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1. TRANSCENDENCE IN MAYAN MYTHOLOGY
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FINDING INVISIBLE MESSENGERS
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MEANING OF THE BALL GAME IN MAYAN MYTHOLOGY
Let us take a brief moment to look into the meaning of the ritual ball game of the
Maya, and the Mesoamericans, in general. Ball courts were constructed as part of the
Mesoamerican ritual practically from the beginning. Since these were sacred rituals,
we must assume that there is a metaphysical meaning in the ball game which is being
conveyed.

2. The layout of the ball court has been connected to various astronomical orientations.
Whether the orientations are correct is not in question, for it is assured that the Maya
rituals were reality oriented to the extent that they purposely tied in astronomical
orientations to their lives. They clearly believed that the word of First Father came
through the messages in the heavens. We can also tie the temple and pyramid sacrifice
rituals to the asterisms at Perseus, Andromeda, the Great Square, Cepheus, and
Sculptor. The ball court and the turtle of resurrection can be illustrated in the
asterisms of Pisces and Cetus to correspond to the bottom of the ecliptic under the
head of Cepheus and the body of Quetzalcoatl. What we need is a tie in to the
metaphor of the game.

4. The three vignettes above show Maya kings playing the game. Besides the ball, there
is the "Six-Stair-place." This place of six stairs is central to the metaphor of the game.
That is what the vignettes are saying, even though definitions of the glyphs at each
step are not available. But, the ball and the six steps are all we need to connect the
metaphor of the ball game to the experience of life on earth, or in the cosmos.
Mayanologists prefer to associate the ball with the sun. Some, including Jenkins,
associate the movement of the vernal equinox with the ball game. This association is
undoubtedly part of the metaphor of the game. But, the Mayanologists avoid the
meaning of the six steps. This inability to identify the number of steps with the
metaphor also afflicts Egyptologists and archaeologists, in general. In the Great
Pyramid, the Queens Chamber has a four tiered nitch located at the center of the
pyramid. The Grand Gallery has a seven tiered ceiling. The King's Chamber is
blocked by four portcullis slabs, and it has six stone ceilings. These numbers are
sacred to the rituals of the monuments.
SIX STAIR PLACE
If we consider the ball field one level, then there are six levels which must be
ascended in order to "win the game." In metaphysics, seven is the number of the
"spirits of God." In other words, there are only seven dimensions of creation which
must be ascended to become one with the Creator. The first four dimensions are the
metaphysical elements, earth, water, air, and fire. The earth dimension represents the
material world composed of all energy and matter. This is the earth in which we all

5. come to play the game. The first step to ascend is the physical dimension which has
the metaphysical element name water. This is the level at which bodily functions
result when a life force is added to the substance of the first material level. An
organism which discontinues to maintain the level of the water step dies, and returns
back to the matter level of the carrion. The second step is the metaphysical level
called air. At this step, the living organism imagines and thinks about objects and
subjects in the creation. This imaginary step is essential to any rational understanding.
The third step is the metaphysical level called fire. This is the level of inspiration.
When an imaginative living organism made of material substance reaches the level of
fire, it has the power to rule nations of living organisms.
These four levels from the ball field to the third step were identified in the Book of
Revelation.
Rev 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To
him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the
paradise of God.
Rev 2:11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He
that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
Rev 2:17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To
him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white
stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that
receiveth it.
Rev 2:26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I
give power over the nations:
These verses associate the material, physical, mental, and esprit de corps aspects of
creation with the rewards given for ascending above the appropriate level. There is no
reason to believe the great Maya did not know these truths, and every reason to
believe they had to put them into their on revelatory saga. The real mystery is why is
it that Mayanologists, Egyptologists, and archaeologists in general, cannot understand
that the temples they uncover are of religious nature, and are defining the essential
metaphysics of the created world. The answer to this enigma is in the modern object
oriented definition of science. These four esoteric states are, by definition, subjective.
The subjects they are concerned with are the material existence, the life force in the
biomechanisms, the imaginations of the mind, and the esprit with which the material,
biomechanism, and mind accomplish life. Science, being object oriented rather than
life oriented, cannot overcome the first step of subjective creation, and is always
bound to the material universe.

