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Codex DRESDENSIS solves the MAYA CORRELATION PROBLEM !

         Antoon Leon VOLLEMAERE

History is reporting happenings, facts and events and fixing them on a time scale. Every people has the right to have a correct unfalsified history. Mayan history is falsified by americanists using the GMT correlations ....!

The zero point for our calendar is theoretically the birth of Jesus Christ. Every ancient ethnical group had its own starting point for their calendar. This was the case for the Egyptians, Chinese, Jews, Greeks, Romans, Muslims, etc., as well as for the Mayas. The (second) calendar base for the Maya Long Count calendar is the day 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu. In their datation they indicate the

  •     number of days (KIN),
  •     months of 20 days (UINAL),
  •     years of 360 days (TUN),
  •     periods of 20 tuns (KATUN), and
  •     periods of 20 katuns (BAKTUN),
  •     passed since the day 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu 0.0.0.0.0.
The Maya astronomer took in account every single day. If we were able to place this famous day 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu in our Julian calendar system, it would be easy to pinpoint the codices and monuments on the Julian calendar scale. The choice of the so-called Goodman-Martinez-Thompson, or GMT correlation, under the heavy pressure of Eric J. Thompson, was a very bad one, by freezing more than 70 years a very wrong and falsified Mayan history. What were the consequences of the choice of the GMT correlation by the Americanists?

The first aberration is that the correlation has created an enormous gap of about 640 years without written monuments or documents, between the "Fall of the Maya Empire" (sic) in 909, and the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadores (1541). All the Maya libraries were stuffed with a lot of written documents of all kinds. Nevertheless, almost all Americanists have accepted blindfolded this scientific aberration, leading to the artificial creation of a "mystery of the Maya Collapse."


We don't like to disappoint people, but here is no mystery at all, there are only wrong GMT correlations as we have showed in our publications. How often have students "corrected" the Maya numbers, to force an explanation, and to obtain some results with the GMT correlations? It is also amazing that they use, without further thinking, numbers of 11 Baktun, knowing very well that the last dated Maya inscription was 10.4.0.0.0! This means in other words that every correlation based on a supposed inscription higher than 10.4.0.0.0 is historically/scientifically totally wrong! For more than a century, courageous students have tried to find a correct correlation between the Maya calendar system and our old European Julian (not Gregorian!) calendar.

There are today at least 52 different
Maya correlation solutions !!!

The most striking fact is that there are more than 1,000 years (!) between the first correlation (Bowditch 14.01.-3632) and the last correlation proposition (Vaillant2 259.04.-2593) for the Maya zero point 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu(h). This means that Maya history can be moved back or forwards with a maximum of 10 centuries , depending of your choice of correlation number! In other words, one can falsify Maya history with a difference of many centuries. And that is what unfortunately has happened with the acceptation of the GMT correlations. As said before, since more than 70 years, every datation of calendar information of monuments of Palenque, Copán, Yaxchilan, etc., or codices, are actually indeed calculated following the so-called GMT correlations, with one of the following Julian Day Numbers (JDN):
  • JDN 584,280 -3113.09.03 Goodman 1905    G
  • JDN 584,281 -3113.09.04 Martínez 1926     M
  • JDN 584,283 -3113.09.06 Thompson 1950   T
  • JDN 584,284 -3113.09.07 Beyer 1937
  • JDN 584,285 -3113.09.08 Thompson 1935
  • JDN 584,286 -3113.09.09 Lounsbury 1978
There are only a few Mayanists who dare use with courage a totally different correlation number with the risk to be not published and to be discriminated and excluded from small and large national and international meetings of Americanists. They say, that we live in a free world with Human Rights, with the freedom of speech. Try it in the World of Americanists, World of Prejudices!

!!! NO MORE MYSTERY !!!

There is in fact no mystery to the so-called "fall of the Maya cities"! There is "only" a huge error due to the application of the GMT-correlations; a mystery created by the Mayanists themselves. There are 52 correlation propositions, but almost every Mayanist use the Goodman-Martinez-Thompson (called also GMT) correlations without any serious verification. For example, they place the presence of Mexican mercenaries in Chichen-Itza in the 8th century, while the (Azteca) Mexica were still living in the State of Utah (actual USA) till 1064! After a long migration of more than 260 years they took residence in the Valley of Mexico. In other words, the Azteca Mexica founded their capital Mexico-Tenochtitlan only in the year 1325. The presence of Mexican mercenaries in the Mayan region must be situated after the year 1440! People do not realize that the GMT-correlations put Maya history in an impossible and ridicule situation by creating the false mystery of the "fall of the Maya cities".

We investigated the eclipse sequence of Codex Dresdensis 51-58 with 69 columns, with intervals of 177 days or 148 days reparted in 10 groups. The sequence total is 11960 days, or 3 x Tritos (3986 2/3 days). We solved eventually the Maya correlation problem in 1984 (yes, more than 20 years ago!) and found the correct Julian Day Number 774079 before noon/ 774080 after noon. We gave many convincing proofs for our correlation solution. The reaction at the Archaeoastronomy symposium at the Universidad Autónoma de México (1984) was very good, but afterwards came slowly indifference or some negative reactions like :
"This is to complicated for me; I have no time for calendar study; No way, I don't like to change all my previous publications; I believe in radio carbon (manipulated) datation; nobody has attacked Thompson, so he must be right, etc."
Nobody could give us a proof that our correlation solution was wrong. Nobody attacked us officially. The rest was silence... Then came the dishonest period of tracing a "Berliner Mauer" around us; a Wall of silence, and no more conference invitations and no participation acceptation of our papers, no more the human rights of freedom of speech : a shame for Science and the World of Americanists.

