The Complete Idiot's Guide to 2012 - Dr. Synthia Andrews Nd [51]
In the first world, the Sacred Tree of Life is depicted in the San Bartolo murals as a staff with three fish. This is interesting in relation to the Aztec creation story. In the Aztec story, the first world is inhabited with animals and people. The first world is destroyed by floods that are sent by the gods. Some people whom the gods favor are saved by being changed into fish. In many cultures, fish represent the element water and the development of emotions as a type of awareness.
Celestial Connection
The five ages of the Aztec vary from the Mayan ages but the cycle is essentially the same. A series of destructions and rebirths occur at each level of creation. In the Aztec version, the new world cannot be created until a god sacrifices himself to become the new sun and life of the next world.
Second Age
In the second age, the gods created humans out of clay or mud. Because the people were unable to move or speak, they were pretty poor company and didn’t worship at all. The gods weren’t happy about this, and the second world was destroyed. The second world is about manifesting consciousness, and is said to represent the mind.
In the Aztec myths, the second age was destroyed when the sun fell from the sky and burned the creation in a fiery blaze. Some people survived but were eaten by jaguars.
The murals on the walls at San Bartolo provide a date for the end of the second age. As of yet, the analysis of the date is either incomplete or has not been published. When it is, it will provide insight into the creation timeline.
Third Age
In the third age, man was made of wood. Humans could walk and talk, but once again they were defective. This time the gods forgot to add a soul. Without a soul, humans forgot to worship and again the world was destroyed. This age was about the need to add heart and soul, or individual essence.
In the Popol Vuh, the world was destroyed when the gods “rained blackness on their heads and tore them apart.” In the Aztec legend, the gods “rained gravel and fire” until the world again caught fire. The gods took pity on some people who were saved by being turned into birds. The San Bartolo murals show the third age with birds in the sky and on the Tree of Life.
Fourth Age
In the fourth age, the “true people” were formed out of maize, or corn dough. Corn was considered sacred by the Maya. Maybe the reason the true people were not destroyed (so far!) is because of the sacredness of the maize that formed them. Some say this age defines the union of spirit and soul with matter—the unity of mind, body, and spirit.
In the Aztec story, this age came to an end with a great hurricane that “raged across the land and blew the people off the face of the world.” Some people survived by being changed into monkeys.
The San Bartolo murals have a glyph that may provide a date for the end of the fourth age. When it’s revealed, we might end the debate on what age we’re in!
Fifth Age
According to today’s Mayan Elders, the fifth age is still to come. The first four ages existed in three-dimensional reality; each one relating to one of the cardinal directions, a color, and an element. The sun disc represents all four of them, showing them on the same level, circling the fifth age at the center.
The fifth age will take a leap forward, into higher-dimensional reality. The fifth age jumps to the center of the sun disc and is the fifth direction, the direction of the Axis Mundi. The center of the sun disc encompasses all that came before, all the information of the four directions and four worlds. It’s an age of synthesis, an age of harmony. If the other ages were represented by directions, colors, and elements, this age is represented