Friday, September 21, 2012

The Mystery of the Astronomy of the Mayans

by Lygia Cabus


The image above is the what which has been, currently associated, in websites, blogs and newspapers - with the Mayan calendar. But this is not the Mayan calendar. This is The Sun Stone, the AZTEC Calendar also called Mexica or Stone of the Five Eras or, even Haab a name that, yes, belongs to one of the mayas calendars.

The Sun Stone is exposed at the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City - Mexico and - in fact, possesses points of congruence with the chronology of the Haab, one of the Mayan calendars, the Cuenta Larga or the "Long Count of Mesoamerica".

It was found during excavations in Le Zocalo, the main square of Mexico City, on December 17, 1790. It has a diameter of 3.7 meters and weighs about 24 tons.

The truly Mayan Calendar is not recorded in a single block of stone or parchment of any kind. But is scattered in various monuments, numerous, petroglyphs and rock paintings distributed in a wide area of Central America, especially at Guatemala.


MAYAS/COSMO. Wednesday, September 19, 2012. At sunset, the astronomical phenomenon of alignment between the Moon and Mars, produced an eclipse of the called - "Red planet" - which was occulted by the silver disc of the lunar crescent. The eclipse occurred at around 18:05, time Brazil. Just over an hour later, at 19:22 Mars reappeared.



Graphical representation of the astrological alignment between Moon and Mars on September 19, 2012.

The event draws attention not only for its rarity of occurrence but because this is one of the cosmic phenomena most highlighted in the Mayan calendar, the same that has been rumored in this year (2012) for its alleged prophecy of the End of a Time in December 21 next.

The scholars consider that this alignment is one of the most important events of the calendar before the end of an era anticipated by Mayans in their predictions.


MAYANS CALENDARS

The knowledge about the culture of the Maya - and other pre-Columbian nations - is very scarce. This is due to the religious fanaticism of the Spanish colonizers (thus like the Portugueses, in Brazil). They understood that was essential to destroy the native knowledge that they considered like contraries to biblical texts, like demonic things, pagan heresies

Interestingly, the little that has been preserved, is due to the zeal of some of these same religious - most enlightened - that kept parts of this knowledge practicing the smuggling of these documents to Europe. 

Today, much of this material is preserved in the Library of the the Catholic Church West, the Vatican - and in monasteries and other institutions of the Catholic Church.

The Popol Vuh (or po'pol wu' in K'iche modernized), for example, a record of Mayan culture that includes "myths" like the Anthropogenesis, was produced in the sixteenth century, and officially dated in 1544. It is a record made ​​with the Latin alphabet but written in K'iche language.

Much of the original text, compiled language K'iche and, in parallel, translated for Spanish language, in the town of Santo Tomás Chichicastenango (also known as Santo Tomás Chuilá - Guatemala), by the Dominican priest Francisco Jiménez (1666-1729), in 1714 - was lost and the remainder is in the Newberry Library, Chicago - USA.

The Mayan calendar, as far as is known, dates from the fifth century BC (500 BC according to academics). In fact, the calendar is a set of three chronological tables that inteargem each other, each one using uma contagem based in different astronomical references. They are:


TZOLZIN, with 260 days, called "the order of days" was and still is used (for native communities in the highlands of Guatemala) to marks earthly events based on sacred cycles, driven by the movements of the sun, moon, the planet Venus and the star Sirius.

HAAB, the solar calendar - a civic calendar, with 365 days.

CUENTA LARGA or Calendar of the Long Periods - which records the time since August 11 of the year 3114 BC, when synchronized with the Gregorian calendar (current, Western). It happens that this calendar, which marks the Ages since the begin of the Creation, records four "worlds", or Four Humanities - (the current is the fourth). 


The stone "pages"  of the Cuenta Larga have been found in different archaeological sites scattered in Central America, what turns your study even more difficult. This - the Cuenta Larga - is that the Mayan calendar predicts the end of a world that will occur in December 2012.


One of these "pages" or stelas of the Cuenta Larga - which are lithic monuments - the so-called Stela D, which is part of the archeological monuments of Quiriguá, Guatemala - contains a cosmogonic record that goes back to a bygone age estimated at 400 million years. How is this possible? It's a mystery.

