of the first pyramid, the Pyramid of the Sun, was started at Teotihuacan. The mathematical theory of zero filtered into Europe more than 1,000 years later, but the astronomical theories of Native America used with its calendar have never been recognized in European-derived astronomy. Thus interpretations of the ancient calendar using European astronomy remain flawed, and Native America's first calendar has never been fully deciphered. Renowned as the Feathered Serpent's initiation center, the pre-Aztec codices associated with Teotihuacan were uniquely concerned with ritual, while the Mayan codices were mainly comprised of tables for almanacs. Although the numbers and design of the calendar used throughout ancient Mexico first appeared at Teotihuacan, the calendar was utilized differently in various centers throughout Mexico and Central America. Thus the perspectives of the Teotihuacano's ritual and the Maya's almanacs were very different. The ritual tradition that originated in the Feathered Serpent's initiation center at Teotihuacan spread into North America and survives as the Native American Church of North America. Don Juan Matus is a descendent of the ancient Toltec who were the first heirs of Teotihuacan. The Sixth Sun, or sixth era of the world, dawned July 11, 1991 with the historic solar eclipse of that date. (Sun Stone glyphs excerpted from The Aztec Cosmos traced and collected by Tomas J. Filsinger) ======================== NOTE: Islands rising in the Pacific, which the TimeStar predicted in October, 1998, will be the backdrop that other cycles play against for the next decade. Increased volcanic activity and changes in the base resonant frequency will accompany the islands' rising. Each TimeStar window after January 31, 1999 is predicted with the expectation of seismic and volcanic activity in the Pacific through 2008. Copyright KDuran 2001 |