Often we talk about the Mayan calendar as if it was something fixed and eternal that has stayed the same throughout the ages. Such a view is far from the truth since the calendars that the Mayan people have been using have undergone change depending on their own shifting outlook. This in turn has depended [...]

The number nine has been endowed with a special significance in many different spiritual and religious traditions. Nine was the number of muses in Greek mythology and Nine were the number of worlds in the Scandinavian. Nine was the number of doors to the holiest part of the temple in Jerusalem and the month of [...]

Waiting for the “end of the world” on December 21, 2012? There is a “good news” for you: the Mayan calendar does not, and cannot, point at this date. Why? Because it ends more than a year … earlier, on October 28, 2011! While the first date, presented in public media as a predetermined “doomsday”, [...]