Story Behind The Song
(see The Story of Time "Introduction" video)
| Song Length |
4:11 |
Genre |
Unique - Soundtracks, Unique - Children |
Lyrics
HUMAN FORGETS ~ EARTH REMEMBERS ~ THE MAYA
The circle is flat, time is round like a sphere. Based on the circle, the time of the twelve count is flat time, false time. It is not round like the thirteen moons, it is not round like the Earth and the Sun.
The flat time of twelve months was never a harmony like the thirteen moons. In the flat time of twelve months, the number of days to the months is uneven and irregular. In the round time of thirteen moons, each moon has exactly 28 days.
The civilization of the twelve count established itself in many different forms and styles in the great land masses that human knows as the old world. Wave after wave of civilization had come and gone. Still the tax bases needed to expand. More land needed to come under control of civilization.
The Maya
The civilization of 12 inevitably came to the New World, to the continents known as the Americas. Here the People of the Turtle and Tree remained strong. Here the memory of the sacred 13 and 20 counts had been kept. As in the old world, some of these people too had chosen the way of the seed. But in the New World, civilization developed that was rooted in the 13 and 20 counts.
Among the Tree and Turtle People of the New World, no one kept the 13 and 20 counts better than my children, The Maya. Even though The Maya grew into decadence, they still remembered the 13 and 20 counts. Their memory of time was complete. They followed a sacred calendar called the Tzolkin. Here the 13 count of the Moon and the 20 count of the Sun were woven together in a wonderful pattern of 260 days (13 times 20). This sacred Moon-Sun pattern they wove together with another calendar which counted the 365 days of the Earth's orbit. Every 52 years the solar and sacred calendars matched perfectly.
The civilization of 13 came to an end when the civilization of 12 arrived in the New World. Everything that could be destroyed of the civilization of 13 was destroyed. Swiftly the shadow of the false time spread across the rest of the planet. Every ocean was navigated; every island mapped and charted. The Biosphere had been converted into a resource base for human cleverness.