One Hunahpu

One Hunahpu


Source of matter, source of spirit
spiralling in and spiralling out
Thirteen phases; numbers, vectors
twenty hieroglyphic pictures
people growing toward the sun
grow together and live as one

Hunab Ku, One Hunahpu
Hub of everything we do
search the stars for what we are
and find we need not look so far
Inside of us, deep down inside
are kept the secrets of all time
Finding rhythm, speaking rhyme
renew the ancient paradigm
movement and measure, sowing and dawning
star of the evening, star of the morning
One Ahau will start the churning
watch for Venus, begin the learning
Teaching us the way to see
and how to climb the Sacred Tree
Tzolkin, haab, and Calendar Round
Spherical music, magical sound
Eye* at the center, dawn of our face
edge of the cosmos, heart of all space
mysterious daysign, bringer of birth
It comes from the stars
and springs from the Earth

*Eye = Phi in original version. JMJ/10-1992. This poem was published opposite the frontispiece in my book Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 (1998).

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