The Maya Prophecy
Dresden Codex

Maya prophecy Dresden Codex

Maya prophecy Dresden Codex

The Dresden Codex

One of the worldwide three existing mayan codices (plus the Grolier fragment) to survive the book burnings by the Spanish clergy in 1521 turned up in Dresden in 1739. How it got to Vienna? It is unknown, but it was probably sent by Hernán Cortés as a tribute to the king of Spain, who was also the king of Austria during the Conquest. Johann Christian Goetze, director of the Royal Library at the court of Saxony purchased it from a private owner,

The Dresden Codex is considered the most beautiful and complete. It is made from Amatl paper( "kopó", tree bark that has been flattened and covered with a lime paste) , folded accordion-style and written and painted on both sides. It totals 74 pages in length, painted with extraordinary care and clarity using a very fine brush. The artist used both sides of all but four of the pages of the codices. Its basic colors are red, black and the so-called Mayan blue.

The codex was written by eight different scribes, each with their own distinctive style, type of glyphs and subject matter. It is linked to the Yucatecan Maya in Chichén Itzá, the extraordinary ancient Mayan city situated in the north of the Yucatán Peninsula. It was made between A.D. 1200-1250, and was still possibly in use when the conquistadors arrived. The "Codex Dresdensis" as one of the few pre-Columbian Mayan hieroglyphic writings (most of them on stelas found in Palenque, one of the ancient cities of Yucatán) contains astronomical calculations of exceptional accuracy. There are almanacs and day counts for worship and prophecies; two astronomical and astrological tables, one dealing with eclipses and the other Venus and katún (a 20-year period) prophecies. It contains references and predictions for time and agriculture, favorable days for predictions, as well as texts about sickness, medicine, and seemingly, conjunctions of constellations, planets and the Moon. It also contains a page about a flood, a prophecy or maybe a reference to the rainy seasons so vital to the Maya.

The Maya's reputation as astronomers is based largely on these figures. Somewhere in southern Mexico prior to 36 B.C., people had begun to use multiples of a 360-day year to produce a very accurate calendar for measuring long intervals of time. The Maya version of that calendar used as its starting point a date corresponding to August 13th, 3114 B.C., of the Western (Gregorian) calendar. Is is speculated that this base date was of mythological significance, calculated to coincide with the creation of the present world, which is supposed to end on december 21st, 2012 A.C. From that starting point, Long Count dates were recorded with a string of numbers whose value depended on their position in the string.

During World War II, Dresden was severely bombed, and the library suffered serious damage.Twelve pages of the codex were harmed and all the glyphs in the upper left-hand corners of the pages were completely erased. Some of the pages were erroneously mixed up and returned in wrong sequence into the protecting glass cabinet. Even so, it is still a "faithful representative of the precocity and elegance of the ancient Maya," according to Salvador Toscano (1912-1949), historian, archaeologist and critic of Mexican art.

When Johann Christian Goetze catalogued the "strange mexican book" in 1744, he did not know yet, that he had got hold of one of the only three mayan codices left to the world. Little notice was taken of it until 1796, when an odd but distinctly work appeared in Leipzig, the Darstellung und Geschichte des Geschmacks der vorzüglichsten Völker ("Depiction and History of the Taste of Superior Peoples") by Joseph Friedrich, Baron von Racknitz. In 1810, Alexander von Humboldt published his famous atlas Vues des Cordillères et monuments des peuples indigènes de l'Amerique. One of the plates was showing in absolutely exact detail, five pages from the Dresden Codex. It was first published completely by Edward King, Viscount Kingsborough, in Antiquities of Mexico (1830–48). Kingsborough erroneously attributed the codex to the Aztecs. Not until 1829 did Constantine Rafinesque-Schmaltz (1783-1840) identify it as a Mayan codex.

7th century Mayan prophet Pacal Votan left a universal message for future generations of an evolving Earth.

Pacal Votan's prophetic call is alerting present-day humanity that our biological process is transforming, approaching the culmination of a 26,000 year evolutionary program.

This grand cycle of evolution will culminate winter solstice, December 21, 2012 AD. Sumerians, Tibetans, Egyptians, Cherokees, Hopi, and Mayans refer to this same 26,000 year cycle. This time we are now in has been called "The Time of Trial on Earth," "Judgement Day," "The Time of Great Purification," "The End of this Creation," "The Quickening," "The End of Time as We Know It," "The Shift of the Ages."

Maya prophecies fall into four classes: day-prophecies, year-prophecies, katun-prophecies and special prophecies of the return of Quetzalcoatl, or Kukulcan as he was called by the Maya