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60-796: Though Arguelles eventually connected the timing of the Harmonic Convergence with his understanding of the significance of Maya calendrics , the dates themselves were derived not from Maya cosmology but from the reconstructed Aztec prophecies of Tony Shearer in his 1971 book Lord of the Dawn . According to Shearer's interpretation of the Aztec calendar , the selected date marked the end of twenty-two cycles of 52 years each, or 1,144 years in all. The twenty-two cycles were divided into thirteen " heaven " cycles, which began in AD 843 and ended in 1519, when

120-581: A bʼakʼtun . The Long Count calendar identifies a date by counting the number of days from the Mayan creation date 4 Ahaw, 8 Kumkʼu (August 11, 3114 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar or September 6 in the Julian calendar -3113 astronomical dating). But instead of using a base-10 ( decimal ) scheme, the Long Count days were tallied in a modified base-20 scheme. Thus 0.0.0.1.5 is equal to 25 and 0.0.0.2.0

180-464: A katun is 20 × 360 = 7200 days long, and the remainder of 7200 divided by 13 is 11 ( 7200 = 553×13 + 11 ), the day number of the concluding day of each successive katun is 9 greater than before (wrapping around at 13, since only 13 day numbers are used). That is, starting with the katun that begins with 1   Imix, the sequence of concluding day numbers is 11, 9, 7, 5, 3, 1, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 13, 11, ..., all named Ahau. The concluding day 13 Ahau

240-524: A link to Jupiter. In the Dresden codex almanac 59 there are Chaacs of the four colors. The accompanying texts begin with a directional glyph and a verb for 819-day-count phrases. Anderson provides a detailed description of the 819-day count. During the late Classic period the Maya began to use an abbreviated short count instead of the Long Count. An example of this can be found on altar 14 at Tikal. In

300-456: A new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb, and in their mouth no lie

360-402: A part of the C glyph that indicated where this fell in a larger cycle of 18 lunations. Accompanying the C glyph was the 'X' glyph that showed a similar pattern of 18 lunations. The present era lunar synodic period is about 29.5305877 mean solar days or about 29 days 12 hours 44 minutes and 2+ / 9 seconds. As a whole number, the number of days per lunation will be either 29 or 30 days, with

420-626: A period of five days ("nameless days") at the end of the year known as Wayeb' (or Uayeb in 16th-century orthography). The five days of Wayebʼ were thought to be a dangerous time. Foster (2002) writes, "During Wayeb, portals between the mortal realm and the Underworld dissolved. No boundaries prevented the ill-intending deities from causing disasters." To ward off these evil spirits, the Maya had customs and rituals they practiced during Wayebʼ. For example, people avoided leaving their houses and washing or combing their hair. Bricker (1982) estimates that

480-480: A restored paradise on earth. Individual Witnesses indicate their claim of being "anointed" by partaking of the bread and wine at the annual Memorial of Christ's death . In 2023, around 22,300 Witnesses worldwide claimed to be of the anointed "remnant" of the 144,000, an increase of nearly 14,000 since 2005. The Watch Tower Society has stated that the number of partakers is expected to decrease each year, but has also stated that members should not be concerned about

540-446: A unique event. Grand trines, where planets share 120 degree positions forming an equilateral triangle, are not uncommon or particularly noteworthy. Traditional astrology does not consider trines to be action points, and would not regard such an occurrence to be significant. The convergence is purported to have "corresponded with a great shift in the earth’s energy from warlike to peaceful." Believers of this esoteric prophecy maintain that

600-474: Is equal to 40. As the winal unit resets after only counting to 18, the Long Count consistently uses base-20 only if the tun is considered the primary unit of measurement, not the kʼin; with the kʼin and winal units being the number of days in the tun. The Long Count 0.0.1.0.0 represents 360 days, rather than the 400 in a purely base-20 ( vigesimal ) count. There are also four rarely used higher-order cycles: piktun , kalabtun , kʼinchiltun , and alautun . Since

