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Our current understanding of the celestial mechanics between the Earth and Moon around the Sun is already a standard part of basic astronomy education in global school curricula and online.
It is a topic to which no special relevance is assigned, nor does it inspire significant doubt, ultimately being forgotten by most people once their school years are over.
There is a profound difference in the weight given to Earth's orbital cycles between ancient and modern cultures, considering that this matter was once of paramount importance in the history of life on Earth.
The primary objective of this Ancestral Astronomy project is to explain why calendars and astronomy were such dominant themes in ancient civilizations.
This will likely be no easy task, as it explores a facet of astronomy that is often taken for granted and, consequently, remains under-researched.
I believe it is vital, and perhaps even urgent, to review and rethink some of the astronomical concepts related to Earth's space-time. Current interpretations may involve critical errors with significant cultural and scientific implications for the Universe and Life on Earth, a relationship that was thoroughly studied and known by ancient civilizations.
Over the past twenty years, my study of calendars and astronomy has involved continuous comparisons between the values assigned to the cycles of time and space by both ancestral and modern approaches.
Contrary to expectations, this research reveals that current descriptions of the orbits of the Earth and Moon, and the dynamics between them, are highly incomplete and often inconclusive.
While modern astronomy’s predictions of events in terms of time are flawless and precise, leaving nothing to add, the same cannot be said for tracking the step-by-step progression of these events in space, where a significant amount of information is left behind.
Even with the most advanced technology at our disposal, it is not possible for modern astronomy to describe the cycles and orbits of the Moon and the Earth in an integrated, complete, and continuous way in space and time — as they are only explained in a piecemeal and abbreviated form.
Mayan astronomy described the dynamic of the Moon and the Earth in its entirety, with every detail — a knowledge that allowed for the step-by-step description of the cycle of eclipses, among many other alignments.
The study of ancestral calendars allows for a detailed description and understanding of the various events within Earth's dynamics. Among them are Earth's relationship with the celestial north, the planet's rotation and translation, and the Earth-Moon dynamic — which also includes lunar node cycles and lunations.
The current description of Earth's orbit is extremely incomplete, with translation and rotation described in a non-integrated and abbreviated manner. The same occurs with definitions such as the ecliptic and Earth's elliptical orbit used to explain Earth's translation — which is, in reality, a spiral movement with a well-defined structure in space and time described by the Mayans
Another example is the nutation cycle — explained unclearly and inconclusively in our astronomy, which attributes an influence of the Moon on Earth’s movement that goes unconfirmed in ancestral astronomy. This wobbling cycle of the Earth is crucial for predicting eclipses, and was also closely tracked and described in great detail by those cultures.
If Earth's orbit is explained in an abbreviated manner in our astronomy, the dynamic between the Earth and the Moon is even more oversimplified. This limitation is quite possibly the main reason why it has become so difficult for our culture to understand what ancestral cultures found so extraordinary in the sky — and why eclipses held such a central role in astronomy.
The step-by-step description of eclipses brings together the main knowledge achieved by ancestral astronomy. Through this dynamic, described with all the details, it becomes possible to observe and describe the Earth's fabric in space-time — with the order, proportion, and harmony that the sages speak about.
Understanding this method of study brings with it the source of knowledge and wisdom about the universe that these cultures were able to achieve. Even today, this knowledge serves as a cultural reference for all peoples of the Earth, linking the image and existence of God to the sky — a connection fully explained and understood by ancestral astronomy.