From the year 2002 till 2005, we had the opportunity to study the long eclipse sequence of Codex Dresdensis 51-58 intensively and also the Tritos behavior in the Mayan region. The Tritos is an eclipse period of about 3986 2/3 days, used by the Mayas and by the astronomers of the Chinese Han dynasty (-200 till +200). We compared the Dresden pages patiently with each one of the intervals of ALL the solar (582) and lunar intervals (2597 !) for the Mayan region (Yucatan Guatemala) for the year period 0001 till 1600. To our great amazement and satisfaction, we found out that the intervals of the D.51-58 eclipse sequence occurred ONLY ONCE in 1600 years : in the period 1186 - 1220 !


That means in other words, that all the correlation propositions before JDN 774070 are very wrong, and that only the correlation solutions of
  •     Weitzel       JDN 774078,
  •     Vollemaere JDN 774079/774080), and
  •     Vaillant       JDN 774083, are practically the only correct correlation solutions.

The GMT correlations are dead...... R.I.P.

Requiescat in pace.    Rest in peace.

Please, rewrite Maya History NOW.....


The G.M.T correlations created a huge error of 520 years, unbelievable at first sight, but nevertheless scientifically-astronomically true !!!
Every americanist with a mathematical and astronomical background can verify our publications and our statements. By the way, we have published also solar and lunar eclipse data (0-1700) for the Mayan region.
Please, read following publications before judging...., and leave all prejudices in the ashtray.
(We are preparing a Correlation Problem CD.Rom).

AAIII = America Antiqua III
VIAK = Vlaams Instituut voor Amerikaanse Kulturen = Flemish Institute for american cultures.

VERBELEN Felix Solar eclipses in the Mayan region from -2000 till +1700: 201 p. 1986.
VOLLEMAERE : Introduction, Solar eclipses in Ancient Mexico, 11 p.
VERBELEN Felix Solar eclipses in Mexico AD 1 to AD 1600; 101 p. 1993.
VOLLEMAERE Antoon Introduction: Lunar eclipses in Mayan codices, xxxii p.
VERBELEN Felix Lunar eclipses in the Mayan Region: From AD.1 to AD.1700, 87 p. 1994.
1975b Vers une révision de la corrélation maya, Kadath 15:33-38 Bruxelles.
1976d De Maya-Juliaanse korrelatie, La corrélation maya-julienne, America Antiqua 8 : 3-45, Mechelen.
1984a De Leiden-plaat en de Mayakorrelatie, (Dutch) Oud Amerika 17 : 219-246.     ***
1984d JDN 774.080 : una correlación más ? Symposio Archaeoastronomia y calendarios, UNAM México, septiembre 1984, In "Arqueoastronomía y etnoastronomía en Mesoamérica" Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, 1991:113-128. *****
1985a L'astronomie maya : position des jambes, Oud Amerika 20 : 25-29
1985b Catálogo de los astrogramas de códices mayas, Anales 1984 : 115-151, VIAK, Mechelen
1985c La correlación maya JDN 774.080, Anales V.I.A.K. 1984:153-189 ***
1987e Les éclipses solaires du codex Dresdensis 51-58, 106 p., Quetzalli, Malines.
1988d Los eclipses del códice Dresdensis 51-58, Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Brescia (Italia) june 1988, 153-164
1988f La correlación maya-tolteca-azteca, Congr. intern. de americanistas, Amsterdam julio
1988g Los eclipses del códice Dresdensis 51-58, BAR Oxford 1989:461-479-.
1989b La corrélation maya-tolteca-azteca & La pierre de Motecuhzoma,
OUD-AMERIKA 32 : 63-89, 90-94, Vl. Inst. Amer. Kult., Mechelen
1993f La corrélation Maya-Tolteca-Azteca, in "The symbolism in the plastic and pictorial representations of Ancient Mexico", Bonner Amerikanische Studien, Holos, 23-47, Bonn.
1994c Lunar eclipses in Mayan Codices, 32 p., Quetzalli, Machlin.
1994d Please...forget the GMT-correlation!?! ***** 132 p, Quetzalli, Machlin.
2000i Thompson and Venus pages D.46-50, Annals V.I.A.K. 1999:23-49 Mechelen.
2002a Tritos investigation for the Mayan region 0-1000, Anales 2000:01-48. ***
2003f Dating Codex Tro-Cortesianus. Anales 2001:50-79.
2004f Maya correlation problem. AAIII Yearbook 2004 part 3:39-59. ***
2004g Eclipses codex Dresdensis 51-58. AAIII Yearbook 2004 part 3:60-75. *****
2004h Tritos investigation 0-1600 solves the Maya correlation problem. ***
AAIII Yearbook part 3:76-950.
2004i About possible Mayan calendar corrections or adaptations.
AAIII Yearbook part 3:96-113.
2005a Codex Dresdensis-Tritos. Waste of 100 years investigation of the Maya correlation problem. Part I : I-XL.***
2005b Codex Dresdensis-Tritos. Codex Dresdensis-Tritos connection solves the Maya correlation problem. Part II: ***** 104 pp.
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