660-698: Is known to scholars as the Tzolkin , or Tzolkʼin . The Tzolkin was combined with a 365-day vague solar year known as the Haabʼ to form a synchronized cycle lasting for 52 Haabʼ called the Calendar Round . The Calendar Round is still in use by many groups in the Guatemalan highlands. A different calendar was used to track longer periods of time and for the inscription of calendar dates (i.e., identifying when one event occurred in relation to others). This

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720-587: Is the Long Count . It is a count of days since a mythological starting-point. According to the correlation between the Long Count and Western calendars accepted by the great majority of Maya researchers (known as the Goodman-Martinez-Thompson, or GMT, correlation), this starting-point is equivalent to August 11, 3114 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar or September 6, in the Julian calendar (−3113 astronomical). The GMT correlation

780-462: The Book of Revelation . The Unification Church , founded by Reverend Sun Myung Moon , believes the 144,000 represents the total number of saints whom Christ must find "who can restore through indemnity the missions of all the past saints who, despite their best efforts to do God's Will, fell prey to Satan when they failed in their responsibilities. He must find these people during his lifetime and lay

840-412: The Book of Revelation : saying: "Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of God on their foreheads." And I heard the number of the sealed, 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel : 12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed, 12,000 from the tribe of Reuben , 12,000 from the tribe of Gad , 12,000 from the tribe of Asher , 12,000 from

900-602: The Guatemalan highlands, Veracruz , Oaxaca and Chiapas , Mexico. The essentials of the Maya calendar are based upon a system which had been in common use throughout the region, dating back to at least the 5th century BC. It shares many aspects with calendars employed by other earlier Mesoamerican civilizations, such as the Zapotec and Olmec and contemporary or later ones such as the Mixtec and Aztec calendars . By

960-562: The Maya mythological tradition, as documented in Colonial Yucatec accounts and reconstructed from Late Classic and Postclassic inscriptions, the deity Itzamna is frequently credited with bringing the knowledge of the calendrical system to the ancestral Maya, along with writing in general and other foundational aspects of Mayan culture. The Maya calendar consists of several cycles or counts of different lengths. The 260-day count

1020-608: The destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD . Dispensationalist Tim LaHaye , in his commentary Revelation: Illustrated and Made Plain (Zondervan, 1975), considers the 144,000 in Revelation 7 to refer to Jews and those in Revelation 14 to refer to Christians. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that exactly 144,000 faithful Christians from Pentecost of 33 AD until the present day will be resurrected to heaven as immortal spirit beings to spend eternity with God and Christ. They believe that these people are "anointed" by God to become part of

1080-525: The tribe of Naphtali , 12,000 from the tribe of Manasseh , 12,000 from the tribe of Simeon , 12,000 from the tribe of Levi , 12,000 from the tribe of Issachar , 12,000 from the tribe of Zebulun , 12,000 from the tribe of Joseph , 12,000 from the tribe of Benjamin were sealed. Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb , and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. and they were singing

1140-408: The "seating of" a named month, which is usually regarded as day 0 of that month, although a minority treat it as day 20 of the month preceding the named month. In the latter case, the seating of Pop is day 5 of Wayebʼ. For the majority, the first day of the year was 0 Pop (the seating of Pop). This was followed by 1 Pop, 2 Pop as far as 19 Pop then 0 Wo, 1 Wo and so on. Because

1200-433: The 30-day intervals necessarily occurring slightly more frequently than the 29-day intervals. The Maya wrote whether the lunar month was 29 or 30 days as two glyphs: a glyph for lunation length followed by either a glyph made up of a moon glyph over a bundle with a suffix of 9 for a 29-day lunation or a moon glyph with a suffix of 10 for a 30-day lunation. Since the Maya didn't use fractions, lunations were approximated by using

