Darth Eggplant Posted July 6, 2002 Share Posted July 6, 2002 7 House 19 Mol:jawa Saturday July 6th 2002 Today's date in the Land of the Dead. Ever wonder who or what that motif is in the background of the Grim Fandango Network? That is the Aztec Calendar Wheel known as the Fifth Sun. It charts the passage of Time and cosmic events here in the 5th and final creation of the world. The Aztec culture believed their world began on the calendar date of 13 Reed(1011 AD) and they believed their world would end on the calendar date of 4 Movement. To ensure this apocalypse never happened, the priest cast and their entire civilization kept themselves busy with warfare, human sacrifices, and blood offerings to the sun, to prevent this calamity from ever coming to pass. Ironically enough the Spanish Conquistador Hernan Cortes met with Aztec ruler Montezumma on a calendar date of 4 Movement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Eggplant Posted July 7, 2002 Author Share Posted July 7, 2002 8 Lizard 0 Chen:jawa Sunday July 7th 2002 *if you are curious to know what calendar day it was when you were born according to the Sacred Almanac, send me a private message and I will calculate the date for you. also take into account time zones. I live in North American EST* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Eggplant Posted July 8, 2002 Author Share Posted July 8, 2002 9 Serpent 1 Chen:jawa Monday July 8th 2002 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Eggplant Posted July 9, 2002 Author Share Posted July 9, 2002 10 Death 2 Chen:jawa Tuesday July 9th 2002 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tall Guy Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 hows the site coming along btw? it is you who was thinking of doing a site wasn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Eggplant Posted July 11, 2002 Author Share Posted July 11, 2002 11 Deer 3 Chen:jawa Wednesday July 10th 2002 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Eggplant Posted July 11, 2002 Author Share Posted July 11, 2002 12 Rabbit 4 Chen:jawa Thursday July 11th 2002 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GendoTheGreat Posted July 11, 2002 Share Posted July 11, 2002 Dude, I'm not following this date thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Eggplant Posted July 12, 2002 Author Share Posted July 12, 2002 13 Water 5 Chen:jawa Friday July 12th 2002 Mesoamerican time keeping. (see post at thread beginning) Grim Fandango amongst other things is based upon Mayan and Aztec art. Well the background of this Forum depicts the calendar stone called the 5th Sun it is the age in which we now are living. The Aztec, Mayan and originally the OLmec's meassured time with 2 sets of calendars. The Sacred Almanac a calendar consisting of 260 days. (two gears turning together the small gear having the numbers 1 to 13 on it. The larger gear having 20 symbols the things Aztec's considered vital to good health and survival. When these 2 gears turned, it took 260 days for one complete cycle to repeat itself.) and The Vague Year a calendar consisting of 365 days. (one gear with 365 symbols on it a year consisting of 18 months each having 20 days to it, with a 5 day period called Uayeb or the sleep at the end making it 365 days long. These two calendars or 3 gears all turn together to chart out the date in time. While we say as in this post: Friday July 12th 2002 they would have said: 13 Water 5 Chen *and like in Baron Maunchausen they would have said it was tea time too.* these calendars rotating together took 52 years to complete one cycle and the Aztec and Mayan people KNEW the solar year was 365 1\4 days long but it messed up the symetry of their wheel so do not believe in Feb 29th at all. (anyone born that day did not and do not exist to the Mesoamerican people's.) the wheel calculations therefore every 52 years have to have 13 days added to make Mesoamerican time and the cosmic clock align. at any rate based upon knowing certain historic dates and having WAY TOO much time on my hands I can tell any forum member who cares to know, what day it is now in the land of the dead. so now you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Eggplant Posted July 13, 2002 Author Share Posted July 13, 2002 :jawa1 Dog 6 Chen:jawa Saturday July 13th 2002 *any guesses on what tomorrows date will be? remember you have to think like a schewuan vegetable or a blood thirsty maniac to get it right.* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Eggplant Posted July 14, 2002 Author Share Posted July 14, 2002 2 Monkey 7 Chen:jawa Sunday July 14th 2002 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Eggplant Posted July 15, 2002 Author Share Posted July 15, 2002 3 Grass 8 Chen:jawa Monday July 15th 2002 *Grim Fandango Network 4th anniversary\birthday* let every post you make today reflect this most wonder of wonders and Metallus, Tall Guy, xGrimx, Thrik, Zaarin, (and any long standing member) of this forum & network thank you for putting up with all us newbies. I am sure at times you must cringe as we post and repost ideas that were already kicked around by old vets like yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Eggplant Posted July 16, 2002 Author Share Posted July 16, 2002 4 Reed 9 Chen:jawa Tuesday July 16th 2002 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Eggplant Posted July 17, 2002 Author Share Posted July 17, 2002 5 Jaguar 10 Chen:jawa Wednesday July 17th 2002 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Eggplant Posted July 19, 2002 Author Share Posted July 19, 2002 7 Vulture 12 Chen:jawa Friday July 19th 2002 (the forum was offline a bit yesterday and I was busy today so thursday came and went. It was 6 Eagle 11 Chen however, just to put your minds at ease:jawa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Eggplant Posted July 21, 2002 Author Share Posted July 21, 2002 8 Movement 13 Chen:jawa Saturday July 20th 2002 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Eggplant Posted July 21, 2002 Author Share Posted July 21, 2002 9 Flint Knife 14 Chen:jawa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Eggplant Posted July 23, 2002 Author Share Posted July 23, 2002 *remembering your password is good, never write the silly things down.* anyways today EST is now Tuesday, so missed all of monday. And I have been busy at Calaverablanca, so a post for the week. Monday July 22nd 10 Rain 15 Chen Tuesday July 23rd 11 Flower 16 Chen Wednesday July 24th 12 Aligator 17 Chen Thursday July 25th 13 Wind 18 Chen Friday July 26th 1 House 19 Chen and Saturday July 27th 2002 2 Lizard 0 Yax now I am caught up for week. and if you do not see me posting, and for some of you this will be appreciated. I have not gone anywhere just busy at Calaverablanca. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GendoTheGreat Posted July 23, 2002 Share Posted July 23, 2002 I look forward to seeing what you come up with next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Eggplant Posted July 24, 2002 Author Share Posted July 24, 2002 this is all according to Mayan\Aztec cosmic events I make none of these weird names up, this is how they told time or at least how they told dates. like man I have to go to the dentist on 4 Rabbit 10 Zip, it is just the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GendoTheGreat Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 I'm talking about your website, dummy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tall Guy Posted July 25, 2002 Share Posted July 25, 2002 14/17 posts by the same person....this is really a spam thread in disguise aint it!! :D:D hows the site coming along btw Darth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Eggplant Posted August 10, 2002 Author Share Posted August 10, 2002 site is coming along fine will be updating sat aug 10th around mid est tune in then for loads of new stuff, have been offline for long time, and have gotten behind on days, my site has a day of the dead portion so I will be posting dates there; it will not hurt my feelings if mod's lock this thread out. it was just runner up to my site. very happy to be back posting again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Eggplant Posted August 12, 2002 Author Share Posted August 12, 2002 starting Monday aug 12th and through until the end of august 5 Flint Knife 16 Yax 6 Rain 17 Yax 7 Flower 18 Yax 8 Aligator 19 Yax 9 Wind 0 Zac 10 House 1 Zac *actuallly this is only til next saturday august 17th, 2002* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Eggplant Posted August 20, 2002 Author Share Posted August 20, 2002 sun aug 18th 11 lizard 2 Zac mon aug 19th 12 Serpent 3 Zac tues aug 20th 13 Death 4 Zac wed aug 21st 1 Deer 5 Zac thurs aug 22nd 2 Rabbit 6 Zac *warning 2 Rabbit is suppose to be a very unlucky date, the worst of all. and just for the record other unlucky days are any days starting with 4,5,6,8 or 9.* fri aug 23rd 3 Water 7 Zac sat aug 24th 4 Dog 8 Zac sun aug 25th 5 Monkey 9 Zac mon aug 26th 6 Grass 10 Zac tues aug 27th 7 Reed 11 Zac wed aug 28th 8 Jaguar 12 Zac thurs aug 29th 9 Eagle 13 Zac fri aug 30th 10 Vulture 14 Zac sat aug 31st 11 Movement 15 Zac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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