Mayan calendar preview - Jul. 2009
The Temple of Inscriptions rises 115 ft (35 M) over the city of Palenque. In 1948 a secret passage was found leading 85 feet below the top platform to the burial chamber of Pacal the Great, fabled King of Palenque, a city also known as Banner Water. In “Chariots of the Gods?: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past”, a book written in 1968, author Erich Von Daniken put forward the hypothesis that the technologies and religions of ancient civilizations were given to them by aliens because they far surpassed the technologies of the eras in which they were manufactured. One of the specific claims Von Daniken made regarding the Maya was aimed at the sarcophagus lid of Pacal the Great. Von Daniken claimed the carved stone lid depicted the ruler in a space ship blasting into the heavens. His claims were made prior to specialists ability to decipher Mayan hieroglyphics. Subsequent translation of the lid inscriptions and imagery revealed the lid depicts Pacal falling down the shaft of the world tree, the axis mundi that ran through the center of the Mayan universe, into the underworld to face the Nine Lords of the Night on his death journey to the angelic realm. Buy calendar online
