Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico.

How many people know of a city called Chetumal, (spelled Setumal) en el estado de Quintana Roo, Mexico?  Would it surprise you if it was located, instead, near a major port where large ships were built: from 6 to 800 tons each?  This l came from a letter to the King of Portugal from Lisbon, dated  September 26, 1502.and the postscript claimed it was under the auspices of a treaty of peace between the King of Portugal and the King of Calichut. [sic] (Chapter cxxvi; pages 166-67-68).

An island with sandbar was a port of one island with a fortress on the river Cuchin near the mouth of the Red Sea. There was a   massacre there by the ruler of Cuchin [sic] against Calichut [sic] where Arreschorva was killed and many men died.The king of Portugal was to send his navy to Calichut [sic] within 26 years.[p. 166]

[An awkward translation from a manuscript called: Rodeur, (Montabaddo) (1917) Follows the New World. Reprint of 1517 manuscript.]

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

The most interesting part of that crude translation was that there were Portuguese ships going from place to place, in the vicinity of the coast of Belize. And many more men and ships than was reported for the Columbus fleet of the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. Columbus seems to have gone to the Lake now called Lake Isabella in Guatemala. The Admiral is the only one who could have named that lake on his first journey. Just like he may have named Port Isabella in Texas on the Gulf of Mexico.

Farfetched, I am just reading and translating (albeit crudely)  what is in the above mentioned 1917 manuscript copy of a book.  A book that Samuel Morison mentioned in his Southern Voyages tome, as being. . . . not of the four voyages of Vespucci, . . . . . but the SEVEN voyages of the Vespucci.

Oh, I think I should mention that between Portugal and Spain, there was a 38-year difference. It seems the Church decided that the Caesarian calendar in Spain was bad for the country and changed their year to the Christian year. . . . . 38-years in advance. So Columbus and Portugal sailed together at the same time.

 It seems this is what the Distance numbers are doing to the Maya Calendar system. The original date is in glyphs for the church version while the Distance number is the same date were written according to Maya older dating systems. Sylvanus Morley, in his third edition of the "Ancient Maya" on pages229-230. The MAYA priests did it differently:

"Let us permit our calendar year to gain on the true year as fast as it will. We will allow our calendar to function without change, but when we erect a monument, we will engrave upon it, in addition to the official calendar date of its dedication, a calendar correction for that particular date. In this way, no matter what month our calendar may register, we shall always know, whenever we erect a monument, the position of its corresponding date in the true year"

 I wonder how true or false it is? Or how wrong I might be in translating such a tome?

Merida, a City and the TImes of Yore: Revised

Merida, a City Connected with My Own Personal Karma Experience

In Other Words, It Could Never Have Happened in a Million Years.

But It DID

Many years back in 1956 or so, I met my second husband. A man who spoke 7 seven
languages; was an accomplished pianist; a police translator and the ex-Vice Consul
of Mexico. Before he migrated to Miami, he had also been part of the Police department
of Mexico City and worked with and took charge of the President of the United States:
Franklin D. Roosevelt, when during his term fie visited Mexico.

A great background for him and a great “catch for me,”  My father approved of him wholeheartedly. After five children, it seemed a good thing. A friend he acquired named Sam had a wife in the hospital in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. And my husband volunteered to fetch her.  When my hubby was gone, Sam took me and my children to lunch. My children were great. In the restaurant, they not only ate everything on their plates, they also took their dishes to the bus bin at the end of the table. Never saw Saw again or even his wife.

Hubby brought home a beautiful pair of earrings for his first (with me) child. She was about
five or six at the time. Merida, Mexico was forever forgotten until the 1980's, By then, I was
in Mexico, teaching English as a Second Language. One day, I went to visit one of my older
students at his home. His dearest relative was visiting him at the same time. The rest of his
family lived in Merida and after a short bath in the rill [tiny creek] that went behind the house,
and a long, long conversation about Maya and what I was interested in, we parted company
amicably.  About Christmas, I was offered a job in una tienda in Merida., but since I had no
work papers . . . the pink card. . . . I could not accept the offer.  

Again, years later, in the 1990’s I found a great teacher from Merida while I was in Austin.  
That was strange. .. . . . . every important step of my path to he Maya customs and language,
led me to Merida.  Then came the time the 2012 comet was supposed to fly-by Chichen Itza,
near Merida. Except that it did not reach Chichen at all due to the suns path between the
Tropic of Cancer to the Tropic of Capricorn. it came by Oregon, Washington and Southern
Canada in the year 2008   just like any ordinary eclipse of the sun or the moon.

Our Old 23.5 degrees Spin of the Earth in its Orbit
As of December 21, 2017 we are now at 23.4 Degrees.

