Maya cosmogenesis 2012

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LIST OF DIAGRAMS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOREWORD INTRODUCTION FIXING OUR SIGHTS PART I: PRECESSION ASTRONOMY CHAPTER 1 A TIMELINE OF MESOAMERICAN CULTURE CHAPTER 2 CALENDRICS: MAPPING METHODS CHAPTER 3 COSMOLOGY: FINDING THE CENTER CHAPTER 4 PRECESSION: THE MYSTERY OF THE AGES CHAPTER 5 MYTHOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY PART II: THE UNION OF CAPTAIN SERPENT AND CAPTAIN SUN DISK CHAPTER 6 THE PYRAMID OF KUKULCAN: A COSMIC MYTH IN STONE CHAPTER 7 THE TRUE MEANING OF THE NEW FIRE CEREMONY CHAPTER 8 ZENITH IMAGERY IN MESOAMERICA CHAPTER 9 THE LONG COUNT: GALACTIC ALIGNMENT IN 2012 CHAPTER 10 MAYA CREATION: THE STELLAR FRAME AND WORLD AGES CHAPTER 11 THE COSMIC SYMBOLISM OF THE MAYA BALLGAME CHAPTER 12 CHICHÉN ITZÁ COSMOLOGY: MAYA-TOLTEC RECONCILIATION PART III: MAYA COSMOGENESIS CHAPTER 13 THE BIRTH OF THE HERO TWINS CHAPTER 14 A HAWK, A CROSS, AND A MOUTH CHAPTER 15 THE MAN WHO WAS SWALLOWED BY AN ALLIGATOR CHAPTER 16 SHAMANIC TOOLS, THRONES, AND BIRTH PORTALS CHAPTER 17 CONJURING CREATION PART IV: IZAPA COSMOS CHAPTER 18 CEREMONIAL CITY OF THE ANCIENT SKYWATCHERS CHAPTER 19 SOUTHERN MESOAMERICA, 200 B.C.: THE IZAPAN CIVILIZATION CHAPTER 20 IZAPAN CALENDRICS CHAPTER 21 IZAPAN ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY CHAPTER 11 THE MONUMENTAL MESSAGE CHAPTER 23 INITIATION INTO THE IZAPAN MYSTERIES PART V: GAZING INTO THE GALAXY CHAPTER 24 THE FORGOTTEN GALACTIC PARADIGM CHAPTER 25 BACK TO THE CENTER: THE MESSAGE OF THE MAYA END-DATE APPENDIX 1 APPENDIX 2 APPENDIX 3 APPENDIX 4: APPENDIX 5 APPENDIX 6 END NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX C O U W ABOUT THE AUTHOR