Mayan Calendar Prophecies: The Complete Collection of 2012 Predictions and Prophecies by Gary Daniels (best color ereader txt) 📗

In the Madrid Codex a similar story of a deluge is illustrated by a serpent that tears a hole in the sky.[46] In this case the serpent was blue yet in the Mayan language the same word, yax, is used for both blue and green, which shows they made no distinction between these two colors. Thus a blue serpent could easily serve in place of a green one.

This scene from the Madrid Codex shows a blue serpent tearing a hole in the sky which led to a flood.

It seems clear, then, that the Maya associated a green sky serpent with a catastrophic flood. According to their legends, this flood also brought about the end of a race of human beings.

Scientists also believe that the catastrophic events at the onset of the Younger Dryas were caused by a comet or comet fragments that impacted the Earth.[47] Archaeological evidence suggests a group of hunter-gatherers known as the Clovis Culture disappeared from North America at this time as well. Due to the similarity between Clovis stone tools and those of the Solutreans in France, some have even argued that the Clovis Culture were Europeans.[48] Thus the scientific evidence of a catastrophe associated with a comet that included a flood and the disappearance of a race of people matches Mayan mythology quite closely.

Yet scientists think fragments from comet Encke, not Machholz, impacted Earth and brought about these catastrophes.[49] In fact, every year we pass through the debris field from this comet. This debris causes the Taurid meteor showers each Fall around Halloween. These meteors appear to emanate from the Pleiades asterism in the constellation Taurus. Perhaps comet Machholz and thus Kukulkan were not the cause of the catastrophe but arrived before it and were later interpreted as a herald or messenger of the catastrophic floods that followed?

Interestingly, Quetzalcoatl/Kukulkan was also associated with the invention of writing and the arts; thus, he was a god of communication, a messenger god. According to one interpretation, “His mission was to establish communication between Heaven and Earth….”[50]  What was the message Quetzalcoatl was to deliver?

Images of Quetzalcoatl show a green-feathered serpent devouring a man. This suggests Quetzalcoatl was associated with death and destruction. Thus Quetzalcoatl was like a herald whose appearance foretold of devastations to follow. Comets were often used for this purpose across all cultures throughout history, which further supports the idea Quetzalcoatl was meant to represent a comet.

Quetzalcoatl’s association with death and destruction was the rationale behind the Mesoamerican practice of human sacrifice. They believed these deities were behind the natural disasters that consumed tens of thousands of lives. They believed they could appease this blood-thirst and avoid these catastrophes by sacrificing people to these gods.  Of course the people they chose for sacrifice were their enemies. If the gods needed blood, they reasoned, then the blood of their enemies should suffice thereby saving their own people from future catastrophes. There was a logical, if not perverse, calculus and method to the madness of human sacrifice.

Is this why the Maya chose a rattlesnake as opposed to some less deadly serpent to represent Quetzalcoatl? It should be remembered that a rattlesnake shakes its rattles as a warning before it strikes and unleashes its deadly venom. Did the Maya associate the Pleiades with rattlesnake rattles also as a way to encode the idea that these stars could serve as an early warning system before a catastrophe or series of catastrophes?

In addition to “serpent”, coatl also has a second meaning: “twin.” In Aztec mythology Quetzalcoatl had a twin known as Xolotl. Xolotl was associated with sickness, deformity, misfortune, and dogs (a taboo animal to the Aztecs).[51] His job was to guide souls to the underworld. (It should be noted in one myth Quetzalcoatl also visited the underworld after a great flood and used his own blood to recreate humans to repopulate the Earth.[52])

It seems the mythological figure Quetzalcoatl perfectly encodes the idea of a green comet that passes near the Pleiades. Since the events of 10,500 BC had global impacts it should follow that other cultures around the world would also have encoded them in their myths. Can we find any other ancient myths that shared traits of Quetzalcoatl that will help support this idea? Indeed, another mythological figure is also associated with twin-winged serpents, the Pleiades, the underworld and a green comet: Hermes.

10.  Quetzalcoatl & Hermes: Cosmic Messengers?

The symbol for Hermes in Greek mythology is the Caduceus or Staff of Hermes. This symbol consists of two serpents intertwined around a pole surmounted by a pair of wings. Thus the idea of twin serpents and wings are associated with both Hermes and Quetzalcoatl.

Like Quetzalcoatl, Hermes also was associated with the invention of writing and the arts and considered a messenger god. Hermes may be derived from Hermeneus, which means the interpreter.[53] From Hermes comes our word “hermeneutics,” the study and theory of interpretation. He was also a god of commerce and of thieves. Like Quetzalcoatl and his twin Xolotl, Hermes guided souls to the underworld.

Hermes had several stellar associations. In Greek mythology he was the child of Zeus and Maia (pronounced identically to Maya). Maia was one of the stars of the Pleiades and was herself the daughter of Atlas. Atlas, like the Mayan Bacabs, was responsible for holding up the heavens. According to researcher Jacqueline Brook, Hermes was also associated with a green comet.[54]

To the Romans, Hermes was known as Mercury. According to legend, the green comet of Mercury was associated with “lightning’s, thunders, earthquakes, great winds, violent storms, and new arts, always destructive for mankind.”[55]

Quetzalcoatl had a wind aspect known as Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl whose symbol was a swirling wind design. To the Maya this aspect of Quetzalcoatl was known as Hurakan where the modern word hurricane originates. Thus we see both Quetzalcoatl and Mercury/Hermes were associated with great winds, violent storms, and a green comet.

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