1260-473: The Haabʼ day can only be 1, 6, 11 or 16; for Kʼan, Muluk, Ix and Kawak, the Haabʼ day can only be 2, 7, 12 or 17; and for Chikchan, Ok, Men and Ajaw, the Haabʼ day can only be 3, 8, 13 or 18. A "Year Bearer" is a Tzolkʼin day name that occurs on 0   Pop, the first day of the Haabʼ . Since there are 20 Tzolkʼin day names, 365 days in the Haabʼ, and the remainder of 365 divided by 20 is 5 ( 365 = 18×20 + 5 ),

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1320-490: The Haabʼ had 365 days and the tropical year is 365.2422 days, the days of the Haabʼ did not coincide with the tropical year. A Calendar Round date is a date that gives both the Tzolkʼin and Haabʼ. This date will repeat after 52 Haabʼ years or 18,980 days, a Calendar Round. For example, the current creation started on 4 Ahau 8 Kumkʼu. When this date recurs it is known as a Calendar Round completion. Arithmetically,

1380-476: The Haabʼ was first used around 550 BC with a starting point of the winter solstice . The Haabʼ month names are known today by their corresponding names in colonial-era Yukatek Maya , as transcribed by 16th-century sources (in particular, Diego de Landa and books such as the Chilam Balam of Chumayel). Phonemic analyses of Haabʼ glyph names in pre-Columbian Maya inscriptions have demonstrated that

1440-455: The Harmonic Convergence ushered in a five-year period of Earth's "cleansing", where many of the planet's "false structures of separation" would collapse. Adherents deemed the event as beginning a new age of universal peace, with signs indicating a "major energy shift" was about to occur, a turning point in Earth 's collective karma and dharma , and that this energy was powerful enough to change

1500-522: The Long Count dates are unambiguous, the Long Count was particularly well suited to use on monuments. The monumental inscriptions would not only include the 5 digits of the Long Count, but would also include the two tzolkʼin characters followed by the two haabʼ characters. Misinterpretation of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar was the basis for a popular belief that a cataclysm would take place on December 21, 2012 . December 21, 2012

1560-523: The Tzolkʼin day name for each successive 0   Pop will be 5 later in the cycle of Tzolk'in day names. Similarly, since there are 13 Tzolk'in day numbers, and the remainder of 365 divided by 13 is 1 ( 365 = 28×13 + 1 ), the Tzolk'in day number for each successive 0   Pop will be 1 greater than before. As such, the sequence of Tzolk'in dates corresponding to the Haab' date 0   Pop are as follows: Thus,

1620-556: The Year Bearers are the four Tzolkʼin day names that appear in this sequence: Ik', Manik', Eb', and Kab'an. "Year Bearer" literally translates a Mayan concept. Its importance resides in two facts. For one, the four years headed by the Year Bearers are named after them and share their characteristics; therefore, they also have their own prognostications and patron deities. Moreover, since the Year Bearers are geographically identified with boundary markers or mountains, they help define

1680-764: The Year Bearers were the days that coincided with 2 Pop: Kʼan, Muluc, Ix and Kawak. This system is found in the Chronicle of Oxkutzcab. In addition, just before the Spanish conquest in Mayapan the Maya began to number the days of the Haabʼ from 1 to 20. In this system the Year Bearers are the same as in the 1 Pop – Campeche system. The Classic Year Bearer system is still in use in the Guatemalan highlands and in Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico. Since Calendar Round dates repeat every 18,980 days, approximately 52 solar years,

1740-423: The count with 1 Imix, followed by 2 Ikʼ, 3 Akʼbʼal, etc. up to 13 Bʼen. The day numbers then start again at 1 while the named-day sequence continues onwards, so the next days in the sequence are 1 Ix, 2 Men, 3 Kʼibʼ, 4 Kabʼan, 5 Etzʼnabʼ, 6 Kawak and 7 Ajaw. With all twenty named days used, these now began to repeat the cycle while the number sequence continues, so

