About the Venus Passages and the completion of the Mayan Creation Cycles or Transits. Great Cycle on the 11th of August 3114 BC is referred to as the Birth of Venus...
Last Date: 06.08.2004 "Venus Passage" or "Venus Transit."
NASA's TRACE satellite captured this image of Venus crossing the face of the Sun as seen from Earth orbit. The last event occurred in 1882. The next Venus transit will be visible in 2012. Geographic Visibility of 2012 June 06. Jun 1761, 1769, 2004, 2012 ||| Dec 1631, 1639, 1874, 1882, 2117, 2125
The Transit of Venus on 2004, June 8 & June 6, 2012
Current Venus Passage:
June 8, 2004 = 6 - WIND (IK)
June 6, 2012 = 1 - WIND (IK)
Image Credit: NASA solarsystem.nasa.gov
Ancient Greek, Egyptian, Babylonian, and Chinese observers knew of Venus and recorded the planet’s motions. The early Greeks thought that the evening and morning appearances of Venus represented two different objects, Hesperus - the evening star and Phosphorus - the morning star.[7] Pythagoras is credited with realizing they were the same planet. In the 4th century BC, Heraclides Ponticus proposed that both Venus and Mercury orbited the Sun rather than Earth. There is no evidence that any of these cultures knew of the transits.[8] Venus was important to ancient American civilizations, in particular for the Maya, who called it Chak ek, "the Great Star" and considered it possibly even more important than the Sun;[7] they embodied Venus in the form of the god Kukulkán (Quetzalcoatl) and based their calendar (see Mayan calendar) largely around the cycles of Venus. In the Dresden Codex, the Maya chart Venus' full cycle, but despite their precise knowledge of its course, there is no mention of the transit. The Maya were skilled astronomers, and could calculate the Venus cycle with extreme accuracy. There are six pages in the Dresden Codex devoted to the accurate calculation of the location of Venus. The Maya were able to achieve such accuracy by careful observation over many centuries. The Venus cycle was especially important because the Maya believed it was associated with war and used it to divine good times (called electional astrology) for coronations and war. Maya rulers planned for wars to begin when Venus rose. The Maya also possibly tracked the movements of other planets, including Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter. Mayan scholars, by focusing on the Long Count and not the wave cycles of creation, have chosen the wrong day for the end-point for the Mayan calendar; it’s not 12-21-2012, but 10-28-2011! |
