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 Look through Horizon through the Rock,

Through the carved stone face

Which looks in one direction only.

This is the earliest form of the mirror,

The mask.

Wisdom smiles upon We who favor Her.

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The Aztec calendar

measures the Movement of our planets,

marking the times of conjunction and opposition.

Within the veil of visible nature,

The world of animal, plant, skull, and the rain,

Is the interior source of life, our heart.

At the summit of the pyramid Aztec

Is division of the Light

Of our heart

into fire and water.

The apex of the pyramid Egypt is crystal.

On the plane of the Earth between water and sky,

This body is made of water and air, fire and dirt.

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The Aztec calendar speaks

through a carved stone face

of cycles of Time on Our Sphere,

and of cycles of regularity

in the Movements

of our solar system.

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Tongue is the Knife,

for Speech across centuries.

The time of the solar year is 365 days.

The time of the ceremonial cycle is 260 days.

In the time of 52 cycles of the solar year,

The ceremonial cycle turns 73 times.

Thirteen days without name are counted,

The sum of 52 quarter days of leap year time,

Before beginning a new count

Of the 52 solar year - 73 ceremonial year cycle.

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The Face through the Center speaks

of the measurement of coordination

in the cycles of our planets.

Who reads this Rock

emerges

from time past

and time future

to find Sound

within the planets

of our solar system.

The difference between yesterday

and tomorrow,

is the alligator eating the fish,

as the end of one cycle of time

meets the beginning of a new cycle.

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Earth spins once on Her axis

In the twenty-two hours

of a single day and night,

The thirteen Lords of Day

And the nine Lords of Night.

Each day of light is signed entirely

By one of thirteen Lords of Day.

Each day of night is signed entirely

By one of nine Lords of Night.

The week of days is 13 days,

Each for a different Lord of Day.

The week of nights is 9 nights,

Each for a different Lord of Night.

Within the 260 day ceremonial cycle of the calendar,

Each of the thirteen Lords of Day

presides over twenty days,

and each of the nine Lords of Night

presides over 29 nights,

with two Lords of Night presiding

over the last night of the ceremonial cycle.

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Each day of 22 hours

is named for one of twenty symbols

within the circle within the calendar

between the inner world, and the outer.

Each day is numbered by one through thirteen.

The twenty symbols occur in succession

In a twenty day period,

and each day is given a number in succession

from one through thirteen.

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Thus designations of days follow in order,

as through:

Two flower . . . three alligator . . . four wind . . .

Five house . . . six lizard . . . seven serpent . . .

Eight skull . . . nine deer . . . ten rabbit . . .

Eleven water . . . twelve dog . . . thirteen monkey . .

One grass . . . two reed . . . three jaguar . . .

Four eagle . . . five vulture . . . six earthquake . . .

Seven knife . . . eight rain . . . nine flower . . .

And so on so that within 260 days,

All combinations of sign and number are counted.

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The vault is quiet Movement,

turning on an axis

inclined toward Polaris,

which marks a point on a cycle of 26,000 years,

which centers at the belly of the Dragon,

Draco,

in the North;

and on the oar of the ship,

Canopus in Argo,

in the South.

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Lord of Light and Lord of Night

Each emerge

from the mouth of a Serpent on fire.

Twin serpents meet

Tongue to tongue,

Lord of Light to Lord of Night,

Knife to knife.

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Twin serpents meet

Tail to Tail,

on the keystone date

named thirteen Reed,

at which point

Time

returns to beginning.

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Lord of Light is feathered serpent, Quetzalcoatl.

Lord of Night is smoking mirror, Tezcatlipoca.

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The rotational pattern of visible planets

Is counted in days

Through counting markers

Engraved in the skin

Of twin serpents on fire.

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The Rock is squared

and Rocks are gathered together

by We who build mountains and observatories.

The key to the Lock is in finding the significance

of two-hundred-sixty,

the number of days in one ceremony,

which times one hundred

is the number of years

in one cycle

of precessional movement.

