The ancient Maya were arguably one of the greatest sky-watching societies. Accomplished mathematicians, they recorded systematic observations on the motion of the Sun, planets and stars.
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From these observations, they created a complex calendar system to regulate their world—one of the most accurate of pre-modern times.
In the Maya’s belief system, sunsets were associated with death and decay. Every evening the sun god, Kinich Ahau, made the perilous journey through Xibalba, the Maya underworld, to be born anew at sunrise. Solar eclipses were seen as a “broken sun”—a sign of possible cataclysmic destruction.
That’s sure a holdover memory that religionists ascribed as apocalyptic for yesterday’s event. It was not.
Synchronicity is the Source of Consciousness 