2012 Transformations and the Maya Goddesses

As the Maya calendar end-date of 2012 approaches, people seek to understand its significance for our threatened planet’s future. Can Maya wisdom guide us through a shift of ages that will bring expanded consciousness and greater global harmony, rather than disaster? According to a growing number of visionary writers, 2012 offers a gateway of possibility into a cosmic choice point when, according to Gregg Braden, many factors converge “to make it easier for us to choose a new way of seeing ourselves in the universe and a new way of being.”(1)

Ancient traditions relate that a change in the world as we know it will occur, with significant shifts in electromagnetic fields, climate and continental shapes. Part of this shift in polarities includes changing relationships between masculine and feminine forces. We see evidence of this in the widespread movement to re-awaken goddess spirituality from many different traditions. Just as the Maya calendar has caught the public’s attention as a marker of global changes, the Maya goddesses are returning into our awareness as guides to navigating these changes.

The Maya calendar stands apart from other traditions in the precision of its count and its ability to track vast cycles. The end of the current Great Cycle of 5,125 years is also the end of a much longer cycle, the 26,000-year precession of the equinoxes. The 2012 end-date is marked by a rare alignment of the Earth and our solar system with the center of the Milky Way galaxy. This center, the scientifically validated black hole, is believed to be the creative source for everything in our galaxy. At winter solstice of 2012, the sun will rise in a direct trajectory through the dark rift that leads into the nuclear bulge containing the black hole of the Milky Way (viewed from Maya latitudes). In Maya symbolism, this means the union of the Solar Father Sun with the Galactic Mother’s birth canal, bringing forth a new era—the birth of new Sun/Son.

As this esoteric information diffuses, there is an upwelling of interest about the Maya goddesses. Maya creation myths and their sacred pantheon contain a profound goddess tradition, which teachers are now bringing to light. Ix’Cheel is the best-known Mayan goddess in her form as Earth Mother or Great Goddess of the Moon, Herbs, Childbirth and Nature. She is called Mother Rainbow and rules over water, rain, seas and all liquids. Her body is the sacred temple of nature and she pours her energy onto earth to give life and make plants grow. Master Maya Teacher Miguel Angel Vergara has made a special study of Ix’Cheel and describes her as the “Third Aspect of the Mother;” the first is IxKanLeox the Infinite Womb of the Universe or the Milky Way, and the second is IxAzalUoh the Inner Divine Mother, weaver of our life and symbol of spirit within.(2)

In the Maya book of creation, the Popul Vuh, the Creator Gods had to seek help from the grandmother IxMukane in order to successfully create proper humans.(3) She is called Heart of the Earth, and has the gift to transform the energies we release on earth. This goddess of great antiquity handles the cosmic ages of the planet in accord with the cycles of time, and represents the powers of transformation and evolution. Through these qualities she is connected with the history of humans on planet Earth, and with our personal and planetary destiny.

Carved calendar inscriptions on stela (stone monuments) show that the Mayan calendar tracks immensely vast time cycles, going back billions of years. Scientists are still puzzled over the origins of this unique and extremely advanced time measure, which required astronomical knowledge of stars and planets far beyond capacities of “Stone Age” peoples. Theories are proposed that the calendar came from cosmic sources (advanced extra-terrestrial beings) or from a highly developed earth civilization that subsequently disappeared. Either theory causes us to re-think our understanding of earth history and evolution.

All major cultures in the world carry memory traces of a Golden Age, an earlier time when earth was a Paradise or Garden of Eden. The planet was in harmony during this Golden Age, masculine and feminine forces were perfectly balanced, the climate was gentle, food was abundant and people lived close to nature; but this paradise was subsequently lost. Recent archeological research has found evidence of global maritime civilizations spread widely across the world in prediluvian times.(4) They had advanced technologies that we do not understand, navigated oceans and continents with different shapes and climates, and they followed goddess spiritual practices.

