Additions
2002
Tzolkin was written, and the research
in it was undertaken, primarily between August 1991 and August 1992.
The appendix in my book Mirror in the Sky, written in May of
1991, attempted to identify the correct correlation of the Maya tzolkin calendar,
but encountered conflicting information from different sources; notably, Arguelles,
Schele, and Frank Waters. That brief inquiry led me to dive into the material
on this question, and Tzolkin was the result. Most of the pieces were
written between January and August of 1992, resulting in, above all, a reconstruction
of the Maya Venus Calendar. Certain discoveries implied additional questions
that were not fully explored until much later. For example, implications in
the solstice/katun essay opened up for me suspicions about the nature of the
2012 end-date, but I didn’t track down answers, or even frame the questions
correctly, until May 1994. Some further conclusions formed in mid-1993, when
I was making minor corrections, redoing the calendar pages, and creating the
index for the book (for Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, who I had
secured a contract with in late-1992), but I didn’t want to alter the contents
greatly as I had already self-published and released the book in August 1992.
And so these late additions to Tzolkin have been compiled here, along
with other relevant documents and correspondence relating to various issues,
such as the correlation question, the Dreamspell day-count controversy, articles
and interviews I did to promote Tzolkin, a review and reader response,
and everything else that seems related to this study.
LINKS TO SITES OF INTEREST
Reviews, Promotional Releases, and Related Articles:
Bruce
Scofield’s review of Tzolkin
Munro Edmonson's review from Ancient Mesoamerica submission
Various contacts and comments
Mesoamerican Astrology Resources: Article by Bruce Scofield and Valerie Vaughan, Mountain Astrologer, April 1999. Also online at: http://www.onereed.com/articles/mesolist.html
The Mayan Venus Calendar and the Golden Proportion
Venus, Moon and the Tzolkin Calendar
Mayan ceremonialist Dan Rios (Tze'ec ) and The Mayan Dream
Borderlands article, June 1994
Reader response to above article, and my reply
Interview with Robert Paul for Esoterra magazine (Nov 1995)
Correlation Documents:
Appendix from Mirror in the Sky, May 1991
My
essay on Lounsbury’s 1992 paper
The Descent of Itzam Yeh (excerpt from Maya Means Mother by Penmark)
The
Key to Dreamspell Agenda
A
Manifesto for Clarity (1995/1996);
One
Hunahpu and Other Poems in the Cosmic Center Triptych
Letters
on Talis/Resonate
Arguelles
exchange (1996) and meeting (Glastonbury trip report, 1999)
7 Wind - the entire book (1993).
Exchange with Vollamaere (1999)
Debate 2001: 2011 or 2012?
Further Essays and Thoughts:
Toltec
/ Maya Integration: Harmonic Convergence or Unification at Chichen Itza?
13-sign
Zodiac (eclipses, the double tzolkin, and Venus)
Nodal
Cycles and the 52nd Tzolkin birthday
April
3, 2001
Miscellaneous:
Cover Art — Its Design and Symbolism Explained
Time
as Art
Other new pages linked to different areas of Tzolkin:
Oxib Ajmac
Chapter 37 from Journey to the Mayan Underworld
Foreword to Second Edition