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The false Mayan Calendar: The Dreamspell/Thirteen

Moon calendar

is based on patriarchal dominanceby

Carl Johan Calleman

To much of the world a calendar system invented by Jos and Lloydine Argelles in

the early nineties: The Dreamspell/Thirteen Moon Calendar has come to be known as the

Mayan Calendar. Despite the fact that this is a calendar system that has never been used

by the Maya, many of its protagonists have however been falsely presenting it as Mayan.In campaigns of a sizable scale and on many web sites on the Internet many people have

been deluded into believing this and today one of its main functions in the world is to

create confusion and block peoples access especially to the true Sacred Calendar usedfor millennia in Mexico and Central America. Last year calendars based on the true

Sacred Calendar count were, to my knowledge only published in Guatemala and Sweden.The rest of the world has thought of Dreamspell as Mayan.

The structure of the calendar system known as the Thirteen Moon calendar/Dreamspell

is basically as follows: It proposes that we use a calendar of Thirteen different Moons of

28 days presented as the feminine cycle to which a day out of time on July 25 is addedto account for the 365 days of a solar year (13 x 28 +1 = 365 days). Linked to this is a

count of the 20 glyphs and 13 numbers that have been borrowed from the Sacred Mayan

Calendar. In this the symbols are however associated to the days in an entirely differentway compared to in the true calendar meaning that when people are given their purported

Mayan tzolkin day of birth in this system, called the Galactic Signature, this is

invariably different from the Sacred Calendar symbols that the Maya have been and areusing for that particular day. Many have been deluded into thinking that this is their true

Mayan day-sign and have in this way been diverted from the cosmic flow of time. Animportant aspect of this calendar system is that the leap day in the Gregorian calendar is

simply ignored, and so, at those days every four years the sequence of the Dreamspell

symbols is interrupted and makes a jump thus ignoring to give the leap day a spiritualenergy.

How Mayan is this system? Except for the signs and symbols used in the tzolkin count

(260-day count) not at all. While this is now becoming known to increasing numbers ofpeople, especially in the English-speaking world, few have come to the realization that

this calendar system on many different levels is an _expression of patriarchal dominance.

The first of these expressions is that the female cycle is 28 days. This idea is really a

construct of patriarchal medicine that for ages has been frightened by what it has

perceived as a magical link between the woman and the full moon cycle of about 29.5days. The ancient Maya followed a moon cycle alternating between 29 and 30 days, as

did many other peoples, creating a mean consistent with the full moon cycle.

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I think many women today, as well as also many men, have special feelings linked to

their hormones on days of full moon. I do not want to become too detailed and technicalhere since on my web page you may find an article about the topic: The Mayan calendar

and the cycles of the goddess, which discusses the mater in depth. Suffice it to say that

there is overwhelming evidence that the female cycle is linked to the lightof the full

moon. (A piece of anecdotal evidence is that some women wanting children will sleepwith a light above their heads to precipitate ovulation.) Yet, many women have, partly

because of the perturbations of their cycles due to the artificial lights and artificial

hormones present everywhere today, come to believe that a normal period is 28 days.The Thirteen Moon calendar movement has further perpetuated this myth in an

adaptation to the false claims of patriarchal medicine.

In this Thirteen Moon Calendar the day July 26 has been chosen as a New Years day

and you sometimes hear it being called the Mayan New Year. Sometimes the suggestion

pops up that the origin of this date is the heliacal rising of the Dog Star, but in theYucatan Sirius does not rise on this day at all and did not do so in ancient times either. In

reality this fixed first day of the so-called Thirteen Moon calendar is the very opposite ofthe Mayan Calendar system. Fixing it on this date really meant the end of the traditional

Mayan calendar in the Yucatan. In ancient times, and among the living Quich-Mayastill, the Mayan calendar had no fixed New Years date that could now be directly

translated into a Gregorian such. Yet, it followed a 365 day year called the haab, and

because this was about a quarter of a day short of a solar year the position of itsbeginning kept moving backwards one day every four years in terms of Gregorian dates.

The distinction of the traditional Mayan calendar of not having a fixed new years dateis actually of very great importance today. It means that unlike most other calendars of

the world it is not subordinated to mechanical time and astronomical cycles. As I havedescribed in my books the prophetic Mayan calendar system expresses energies

influencing human consciousness that are unrelated to physical cycles. To exemplify the

workings of this haab its first day fell on February 13 in the year AD 694, while in AD1540 it fell on the day corresponding to July 26. 1541 was however the year that the

Yucatan was conquered by the Spanish. This meant that its forced conversion to

Christianlty began marked by the burning of Mayan calendars instigated by Bishop Diego

de Landa in 1562. It is from this very Bishop we first hear of the day July 26 as the daythat the Maya always celebrated their New Year. In reality, as part of the forced

adaptation to Christianity and its ecclesiastical year with celebrations of saints and

Christmas, etc the subordinated Maya had to freeze the previously moving beginning dayof the Haab at the date it had at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1541.

This freezing meant the effective end to the Mayan calendar system in the Yucatan andits conversion to a system of mechanical astronomical time. The Spanish in fact saw the

symbols of the Mayan calendar as idolatry, and repressed it severely as reflected in the

autodaf of Mani. What this means is that the date July 26 was really imposed by the

Spanish Conquistadores and is a clear _expression of their dominance over the Maya. Itis the very opposite of a Mayan New Year. Its use symbolizes the very end to the original

Mayan calendar system in the Yucatan.

