MythicMaya calendrical and astronomical priesthood
UBAmadonite and Sethite priesthoods preserving astronomical knowledge
Amadonite and Sethite priesthoods preserving astronomical knowledge = Maya calendrical and astronomical priesthood
The Connection
The UB attributes to the Prince's staff and their descendant priesthoods a sophisticated understanding of astronomy and calendar, including the 12-month lunar system, the 28-day cycle, and the precession of the equinoxes. The Maya calendrical achievement, long-count dating tracing back to 3114 BCE, zero as a placeholder, eclipse prediction, and Venus-cycle tables, is entirely out of proportion to their material culture. The UB offers a mechanism: a surviving fragment of an older, imported astronomical tradition carried by the same Andite sailor-teachers who became the Quetzalcoatl memory.
UB Citation
UB 66:5.10-12, 77:2.11
Academic Source
Aveni, Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico (1980); Coe, Breaking the Maya Code (1992)
Historical Evidence(Suggestive evidence)
Anthony Aveni documented the Maya astronomical system's precision on Venus cycles (accurate to one day in 500 years) and eclipse prediction (within 33 hours across 900 years). Michael Coe's Breaking the Maya Code traces the calendrical system back through pre-Maya Izapa and Olmec sources to an origin point still unresolved by archaeology. The UB's Andite sailor hypothesis provides a specific pre-Olmec transmission candidate that mainstream scholarship has been unable to pin down.
Related Mappings
The 132 Andite sailors who crossed the Pacific from Japan to South America
= Quetzalcoatl / Kukulkan, the fair-skinned bearded culture-bringer
Post-rebellion flood memory (Dalamatia submergence, Eden submergence, regional floods)
= Aztec, Maya, and K'iche' flood cycles (Popol Vuh; the Five Suns)
Teaching-pair pattern: a god of wisdom and his brother or rival
= Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca, cosmic brothers who contest creation
Sacred tree at the center of the world, carrying blood, water, and spirit
= The Maya Ceiba Yaxche', the World Tree at the center of the cosmos