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:jawa 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.

:jawa

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:jawa 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*

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:jawa 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.

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:jawa 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.

:D

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*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

:jawa 10 Rain 15 Chen

 

Tuesday July 23rd

:jawa 11 Flower 16 Chen

 

Wednesday July 24th

:jawa 12 Aligator 17 Chen

 

Thursday July 25th

:jawa 13 Wind 18 Chen

 

Friday July 26th

:jawa 1 House 19 Chen

 

and Saturday July 27th 2002

:jawa 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.:D I have not gone anywhere

just busy at Calaverablanca.

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  • 3 weeks later...

:jawa

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.:D

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  • 2 weeks later...

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

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