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Yet, in present day Guatemala significant aspects of the ancient calendar system, such

as the haab and the tzolkin (Cholquij) went underground and has survived until the

present time in its highlands. It can be verified from archeological artifacts that the

Sacred Calendar have been kept unaltered by the daykeepers of the Quich-Maya sinceantiquity. My own view is that this particular true tzolkin count is a gift to the future of

humanity if we can only make the right use of it.

Today, increasing number of people that are starting to use this Sacred Calendar are

experiencing the energies of time that it describes. Yet, it is not part of the Dreamspell/

Thirteen Moon calendar, the main reason being that this makes a jump every four yearson the leap day in the Gregorian calendar, a day that according to the Dreamspell has no

tzolkin energy. Hence the experience of the flow of the energies of time is broken at this

day and the day-signs and numbers of the following day will shift one step in relation tothe true tzolkin count. Over several decades passing through many leap days this creates

a very substantial scrambling effect. Thus people that have their day-signs and numberscalculated according to this invented tzolkin count will never conform to the true ones

based on an uninterrupted flow of time. Adam Rubel of Saq Be, an organizationreflecting indigenous and especially Mayan views says: Regarding the dreamspell andwork of Arguelles: It has been made clear, I think everybody here understands, the needto distinguish this system from any relation to the Mayan tradition. [] This is the wishof the elders, that the confusion and misrepresentation cease.

Why have the inventors of the Dreamspell Tzolkin chosen to deviate from thetraditional Sacred Calendar in this way?, we may wonder. The reason is obviously that as

an adaptation to mechanical astronomical time and the exactness of the solar year it hasincorporated the leap day from the European calendars (Never done among the Maya).

The Gregorian calendar incorporates a leap day every four years ever since Julius Caesar

decided to make February 23 a such. What this means is that the Galactic Signaturescalculated by Dreamspellers are directly dependent on the decision of Julius Caesar to

make this particular day the leap day. Had this Roman Emperor chosen another day as the

leap day, say April 4 or Novemeber 11, then these Galactic Signatures would have

become entirely different. (How galactic is that?) Hence, in a very direct sense theDreamspell diversion from the Sacred Mayan calendar is a creation of a Roman Emperor

and as such obviously a reflection of a patriarchal dominance that still today deludes

people as to the identities of their Mayan day-signs.

Hence, the whole system of the Dreamspell/Thirteen Moon calendar system is a

reflection of patriarchal dominance and its true creators are modern medicine, theSpanish Conquistadors and Julius Caesar, quite in contrast to much of the rhetoric of its

inventors. Of course, it may then be appropriate to ask to what extent a system so much

based on the dominance of rulers is also reflected in the internal workings of this

movement. It seems so.

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Lloydine Arguelles, co-founder of the Dreamspell/Thirteen Moon movement in an

email to supporters in 1997 said:You must understand the promise to be 100 % faithful tothe new knowledge. Nothing that Valum Votan (Jos Arguelles, my clarification) presentsis not in accord with the divine planThis is hardly an encouragement of members of themovement to think for themselves, but a reflection of a patriarchal dominance almost

religious in nature. The tone has obviously changed since then, and the attitude is nowmore of rainbow people and anything goes, while its own patriarchal agenda is

projected onto the Gregorian calendar as adiversion. And so, until this day the man whohas disciplined himself in a superhuman manner(ibid) has not by his movement beenasked to publicly explain why he has invented a tzolkin count that keeps people in the

dark about the traditional. Regardless, for independently thinking peopla it is easy to see

that the Dreamspell/Thirteen Moon calendar system is embedded in a patriarchal agenda.

It is not very polite to publish an article of this kind that for most people will expose a

delusion, and, especially in Latim America and certain other parts of the world there aremany that have been deluded. It is then necessary to say that where Arguelles got the

authority to lead people into this system was through some very great early contributions:The book the Mayan Factor was the first in modern times to truly demonstrate the

prophetic validity of the Mayan Calendar. Equally important was his bringing to theworld of the Harmonic Convergence highlighting moments of a new spiritual awakening

for many (although unfortunately he did not point out that the dates chosen for this event

had been chosen by the Native American Tony Shearer based on the true calendar.Incidentally, I also myself asked him to write a foreword to my most recent book in

recognition of these great pioneering efforts. Arguelles early contributions were very

significant and it is also a fact that Arguelles is the person that brought the knowledge ofthe existence of the Mayan calendar to the world (albeit in a very seriously distored form

through the Dreamspell/Thirteen Moon Calendar).

Humanity has however now come to a point in its evolution where the cost of being

polite is too great. The Mayan Calendar is a much too precious thing for humanity to bepresent in a delusional and distorted form based on a veiled patriarchal agenda. The

energies of what I have termed the Fourth DAY of the Galactic Underworld, beginning

on December 4, 2004, will tend to expose dominance in all of its forms and it is not a

moment too early. In the words of the Mayan elders: The confusion must ceaseand thisin the interest of the many. The Dreamspell/ Thirteen Moon calendar should never by

people of integrity be presented as the Mayan calendar or a form thereof. In the name of

integrity webmasters hosting sites presenting the Dreamspell as the Mayan calendarshould dismantle these. The truth is now an urgent matter and time is of the essence.

Now, also many people that are participants of movements with spiritual aspirations may

have to scrutinize the existence of dominance within their own folds and its widerrepercussions of their lives. The cost of continued confusion caused by the false

pretensions of the Dreamspell is enormous. This calendar system blocks the path of

humanity to the treasure of the true Mayan Calendar system, which will play a decisive

role of guiding humanity towards freedom and enlightenment in the years ahead.