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Re: Jouneyman names

Posted By: Milk Man (ip182.herndon21.va.pub-ip.psi.net)
Date: 12/1/1999 at 11:38 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Jouneyman names (The Crimson King)

Here is a repost of some info I had before, its the symbolism from each day of the Mayan calender, using this info you can probably peace together most J-man names as they are identical.

1. Crocodile. The crocodile or alligator represents the water serpent which is part of the Mayan creation
story. It is the first day of the 20-day cycle, and it symbolizes creation. The day in life is probably conception or perhaps the creation of the spirit before birth. The Mayan name "Imix" devives from Ix, meaning "womb."

2. Wind. The wind symbolizes the spirit, and this day represents the day of quickening, on which the
spirit enters the fetus in the womb.

3. Temple. This glyph is usually translated "house," but it is a picture of a temple, and a temple is a holy house. It represents the house of the spirt, or the body. In the cycle of life, it is the day of birth, when the spirit receives it's house.

4. Lizard. The lizard represents evil, and this day represents the day on which evil enters a childs life.
Before that age, it was believed a child was pure and
could not be tempted.

5. Serpent. The serpent apparently represents all of mortality, or at least all of adulthood. It was said to
be the day when man "gathers together all the experience of life." The three days of Temple, Lizard and Serpent thus may each represent thebeginning day of the three periods of life of childhood, adolescence and adulthood.

6. Skull. The skull represents death, and the day is the day of death. 7. Deer. The deer apparently represents entrance into the spirit world, perhaps the day being that of the
fleeting life review which occurs there shortly after arrival in the spirit world.

8. Rabbit. The rabbit represented the "struggle to overcome the material state." Apparently it wasbelieved that even as a spirit, after death one is still attached to physical things.

9. Water. Water represented the day on which one "reaps the reward of his effort" of overcoming materialism. Many ancient religions had the goal of controlling phyical desires.

10. Dog. At the lowest point of the circle, the dog (a guide through the underworld) represents the day
one "enters fully into the uttermost depths of matter."

11. Monkey. The monkey, represents the day when one "burns without flame." It apparently is apurging or cleansing by fire.

12. Grass. The figure is of grass growing out of a skull, representing life coming from death. The Mayan priest was more vague on this and the remaining steps, saying only that on this day one "begins to climb the ladder" of progression.

13. Reed. The reed is a continuation of the grass growing from the skull. The priest said only that it is another rung on the ladder. Because it is opposite on the circle from the day representing birth, it may represent resurrection, the day when the body and spirit are reunited.

14. Jaguar. The jaguar represented the day on which one is "washed entirely clean," apparently referring to baptism. It is also known that the jaguar symbolized an order of priesthood, apparently the one associated with baptism.

15. Eagle. The eagle represents the day on which one "becomes perfect." It also symbolized a higher priesthood order than the Jaguar. It is opposite the serpent in the circle.

16. Thunderbird. Most tribes saw this figure as a vulture, but originally it was probably a condor (in the vulture family), known also as the thunderbird and revered as the only bird which flies higher than the eagle. On this day one received the "full light of consciousness."

17. Quake. This glyph symbolizes both earthquake and motion in general. It is the day when one "shakes of the last traces of ash clinging to him from the material world."

18. Flint. The flint knife represented sacrifice, which is another required step.

19. Storm. The storm, or rain of fire, is the day when ones "divine nature is manifest."

20. Flower. Flower is the day when one "becomes one with divinity." This symbolism is similar to the lotus flower in Hinduism. The Mayan name Ahau for this glyph means "Lord."

-Milk Man

Messages In This Thread

  • Jouneyman names
    William Wallace (ppp-1-22.cvx5.telinco.net) -- 12/1/1999 at 7:13 a.m.
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      The Crimson King (inktomi2.algonet.se) -- 12/1/1999 at 8:12 a.m.
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        Milk Man (ip182.herndon21.va.pub-ip.psi.net) -- 12/1/1999 at 11:38 a.m.
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          Forrest (cache2.avtel.net) -- 12/1/1999 at 4:14 p.m.
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            sigma (ip208.dayton8.oh.pub-ip.psi.net) -- 12/1/1999 at 5:12 p.m.
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              Pimpy™ (sdn-ar-001ilchicP305.dialsprint.net) -- 12/1/1999 at 6:31 p.m.
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                The Crimson King (inktomi2.algonet.se) -- 12/2/1999 at 6:53 p.m.
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                  SiliconDream =PN= (mates.HIP.Berkeley.EDU) -- 12/2/1999 at 11:23 p.m.
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                  Forrest (cache3.avtel.net) -- 12/2/1999 at 11:28 p.m.
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                    SiliconDream =PN= (mates.HIP.Berkeley.EDU) -- 12/3/1999 at 1:26 a.m.
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                      Forrest (cache3.avtel.net) -- 12/3/1999 at 4:08 a.m.
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