The ancient wisdom ascribed is found behind the creation of a 500-year-old artifact, the Aztec Calendar. To the Natives it was Teoilhuicatl Apaluaztli Ollin Tonal Machiotl meaning the Great and Venerable Mechanism of the Universe. In contrast, the modern technology was used to create a Technical Manual for the Aztec Calendar that delineates the elements of this ancient monument with engineering documentation techniques. [Note: The Aztec name was given to the Mechican Indians (ch as in chevron; sometimes spelled Mexican) by an English writer in the 19th century.]
The Aztec Calendar Handbook, involving thousands of man-hours of effort to create, takes the Technical Manual approach to a Historical Reference book. Illustrated with over 150 technical drawings showing enlargement details, cut-away views, and computer-generated art, this new guidebook has been called the "ultimate" Aztec Calendar reference treatise. Distilled from over 240 sources and quoting direct eyewitnesses from the 1500’s, it further includes a glossary of over 230 native words. This attractive book is made with parchment paper and has a leather-grained cover, making it resemble an ancient manuscript.
The research for writing the Aztec Calendar Handbook was assisted by custom software to convert Native date designators into our modern calendar dating system. In this way, a researcher is able to convert and track the dates of events from surviving native history books, known as codices. Mountains of information could be processed more efficiently and accurately when correlating indigenous dates. Inversely, a Julian date can also be converted into the Mayan long-count system. It is then possible for the Mechican calendar-labeling scheme to be transposed over the count to generate a person’s Aztec tonallo or spiritual name from their birth date.
According to Native tradition, our current long-count cycle will be complete in December 2012. A long-count cycle, credited to the Olmec/Maya, is 5125 years and started in the year 3114BC. No one is really sure what will happen when the cycle ends, or at least they aren’t talking.
MY FRIEND WAS TALKING ABOUT THIS AND I AM STILL TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT AND THIS CALENDER AND WHY 2012 I MEAN YEAH THEY SAY THE AZTEC WERE SMART WHICH IN THERE TIME THEY WERE BUT HOW COULD THEY PERDICT THIS YEAR AND WHY DOES IT STOP ON 2012.
WELL PEOPLE IF YOU CAN HELP ME UNDERSTAND AND PUT SOME LIGHT ON THIS SUBJECT. THANK YOU
> >U.S. Government to Release New Dollar Coins
'God' Sidelined, 'Liberty' Missing, From New Dollar Coins
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
March 08, 2007
(CNSNews.com) - "In God We Trust" is the national motto, but you may need a magnifying glass to find it inscribed on the edge of those new one-dollar coins.
The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm, is urging Americans to avoid using the coins altogether.
"It is astounding that Congress has effectively done what atheist litigants have been unsuccessfully trying to do for years -- erase all reference to God from our money," said Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Law Center.
"This is just another step on the road to a secular society where all religious symbols are removed from public view."
The Law Center wants Congress to repeal the law under which the new coins are being minted.
The Presidential $1 Coin Act, enacted in 2005, requires the government to issue $1 circulating coins featuring the images of presidents. That law requires the United States Mint to place "In God We Trust" and "E Pluribus Unum" on the edge, rather than the face, of the coins.
But placed on the coin's edge, "In God We Trust" appears to be nothing more than scratches, the Thomas More Law Center said.
Also missing from the new coin is the word "Liberty," which appears on all other U.S. coins.
According to the U.S. Treasury, the motto "In God We Trust" was placed on U.S. coins because of increased religious sentiment during the Civil War. Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase received "many appeals from devout persons throughout the country," urging that the United States recognize God on its coins.
"In God We Trust" first appeared on the two-cent coin in 1864, and since 1938, all United States coins have borne the inscription on their faces.
The phrase "In God We Trust" was declared the national motto by an Act of Congress in 1956 and first appeared on paper currency in 1957.
In a related story, the U.S. Mint announced on Wednesday that an unknown number of the new $1 coins are missing the words "In God We Trust" altogether -- a mistake, the Mint said.
"The United States Mint understands the importance of the inscriptions 'In God We Trust' and 'E Pluribus Unum' as well as the mint mark and year on U.S. coinage. We take this matter seriously," the Mint said in a statement.
The first batch of $1 coins released last month feature the image of George Washington. Coins with images of Adams, Jefferson, and Madison also will be issued in 2007. Four presidents will be featured on the coins every year thereafter.
The Thomas More Law Center describes itself as an organization that defends and promotes the religious freedom of Christians, family values, and the sanctity of human life through education, litigation, and related activities.
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