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The Astrology of Meso-America
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Quetzalcoatl was associated with the planet Venus, and his myth parallels the story of Jesus. He was of virgin birth and had power over life and death. The natives believed that his resurrection was regularly played out in the heavens when the planet Venus rose before the Sun, then became engulfed in its fiery solar rays, only to re-emerge behind the Sun as the evening star. The Mayans paid great attention to this Sun/Venus cycle, which partly explains their use of dual calendars. Only this century, the controversial Russian scientist Immanuel Velikovsky shed new light on Venus, which may add meaning to the Aztecs 52-year resurrection ceremony.
Venus is the brightest of the planets, rated second only to the Sun and Moon by the ancients. In the early records of the Greeks, Assyrians, Chinese and Aztecs, Venus is similarly described as a blazing star, or clothed in fire. Velikovsky proposed that Venus was a more recent addition to our solar system, and responsible for some of the cross-cultural legends of cataclysmic earth changes thousands of years ago.
He was inspired by the Old Testament account of the Sun standing still in the sky. It was a curious fact that on the opposite side of earth other cultures had also made records of an extraordinarily long night. The Aztec registered four days of darkness, until a great star appeared in the sky, (subsequently named Quetzalcoatl) and similarly during the reign of Chinese Emperor Yao, mention was made of the Sun not setting for ten days and a brilliant star coming forth. Velikovsky's conclusion was that a huge comet passing so close to earth that it temporarily suspended or slowed our axial rotation could cause this phenomenon. An event of such magnitude would have catastrophic consequences for the environment. He believed that this had in fact occurred twice, during a 52 year period from 1502 BC to 1450 BC. He also understood this comet to be Venus, which had originally burst forth from the planet Jupiter. Although fellow scientists derided Velikovsky, subsequent space probes have justified many of his iconoclastic theories.
On June 4 2012 a lunar eclipse will set over Mexico. A rare occultation of Venus takes place two days later. These unusual occurrences in the past occurred in June 1761 and '69, then again in December of 1874 and '82. The last occultation was on June 8 2004.
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