These high civilizations were destroyed in a well-documented global cataclysm around 9500 BC, which is found in myths and legends of most cultures called “The Fall” or “The Flood” or “The Deluge.” Survivors of the cataclysm preserved aspects of knowledge and technology, traces of which are found in the Shanidar cave, base layers of Jericho, the Gerzean and Nagada cultures on the Nile, early Minoans on Crete and Catal Huyuk in Turkey. Archeological dates for these sites are 8000 to 6000 BC. These were the sources of the cultures that “suddenly appeared” around 3000 BC in Sumeria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus valley.(5, 6)

The ancestors of the Maya during the Golden Age knew that the catastrophe was coming. Astonishing evidence of astronomical knowledge including use of telescopes was found on engraved stones from Ica, a culture from the Nasca Plain of Peru that may be over 15,000 years old.(7) An explosion of supernova Vela around 11,000 years ago sent fragments that wreaked havoc in our solar system, causing the global cataclysm. Ancient astronomers gave forewarning and leaders prepared for preserving their culture. Master teachers went to areas expected to best survive, including Egypt, Tibet and the Americas. A Master called Itzamna brought this culture to what became the Yucatan and lands of the Maya. Contemporary Maya elders relate that their people originated in Atlantiha (Atlantis) and their first cities were founded by the god Itzamna, who is linked to the feminine deity Ix’Cheel.

Gradually the knowledge and technology of the high civilizations deteriorated, along with goddess spirituality, and the world moved into unbalance as masculine gods and political dominance led to increasing warfare, feminine suppression, devaluation of life-forms, and loss of ecological harmony. Patriarchal societies have dominated the world for 4000 years, causing untold human suffering and damaging the planet’s ecological balance to the point of serious climate change, pollution and contamination, and disruption of multiple eco-systems with extinction of species.

Now the planet hovers on the brink of human-caused disaster, from nuclear war to global warming that can destroy our life support systems. This time was predicted by many indigenous cultures, from Maya to Hopi to Inca. We are surely at a turning point in the evolution of the planet.

Many people realize the need for the feminine force to bring the world into balance. They intuit that indigenous wisdom holds secrets for attaining this feminine-masculine balance, and can instruct us how to live in harmony with the natural world. Both women and men seek to empower the “return of the goddess” into the consciousness, spirituality and lifestyles of contemporary societies. To add their support for a positive transition in the new era, they journey to the Mayalands to honor and activate the sacred feminine, to explore ancient Maya wisdom teachings, and to seek personal balance as a necessary foundation for attaining planetary balance.

The Maya goddesses are calling—will you listen, will you come?

SOURCES

1. Braden, Gregg. Choice Point 2012-Our Date with the Window of Emergence. In The Mystery of 2012: Predictions, Prophecies & Possibilities. Sounds True, Boulder, CO, 2007.

2. Vergara, Miguel Angel. The Maya Goddesses and Their Sacred Symbolism. Miguel Angel Vergara, Merida, Mexico, 2006.

3. Tedlock, Dennis. Popul Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1996.

4. Allan, DS and JB Delair. Cataclysm! Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9500 BC. Bear & Company, Santa Fe, NM, 1997.

5. Settegast, Mary. Plato Prehistorian: 10,000 to 5,000 BC—Myth, Religion, Archaeology. Lindisfarne Press, Hudson, NY, 1990.

6. Ryan, William and Walter Pitman. Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event that Changes History. Touchstone, New York, NY, 1998.

7. Cabrera, Javier Darquea. The Message of the Engraved Stones of Ica. Privately published, 1989. Reported in: Clow, Barbara Hand. Catsastrophobia: The Truth Behind Earth Changes in the Coming Age of Light. Bear & Company, Rochester, VT, 2001.

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Leonide Martin is author of Dreaming the Maya Fifth Sun: A Novel of Maya Wisdom and the 2012 Shift in Consciousness, Infinity 2006. She offers programs on Maya wisdom, goddesses and calendars with Trudy Woodcock at Iluminado Tours in Merida, Mexico. Their spiritually-oriented tours focus on the Maya sacred feminine at sites in Yucatan and Cozumel with ceremonies and teachings by Maya elders. www.mayafifthsun.com, www.iluminado-tours.com

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