For example of this mystery science, according with the Popol Vuh, mentioned in the Anthropogenesis of The Secret Doctrine of H. P. Blavatsky (portuguese edition):

The first men were a race whose field of vision no had limits and they had the immediate knowledge of all things, manifesting, in this way - a divine capacity of knowledge, similar to the gods... 
(BLAVATSKY. A Doutrina Secreta. Antropogênese, p 111. São Paulo: Pensamento, 2001)



West face of Stela D. Photo: Stuardo Herrera, 2008. 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Quirigu%C3%A1Glyphs1.jpg]



North Face of Estela D or monument 4 - part of the Mayan calendar "Cuenta Larga", In Quiriguá - Guatemala. The researchers postulate based in recent studies, that the Stela D can be dated in the year of 766 AD. The Stela D has about 6 feet tall. 
Photo: Alfred Percival Maudslay, 1983.
[http://www.prmprints.com/image/816207/stone-carving-stela-d-at-maya-site-of-quirigua-guatemala].


The stone pages of the Cuenta Larga (the Mesoamerica Long Count calendar) have been found in different archaeological sites of Central America, what turns its study even more difficult. All the three calendars were inherited from cultures more ancient further increasing the mystery of the origin of the pre-Columbian peoples.


MYSTERIES

It is curious to note the banality with, currently, people and the media speak of the Mayan Calendar that, in truth, thus as many mysterious legacies of great realizations of the peoples of antiquity are simply something of unexplained.

The accuracy of astronomical knowledge, not only of the Mayans, but also of the Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Chinese, Greeks, of the Dogon, a simple tribe from Republic of Mali - West Africa among many other nations, is an enigma that has been neglected by academic science that usually attribute this knowledge to the mere systematic observation with the naked eye, of the night sky by priests and shamans.

This idea is absurd and even naive. At the same time, the same erudite and ofical science solemn despises the traditions of those cultures whose traditions - all of them - considered as mere myths or fantasies, relate their advanced knowledge with the presence, in ancient epochs of divine Masters that would have been responsible for the instruction of their ancestors, not only in relation to the stars and planets as well, to a whole set of techniques, from agriculture to metallurgy that consist in the fundamentals of a civilized humanity.

SOURCES
La alineación planetaria que ocurrirá hoy fue destacada por los Mayas.
MISIONES ONLINE/ARGENTINA, publicado em 19/09/2012.
[http://www.misionesonline.net/noticias/19/09/2012/la-alineacion-planetaria-que-ocurrira-hoy-fue-destacada-por-los-mayas]
CUENTALARGA. IN WIKIPEDIA/Spanish. Acessado em 19/09/2012. [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuenta_larga]

THIS NEWS IN PORTUGUESE 
[http://sofadasala-noticias.blogspot.com.br/2012/09/o-misterio-da-astronomia-dos-maias.html]

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Megafauna - Bone of Giant Armadillo Found at Brazil



Photo: Francisco Firmino/Irauçuba News

BRAZIL, CEARA state. At a place named São Francisco das Almas, Juá district, at the city of Irauçuba, distant 150 km from Fortaleza, capital of the state of Ceara (northeast of the country), two men, while were digging a pit, they found a enormous bone that belonged to a creature of the megafauna that lived at Brazil there, at least, 15,000 years when these creatures were extinct. 

These giant animals dominated the Earth during Pleistocene, period of the geological history of the planet, in a past that dating back more to 2 million of years ago.

According to the professor of the Department of Palaeontology of the Federal University of Ceara (Departamento de Paleontologia da Universidade Federal do Ceará), Marcio Mendes, the fossil - which was buried to a depth of 4 meters, is of a giant armadillo (in the brazilian portuguese language, the armadillo is called Tatu).

The Megafauna at Brazil reunited several species. One of these was the Pampatherium, the giant armadillo. With the size of a donkey, but much more robust, weighing about 100 to 200 kg, its shell had three ranges. 





