If we assume that the light from the stellar detonation has been traveling for 430 years, itmeans that the supernova actually happened in 1582 AD—nearly a century after that watershedin history that forever altered the fate of the indigenous peoples of the Americas: that is, the“discovery” of the “New World” by Columbus with all its ensuing misery, enslavement, andgenocide.But what important event occurred
specifically
in 1582? It was, in fact, the year PopeGregory XIII rejected the Julian calendar and imposed his Gregorian calendar on the world.According to some scholars of the Maya, the use of this new calendar causes us to be estrangedfrom the natural and spiritual rhythms of the cosmos.“The Mayan calendar can be used as a system of divination, but is also an entirecosmology. The Mayan calendar was designed to synchronize life patterns withearth cycles, biological cycles and celestial/galactic cycles. Its use triggers agrowth and unfoldment of our personal awareness and potential. The Mayansteach that our current calendar system –the Gregorian system imposed by PopeGregory XIII in 1582– is out of sync with our biological rhythms, planetaryelectro-magnetic fields and many celestial cycles. The use of our current calendarsystem is said to encourage disharmony by throwing humanity out of sync withthe living biosphere of the earth. Synchronization with our unnatural calendar has,according to the Mayans, caused humanity to declare war, worship materialismand pollute the planet. We have thus become the enemy of the very biosphere thatwe depend on for our survival.”
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The employment of this mechanistic calendar paved the way for the Industrial Revolutionand what the prophetic poet and visionary artist William Blake called the “dark Satanic Mills.”He also warned against physical cause-and-effect determinism, reductionism, and excessiverationality: “May God us keep From Single vision & Newtons sleep.” This clockwork universebrought us into the realm of gross corporality and linear temporality, where time is money, and,as the bard Bob Dylan has sung, “money doesn’t talk—it swears.”But what if the more recent measurement of 640 light-years between Betelgeuse and Earth isactually correct? We would then have to ask: What of any consequence happened in the year1372 AD? On this particular date, Acamapichtli (“Handful of Reeds”) became the first ruler of the Aztecs at Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City.
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The brutal dynasty he began culminated inpolitical hegemony, military dominance, and the grisly practices of human sacrifice. As weknow, this imperious empire met its demise soon after the arrival of Hernán Cortés and hisconquistadors in Mexico in the early 16
th
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A subsequent Aztec ruler named Nezahualcoyotl, meaning “Fasting Coyote,” was aphilosopher and engineer from the city-state of Texcoco east of Tenoctitlan. His life spannedfrom 1402 till 1472, the date of his death occurring exactly a century after Acamapichtli assumedthe throne. Nezahualcoyotl opted for sacrifice of flowers rather than humans in one temple hebuilt, although he allowed the carnage to continue in the other temples.Nezahualcoyotl was also a poet, and his corpus was finally published in 1582—the firstcandidate we discussed for the proposed date of the Betelgeuse supernova. Living in the centurybefore the Spanish came on the scene, he prophesied the obliteration of the Aztec legacy.
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