6. Science cannot understand subjectivity because it is a taboo placed on science.
The top three steps in the quest for a winning ball game are not parts of the created
world. They are a process which is mandatory for communication to occur within any
creation. These higher steps bind even the gods and the God. Communication is a
process which requires a subject, a medium, and a message. The subject is closely
associated with consciousness, but it must not be confused with consciousness.
Consciousness is a composite of the four created elements. The subject can enter
consciousness, but it is not consciousness. For example, the subject of this essay is the
ball court rituals. The consciousness is forced to focus on the ball court rituals, but it
is an independent element, and no author can capture the consciousness of a reader,
without the reader's consent. If a reader does not consent to stick to the author's
subject, then communication fails. The written words, vignettes, monuments, or star
constellations are media through which subjects can be carried. My present goal is to
transfer the message that communication cannot occur if the subject, medium, and
message do not work in unison.
This communication trinity resides in the author and the reader. But, more
importantly, the author has to use the cosmic medium to transfer the message. In this
way, and only in this way, two people can communicate. But, because the cosmic
medium must be involved in the communication, it is possible that subjects external to
any specific attempt to communicate can become part of a communication by
association. When this happens, the medium of the receiver can record messages
which are composites of the various sources of subjective information. This potential
is a primary reason why modern science excludes subjectivity as part of the processes
it calls science. Within the exclusions is the failure to communicate. The sacred
sciences of all cultures attempted to decipher all the subjects in order to maintain the
messages in their proper perspectives. Sacred Science is much more profound than
Material Science, because it attempts to integrate an holistic message.
These three steps were also identified in the Book of Revelation.
Rev 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not
blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father,
and before his angels.
Rev 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he
shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of
the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from
my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Rev 3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I
also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

7. John demonstrates the successful transfer of subject with "white raiment" in the "book
of life." He identifies the successful ascension above the level of the medium with the
"pillar in the temple" and the "new Jerusalem" which will carry the meaning of the
subject. And finally, John gives the throne of the father's to the one who can ascend to
the level of the message. The throne is the message, for it is what is on the Mind of
God. The white raiment is the Milky Way on the child at Quetzalcoatl. The Pillar in
the temple is the body of the Caiman Tree. The throne is the rational message of the
precession of the ecliptic cross. Thus, the Popol Vuh is in agreement with Revelation.
One important aspect of these top three stairs is the fact that the entities which were
on the ascended level do not change, it is the created one who ascends that is re-
cognized. In other words, communication does not change the medium nor the
message, communication simply causes the subject to return to its origination. That is
the fundamental consequence of proper communication. An author can lead the
individual, but only the individual can carry the subject back to the throne from
whence it came.
The subject of the present discussion is the meaning of the ball game in Maya
mythology. When a successful communication has occurred, a reader will hear the
message in the subject and the medium and then be able to go directly to the
originating source for the message. In the ball game, Hunahpu wins and acquires the
head of First Father. This acquisition then makes Hunahpu the one who possesses the
mind of First Father, as he repeats the circle of life. The message is returned from the
mythical lands of the underworld, where it had been lost in subliminal consciousness.
WORLD BALL
Now that we can see the possibility that the six stair place is that domain where the
seven spirits of God reside, we can begin to recognize that the ball is the "real world."
In many glyphs a man, or a man's face is found on the ball. This means that the ball is
the "human world." There is little question that the goal of the Maya ritual was to get
the sons back to First Mother and First Father. This is precisely the same metaphor as
the ball court and the six-stair-place. The objective of the game is to get the human
world back to the heavenly world. Egypt was founded with the specific goal of
"uniting the two lands." The two lands are the material earth and the heavens above.
"As above, so below," was a ritual required in order to attain the fullest awareness of
reality. This ritual was world wide, because it is as essential to an African, or an
Asian, as it is to an American. Any human being must climb the six-stair-place in
order to achieve the objective of life. When it is achieved, and the obstacles are
overcome, the reward is the throne of the father's.
The great divergence in the ritual accomplishment of "as above, so below" occurs
because above and below are variable around the surface of the earth. This means that

8. the thrones of the father's are dependent upon the local terrain and the local Holy City,
as seen from the sacred lands on earth. The ball is thus the earth, not the sun. The
variant faces on the Maya ball are the symbols of the local chiefs and kings. This
theme has been explored at great depth for many cultures of the earth. They all
demonstrate one clear compassion. The compassion is written in their local myths and
it says, "join the two lands," "as above, so below." (See www.siloam.net.)
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