Part of the goal of this series is to introduce seekers to a bit of that complexity. Many people are unaware of how complex and detailed contemporary Mayan astrology can be. The relationship between day-signs and numbers can be usefully understood in the form of a diagram: But the magical koyopa energy itself dwells within the body and is thus connected with the bodily soul both aspects of the soul are equally important. We may have a tendency to think of the bodily soul or anima as a somewhat lesser entity than the nawal after all, it remains within the human body and dissipates at death. Koyopa collects in the thirteen major articulations or joints of the human body, which thus form a Mayan analogy to the chakras. Sometimes called “the lightning in the blood,” the koyopa, like the kundalini, is essentially feminine because it is associated with the 13 numbers. The word literally means “sheet lightning.” However, the Maya also think of a bolt of lightning as a “sky serpent,” so in that sense the koyopa is a serpent power too. In the K’iche’ Mayan language, this powerful inner energy is called koyopa. It travels through different energetic centers in the body, known as chakras, and can be manipulated through meditation and spiritual practice. The kundalini is in essence a goddess just as much as it is a form of energy. The best known example comes from Hinduism, where this energy is known as the kundalini or serpent power. The existence of a powerful bio-psychological energy within the human body has been postulated by many civilizations. A union between day-sign and number is in the nature of a “mystic marriage” that unites the essentially masculine and changeless nature of the day-signs with the active, vibrant female principle of the numbers. It can roam freely through the astral world while we are asleep.Īll the numbers are feminine, and may be regarded as the “wives” of the 20 nawales. The anima may be vested within the human body, but the nawal is not. Our nawal is our day-sign soul, our spiritual essence, our archetypal imprint. Since we all have a particular day-sign upon which we were born, we all have a personal nawal. A nawal is the spirit inherent in a day-sign in fact, I never heard the Maya use the term signo del dia for day-sign they always called a day-sign a nawal. The word is borrowed from the word nagual, a well-known term in the Nahuatl language once spoken by the Aztecs, but it should be emphasized that this word means something different to the Maya than it means in Carlos Castaneda’s popular books or even in most anthropological literature. The Maya use the word nawal to describe this aspect of the soul. In the K’iche’ language, the second aspect of the soul is called uwach uk’ij, which literally means “the face of his or her day.” In other words, this is the energy template or imprint of the Sacred Calendar day upon which we are born. It remains within the body until the moment of our death. It is vested in the body and in breathing. One of them is known as the uxlab, though the Spanish word anima is often used to describe this aspect of soul. The concept of polarity applies to the human soul as well. Since many Western students understand the Eastern terms, their use helps people to comprehend the Mayan concepts.” I have used Eastern philosophical terms in my own lectures and writings because the Eastern concepts are often much more similar to those of our Mayan cosmovision. Western philosophical thinking is just too different. However, my friend Don Rigoberto often said: “Sometimes there are no adequate words in English or in Spanish to express many of the basic concepts of Mayan spirituality. I am not trying to confuse the issues or to equate one cultural expression with another. The Mayan concept of polarity is very similar to the Chinese concept of yin and yang. Ultimately, however, they are of the same essence In terms of astrology, the polarities are most clearly seen in the idea that day-signs are masculine whereas numbers are feminine, though many of the individual day-signs embody feminine principles as well, just as some of the numbers embody masculine principles. They mirror each other like opposites: Summer and winter, cold and heat, light and darkness. The Maya perceive the universe as an energetic whole made up of two opposing but complementary polarities, expressions of a single, unified force. Illustrated by Erroll James Reykjalin Lesson 1
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