3 - Pampatherium  4 - Glyptodon  5 - Panochthus. In comparative illustration, the dimensions of a Pampatherium confronted with the size of its relatives of the Megafauna and a man of medium height.. IMAGE SOURCE: [http://forum.zoologist.ru/viewtopic.php?pid=94820]

Different of the current armadillos, which are insectivorous, ants eaters, the Pampatherium was a herbivorous was not a digger of the soil . It existed there 700,000 years ago and disappeared 10,000 years ago. The Pampatherium belongs to the family of the Dasypodideos (armadillos). The specie found in San Francisco das Almas is called Pampatherium humboldti.

SOURCE: XEREZ, Gloria. Homem cava poço e encontra osso gigante de animal extinto no Ceará.
G1, published in 15/09/2012.
[http://g1.globo.com/ceara/noticia/2012/09/homem-cava-poco-e-encontra-osso-gigante-de-animal-extinto-no-ceara.html]

Thursday, September 13, 2012

The Baby-horse of Nigeria



Baby-horse. The photo above is real and was obtained by one of the journalists who visited the church, according information of The Nation Online/Nigeria. 

Foto: Osagie Otabor./The Nation Online

[http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/news-update/61099-woman-gives-birth-to-horse-in-edo-church.html]


NIGERIA. According to the sources this news happened Tuesday, September 11 (2012), in Benin city, Edo state capital - Nigeria, Africa. A woman gave birth to a horse during a prayer meeting - called "Prophecy Programmes" - within an evangelical church - reported the supervisor of the Ministry of Mondial Liberation, the evangelist minister Iyamu Silva.

Although the local medical community be perplexed and denying vehemently the veracity and the possibility of a clinical fact of this type to happen, the Church presents its witnesses.

A nurse, Veronica Egiebor, and two women who provided aid to the (alleged) parturient told how it happened:  

The minister approached the woman and asked if she was pregnant. She confirmed. Then he said that the baby she was carrying was not normal and asked, "You want to go to a doctor and expel what are you carrying? Because it's not a baby, or you want to happen here?" People in the congregation started shouting "Yes".

The pastor asked to four women to donate their mantles to form a canopy around the pregnant. The men turn back. The pastor poured the anointing oil and a sachet of water on the woman and asked everyone to pray. 

He said that the parturition would start. She was balancing her body. Then she grabbed the leg of someone. She pressed and pushed harder. Something fell and she fell. When we removed the mantles everyone see what was expelled.

I've never seen this kind of thing in my life before. People called goat but it looked like a horse with a long neck and long ears ... The minister told that nobody should touch in the creature because it was demonic. Everyone ran in the confusion and some persons carried the woman though.

Iyamu Silva said: This is not strange to us. During prayers, we perceived that the woman was bleeding. I I saw that something was blocking her uterus. Yesterday ... (Tuesday, 09/11/2012) she came to my office asking for prayers. I think she was not from here (Benin City) because she said that will call her mother in her village.

The medical director of the Central Hospital in Benin City, consultant gynecologist Dr. Jerry Uwaifo does not admits the case and said that is clinically (or biologically) impossible for a woman to conceive and give birth to an animal. 

He said: A woman can give birth to a deformed child but not to an animal. Why they don't brought the woman and the creature to the hospital for they be examined?


The pastor replied that doctors can not investigate the case without the consent of the husband or of the fact protagonist. The woman's identity was not revealed.

About the allegations that the case was wrought by the Church to attract more members, Silva challenged anyone to make contestations and added: 

Every story has two sides. The truth is that God is working. Signs and wonders are normal things in this church. Nobody can predict what God can do. Silva also informed that the woman said that will make contact and that would be at the church for the day of Thanksgiving.

The general superintendent of the Church, Prince John Ogbovoh said: The baby-horse was exposed for awhile for people could see it but then was destroyed (how it should be done with the things of the devil) because when the news began to spread, the thing became embarrassing.

What this editor thinks? Thinks nothing... only, maybe... that...  anything is wrong with the eye of the creature, something that not seems organic... The journalists were not close enough to check this? Or the need to sell news generates myopia? In anyway, these are strange days... Let's meditate...

