The Maya "had a really elaborate ritual set of events that were tied to the calendar," study researcher Gerardo Aldana, a science historian at the University of California, Santa Barbara, told Live Science. Research published in 2016 in the Journal of Astronomy in Culture indicates that the codex records the phases of the planet Venus so that the Maya would be certain that their ceremonial events were being held on the correct day. The Dresden Codex is a Mayan text dating back around 800 years it contains 39 beautifully illustrated sheets with texts and images on both sides. (Image credit: Alexander von Humboldt/Wikimedia Commons) Data in the Venus Table may have been gathered by astronomers to help time ritual events with the cycles of the planet. Dresden CodexĪn ancient Mayan Text called the Dresden Codex contains detailed recordings of the phases of Venus in its Venus Table, on pages 46 to 50. Though it's unclear how the book reached the United States, it was donated to Harvard in 1984. How the process would have worked is unknown. A person seeking an answer to a question could have sought out the owner of this book, asked a question and gone through a process that would randomly select one of the 37 oracles to help find a solution to the person's problem. In her book "Forbidden Oracles? The Gospel of the Lots of Mary" (Mohr Siebeck, 2014)," she wrote that the gospel would have been used for divination, an attempt to predict the future. The text, now at Harvard University, was deciphered, and details were published in 2014 by Anne Marie Luijendijk, a professor in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. He who will go forward with his whole heart will obtain what he seeks. The opening to the book begins as follows: "The Gospel of the lots of Mary, the mother of the Lord Jesus Christ, she to whom Gabriel the Archangel brought the good news. Written in Coptic ( an Egyptian language) and dating back around 1,500 years, the Gospel of the Lots of Mary doesn't discuss the life of Jesus, but instead contains a series of 37 oracles, written vaguely, with only a few words that mention Jesus. The " Gospel of the Lots of Mary," as the ancient text is called, is a gospel like no other. Beatrice Kelekian in memory of her husband, Charles Dikran Kelekian, 1984.669) (Image credit: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. The pages of the gospel are small, measuring less than 3 inches (75 millimeters) in height. The text is written in Coptic, an Egyptian language that makes use of the Greek alphabet. An image showing the opening of the gospel.
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