Here’s a little background on Tulum:It's an ancient Mayan city located on the Yucatan Peninsula, and is surrounded by water on one side and is walled on its other three sides. There is only one entrance/exit into and out of Tulum’s walls.
The temples of Tulum are oriented to the east. The spring and fall equinox line up with Tulum, which suggests that it was important in terms of their astronomic calculations. On the spring and fall equinoxes, the sun shines directly through two small windows that line up in the temples.
These windows also served another purpose-Tulum is (was) a port city - they used a light behind the two narrow windows . . . when a ship could see light in both windows, they knew they were aligned with the narrow entrance to safely make it through the reef.
See the windows? We didn't photograph them lined up, but they really do line up perfectly!
In one picture, you will see what looks like two lips kissing…this can only be seen looking through one certain portal at Tulum. Our guide told us that when a GPS was used at this spot, its coordinates were the exact tilt of the earth! How did they know the exact tilt of the earth so long ago (and with no technology to figure it out)?!?! Wow!
Can you see the lips?
It’s absolutely amazing at how the Mayan people made such accurate and complex predictions! They calculated the exact length of a year (to the decimal point). They made accurate predictions about solar and lunar eclipses. The Mayan calendar is extremely accurate, and although many people say that the Mayans made predictions that time will end in the year 2012, those at Tulum told us that is not at all what they predicted. They predicted that a new calendar would have to be configured at that time because this will be the end of a 26,000 year astrological period on the calendar and they think the Earth’s axis will actually shift just a very teeny tiny bit.
This is the beach/ocean (water entry) of Tulum. Below we're standing on the cliff that overlooks the water.
It’s absolutely amazing at how the Mayan people made such accurate and complex predictions! They calculated the exact length of a year (to the decimal point). They made accurate predictions about solar and lunar eclipses. The Mayan calendar is extremely accurate, and although many people say that the Mayans made predictions that time will end in the year 2012, those at Tulum told us that is not at all what they predicted. They predicted that a new calendar would have to be configured at that time because this will be the end of a 26,000 year astrological period on the calendar and they think the Earth’s axis will actually shift just a very teeny tiny bit.
This is the beach/ocean (water entry) of Tulum. Below we're standing on the cliff that overlooks the water.
I think this (below) was the religious temple.
Below is where the leader of the Mayan's at Tulum lived.
Can you see the face below? It was on the side of one of the builidings.
1 comments:
that looks awsome but looks like yal got a little burnt!!!!!
love yal annaj
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