title: Izapa Sacred Space: Sculpture Calendar Codex
author: V. Garth Norman
description: Izapa Temple Center, Southern Mexico near the Pacific Coast is the birthplace of the Maya 260 Day Sacred Calendar. Ancient astronomers, mathmeticians, and builders created this unique Temple Center. Popol Vuh correlations exist with monuments there including Stela 25. Izapa's Tree of Life Stela 5 is famous. Izapa is located at 14.8 degrees North Latitude where the Sun Zenith Passage occurs on August 13 and April 30 marking 260 days (9 month human gestation cycle). Izapa (ca. 1500 and 600 BC datings) is related to Nazca, Peru located at 14.8 degrees South Latitude (ca. 100 BC). Ancient Pacific shipping vessels transported Izapa's astronomy, calendar, standard measure and cosmology to Nazca. The 260 Day Calendar markings can be found in numerous Central, North and South American sites. . .all which date after Izapa's time--suggesting that Izapa was indeed the origin of this 260-day Calendar
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  Table of Contents
  
  [Title Page](Gree_9780307428530_epub_tp_r1.htm)
  
  [Dedication](Gree_9780307428530_epub_ded_r1.htm)
  
  [Praise](Gree_9780307428530_epub_qts_r1.htm)
  
  [Preface](Gree_9780307428530_epub_prf_r1.htm)
  
  [I - REALITY’S ARENA](Gree_9780307428530_epub_p01_r1.htm)
  
  [1 - Roads to Reality](Gree_9780307428530_epub_c01_r1.htm)
  
  [Classical Reality](Gree_9780307428530_epub_c01_r1.htm#c01s01.01)
  
  [Relativistic Reality](Gree_9780307428530_epub_c01_r1.htm#c01s01.02)
  
  [Quantum Reality](Gree_9780307428530_epub_c01_r1.htm#c01s01.03)
  
  [Cosmological Reality](Gree_9780307428530_epub_c01_r1.htm#c01s01.04)
  
  [Unified Reality](Gree_9780307428530_epub_c01_r1.htm#c01s01.05)
  
  [Past and Future Reality](Gree_9780307428530_epub_c01_r1.htm#c01s01.06)
  
  [Coming of Age in Space and
  Time](Gree_9780307428530_epub_c01_r1.htm#c01s01.07)
  
  [2 - The Universe and the Bucket](Gree_9780307428530_epub_c02_r1.htm)
  
  