How did a pre-Columbian Mayan book of the eleventh or twelfth century of the Yucatan Maya in Chichén Itzá wind up in Vienna? The Maya codex is believed to be a copy of an original text of some three or four hundred years earlier. It is said to be the earliest known book written in the Americas holding great insights to the December 21, 2012 date.
The Dresden Codex is considered the most complete of only four remaining American codices.
The Dresden Codex was written by eight different scribes using both sides. They all had their own particular writing style, glyphs and subject matter. The codex totals 74 pages in length. Its images were painted with extraordinary clarity using very fine brushes. The basic colors used from vegetable dyes for the codex were red, black and the so-called Mayan blue.
The Dresden Codex contains astronomical tables of outstanding accuracy.
How did they know then what we're just now discovering? Contained in the codex are almanacs, astronomical and astrological tables, and religious references. Specific references tell of a 260 day ritual count divided up in several ways. The Dresden Codex contains predictions for agriculturally-favorable timing, etc. It has information on rainy seasons, floods, illness and medicine. It also seems to show conjunctions of constellations, planets and the Moon. A regular original Farmer’s Almanac.
Central to the Dresden Codex is the Venus Transit!
A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth, obscuring a small portion of the solar disk. During a transit, Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black disk moving across the face of the Sun. A transit is similar to a solar eclipse by the Moon, but, although the diameter of Venus is almost 4 times that of the Moon, Venus appears smaller because it is much farther away from Earth. .
Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena and currently occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits eight years apart. The first of a pair of transits of Venus in the beginning of the 21st century took place on 8 June 2004 and the next will be on 6 June 2012. How that works into December 21, 2012 no one seems to know- if it does.
The natives adored and made more sacrifices to Venus than any other celestial or terrestrial creatures: next to the sun of course. The reason Venus was held in such esteem by the lords and people, and the reason why they counted their days by this star and yielded reverence and offered sacrifices to it, was because the natives believed that when one of their principal gods, named Quetzalcoatl, died and left this world, he transformed himself into Venus.
As we become smarter the ancient Dresden Codex makes more sense. Who knows, maybe we'll completely understand it by 12.21.2012!
As a spiritual-futurist, I have a BA degree majoring in history. One cannot know the future without knowing the past which holds clues to what is on the horizon. The world is in such a rapid expansion of knowledge that we are close to entering a tipping point that will forever change earth as we know it.