1800-399: The current lunation , the number of the lunation in a series of six, the current ruling lunar deity and the length of the current lunation. The Maya counted the number of days in the current lunation. They used two systems for the zero date of the lunar cycle: either the first night they could see the thin crescent moon or the first morning when they could not see the waning moon. The age of

1860-413: The cycle repeats roughly once each lifetime, so a more refined method of dating was needed if history was to be recorded accurately. To specify dates over periods longer than 52 years, Mesoamericans used the Long Count calendar. The Maya name for a day was kʼin . Twenty of these kʼins are known as a winal or uinal . Eighteen winals make one tun . Twenty tuns are known as a kʼatun . Twenty kʼatuns make

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1920-473: The duration of the Calendar Round is the least common multiple of 260 and 365; 18,980 is 73 × 260 Tzolkʼin days and 52 × 365 Haabʼ days. Not every possible combination of Tzolkʼin and Haabʼ can occur. For Tzolkʼin days Imix, Kimi, Chuwen and Kibʼ, the Haabʼ day can only be 4, 9, 14 or 19; for Ikʼ, Manikʼ, Ebʼ and Kabʼan, the Haabʼ day can only be 0, 5, 10 or 15; for Akbʼalʼ, Lamat, Bʼen and Etzʼnabʼ,

1980-578: The formula that there were 149 lunations completed in 4400 days, which yielded a rather short mean month of exactly / 149 = 29+ / 149 days = 29 days 12 hours 43 minutes and 29+ / 149 seconds, or about 29.5302 days. Some Mayan monuments include glyphs that record an 819-day count in their Initial Series. These can also be found in the Dresden codex . This is described in Thompson. More examples of this can be found in Kelley. Each group of 819 days

2040-451: The foundation of victory over Satan's world". 144,000 is said to have been the number of Companions ( Sahaba ) of Muhammad , though other totals have been given. The number is also given as the total number of prophets in Islam , although this has also been reported as 124,000 or 244,000. The actual number of prophets or Sahaba is not known; about 30 prophets are mentioned by name in

2100-496: The global perspective of man from one of conflict to one of co-operation . Actress and author Shirley MacLaine called it a "window of light," allowing access to higher realms of awareness. According to Argüelles, the Harmonic Convergence also began the final 25-year countdown to the end of the Mayan Long Count in 2012 , which would be the so-called end of history and the beginning of a new 5,125-year cycle. Evils of

2160-535: The grand trine, that is, they were aligned at the apexes of an equilateral triangle when viewed from the Earth. The Sun, Moon, Mars, and Venus were in exact alignment, astrologically called a conjunction at the first degree of Virgo in Tropical Astrology . Mercury was in the fourth degree of Virgo which most astrologers count as part of the same conjunction being within the "orb" of influence. Jupiter

2220-592: The holy order of God, to administer the everlasting gospel; "for they are they who are ordained out of every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, by the angels to whom is given power over the nations of the earth, to bring as many as will come to the church of the Firstborn." The Christian Skoptsy sect in Russia believed that the Messiah would come when there were 144,000 Skoptsy believers, based on their reading of

2280-544: The kingdoms of Postclassic Yucatán, the Short Count was used instead of the Long Count. The cyclical Short Count is a count of 13 kʼatuns (or 260 tuns), in which each kʼatun was named after its concluding day, Ahau ('Lord'). 1 Imix was selected as the recurrent 'first day' of the cycle, corresponding to 1 Cipactli in the Aztec day count. The cycle was counted from katun 11 Ahau to katun 13 Ahau. Since

2340-760: The local community. The classic system of Year Bearers described above is found at Tikal and in the Dresden Codex . During the Late Classic period a different set of Year Bearers was in use in Campeche. In this system, the Year Bearers were the Tzolkʼin that coincided with 1 Pop. These were Akʼbʼal, Lamat, Bʼen and Edznab. During the Post-Classic period in Yucatán a third system was in use. In this system