SOURCES 
Pony birth claim triggers controversy.
PMNews/NIGERIA, published in 13/09/2012.
[http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2012/09/13/pony-birth-claim-triggers-controversy/]
OLISAH, Uchechukwu. How woman was delivered of a horse. Nurse, pastor give accounts.
TRIBUNE/NIGERIA, published in 13/09/2012.
[http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-news/47548-how-woman-was-delivered-of-a-horse-nurse-pastor-give-accounts]

THIS NEWS IN PORTUGUESE
http://sofadasala-noticias.blogspot.com.br/2012/09/o-bebe-cavalo-da-nigeria.html

Monday, September 10, 2012

The Invasion of the Big Worms in Laguna Madre



Specimens collected for exam. The worms - which are reproducing themselves rapidly, are unknown to the local citizens, the fishers that work in the Laguna and biologists. They have between 20 and 30 cm long. They stink and cling to human skin causing severe irritation.

MEXICO. In the city of Vitória, state of Tamaluipas, fishermen working in the Laguna Madre requested the support of biologists Centro Regional de Investigacion Pesquera (Regional Center of Fishery Research), the SAGARPA (Secretary of Agriculture Livestock Rural Development Fishery and Food) and of the state government to help them control a plague of unknown marine worms that is spreading in fishing waters. 

Besides to be a strange life form in the ecosystem, the worms produce a nauseating odor and irritate the skin of who comes into contact with them.

The President of the Consejo de Vigilância de la Sociedad Cooperativa de Producción Pesquera Carvajal (Council of Surveillance Cooperative Society of Fishery Carvajal Production), Ángel Ramiro Fuentes said the creatures are spreading (or are reproducing themselves) in the entire Laguna Madre.

At the site, no one never seen these big worms that have been captured by fishing nets installed in the coastal of the various villages of the saline lake - that is Laguna Madre.

Fuentes explained: The plague is spreading throughout Laguna. That has not yet affected (apparently) the quantity and quality of shrimp but is affecting fishermen. It is a parasite that clings to human skin and cause much irritation.

The animals have a length between 20 and 30 cm and are covered by a sort of mucosa. They appeared there two months (amid July and August, 2012) and are multiplying rapidly.

The authorities and especially the Regional Center of Fishery Research are mobilized in order to study the specie to determine the degree of danger these creatures may to represent to health of persons (besides the skin irritation, what is already enough to be a problem) and of the fishes, considering that the fishery product is destinated to human feed.

SOURCE: DE LA CRUZ, Antonio. Extraña lombriz invade la Laguna Madre y cooperativas pesqueras claman por ayuda.
GACETA/MEXICO, published in 09/09/2012.
[http://www.gaceta.mx/noticia.aspx?idnota=46943]

This news in Portuguese: A Invasão dos Vermes Marinhos em Laguna Madre. 
[http://sofadasala-noticias.blogspot.com.br/2012/09/a-invasao-dos-vermes-marinhos-em-laguna.html]

Gorgakh, The Mutant Monster Corpses Eater of Pakistan



Gorgakh, Pakistan the pangolin-monster. Posted in YOUTUBE on 18/08/2012. 
[http://youtu.be/bwtGyb1pcbM]

SHORT VERSION MORE IN THE YOUTUBE CHANNEL PAKISTANI, PAKISTAN SHAANE (http://www.shaanepakistan.com) - posted on 15/08/2012 - [http://youtu.be/j1xMToxRY58]

PAKISTAN. News about sighting and / or capture of strange creatures have appeared frequently in all midia. Often, it is just about some kind of rare animal or something like a large dog or wolf, bald and squalid that is immediately identified with chupacabras. But...

In August (2012) - in Swabi district, the fourth most populous of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - Pakistan, an animal was captured and killed by the citizens. The images were posted on Youtube where bizarre headlines and titles refer to the creature as "an alien"m an extraterrestrial. Occurs that, in true it is very earthly, or better, subterraneous.

Many netizens, between irony and contempt, expressed their vast wisdom identifying the animal as a pangolin. Moreover, most commentators - "experts" - say that the unusual size of the individual that appears in the images is "obviously" a photographic trick that consists in a simple approaching of the object in front of the camera, a matter of perpectiva.

Also remembered was that pangolins are endangered and that the conduct of Pakistanis ...was an act of brutal ignorance.


