Free Our Cosmic Ancestors by Maurice Chatelain Page A

predict eclipses, and this cycle was equal to 5 lunar precessions, 93 solar years, 196 eclipses, and 1,150 lunar months. We will look at these figures later once more. Meanwhile, the Mayas had also discovered a cycle of 1,886,040 days that represented exactly 260 conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn, 2,310 of Mars and Jupiter, 2,418 of Earth and Mars, and 3,230 of Earth and Venus.
    This particular cycle was the key to the mystery of the Mayan calendar. It was based on the conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn, something nobody had cared to consider. All other periods of sidereal or synodic revolution of all planets had been tried, but somehow nobody had tested the conjunctions between the planets.
    Mayan astronomical calendar from 3144 BC to AD 2020
Mayan Great Cycle of 260 katuns or 5163 years
baktuns
0 1 2 3 4 6 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
    0 3144 2747 2350 1953 1555 1158 0761 0364 0034 0431 0828 1226 1623
1 3124 2727 2330 1933 1536 1138 0741 0344 0054 0451 0848 1245 1643
2 3104 2707 2310 1913 1516 1119 0721 0324 0074 0471 0868 1265 1662
3 3084 2687 2290 1893 1496 1099 0702 0304 0094 0491 0888 1285 1682
4 3065 2667 2270 1873 1476 1079 0682 0285 0114 0511 0908 1305 1702
5 3045 2648 2250 1853 1456 1059 0662 0265 0133 0531 0928 1325 1722
6 3025 2628 2231 1833 1436 1039 0642 0245 0153 0550 0948 1345 1742
7 3005 2608 2211 1814 1416 1019 0622 0225 0173 0570 0967 1365 1762
8 2985 2588 2191 1794 1397 0999 0602 0205 0193 0590 0987 1384 1782
9 2965 2568 2171 1774 1377 0980 0582 0185 0213 0610 1007 1404 1801
Katuns 10 2945 2548 2151 1754 1357 0960 0563 0165 0233 0630 1027 1424 1821
11 2926 2528 2131 1734 1337 0940 0543 0146 0253 0650 1047 1444 1841
12 2906 2509 2111 1714 1317 0920 0523 0126 0272 0670 1067 1464 1861
13 2886 2489 2092 1694 1297 0900 0503 0106 0292 0689 1087 1484 1881
14 2866 2469 2072 1675 1277 0880 0483 0086 0312 0709 1106 1504 1901
15 2846 2449 2052 1655 1258 0860 0463 0066 0332 0729 1126 1523 1921
16 2826 2429 2032 1635 1238 0841 0443 0046 0352 0749 1146 1543 1940
17 2806 2409 2012 1615 1218 0821 0424 0026 0372 0769 1166 1563 1660
18 2787 2389 1992 1595 1198 0801 0404 0007 0392 0789 1186 1583 1980
19 2767 2370 1972 1575 1178 0781 0384 0014 0411 0809 1206 1603 2000
20 2747 2350 1953 1555 1158 0761 0364 0034 0431 0828 1226 1623 2020
    This Mayan calendar of 1.886.040 days was based on 260 conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn, which occur every 7.254 days. It was divided into 13 baktuns of 20 katuns each. as well as into 7.254 sacred yea's of 260 days or 5.239 calendar years of 360 days. Each baktun also represented 186 synodic revolutions of Mars or 5.310 sidereal revolutions of the Moon.
    The conjunction period of Jupiter and Saturn is actually 7,253.445 days, but the rounded-out Mayan value of 7,254 days is valid because they did not use decimal parts and counted in whole days only. So the Great Cycle of 260 Mayan conjunctions was 1,886,040 days, or 5,163.8 of our years.
    I finally discovered that the Mayan chronology was based on several Great Cycles of 5,163 years, or 260 conjunctions each, counted in succession. Once the duration and the rhythm of the Great Cycle was established, it was not difficult to find the starting point of the Mayan calendar. ! presumed that at the start of the last Great Cycle some remarkable astronomic phenomenon must have occurred. The joint arrival of four planets in the same corner of the sky, the meeting of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, takes place every, 4627 years after each of the planets has finished an exact number of conjunctions and is again lined up with the others. And the last time such a phenomenon took place was the year 1484 of the Christian era.
    Stepping now 4,627 years back, I marked the year 3,144 BC and took three more times the same cycle of 5,163 years to arrive at the date 18,633 BC, a date only three years off of the year 18,630 BC mentioned as an important date in a sacred Mayan codex preserved in the Vatican. For me that constitutes proof. Also, if