2400-406: The modern world (war, materialism, violence, abuses, injustice, oppression, etc.) would have ended with the birth of the 6th Sun and the 5th Earth on December 21, 2012 . An important part of the Harmonic Convergence observances was the idea of congregating at "power centers." Power centers were places, such as Mount Shasta , California, Mount Fuji , and Mount Yamnuska where the spiritual energy

2460-399: The moon was depicted by a set of glyphs that mayanists coined glyphs D and E: The Maya counted the lunations. This cycle appears in the lunar series as two glyphs that modern scholars call the 'C' and 'X' glyphs. The C glyph could be prefixed with a number indicating the lunation. No prefixing number meant one, whereas the numbers two through six indicated the other lunations. There was also

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2520-459: The names for these twenty-day periods varied considerably from region to region and from period to period, reflecting differences in the base language(s) and usage in the Classic and Postclassic eras predating their recording by Spanish sources. Each day in the Haabʼ calendar was identified by a day number in the month followed by the name of the month. Day numbers began with a glyph translated as

2580-444: The next day after 7 Ajaw is 8 Imix. The repetition of these interlocking 13- and 20-day cycles therefore takes 260 days to complete (that is, for every possible combination of number/named day to occur once). The earliest known inscription with a Tzolkʼin is an Olmec earspool with 2 Ahau 3 Ceh - 6.3.10.9.0, September 2, -678 (Julian astronomical). glyph sign The Haabʼ was made up of eighteen months of twenty days each plus

2640-660: The night") associated with different groups of deities , animals and other significant concepts are also known. The tzolkʼin (in modern Maya orthography ; also commonly written tzolkin ) is the name commonly employed by Mayanist researchers for the Maya Sacred Round or 260-day calendar. The word tzolkʼin is a neologism coined in Yucatec Maya , to mean "count of days" (Coe 1992). The various names of this calendar as used by precolumbian Maya people are still debated by scholars. The Aztec calendar equivalent

2700-522: The nine " hell " cycles began, ending 468 years later in 1987. The very beginning of the nine " hell " cycles was precisely the day that Hernán Cortés landed in Mexico, April 22, 1519 (coinciding with "1 Reed" on the Aztec/Mayan calendar, the day sacred to Mesoamerican cultural hero Quetzalcoatl). The 9 hell cycles of 52 years each ended precisely on August 16–17, 1987. Shearer introduced the dates and

2760-484: The number increasing. The members of the Governing Body who exercise teaching authority over Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide claim to be among the anointed 144,000 and also consider themselves as a group to be the faithful and discreet slave of Matthew 24:45 and Luke 12:42 . The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes that the sealing of the 144,000 relates to the high priests, ordained unto

2820-425: The number of days. The Maya numeral system was essentially vigesimal (i.e., base -20) and each unit of a given position represented 20 times the unit of the position which preceded it. An important exception was made for the second-order place value, which instead represented 18 × 20, or 360 days, more closely approximating the solar year than would 20 × 20 = 400 days. The cycles of the Long Count are independent of

2880-539: The numbers 12,000 and 144,000 are literal numbers and represent either descendants of Jacob (also called Israel in the Bible) or others to whom God has given a superior destiny with a distinct role at the time of the end of the world . One understanding is that the 144,000 are recently converted Jewish evangelists sent out to bring sinners to Jesus Christ during the seven-year tribulation period. Preterists believe they are Jewish Christians , sealed for deliverance from

2940-470: The prophecy to Arguelles, and he eventually co-opted them and coined Harmonic Convergence to promote the event. According to the astrologer Neil Michelsen's "The American Ephemeris," on 24 August 1987 there was an exceptional alignment of planets in the Solar System. Eight planets were aligned in an unusual configuration called a grand trine . The Sun, Moon and six out of eight planets formed part of

3000-497: The solar year. Many Maya Long Count inscriptions contain a supplementary series , which provides information on the lunar phase , number of the current lunation in a series of six and which of the nine Lords of the Night rules. Less-prevalent or poorly understood cycles, combinations and calendar progressions were also tracked. An 819-day Count is attested in a few inscriptions. Repeating sets of 9 days (see below "Nine lords of