ABOUT PANGOLINS

The pangolins, whose name derives from the term pangulang, meaning "convolves by self same" - despite the wide body covered with hard scales and made ​​of keratin, of the sharp front claws that give it a reptilian appearence, are toothless mammals.

Related with the anteaters, they use their long and sticky tongue - that reaches the middle of the chest for collect ants in their holes, food of most species. There, too - the arboreal pangolins, that climb trees and eat other insects, especially termites, whose nests are under the bark of the trunks.



Pangolin of India

Their different species are found in India (Manis crassicaudata), including regions of Pakistan - where the species usually have a size 33-45 cm long. At China and also at Africa, where different species live at a wide area stretching from downtown to the south of the continent. Among these, the giant pangolin.

The Giant Pangolin is common in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. Its gigantism can be defined - in terms of measures - between 1.30 and 1.40 m long, between the males - from nose to tail and a specimen of this type weighs about 33 kg.



The majority of netizens, says the size displayed - in the image of Pakistan, is the result of a trick of perspective. The matter could be closed. The pangolin is a harmless creature, toothless and is threatened of be extinct. The video is a fake. End point. However, certain details of the images and news asks a more careful analysis.

However, the same image has a benchmark that excludes that theory. One can clearly see two fingers of the boy next to the animal; the fingers of a normal human hand and this gives an idea of the real size of the animal. Is possible to see too, the feet of three person near the animal. Normal feet.

This reference point indicates that this pangolin, really is a giant pangolin. But the common Giant Pangolin, natural of Africa, larger than the Asian pangolins, are minor of the creature in the photo, even for the more well-endowed, the greaters among individuals of their species.

At Pakistan, this animal that can be seen in the photo, this type of pangolin - is well known and considered a monster. There, is called Gorgakh (or in Urdu قبر کھودنےوالا - spoken idom at Pakistan, grave digger in English) and - about this being, the pakistanis say that eats freshly buried corpses, digging up their graves, violating the coffins.

Despite its reputation to be a harmless insectivorous, similar to the anteaters, phylogenetically, the pangolins are closer to the carnivores. That would explain why an animal that usually eats ants and termites would be interested in newly buried corpses.




In this another photo (above), more complete - in the top - and expanded with quality, another element of comparison appears to certify the veracity of unusual size of this pangolin: while the previous photo (full body) can be seen the fingers of the boy, holding a stick, walking beside the Gorgakh here can be noted:

1. what appears to be a human arm with a bracelet, on the wrist, that seems to be surrounding the thorax region of the animal beneath the limb or claw, on the right and which can best be seen with the applying of a greater contrast in the image with decreased brightness;

2. especially, a thick rope, above the head of the monster that appears to be tied to the neck of the animal, holding him.

This, without to mention the what seems to be a ring in its nose that was observed bysome netizens. 

See photo in super enlarged in SIASAT, website of Pakistan [http://www.siasat.pk/forum/showthread.php?129017-Monster-killed-in-Swabi-district - KPK] - The subtitle says: It was found and killed here in our village Swabi...

In the more complete photo of the SIASAT is possible to see - too, a long appendix on the left that end in an arrow-shaped. It is the tongue of Gorgakh, much major in lenght than in pangolins known.

From the analysis, is possible to conclude that this Pakistani pangolin, is indeed a Gorgakh, or be - a gravedigger, the meaning of the local expression. A gravedigger in reverse, that violates graves instead of closes them.



A breastplate or armor with shoulder pads made ​​with scales of Pangolin. The object, uncommon, was gifted to the King George III (1760-1820), monarch of the United Kingdom, Great Britain and Ireland (from 1801) - by Francis Rawdon, 1º Marquis of Hasti.

The piece is from Rajasthan - today the largest state of India. Apparently, this not gave much luck to the king, he died that year. Photo: Gaius Cornelius, 2006. On display at the Royal Armouries, Leeds - England, UK.


At China, where the pangolins are not monstrous, and still are all insectivores, they are hunted for use in the preparation of special foods. Moreover, its scaly leather is used in the manufacture of garments, and in earlier times, a breastplate of pangolin's leather was an excellent vest anti-blows of knives. Perhaps even today, could refrain the impact of a small caliber bullet.

