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THE PIEDRA DEL SOL AS AN INTERPRETIVE By Allan MacGillivray, III A revision for the book: SIPAPUNI; August 19, 2005 “The Aztec Sunstone” is…..astronomy carved in stone.” Clive Ross After the publishing of my book, SIPAPUNI a friend suggested I go see the movie, STAR DREAMS, by Robert Nichols, a documentary film about, “Crop Circles”. I, like many people worldwide, had heard of them, but mostly about the debunking of the glyphs not the science. The above film introduces the viewer to the new science of the amazing crop glyph phenomena. For this viewer who had just finished using the Aztec Piedra Del Sol and Mayan Tzolkin as interpretive tools, the Crop Glyph designs resonated with some of the Meso-American glyphs and petroglyphs that I recognized. I began to study the science and geometry of the glyphs by reading THE SECRET OF THE FIELDS, by Freddy Silva, and The Deepening Complexity of CROP CIRCLES, Scientific Research and Urban Legends, by Eltjo Haselhoff, Ph.D. To keep appraised of new glyphs creations I began viewing www.cropcircleconnector, regularly. Above is a drawing of the Smith – Wayland crop glyph, which materialized August 9, 2005 in southern England, that I named the British Moon Circle. The glyph is 320 ft in diameter and apparently created in wheat. The following is a field report from crop circle investigator Mike Callahan: “The lay was generally neat and tidy and in my opinion lacking the fluid swirling feeling of other formations. There were very little standing stems around the outside. As I walked around the formation, I checked the stems periodically and everywhere I looked they were broken. As I have mentioned the crop was very mature and dry. I checked at the side of the formation away from where people would have walked and I found the same thing. In various places, the crop overlapped but there was no multi-layering. There were numerous nests around the formation. They consisted of standing stems with a swirl around the base spreading out to the floor of the formation. The crop was not woven together, as in some formations. The appearance of these nests was consistent throughout. In terms of nodal anomalies, I found none. No nodal bending, no expulsion cavities, and no visible nodal elongation. Whether this and the broken stems throughout could be attributed to the dryness/maturity of the crop is up for discussion.” To this writer the esoteric message of all the crop circles is profound: These creations are created in a medium (a crop) that will be consumed by humans and be a part of our bodies. None of the grains are damaged in the creation of the designs and in fact the energy during their creation is absorbed by the grains within enhance future crop growth. Crop glyphs have been recorded for century’s. However, these phenomena could not be thoroughly observed until humans achieved flight. In the moon glyph illustration above, notice how the outer ring is similar to, and is synchronized with the Sunstone glyphs in the (Tzolkin) below, where each glyph has its own particular iconography, presiding deity and direction. There are several calendars embodied within the Piedra Del Sol. “the count of days” is the 260 day divining calendar, 13 x 20 day “months “. The 260 day sign calendar is the number of days of gestation for human beings. The number 13 or (Trecena) is a sacred number representing 13, 28 day lunar cycles (364 days) in a solar year, among many other meanings. Beginning to the left or west , the rays or cross arms emanating from the center glyph of the Moon Circle ,focuses on the glyph Coatl, to the south, Itzquintli, the east, Cuahili, and north Xochitl. In this study, we are primarily interested in the Sunstone attributes that can be directly interpolated/synchronized with the Moon Circle glyph. In the center of the glyph notice the moon, very important in Meso-America cosmology. The moon is associated with rabbit (Tochtli) and the goddess Mayahuel in Meso-American metaphysics. The moon and the sun in Meso-American legend were created together at Teotihuacan, at the beginning of the present era called the fifth sun. Two gods (Tecuciztecatl and Nanahuatzin, respectively) immolated themselves, Nanahuatzin first, who became the sun. Tecuiztecatl followed, becoming another sun, the gods, however dimmed its radiance by throwing ashes on it, creating what we call the moon. Then Quetzalcoatl in his wind form set them into motion.