3060-450: The spiritual "Israel of God". They believe the 144,000 (which they consider being synonymous with the "little flock" of Luke 12:32 ) will serve with Christ as king-priests for a thousand years , while all other people accepted by God (the "other sheep" of John 10:16 , composed of "the great crowd" of Revelation 7:9,14 and the resurrected "righteous and the unrighteous" ones of Acts 24:15 ), will be given an opportunity to live forever in

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3120-435: Was associated with one of four colors and the cardinal direction with which it was associated – black corresponded to west, red to east, white to north and yellow to south. The 819-day count can be described several ways: Most of these are referred to using a "Y" glyph and a number. Many also have a glyph for Kʼawill – the god with a smoking mirror in his head. Kʼawill has been suggested as having

3180-496: Was called Tōnalpōhualli , in the Nahuatl language. The tzolkʼin calendar combines twenty day names with the thirteen day numbers to produce 260 unique days. It is used to determine the time of religious and ceremonial events and for divination. Each successive day is numbered from 1 up to 13 and then starting again at 1. Separately from this, every day is given a name in sequence from a list of 20 day names: Some systems started

3240-458: Was chosen by John Eric Sydney Thompson in 1935 on the basis of earlier correlations by Joseph Goodman in 1905 (August 11), Juan Martínez Hernández in 1926 (August 12) and Thompson himself in 1927 (August 13). By its linear nature, the Long Count was capable of being extended to refer to any date far into the past or future. This calendar involved the use of a positional notation system, in which each position signified an increasing multiple of

3300-504: Was followed by the re-entering first day 1 Imix. This is the system as found in the colonial Books of Chilam Balam . In characteristic Mesoamerican fashion, these books project the cycle onto the landscape, with 13 Ahauob 'Lordships' dividing the land of Yucatán into 13 'kingdoms'. 144,000 144,000 is a natural number . It has significance in Christianity and Islam . The number 144,000 appears three times in

3360-476: Was found, for they are blameless. The numbers 12,000 and 144,000 are variously interpreted in traditional Christianity. Some, taking the numbers in Revelation to be symbolic, believe it represents all of God's people throughout history in the heavenly Church. One suggestion is that the number comes from 12, a symbol for totality, which is squared and multiplied by one thousand for more emphasis. Others insist

3420-511: Was held to be particularly strong. The belief was that if 144,000 people assembled at these power centers and meditated for peace, that the arrival of the new era would be facilitated. • The Legend of Korra season 2 episodes 11, 12, 13, and 14 mentioned the Harmonic Convergence Maya calendar The Maya calendar is a system of calendars used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and in many modern communities in

3480-548: Was in Aries, and Saturn and Uranus in Sagittarius completing the grand trine. However some believe that this is an Earth grand trine with Sun/Moon/Mars/Venus/Mercury in the initial degrees of Virgo, Neptune at 5 degrees of Capricorn, and Jupiter in the last degree of Aries ( anaretic degree ), on the cusp of Taurus. Uranus, and especially Saturn are on the edge of this trine. There is disagreement regarding this occurrence being

3540-500: Was largely worked out by John E. Teeple . The Supplementary Series most commonly consists of the following elements: Each night was ruled by one of the nine lords of the underworld. This nine-day cycle was usually written as two glyphs: a glyph that referred to the Nine Lords as a group, followed by a glyph for the lord that would rule the next night. A lunar series generally is written as five glyphs that provide information about

3600-503: Was simply the day that the calendar went to the next bʼakʼtun , at Long Count 13.0.0.0.0. The date of the start of the next b'ak'tun (Long Count 14.0.0.0.0) is March 26, 2407. The date of the start of the next piktun (a complete series of 20 bʼakʼtuns), at Long Count 1.0.0.0.0.0, is October 13, 4772. Many Classic period inscriptions include a series of glyphs known as the Supplementary Series. The operation of this series

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