Mayan, Toltec, and Aztec Information
December 2012
Will 2012 close a 26,000-year-cycle where Earth has transited through all 12 signs of the zodiac, where each astrological age of roughly 2152 years represents a comparative month of the overall cosmic year?
With similar calendars apparently based on this cycle, did the Egyptians, Sumerians, Cherokees, Hopi, Tibetans, and Mayans all refer to the same 26,000-year-cycle in their mystical belief systems?
UNITIMELY PARTNERS brings in the Long-count, Haab, and Tzolkin calendars as Toltec calendrical priests deal with the changing timelines. It weaves the precession of the equinoxes and galactic alignment into the story of Keiranne West's journey through time to save the only man she has ever loved.
Precession
The Mayans learned that the effect of the earth’s wobbling as it spins on its axis causes the stars’ patterns of movement to drift gradually in the sky. This is called precession. They learned that, once each cycle, the Galactic Equator or the dark band at the center of the Milky Way intersects with the Elliptical, the plane of the sun’s movement across the sky.
The next time this occurs is December 2012.
Temazcal
Experience an ancient steam bath, the temazcal, through Keiranne's senses as she begins her spiritual journey. Feel the ancient curative and mind-altering powers of the temazcal work their magic as the steam rises.
Hear the mournful sound of the conch shell being blown as you recognize the cardinal directions. Inhale the copal incense as it purifies you. Feel the energies of water and fire as they create steam. Summon the past. Summon the future.
Like the life-giving and renewing powers of a mother’s womb, the temazcal recalls the past, as well as recognizes that which is beyond death, which is only another birth. Experience it.
UNTIMELY PARTNERS EXCERPT
A lump rose in her throat, and she gasped. Inexplicably, she began trembling. The plaque read that the skeletons were a burial offering, a human sacrifice found at the Temple of Quetzalcoatl. She couldn’t comprehend why, but she was drawn closer and closer until she was leaning over the low, Plexiglas barrier. Almost in a trance, she reached to touch, to gently commune with the skeletal remains. Suddenly she heard the dozen shrill pipes being blown loudly, heard the thud of children running, and felt herself being pushed over the foot-high barrier, straight into the skeletons’ sandy interment.
She screamed and felt herself falling…falling farther than a foot or two. She tumbled down through the sandy level via a translucent cornucopia, wide at the top that narrowed until it was a dimly lit, crystal clear tunnel. She felt herself dropping, dropping, like an endless roller coaster, the inertia of her fall forcing her faster and faster through this tapered cylinder. Finally, she landed with a bone-crunching thud that knocked the breath out of her.
When she awoke, she found it was dark except for the starlight.
Where am I? She looked around, thinking how closely the edifice resembled something she had seen but could not remember.
Huge gargoyles loomed in front of her, their eyes fitted with discs of black obsidian. She touched the volcanic glass eyes, feeling their cool smoothness. A wide stairway led to the top of the pyramid, rising seven stories high. Even in the gloom, she could see the rock and mortar were covered with brightly painted plaster in aqua, blue, and red shades.
Is this is the Temple of Quetzalcoatl? As she watched, Venus rose from the horizon. How did I get here?
A low woof alerted her of a white dog at her feet. It sniffed her warily and then began wagging its tail.
How are you doing, girl?” she said, kneeling down. As she petted the dog, she turned her attention to the talud-tablero temple, wondering why the colors were so vivid.
“It was pale and faded.” She almost remembered this building, but in her elusive memory the paint had been weathered off, and the exterior was crumbling. She tentatively touched the temple’s lowest image of Quetzalcoatl, looking freshly plastered and painted, to see if it were still wet. “And metal rods had propped up the weakened gargoyles,” she muttered to herself.
The dog whined and rubbed against her leg. “What’s going on here, girl?” She sighed and sat in the long shadows of the steps, leaning against the tablero. Before her thoughts could focus, she drifted into a deep but uneasy sleep.
Copyright 2009 Karen Hulene Bartell All Rights Reserved.
UNTIMELY PARTNERS
Love is truly timeless...
and brutally sacrificial...
as she finds out....
Photographer Keiranne West ends her engagement and embarks on a trip to Teotihuacán. After an incidental encounter with fellow tour member Dorian, Keiranne plummets through a rip in time 2,800 years into the past.
Lost in the brutal past of Toltec Teotihuacán, Keiranne plunges into a fiery romance with Tlalocelot against a backdrop of political intrigue interwoven with mystical, pre-Mayan history, as well as present-day pharmaceuticals and power-place journeys.
Paying a steep price accelerates a journey she hopes will lead her back to the only man she has loved throughout time. Their adventures thrust them into circumstances and settings that range from the palatial pageantry of the Toltec capital to glistening, crystal caverns and raging underground rivers, replete with whirlpools and waterfalls.
Assisted by Pek, a white dog with uncanny powers, and Dorian, a calendrical time-keeper, they escape death from royal coups, grisly laboratories, human-sacrifice rituals, and their nemesis, Chac Mool.
Forced to confront her fears along a journey that becomes a rite of passage, Keiranne loses and finds Tlalocelot, time after time, until they are ultimately reunited in a startling conclusion.
Untimely Partners, a time-travel romance set in Teotihuacán, is the first in a series of time-travel and paranormal romances set in ancient Toltec, Mayan, and Aztec locations throughout Mesoamerica.
The 2012 prophecy, Mayan calendar mystique (including the tzolkin or Sacred Round, haab, or 365-day Vague Year, and Long Count calendars), and Mesoamerican mysticism all play roles in this paranormal romance.
