Could Ancient Calendars
Really Predict The Future?

A long time ago ancient calendars were a huge part of every culture.

Inspired individuals from many of these ancient cultures sought out to watch the skies, the phases of the moon, and explore the planets and stars.

Being diligent sorts, they managed to keep track of this knowledge, and recorded it into cool number and date based tools which we'd call ancient calendars.

Nowadays, most of us do much the same. Our fascination for the unknown and the mysterious nature of the universe is still as strong as ever.

In all parts of the world, you'll find astronomers, star gazers, nature lovers, life scientists, and a whole collective cacophony of people who are fascinated by what makes life what it is.

Who wouldn't be fascinated by planets, sky travel, rivers on the moon and earthly changes, to name but a few?

This awe like fascination provokes a strong motivation to learn and understand the natural world, and to keep discovering the whys and hows of life on planet earth... and beyond.

Accurate and Complex Ancient Calendars

Let's explore those amazing calendars a little more...

Not Just Highly Skilled Astronomers

We'll start with the magical Mayan calendar. This page of Mayan calendars and resources will fascinate you. These guys were not only skilled astronomers and extremely accurate planetary observers, but they had their own numbering system, pictographic and hieroglyphic writing systems too.

The Mayans knew the future - and way beyond...

Mapping The Heavens

The Julian Date calendar is not exactly an ancient type calendar, but it still gets a listing here. Although the Julian calendar has been all but replaced by the Gregorian calendar, it's still occasionally used around the globe, especially for agriculture purposes.

Where Is This Magical Place?

Amazing Aztec calendar

Just imagine walking through valleys of lush meadows, with waterfalls gushing, brightly colored birds flittering around...

With unusual looking animals, mesmorizing flower gardens and beautiful sounds of nature and music playing in the distance.

Want to know more?

This amazing Aztec calendar reveals all!

What To Do With Ancient Calendars

It doesn't hurt to ask - where did the practice of astrology originate? Did it evolve in one part of the world and then become adopted by other civilizations perhaps?

Seekers of knowledge

When you study the ancient civilizations in the Middle East, Central America and in Asia, there are remarkable similarities in how they adapted their lives to be in harmony with the rhythms of earth and the cosmos.

Consider that there are pyramids in Mayan and Aztec cultures, as well as the Egyptian ones. And that many pyramids are constructed around and point to key events in the solar system, such as equinoxes and solstices.

Curious calendars

Similarly, astrology is thought to have developed independently in Babylon and Central America. The astrology systems in India and China were likely derived from those in Babylon.

It's curious too that many fundamentalist religions reject the principles of astrology, because it was, in fact, an integral component of the religions of Babylon.

It was part of the calling of priests in Babylon to predict the future and part of their methodology for doing so was to interpret events in the sky. Nothing was considered pure chance and any natural occurrence, no matter how mundane or mysterious, could be an omen of either good fortune or bad.

Actually, the part of Mesopotamia that is now Iraq once comprised Babylonia in the South and Assyria in the North.

Before Alexander the Great conquered the area in 330 BC, the Assyrians were a military and administrative power, and Babylon was the center of culture.

The underlying belief system in both cultures was that there was a spiritual force behind every act of nature. Heaven and Earth were complementary systems, with neither one having dominion over the other.

But by the 4th century BCE, this belief system was influenced by the Greek view that the heavens, and its resident gods, determined events on earth.

Magnificent Mayan circle calendar