Mayan Wisdom: Reflections after visiting Mayandom

The last week of March and the first of April, 2011 my extended family and I, ten of us, traveled with four others to El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Belize. Our guide, Carlos Vivar, a Mayan who grew up in the village closest to Tikal and that responsible for caring for the jungles around Tikal, very knowledgeable about the history of Mayadom, archaeological ruins, the culture modern and ancient, Mayan shamanism and so much more is my pick for a man of destiny. 

First Temple, Tikal

Carlos left his village against his families wishes to walk to Flores. It was on this walk that he first saw Tikal and at that time decided to study the world of the Mayans. In Flores, speaking only limited Spanish, he sat outside of a school until the instructor came to inquire what it was he wanted. "To learn Spanish." The teacher took him in to his classes, his home and his heart. Carlos rapidly learned Spanish and rudimentary English. 

He then went back to Tikal and worked for various tour groups as assistants to guides. After a short while he was knowledgeable and instructive of what tourists wanted to see in terms of plants, trees, wild-life and even the ruins, glyphs and history of the Mayans. He began to study English by freely or for donation guiding English speaking tourists through the ruins of Tikal.

Soon he was discovered and hired by a major touring group, Overseas Adventure Travels (OATs) to lead tours of Tikal. After only a few years he so impressed OATs that they invited him to high level studies and to lead tours throughout Mayadom. 

Carlos interpreting for Nicolas 

And so Carlo's story continues. 

Shaman Nicolas Empowering Holy Boy

Among other things Carlos comes from a long line of Shamans and is colleagues with some of Mayadom's leading shamans. He introduced us to Nicolas, shaman of Santiego de Atitlan and caretaker of the effigy representing God, Maxaman (Holy Boy, as he is spiritually regarded by the People*). We were fortunate to watch Nicolas lead several rituals, one involving a healing and empowering for myself. I was extremely honored and seem to have benefited strongly from the ritual.

Subsequent to this experience Carlos invited my wife, Joanne Witte and myself to attend the Mayan End of the Mayan Calendar event in Tikal, December 21st, 2012. We were both very honored and accepted the invitation to stay for the event with he and his family in his village.  He had informed us that already there were no accommodations anywhere else for many miles around. His statement, "All of Mayadom will be there."

From our travels and readings it is indicated that the Calendar records, accurately, 26 thousand years of Celestial events. The glyphs and scrolls of glyphs predicted the Spanish invasion and advised the people to not fight but that the Spanish would tire after finding no gold and leave. It took them several hundred years to do so.

One observation that really impressed me was how many small villages, while influenced strongly by modernization, still maintained the old costumes,

Women's Fabric at Market

customs and language. The people of Mayadom are very proud of who they are and not rapidly giving way to modernization. Perhaps they learned from their experience with the Spaniards. Perhaps the manuscripts and glyphs also tell of modernization coming . . . and going.

While there is no sense that "the world is going to end" with the advent of the new Mayan Calendar there is  definitely predictions of many upheavals in all ways. In general the belief is that the "eye" to the cosmos will be opened on 12/21/2012 and that a new age, an age of higher consciousness will come about. Interesting to me that this is congruent with "The Age of Aquarius."

I am not sure of exactly what is meant by the "eye" the cosmos but from what I glean on the 21st of December the sun rising will coincide with the rotation of our galaxy which will look like an eye. Apparently there is a spacious void that when the Milky Way rotates a certain way the void appears like an eye. It seems that the "photon beam" from beyond the Pleiades has a clear shot to earth at that time. This happened 26 thousand years ago and again 5125 years ago, perhaps in a lesser fashion. Unfortunately I do not remember when or how I read or heard about the above. For a more scientific explanation visit the following blog: http://mayanprophecy2012.blogspot.com/2009/07/galactic-alignment-2012-john-major.html In his blog the following description is elucidated: The Galactic Alignment of 2012 ... The Holy Cross of the Equinox Axis and the Milky Way Galaxy ... the Solstice Galaxy Alignment explained by John Major Jenkins ...

* Martin Prechtel, in Secrets of the Talking Jaguar writes of Holy Boy in his chapter White Metal, Yellow Metal: I Empty Out for Holy Boy.