A comparison of the Aztec Sunstone and British Moon Circle There are eight marks above both the upper west and upper east part of the moon. Again, the EIGHTH glyph of the Tzolkin is Rabbit (Tochtli). The two sets of markings could signify a name. In this case it is “Two Rabbit”. To this writer this is extremely interesting. The name of the founder of Pueblo Bonito at Chaco Canyon, N.M. posited by this writer is Two Rabbit, who is thought to have originated from the Teotihuacan area around 900 A.D. No glyph birth name will be repeated within a 52 year period when using this calendar system. This fifty -two year period is the Xiumolpilli or “bundle of years. When we look at the Moon Circle again and count the number of dash’s within each of the four directions we get 52, the Xiumolpilli. Do we have an incarnation of Two Rabbit in England in the form of the British Moon Circle, approximately 1055 years after the founding of Pueblo Bonito at Chaco Canyon or is it all a hoax? The Glyph was recently named Hunab-Ku, the Mayan (one) creator god of the universe. However, the Crop glyph bears no resemblance to the yin-yang type Mayan glyph representing this deity. The Tzolkin Glyph 5 Coatl: The day Coatl (Snake) has Chalchihuitlicue as its protector. Coatl is the day of the snaking river that always changes without changing. It signifies the fleeting moment of eternal water. A good day for humility, a bad day for acting on self-interests. Glyph 8 Tochtli: The protector of day glyph Tochtli (Rabbit) is Mayahuel, goddess of the Maguey and of Fertility, a pulque goddess. Tochtli, is a day of self-sacrifice and service to something greater than oneself. It signifies the religious attitude which holds everything sacred and results in experiences of self-transcendence. It is a mystical day, associated by the passages of the moon. It is a good day for communing with nature and spirit, a bad day for acting against others. Glyph 10 Itzcuintli : The protector of day glyph Itzcuintli (Dog) is Mictlantecuhtli, god of death. Itzcuintli is the guide for the dead, the spirit world's link with the living. Itzcuintli is a good day for funerals and wakes and remembering the dead. It is a good day for being trustworthy, a bad day for trusting others of questionable intent. Glyph 15 Cuauhili: The protector of day glyph Cuauhtli (Eagle) is Xipe Totec, god of the shedding of skins, God of Seedtime, the elemental force of rebirth. Cuauhtli is a day of fighting for freedom and equality. It is a day of the Warriors of Huitzilopochtli, those who sacrifice their lives willingly to keep the present age, the Fifth Sol, moving. It is a good day for action, a bad day for reflection. A good day for invoking the gods, a bad day for ignoring them. Glyph 20 Xochitl: The protector of day glyph Xochitl (Flower) is Xochiquetzal. Xochitl is a day for creating beauty and truth, especially that which speaks to the heart who knows it will one day cease to beat. Xochitl reminds us that life, like the flower, is beautiful but quickly fades. It is a good day for reflection, companionship and poignancy; it is a bad day for repressing deep-seated wishes, desires and passions. The Piedra Del Sol Sculpted in 1438 by an unknown artist, the Piedra Del Sol was placed on the north wall in the Plaza Major in Tenchititlan (Mexico City) in an even larger star mural. This monolith measures 3.6 m. in diameter and weighs 24 tons. Within it is sculpted in multi –dimensions, the cosmology and metaphysics of the Aztecs and earlier cultures of Meso-America. This document is arguably the most profound document in the Americas.
TENOCHITITLAN References: Callahan, Mike. 2005 www.cropcircleconnector.com Haselhoff, Eltjo Ph.D. 2001 The Deepening Complexity of CROP CIRCLES, Scientific Research and Urban Legends, Frog Ltd. Berkeley MacGillivray, Allan III. 2005 SIPAPUNI, Space time Spirit in Indigenous America, authorhouse ; Bloomington Mary Miller , Karl Taube. 1993 The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico. Thames and Hudson Ross, Clive Wikipedia Silva, Freddy 2002 THE SECRET OF THE FIELDS, The Science and Mysticism of Crop Circles. Hampton Rods Publishing Co . Charlottsville. |
