The Mayan Codes

WE ARE ALL KIN

Mathemagical Mayan Codes

The Tzolkin as a Map of Cosmic Energies

by Catherine Weser

 

What is it about this ancient thirteen-by-twenty code of numbers and symbols that links us with our universe?

Kin is a Mayan word for a basic harmonic unit.  Kin can represent the Sun, Day, an energetic description, a time frame, a mathemagical code, or even an individual person.  There are 260 kin which form the cosmic matrix called the Tzolkin.  Based on the interface of movement and measure, the Tzolkin weaves these two principles together into a language which speaks to the deeper Self and lives beyond the practical business of the daily world. The mathemagical  codes--numbers and symbols--have many levels of meaning, and the 260 permutations of the numbers and symbols of the Tzolkin are a harmonic array of living archetypal wisdom providing us with information of the movement or life-giving principle of energy and measure, or form-giving principle of energy.

 

The Sacred Round of 260 days is the interface of time and human beings.  The numbers and symbols are not just used to count, or quantify, but are used to represent and depict harmonic orders.  In other words, the positions of the numbers and symbols, and their associations to each other, are as important to their significance and meaning as the individual sense of the number or symbol itself.

 

In the Dreamspell, the numbers one through twenty become the codes of the solar tribes, called in The Mayan Oracle the star-glyphs, which I also refer to as the templates, or the Daykeepers.  The twenty represent the principle of measure, or form.  The numbers one through thirteen become the thirteen galactic tones of creation and together create the wavespell in Dreamspell.  I refer to these tones as energies, and as rays or vibrations and represent the principle of movement.  The combinations of these are the 260 kin–the 260 holographic representations of energy as movement and measure.

 

We can think of ourselves as each having a place within the Tzolkin, each of us living the energy template of one of the 260 kin, as a kind of birth destiny.  De-coding this information is a form of Mayan Astrology.  All of the kin live through each one of us, but we tend to specialize in a given lifetime, or a period of a given lifetime.  There is no hierarchy in the position of a kin in the Tzolkin, only the profound relationship of energies to each other is recognized, as all kin are equal. Finding your place on the Tzolkin is another way to locate or position your consciousness in the fractal of life and is an entrance into to a paradigm that is resonance based, the Mayan Perspective, as it is called by Jose Arguelles.  In addition, it is wonderfully useful to keep the Sacred Count of days, to anticipate and enhance the experience that each unique day brings.  Days do not repeat in the Mayan system for 52 years, so it is easy to relish the individual energy dynamics of each day.

 

I have worked intensively with the Tzolkin since 1987, and I have found the Dreamspell coordinates to be the most accurate and useful template overlays to the current Gregorian calendar.  Following is an interpretation of the movement and measure of the days of May, using the language of Jose Arguelles’ Dreamspell and Telektonon as a foundation for my understanding.

 

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