Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Pakal Sarcophagus Lid ( Added 1/19/10)

I highly recommend a documentary called 2012 Science or Science Fiction. What really caught my attention was the carving on the Pakal sarcophagus Lid. Wikipedia reveals: PACAL'S SARCOPHAGUS LID "The large carved stone sarcophagus lid in the Temple of Inscriptions is a famous piece of Classic Maya art. The widely accepted interpretation of the sarcophagus lid is that Pakal is descending into Xibalba, the Maya underworld. Around the edges of the lid are glyphs representing the Sun, the Moon, Venus, and various constellations, locating this event in the nighttime sky. Below him is the Maya water god, who guards the underworld [3]. Beneath Pakal are the "unfolded" jaws of a dragon or serpent, into whose mouth Pakal descends. This is a common iconographic representation of the entrance to the underworld. Other examples of this imagery are found in sculpture on Monument 1 "El Rey" and Monument 9 at the Olmec site of Chalcatzingo, Morelos, on Altar 4 at the Olmec site of La Venta, Tabasco, and in recently discovered murals at the Late Preclassic Maya site of San Bartolo, Guatemala"

Lately I have been having numerous synchronicities with serpents and finding references to them in Mayan symbology that seem to be revealing something to me. It is interesting how all this appeared to me years after having a vivid dream of catching a large black crocodile while fishing. I will save this story for a little later on. For now here is a video clip that revealed information that caught really my attention.

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