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The synodic period in the revolution of planets

is the time within which a planet moves

From a certain position with respect to the Sun

as seen from Earth

back to the same position, or elongation.

For Venus-Quetzalcoatl the movement is from

Inferior conjunction between Earth and Sun

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Through Western elongation in the morning Eastern sky,

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Through superior conjunction on the other side of Sun,

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Through Eastern elongation in the evening Western sky,

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Back to inferior conjunction.

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584 days mark one cycle.

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For every eight Earth solar years,

five synodic revolutions of Venus-Quetzalcoatl pass.

Two days without name

between end and beginning

mark the time of transition.

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The eyes of the Earth embedded in the dirt

are staring up into the sky,

and to all who stand

and reflect into life within humus.

Such as it is before descent into the underworld.

Cross the black river of Night.

Paint a picture on the wall.

The writings on paper,

and paintings on walls,

provide a window.

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Civilizations pass away

as well as memories of written tongues.

Inscriptions may be interpreted.

That which passes through Speech is sure.

One way to see the other side of the mountain

is to take a boat across the ocean

which envelopes the globe.

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The life of our body is tied to Rock

through the marriage of fire and water.

Gather around the Circle of Rock

which points to Surya and Luna.

The path of planets will always be Here

to follow and measure and weave tales through.

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Wisdom from the Culture of the Rock and the Star

is gathered through Speech

before the written record.

Unrecorded voyages circumnavigate the sphere.

The line of connection from the pyramid of Giza,

through the Circle of Stonehenge,

the Calendar of the architects Aztec and Maya,

and the silent Rock faces of Rapa Nui,

Circles the Gathering of the Tribes of the Earth

on the twin continents:

OLLIN and TERRA. 

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The Voice

Of the Culture of the Rock and the Star

Is for We who Listen.

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At the time called Dawn emerging,

From the City at the side of the River,

The Voice of Her-by-the-Lake

May speak across centuries.

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Here is what someone has known,

What is left of what can be told

Through the silent inscription.

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The necklace ecliptic of stars

Rings the planet with a story

Which goes through a cycle of 26,000 years.

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The serpent of Time returns.

Nine lunations of 29 days each is 261 days,

the standard time of human conception to birth.

Twenty-six thousand years is the approximate time

for one cycle of the precession of the equinoxes,

and two hundred sixty is the number of days

in the Aztec-Maya ceremonial cycle.

The ring of twenty symbols is the window of flesh

between the Heart of the solar system

and the Fire of our Heart.

Life within Rock finds its way to Heart,

and flesh is the window

between Rock and Sun Surya.

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Snow light drifting. . .

Crystals dancing . . .

Through the open window.

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Isotopic snowflakes

drift gently to the Lake

and through the open window

of the City by the Snow.

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Isotopic particles

gather gently

in the marrow of our blood.

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Earth is a Rock on fire

with an onion skin layer of water and air.

Isotope follows the wide spread wind, VAYU,

and the Rock on fire drifting through Air,

may find a cell wall

within which to stay

for as long as its own half-life.

Heart of Rose consumes Violet.

Blue Sky never return.

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The civilization of the Desert

separates each of the four civilizations of the Forest,

One from Another.

The civilization of the Desert is Itself

separated by Oceanus.

The civilization on the Pacific

and of those who everywhere

live by the Ships of the Sea

is a steppingstone.

The civilization of the Ocean is One.

The civilization of the Desert is Twin.

The civilizations of the Forest are

the four leaves of the clover.

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We who Live

within the Temple of Her-by-the-Lake

may turn our personal light and in-sight

into the Order of Listen and Speak.

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Listen to the Voice of the Watery planet.

This is the first step.

Dawn is the Bridge between Life and Death.

She may be seen Twice a Day.

The Wo-Man in Blue in the Void of space

is the Sound in the stars of Our children playing.

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