Children ran to their parents at 5 am saying they thought that T-Rex had walked by. Parents thought the light meant they had overslept. The comet which had passed the Ring Nebula two years 
previous, passed merrily on its way. No more was ever heard about the comet of 2008.

The Ring Nebula seemed to have exploded and had become a nebula called the Tree of the Beautiful

Rose when the comet passed that star that became a Nebula and picked up all the debris from that

star making the Sovereign Serpent more spectacular as his first visit to earth. All the metals and

fireballs met the comet head-on and created the most spectacular serpent in the sky. Orion became

the Tree of the Warrior when the comet dropped some of that debris. It was at the time the sky was

in a turmoil.

There are building with three points of sighting the present sun: during recurring Spring Equinox,

the Fall Equinox and the  Winter Solstice. Each had its own celebration.    

.

There are also similar buildings that tell us that they used to do the same sightings but no longer

are usable to mark the passages of the sun. That should tell us, that there had been a definite

change in the spin of the earth. . . . not the orbit,  which cannot be changed,. . . . . .but the spin

that lengthened the days and nights forever,  . . . . or a least until the next comet changes our

atmosphere and climate locations. Just like now we are having the very same problem with climate

change. And melting ice caps, north, and south. Has our north pole shifted again? Yes, but not very
much. It was 23.5 degrees spin but now it is 23.4 degrees to earth's spin. [ Vonasek, Janelle (2017,
Dec. 21) in the Grand Forks Herald] Does one/tenth of a degree change our climate. I don't know.

What I do know is: not only that the Solstices, Equinox, have changed their time from March 31 and

October 31. Both are at least a week earlier and later  No celebrations are created except at Christmas  

and at Easter. We now depend on the computer to tell us when each will occur. Many people do not

see the stars anymore. The 10 o’clock newscast is much more interesting.

Half-buried in texts with strange numbers attached to it, and ignored as serious data for
centuries is the 1500’s, Diego de Landa made his first suggestions to change

the Maya/Aztec calendar systems by adding 0-POPP, but it was not implemented until 1584 by

a Papal edict of Rome. EL Obispo de la Ciudad de Mexico, bowed out of his clerical prestigious position in the 1700’s, He mentioned another researcher from an earlier date, who thought the calendars were really so obtuse that no one could ever read them properly again.

It is true th e calendar can never really be straightened out, but before we close the books on the

calendar, one should at least learn what the Maya people said about their Calendar system. It seems

we are telling them what we know, but never seem to accept what they have known for centuries.

 It seems this is what the Distance numbers are doing to the Maya Calendar system. The original date is in glyphs for the church version while the Distance number is the same date were written according to Maya older dating systems. Sylvanus Morley, in his third edition of the "Ancient Maya" on pages 229-230. The Maya priests wrote their own solution. One thing that the Maya informant told him was:

"Let us permit our calendar year to gain on the true year as fast as it will. We will allow our calendar to function without change, but when we erect a monument, we will engrave upon it, in addition to the official calendar date of its dedication, a calendar correction for that particular date. In this way, no matter what month our calendar may register, we shall always know, whenever we erect a monument, the position of its corresponding date in the true year"

As for the Distance numbers, it did not surprise me at all. The Maya have just as much intelligence as

those educated in the modern world. It is a good thing to know.

* * * * * * * * * *

Once upon a time, many years ago, I found a National Geographic with an article about

Chaco Canyon and a book by Frank Waters (6th edition, 1972) who described the city of

150 rooms called Betatakin. The whole structure was built within a cave by the Fire Clan members  of the Hopi about 1242 AD and 1300 AD during the time of the Long Drought.

The Hopi did not use wheels. The climb up the single log ladders used to reach various

levels of the canyon wall, either from below to the caves or above them to the mesa's

flat area for farming. Baskets were balanced on their heads because there were times that going up a log ladder, hands were necessary to use.

The geological history noted the canyons found in the desert areas had been “carved from “sea water,” same as water-eroded pillars of rock in the North Atlantic Ocean; i.e.:yhe Natural Bridge in the desert of Arizona and another granite version in the North Atlantic Ocean.

The flat-topped mesas of the deserts with steep twisting eroded channels. Showed

great wave patterns as the waters rushed against them. Although many canyons were

along the Colorado River, there were many twisted areas around the mesa structures that were far from any river source. Yet, the logs necessary for construction of the tall apartment type homes and the prayer kivas situated within the large cave areas were never dragged across the land from Kisiwu Springs.

The village was thought to only be accessible through a sort-of tunnel which could never have been used to move the heavy roof timbers used for building the cave city.

Nor would they have been moved up the canyon wall beneath the cave. Block

and tackle would have been necessary for such an effort.

