Mayan Nations Fight for Power
How is that different than today?
In our research to find data concerning our ancestors, the origin of American Indians and their origin plays an important role.
The hieroglyphics written on the Mayan Manuscripts may shed some light on the picture. Yet, the manuscripts' poor condition and distortions create problems in translation. Everyone knows that the Mayans had their alphabet, calendar, and prophecies. Accordingly, the Mayan Long Count calendar ended on December 21, 2012. This was the end of the 13-baktun cycle, which comprised 13 periods of 144,000 days each.
The Maya believed that the start of the Long Count was on 4 Ahau 8 Cumku, which is most likely August 11, 3114 BCE. This marked the beginning of the first Great Cycle, which lasted 5,125 years.
In many regards, the Mayans were uniquely different in their understanding of mathematics. They invented the concept of zero. They observed the sun passing directly overhead twice a year and, from this, made accurate calculations of a solar year. They could also predict solar and lunar eclipses!
Yet, it was in the 1980s that interpreters learned how mathematics was rendered upon the codex! This was a big thing because it enabled the important discovery of “dates” in the codex. Thus, from the monuments of Copan and Quirigua, interpreters believed they referred to a time of about 1,400,000.
“The high numbers of our Manuscript, so far as they are in question here, form first a group, which extends from about 1,200,000 to 1,280,000, and then there is a blank, and next a large group extending {115}from about 1,350,000 to 1,480,000, then another blank and lastly a group extending from about 1,520,000 to 1,580,000. If we assume that our Manuscript belonged to about the same date as these inscriptions, then the three numbers discussed here would extend over a past period lying about 160–170 years back, when a new period of importance had begun, probably dating from the immigration of the Aztecs into Mexico, which they placed in the first half of the 14th century (see “Weltall,” Vol. 5. pp. 374–377).”*
“Now, however, the number 1,366,560 contains the statement that 3744 years ago (each year having 365 days) an event must have occurred, which can hardly be anything other (according to the belief of the Mayas) than the creation of mankind.”*
At some point, the Mayans deserted their cities on the Yucatan peninsula. This is particularly interesting because the Book of Morman accounts for Indians in this region from about 600 B.C. to 400 A.D. This history relates to two tribes (Nephites and Lamanites), one whose religion was based on the Bible and the other upon idols. The end came in one big war, during which 10,000 warriors were killed daily until all were dead, except Moroni, who had preserved the copper plates of their history for posterity.
The above story is quite similar to the Mayans'. The big question was when the Mayans moved northward into Mexico and the United States.
The following recorded history began in the Colony of Georgia in 1733 when a friendly group of Creek Indians greeted James Edward Oglethorpe. Oglethorpe became best friends with Chief Tomichichi, who allowed John Wesley, the Methodist, to visit his camp and preach the gospel. But the chief did more than that. He wrote a paper describing his origin as “Mayan.” This document was sent by Oglethorpe to the Trustees in London for preservation. It was discovered in recent years in the possession of (then) Prince Charles in the “Clarence House.”
So now we know. The Creeks in the Georgia colony had split companionship with the idol-worshiping Mayans and migrated up through Mexico into Georgia, Alabama, and the Mississippi Valley.
Anyone studying Indian history knows that tribes are frequently divided. Presumably, the Mayans were the father tribe on the North American Continent before it split into multiple tribes. Before 1492, when Columbus was said to have discovered America, a long and projected history of warring tribes occupied both continents. Historians have long noted that the Indians did not possess boats or swords and must have crossed the Asian peninsula. Yet, a major discovery of brass objects and swords were found along the Western Great Lakes. “The Old Copper Complex of the Western Great Lakes is the best known and can be dated as far back as 9,500 years ago.”**
Meanwhile, canoes holding up to fifty people have been discovered in America, presumably constructed from full-sized trees!
While the full history of the Indian civilizations on this continent is incomplete, according to the Book of Mormon, about 600 B. C., a descendant of the tribe of Joseph built a ship and came to America. At one point, they later met up with a tribe that had come from Jerusalem about 2000 B.C.
Yet the records of these tribes were lost when Spanish conquistadors landed in South America, and all written accounts were destroyed so they could force their religion on the natives. Only four books written by the Mayans survive today. Without records, we can only voice theories. The earliest surviving account of Europeans dating to about 1100 is the “Domesday Book.” Gaps in history are present just about everywhere that one searches.
Although translators of hieroglyphics have worked in South America for centuries, a full understanding of the language is still lacking.
The world's great inventions and the misnamed “achievements” have not overcome the verbal disagreements that end in physical wars among the people of all Nations.
There has always been a thirst for “power,” resulting in greed, cruelty, hardship, and wars upon the human race. Essentially, a fight between good and evil erupts its ugly head with every passing generation—one man against another. The Indian tribes of the Americas never solved their issues.
Indeed, you can see the power players raising their ugly heads in today’s greedy world.
Sources:
Commentary on the Maya Manuscript in the Royal Public Library of Dresden by Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann.
** https://nipigonmuseumtheblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/copper-spears-on-great-lakes.html