Hunab Ku With 4 Worlds, Brain Quadrants, Day-Signs, Angles and Year Bearers This diagram combines the Mayan four worlds of the Serpent, Dog, Eagle, and Sun (which can also be viewed as the four quadrants of the brain, or four quadrants of the earth), with an overlay of the Hunab Ku, the Mayan giver of movement and measure. The 20 day-signs can be viewed as spokes of a wheel distributed at 16 angles around the circle. A day-sign always begins and ends on the same color (direction), and moves through the numbers 1-13 around the circumference of the circle "The Universal World Tree is, then, identical with what in the Mayan tradition is called Hunab-Ku, sometimes referred to as the One Giver of Measure and Movement, but certainly better translated as the One Source of Limits and Energy. The limits are actually the boundaries creating yin/yang polarities (on our particular planet, for example, the planetary midline). The energy is the creative energy emanating from the Central Sun. As mentioned, the Universal Hunab-Ku is beyond the range of our perception, but the galactic and earthly microcosms are within it, and each one of us is an individual expression of Hunab-Ku." p. 104 Carl Calleman. The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness "The phenomenal world, which consists of the objects of sense-perception, may be compared to a grand circle, the circumference of which lies in the gross material forms and the innermost center of which is Atman, the true Self."p. 39 From Vedanta Philosophy:Self-Knowledge Atma-Jnana by Swami Abhedananda D5 Chicchan (13 Caban) D7 Manik (13 Cauac) D6 Cimi (13 Etznab) White gate of the Zenith 0° 0° "Self-consciousness is described by Indra (He who gave being to the Sun and Morning - Rg Veda) as the center of the wheel of a chariot. This body is the chariot and the outer circumference of the wheel is made up of senseobjects, the spokes are the sense-powers, which reveal these objects, and the nave, on which the spokes are fixed, is the Prana, the life-force." p 89. From Vedanta Philosophy:Self-Knowledge Atma-Jnana by Swami Abhedananda D4 Kan (13 Cib) -22.5° 22.5° D8 Lamat (13 Ahau) D3 Akbal (13 Men) -45° 45° D9 Muluc (13 Imix) D2 Ik (13 Ix) -67.5° 67.5° Red gate of the East D10 Oc (13 Ik) -90° 90° D1 Imix (13 Ben) D11 Chuen (13 Akbal) -90° 90° D20 Ahau (13 Eb) Blue gate of the West -112.5° 112.5° D12 Eb (13 Kan) D19 Cauac (13 Chuen) -135° D13 Ben (13 Chicchan) 135° D18 Etznab (13 Oc) -157.5° D14 Ix (13 Cimi) I consider the "gates", the four cardinal angles (90°, 0°, -90°, and 180°). The circle is divided into 16 equal angles of 22.5°, but there are 20 day signs. It is because 4 of the daysign/trecena numbers are the same (numbers 1, 6, 11, and 16) that the whole extraordinary pattern works. They are T1D1Imix on the Eastern horizon, T6D6 Cimi at Zenith, T11D11 Chuen on the Western horizon, and T16D16 at Nadir. This coincidence of trecena and daysign number is a profound mathematical truth embedded in the Tzolkin, and manifested visually as an expression of the Universal World or "Hunab Ku". -180° 180° D15 Men (13 Manik) D16 Cib (13 Lamat) The day-signs begin on the right (90°) with 1 Imix and go in daysign numerical order counter-clockwise ending with D20 Ahau. The trecena of each day-sign begins with #1 and ends with #13. This will be 13 daysigns away from whatever the starting daysign is. (Example D1 is Imix. Counting 13 day-signs around the circle counterclockwise lands on D13 which is Ben. Then 13 away from Ben is Chicchan which is indicated in parentheses. The beginning and ending day-signs are always of the the same color and direction.) 157.5° D17 Caban (13 Muluc) Yellow gate of the Nadir What is extraordinary is that when I start at the red "gate" Imix and count through 13 daysign angles, I end at the red pointer (-135°) two and a half quadrants away. This holds true for all four of the starting gates. It is also true that if I start at one of the four "pointers" and count through 13 daysigns, I end up at a gate two and a half quadrants away. The Hunab Ku seems to be describing this movement as both the black and white spirals move counterclockwise from circumference to center. Going from "gate" through 13 daysign angles, I end up at a "pointer" which is also recognized as one of the four "Year Bearers" "The Year Bearers are derived from the 260-day cycle, 4 day names that are consistently hit if one runs the 260-day cycle through 365 days. For the Aztecs, Mixtecs, and Zapotecs at the Contact Period, the four Year Bearers were: Akbal, Lamat, Ben and Etznab. These are also the Year Bearers as written in the Maya codices and Classic Period hieroglyphic texts. Quoted from www. mayan-calendar.com. (Find 'year bearers' under 'ancient mayan calendars') Akbal, Lamat, Ben, and Etznab are what might be called Year Bearers of the Day-Sign sequence.