By the time, the Hopi decided to protect themselves, from unknown dangers using the

caves in the mesa areas it was said that the water around their bases was gone. The

mystery is how the logs arrived at their destination from such great distances both

horizontal and vertical. Maybe the water was there when the Cave Kivas were built.
And logs had been floated to the cave systems. All is unknown because of the following
information recorded by the Conquistadores:

History tells us that in February 1540 Francisco Vásquez de Coronado was the first white

man to find the mesa and their cave/community homes and kivas. With his

group, he brought 15 or more horses, together with burros burdened with their

European necessities and sheep for eating along with their ‘search for “gold.”

Construction continued for three hundred years, until about AD 1150, when the

area was abruptly abandoned.

The Conquistadores insisted that the Hopi, now slaves, had to move the great logs over 50 miles or more for the churches that had to be built for them. They complied by dragging them over the ground, but the natives revolted eventually and killed both soldiers and priests in four different areas of the Mesa villages.

Construction continued for three hundred years, until about AD 1150, when the area

was abruptly abandoned. It's not completely clear why the people left Chaco Canyon,

but the prolonged drought is one possible explanation.

It's not completely clear why the people left Chaco Canyon, but the prolonged drought was

one possible explanation. Because many areas along the west coast of the Americas

was abandoned in the XIIth century without any notice, it probably had the very same

cause. During that century, the end of the Crusades in the Middle East was gearing up

for a final battle or a treaty of some sort with Saladin, and the Prussian King Frederick.

Saladin’s colonies, wherever they were, were required to send a man for the amount

of money earned in the colony----when it reached a certain amount----the area was to

send one man for Saladin’s army.

Along the west coast of the Americas, there was placer mining for gold. The value far

over-valued even silks, sail cloths, leathers, swords, shield makers, etc. On the scale of

how much income was created, the larger colonies had no problem sending a few men,

but the smalller ones earning more income had to send all their eligible men.

In Aztec lands, the Elders rewrote the Hstories and the “Books of Destinos” before they

died off. Once the Elders no longer could farm the land with the women, each colony drifted apart over a year or two.  Were the Arabs in the area. Most certainly they were. But that is

a thread that has to be dropped at this point.

The conclusion that must be questioned seriously: are the dates set down by the

geologists before any valid modern mechanism was available. The Native records

have been ignored as myth and fairy tales.

So what is known is that a comet fell ages ago, had produced a flood which carried

the sea creatures over the tallest mountains in Mesoamerica. The Popol Vuh tells the

story pretty well, but the myth of the Twins, who were supposedly gods, not a twin

comet, one of the day and the other of the night, muddied the traditional histories.

A proof was covered up by Earthquake that destroyed homes, flattened the Maya

during the 1911 comet. The Iridium layer of ash that burned all things, both in Russa

and earlier in Mesoamerica have never been compared with the “native” stories of the

Maya nor of the Aztecs.  

This was a time when the “educated”----government or elites----of Mesoamerica had

been forwarned but felt their homes were safe enough since they were obviously building

with stones and mortar, instead of rushes and mud as the lower classes had been.

The lower classes took their animals and what they assumed would be enough food for

a short spell to the caves with the astronomers. The advice given by the star-gazers was

to seal up the entrances just in case there would be unexpected events that they could

not predict. They felt the events might be more serious than past comet activities.

What was recorded was Seven Macaw died by the Hands of the Twins [in a separate

story] when the Sovereign Serpent created the New World after his arrival, then he too

disappeared over the eastern horizon.

It is so easy to doubt “native” history. However, it has been proven that the

History Dancers of the Maya were accurate about the stars. It is worth the time
spent looking at their back racks and find out just what they represented.

Why Oceans and Mountains are Reclaiming Land

Let us start with Oceans:

           Put jetties out into the ocean to isolate private properties from other private properties and what does that do to the broad expanse of beach sand that was in front of those properties?

          Well, at first there is a slow coriolis force that finds the first jetty to be an obstruction. But as the tide passes down the coastline, the water begins to think for itself. It goes into the forbidden areas and as it goes out, it takes a little of the beach sand with it.

            When I was in Tapachula, Mexico, we went to the beach with a person who once had a house there. She was maybe 18 or twenty-four, it makes no difference. When she was a child, she told us, the beach was very wide and very far into the ocean. Then, the money men made two jetties of huge stones, much cheaper that steel piles. They acquired a floating sand digger and cut out a nice little cover for tour boat launches. Open stick and mud stores were set up on one side of the cove. A very modern toilet in a red brick building was for the tourists who would visit the stores.      

