Which days in the Mayan calendar were most auspicious for performing sacrifices?
score:4
About the only book I have come across in looking at the Mayan Calendar, which only came from a class exercise in looking for more information on the Mayan Apocalypse, was the E.G. Richards book Mapping Time. It noted some ideas of lucky and unlucky days, as well as more on other calendar systems. Honestly I don't recall how much he covered in all of it, and some of the book comes across as more of his way of showing how much he knows about calendars. Still its one I hope to use to teach my kids about calendars at some point.
Although there is more about the Mayan Calendars regarding the Calendar Wheels a good overview from Harvard on the system but as to auspicious days much of what I have seen is more about the person than just general lucky days. In many ways its sort of like other star based systems where the conjunction of the stars and planets align and are then observed against a persons birth. From what I read before much of the practice and determination of "auspicious days" centered around Venus and its location in the Heavens, maybe its more noticable from their location or not. So if you could find a chart that noted the path of Venus across the Mayan calendar you should get your days. I haven't seen one.
You can look at Richards book on Amazon if you want a little more on it. Also, I found another online source on the Mayan Religious practices you can check out.
Upvote:1
The ritual calendar(s) are quite detailed, with minor differences between cultures. The Maya were no special case in the following list, because the ritual calendar was more-or-less driven by the imperialism of the Aztec empire.
Simply, the 'corners of the year' (solstices and equinoxes) were the major ritual times because the sacrifices governed the prosperous / abundant transition of the seasons.
Omens were another large governor of sacrifices:
- hurricanes,
- volcano eruptions,
- floods,
- blights,
- droughts,
- earthquakes,
- comets,
- meteors,
- eclipses, etc.
Not all sacrifices were human, and other events called for blood (cutting) or animal sacrifice. Such non-human-death sacrifices were often evoked by personal omen-istic experiences like
- auspicious timing of personally-experienced events,
- witnessing of clouds,
- 'instructions' received during psychotropic medicine,
- anthropomorphic plants, etc.
Because of the complex inter-linking of planetary calendar phases (sun, moon, venus, mars, saturn, mercury), certain calendrical intersections were times for sacrifices. Places where the count reset itself (such as the 2012 long-count incrementation) were also times for awareness.
Since many of these intersections are dictated by solar cycles, the seasons sacrifices would have had special meaning at these epagomenal times.
More post
- 📝 What are some examples of famous people in history who made big mistakes that they learnt from and this then led them to succeed?
- 📝 Were railway guns ever critical in any battle during WWI and WWII?
- 📝 How do we know the gender distribution of cave art painters?
- 📝 How were the West Berlin air corridors negotiated?
- 📝 Did some Roman/Pompeiian houses have atria for slaves?
- 📝 Do we have any surviving texts by Romano-Celtic authors?
- 📝 In Canada, is it true that when Mormons first arrived (1887) they weren't allowed to settle within 50km of Lethbridge?
- 📝 State of temporary recklessness of ancient Greeks
- 📝 What was the name of Captain Kidd's ship?
- 📝 Why did it take so long for humanity to be able to cross the oceans?
- 📝 Did the food economy of the late Roman republic rely on foreign imports, or was it more localized?
- 📝 Before WW2, how did Japan pay for imported US oil?
- 📝 Any information about the photo with Army Uniforms
- 📝 Which English king voided noble land claims after a certain date?
- 📝 Why were eastern European states larger than western European states for much of history?
- 📝 Why did nationalism in all of Europe surge in the 19th century?
- 📝 What is the largest hoard of coins ever found?
- 📝 What was the actual cause of the disaster for the Royal Navy’s battlecruisers in the Battle of Jutland?
- 📝 Was there a viable alternate supply route to Australia during World War II?
- 📝 What happened to the North Saxons?
- 📝 Early counterparts of scholarly journals
- 📝 How did changes in the balance of land versus naval balance of power prevent England from being successfully invaded by foreign powers after 1066?
- 📝 What is the Holy Roman Empire?
- 📝 Vigenere vs. Bellaso
- 📝 What was the value of a thousand talents in Roman Palestine about AD 33?
- 📝 Why are there so few twins in political history?
- 📝 Did people on the Bridge of Death in Pripyat actually die?
- 📝 What is the impact of history on food habits in India?
- 📝 Where can I find maps and other historical resources / references of Calcutta / Kolkata in the Victorian era?
- 📝 What were the Lines of Ne Plus Ultra in the War of the Spanish Succession?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Which days in the Mayan calendar were most auspicious for performing sacrifices?
- 📝 Are there any documented examples of wooden ships which were in active service for 100 years or more? If not, what is the longest?
- 📝 What were the most common reasons why draft-age men were not conscripted for the Union Army?
- 📝 Were there any other systems which resemble the complex election procedure for the doge of Venice
- 📝 Which tools were available in 1933 for the Chinese government to intervene in the money market?
- 📝 Were the dates of saints days moved as part of the Gregorian calendar reforms?
- 📝 How did knights in full suits of armor eventually die in combat? What were the most common causes of death for soldiers in full-body plate armor?
- 📝 What is the most common calendar for pre-Julian dates?
- 📝 Which were the most entrepreneurial AND prosperous cities in different eras?
- 📝 Which were the most important ghettos during Holocaust?
- 📝 Which of the Roman wars was the most important and riskiest for Rome?
- 📝 What were the reasons for the Renaissance / scientific revolution in Europe?
- 📝 What were the reasons for making Prohibition a constitutional amendment?
- 📝 Which battle was the most lopsided result in terms of casualties?
- 📝 Were Russians in the cold war era USA discriminated against for their ethnicity?
- 📝 Were any German cities spared by the Allies for personal or idiosyncratic reasons?
- 📝 Which languages would be most useful in Europe at the end of the 19th century?
- 📝 Which lost historical documents, when uncovered, led to the most substantial revisions in historiography?
- 📝 What were the criteria for class ranking at West Point prior to the Civil War?
- 📝 Were Shakespeare's plays written for "high culture" or "entertain the bawdy masses" during his time?
- 📝 What is the historical reason for 18 years being the most commonly accepted age of adulthood?
- 📝 Why does the amount of days in an year on average of the Gregorian calendar only have 4 decimal places (365.2425)?
- 📝 What are the most comprehensive historical references for ancient India?
- 📝 At what point were the most current and former US Presidents alive?
- 📝 Which Confederate State provided the most troops in the American Civil War?
- 📝 What were Argentina's intentions for the Falkland Islanders?
- 📝 Were there punishments in the Roman Empire for not believing in the official religion?
- 📝 Were there reasons for Japan to go to war with the US aside from the US owning Philippines?
- 📝 What were the thoughts of the Celts, Romans and other ancient European people about the standing stones which survive from prehistoric times?
- 📝 How were taxes collected for traveling merchants in the middle ages?