Mesoamerica — sacred time, calendars of stone, and the cosmic architecture of death.
🌽 About Mesoamerica
Mesoamerican afterlife cosmology reveals a universe where time is alive: cyclical, breathing, and eternally returning. The Maya and Mexica saw existence as a serpent of light that coils through creation, dissolution, and rebirth — a rhythm echoed in their temples, calendars, and rites.
Their sacred calendars, the Tzolk’in and Haab, aligned human life with the heavens. Pyramids were astronomical instruments as much as tombs, and death was a transition into the patterned landscape of Xibalba or Mictlán, where trials, winds, obsidian blades, and divine messengers shaped the soul’s descent.
In this three-part Season, we follow the soul’s movement through the calendar of ages, the trials beneath the earth, and the spiral ascent towards the maize-born heavens. To understand Mesoamerica is to understand time as a temple, a pathway, and a return.
Part I — Calendars of the Dead
Tzolk’in ✦ Haab ✦ The mathematics of fate and the cycles of the soul.
Part II — Descent into Xibalba
Nine layers ✦ Lords of Death ✦ The cosmic road of trials.
Part III — The Path to Mictlán
The nine winds ✦ The bone-road ✦ Reunion with the ancestors.