The world calls....

[Maïwa]

First i'd like to say that it's great to see us, well alot of us here. This place, like the other will flourished, T'ill theirs vignes and leaves around the frame....hihi exchanging thoughts and good times....Cheers to all ya and enjoy.   :lol:
  Ive been following the seasonal changes here.
Living near the river. I noticed air currents and temperatures in various seasons for years. The past three years have shown many abrupt changes in the climate and the actuall seasons.

 We come to understand theirs a transition but  human expansion is not the only cause. These process's are but environnementally overdue.
Human involvement in the past decades has certainly had its share or part in the process. The earth has not the space nor life for us to all rush to pin points on the earth, nor could we return to agricultural lifestyles due to the overwhelming populations. At least involving ourselves to the truth and sharing the ideas and fellings on this could help all get somewhere.

Hers a topic on wetaher change somehow?:
When it came to mathematics, time and calendars, the Maya were geniuses. Believing that time repeated itself in cycles, they devised two calendars, one ritualistic, which was used for religious celebrations and astrological predictions, and the other a solar calendar. Both calendars were based on the calculation that a year had a little more than 365 days, a more precise system than the Gregorian calendar. Following the movement of the sun, moon and stars with such accuracy, the Maya were able to predict such mystifying phenomena as eclipses and the Spring and Autumn equinoxes.



The Maya kept time with a combination of several cycles that meshed together to mark the movement of the sun, moon and Venus. Their ritual calendar, known as the Tzolkin, was composed of 260 days. It pairs the numbers from 1 through 13 with a sequence of 20 day-names. It works something like our days of the week pairing with the numbers of the month. Thus you might have 1-Imix (similar to Sunday the 1st) followed by 2-Ik (just as you would have Monday the 2nd). When you get to 13-Ben, the next day would start the numbers over again, thus 1-Ix, 2-Men etc. It will take 260 days before the cycle gets back to 1-Imix again (13 x 20).

The 20 day-names, meaning and symbol can vary in different Maya languages. Also, each day can be represented with more elaborate glyphs known as "Head Variants" - a formal writing system which can be loosely compared to our script alphabet versus our print alphabet. The Tzolkin calendar was meshed with a 365-day solar cycle called the "Haab". The calendar consisted of 18 months with 20 days (numbered 0-19) and a short "month" of only 5 days that was called the Wayeb and was considered to be a dangerous time. It took 52 years for the Tzolkin and Haab calendars to move through a complete cycle.

These are the Mayan words for periods of time:


Day = Kin (keen)
Month of 20 days = Uinal (wee nal)
Year of 360 days = Tun (toon)
20 Tuns = K'atun (k' ah toon)
20 K'atuns = Baktun (bock toon)


Scholars today are recognizing that Mayan mythology is intimately related to the celestial movements of stars, the Milky Way and certain constellations. The sources of Mayan mythology are found in the sky, and the timetable of Creation Day is pinpointed by the end date of the Mayan Great Cycle.

research into the nature of this date reveals that a rare celestial alignment culminates on it. Generally speaking, what occurs is an alignment between the galactic and solar planes. Specifically, the winter solstice sun will conjunct the Milky Way, which is the edge of our spinning galaxy as viewed from earth. Furthermore, the place where the sun meets the Milky Way is where the "dark-rift" in the Milky Way is - a black ridge along the Milky Way caused by interstellar dust clouds

The slow process by which the winter solstice sun comes to conjoin the dark-rift in the Milky Way is a function of a phenomenon known as the precession of the equinoxes. This involves the slow wobbling of the earth's axis, which causes the stellar frame to slowly shift. To observers on earth, it causes the position of the winter solstice sun to slowly move in relation to celestial background features such as the Milky Way. A full cycle is completed in roughly 26,000 years. Approximately 2100 years ago, when both the Long Count calendar and the Popol Vuh were devised by the early Maya, the dark-rift in the Milky Way could be observed some 30 degrees above the dawning winter solstice sun

Based upon these simple facts, ancient skywatchers in Mesoamerica were apparently aware of a subtle celestial process, the precession of the equinoxes. Knowledge of that process, and the fact that a major alignment in that process culminates at the end of their Great Cycle, strongly suggest a cosmological understanding which modern scholars have yet to explore. Understanding this aspect of Mayan astronomy may help us understand our own impending millennial milestone. What is going on in the world today? Is an alignment of the planets and stars having some kind of influence? The cycle of the equinoxes is primarily an earth rhythm. Whether we call it Mayan or millennial, we are living today in the shadows of a rare celestial juncture. The Mayan myth seems to remind us that all life springs from the Great Mother.



Cheers WhiteshadowOfThe DampLands

[Finbar]

I'm not sold on tha global warming thang. Aren't we comming out of an Ice Age? Would that not entail an increase in temperatures?

There are graphs that illustrate global temperatures over the eons. The peaks and valleys(huh?) seem to demonstrate a cyclical, and repeating pattern of highs(maaan) and lows over time.

We have only been observing the hole over/under Antartica for a short period of geological time. Umm, how do we know that this is not a normal occurence at the poles? I read the other day that the hole has shrunk. And that can only be a good thing.

Wouldn't crops grow better with an increase of CO2 via the Greenhouse Effect, since plants utilize CO2 for transpiration?

Weather is not static and the wishes of Man will never protect the holy beach-front property from being reclaimed by the sea. Yet, this same dynamic process destroys here and creates elsewhere. This is a feature of geological activity. If it did not exist, this would be a dead planet.

Magestic mountains once stood in the East, only to be weathered down to sand and form the continental shelf. I am certain that a grouping of h. sapiens would declare that process with a microgeological snapshot judgement in time. Yet, in the Pacific, volcanos create new islands and mountains. That steaming hot ejecta has to be a good thing.

Gloom and doom? Bring 'em on. May the best cockroach win.

Fin

[Maïwa]

you misssed the point