           The young woman pointed to a corner four bricks high and three or four bricks on either side. "That is all that is left of our house," she said.as we walked along a very modern road with tall expressway lights until we saw a break in the road. The light poles were leaning and rusted, absolutely useless. Only one side of the road was useable. 

         On the ocean side someone had put more boulders in the water across the broken roadway. to stop further erosion. The store and restaurants along the cove were in good shape but half buried in the sand. The red brick house for the toilet ws gone, only the toilet itself was left, half buried in more sand. All because two jetties were placed into the sea. No one wants to remove them because it would be an useless expense without any profit.

           Two hotels where I once worked at on Miami Beach, the Fountainebleau and the Eden Roc are next to each other on the Miracle Mile extension northwards along the Intercoastal Waterway, a 3,000 mile waterway from Boston the the Gulf of Mexico, a favorite of yachts and sloops who prefer the protected inland waterway to that of the Ocean itself. And for good reason. The hotels along the way do not want their beaches trashed with oil and fuel, or things tossed casually overboard during parties on board the yachts. 

            When I worked at the Sea Isle, the Eden Roc and the Fontainebleau Hotels they were great places to work. A few years ago, long before thesee last horrible double hurricanes that hit Pueto Rico, Miami, and Miami, there was another 'cane that went by. The news that came out was that both hotels had flooding in the lobbies but did not say how; was it from the wind or was it from the surge after the winds? If they had jetties to protect their beaches from beachcombers, they would have been losing the sandy beach in front of the hotels.  

           Naturally. they were able to pay for sand replacement, so there never was a major problem except that one time, as far as I know. Miami is not doing to so well.  Street cafes and small restaurants along the Bayfront area are having to build seawalls on the sidewalks to protect their diners who wish to eat on the patios. Naturally, again, the sea walls are usually over the heads of those sitting at the outside tables. 

           Now we can say that the sea is getting higher, but in this instance, it is the acid waters that are attacking the underpinnings of the city of Miami, and all other cities on the peninsula. Great sinkholes grow suddenly out of nowhere, streets collapse, water mains break and there are multiple problems that are happening. All because of acid in the ocean which has killed acres of coral reef and in the rains falling on the ocean. probably filled with jet fuel ash as the shuttles are boosted into the stratosphere. But not to worry. It all is taking a long time for all of this to occur before anyone even became aware of it all. It will take a few more lifetimes for Florida to float away with the acid water  on the coral reef underpinning which created the state of Florida.

        Let us look at the mountains instead:  Nothing can move a mountain, except puny men. In Chinese school, there was a Chinaman who decided that a mountain was obstructing the sunlight from his home, especially in the winter when the weather was cold. People laughed when he mentioned he would correct the situation himself. He and his sons carried baskets of earth and stone, for a long, long time. People laughed even harder. Then one day, they saw no mountain top only a short plain a bit higher than their lands. Man's capacity to dream made it all possible.

        But there are mountains that tear up highways, and building slide down the hills along the foothills. Why were those things happening? And sudden fires that eat up houses; caused by the Santa Ana winds?

          People with lots of money can and do dig through mountains to make tunnels and roads around the sides of mountains.  Most of the time it is for reaching the other side of the mountain, but periodically, there are those who want the most beautiful drive along the shore. They will plan the best way to level the side of the cliffs both below near the water and up above on the cliffs. when clearing and leveling the land to be used for roads trees and brush have to be cleared out as well.

          The ocean roads are used to reach the beaches and to gawk at the sea mammals who live along the routes. A bad storm can destroy a part of the highway which is repaired as soon as possible. Things go well for years, until people who ride the upper roads on the cliffs. find pieces of land that can not only look over the road below but also can have a greater view of the sea. Sometimes, the piece of land is long enough, but seldom wide enough.

            Engineers are called in and they suggest a cantilever brace under a pool and garden area that will stand up for years.  Again, they have to clear out the brush and any trees in the area of construction. Such homes can be built for long-term residences, but Mother Earth has other ideas.  

      

           "Take away my ground cover, the roots of brush and trees that held the earth in place! We shall see about that!"  The next good rain over the top of the cliffs. and suddenly, the cantilevers start to loosen. The Engineers thought extra cement would help a lot, but instead the earth behind it failed to hold. Mud slides will carry a pool, garden, house and upper road down the cliff easily.

             A woodland cabin on a hill is not safe either when the lawn is laid with short roots. Trees that were on the land, had been used to build the cabin, but never replaced. Brush had been cleared because it was messy. Another rain storm, and the cabin slides down the hill like it is a sled on ice.

             One has to be very aware that the land must breathe, just like all life form must breathe.Do not even fool with Mother Nature. . .learn her ways and she will make sure you are safe but ignore the warnings she gives in advance and all can be lost.