Regarding the gigantism of this pakistani pangolin, if the analysis of the photos - made here, and the testimonies of the inhabitants of the local where it and others like it are known and are found, if this has some value, the question is: why this pangolin is so greater? Not even the species of the called "giant pangolin" has a comparable size. Moreover, this giant species has its habitat in Africa, far away from Pakistan.

Besides to be really a giant pangolin, this creature developed an anomalous feed habit for their species, accentuating their carnivore aspect, since it became a predator of fresh human corpses, which obtain its nourishment from corpses, tearing the flesh with its claws to ingest the portions in pieces. Despite the lack of teeth, a pagolin is able to swallow and digest ants. Likewise can digest the meat of the corpses.

The Pakistani tradition, which even has a special name for the creature relating it to their funerary diet, indicates that the people of that country already has some familiarity with this strange kind of pangolin. In current terms, a tradition need not - necessarily, to have hundreds of years. Already there are postmodern myths. Some ocurrences, if are dated from the decades of 1960 or 1970 can to be considered traditions.


Considering that Pakistan is one of the few countries of the world recognized like holders of atomic energy technology aimed at making weapons; that the radioactive waste from various sources is often discarded in subterraneous dumps that - no guarantees that are actually sealed properly, and - even, considering that not all accidents with reactors are disclosed to the public knowledge, it would not be absurd to think in Gorgakh as a mutant resulting from contamination by high levels of radiation. Or - worse, a creature genetically modified, in laboratory - of which offspring could have been - inadvertently, liberated in nature or to have escaped to the control of scientists.

SOURCES
ROSE, Tom. Giant 'Gorgakh' killed in Pakistan.
EXAMINER, published in 23/08/2012.
[http://www.examiner.com/article/giant-gorgakh-killed-pakistan]
Giant 'Gorgakh' killed in Swabi.
MARDAN/PAQUISTÃO, August 2012
[http://www.mardan.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2169:giant-gorgakh-killed-in-swabi&catid=151:story-news&Itemid=291]
PANGOLÍ. WIKIPEDIA/catalan. [http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangol%C3%AD]
PANGOLIM. WIKIPEDIA/portuguese [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolim]
PALGOLIN. WIKIPEDIA/english. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin]

Thursday, September 6, 2012

UFO at Gonars, Italy


The image obtained by Giancarlo Píu. He allow publish his own phone number, in the hope that someone can explain what's this: Piu e la sua famiglia gradirebbero essere contattati da chi si riterrebbe in grado di poter dare una spiegazione allo strano fenomeno - XXX. 6127835.

The complete number is in the page source of the news. (This citizen is risking receive many pranks by phone publishing his number. We know, how says the Brazilian singer and composer Gilberto Gil: A raça humana é, uma semana, do trabalho de Deus... OR The human race is only a week day of the god's job).


ITALY. On Friday, August 31 (2012) Gonars, a small municipality (or county) of the Italian province of Udine, an unidentified flying object was seen in the night sky flying in the lowlands (La Bassa of Gonars), fast and quiet.

The citizen, Giancarlo Píu - tells: on Friday, 20:30 hours - I was in the backyard to see the coming of a storm when a ball appeared in the sky orange, very bright

Giancarlo caught the attention of family members and they gone observe the object. One of them achieved capture an image with the camera of a mobile phone.


The path of the UFO, the Gonars to Mortegliano, province of Udine - Italy. The easy access to photograph and filming equipment enable more frequent records of strange phenomena worldwide.

He describes: The ball changed colors, from orange, yellow and red. She kept track nor smoke. It was too fast to be a plane, a satellite paraser estavabaixo too and if a meteor had fallen. It had flashing lights and was moving. Came from the south and going in a northwesterly direction, towards Mortegliano (another small town in the same region).

SOURCE: Misteriosa sfera nel cielo della Bassa.
MESSAGERO VENETO/ITÁLIA, publicado em 06/09/2012.
[http://messaggeroveneto.gelocal.it/cronaca/2012/09/06/news/misteriosa-sfera-nel-cielo-della-bassa-1.5651689]