Thread by @ill_Scholar

This strange artifact was found in a field in Alabama in the 19th Century

Initially, it was thought to just be some random art

But new research shows it contains the Key to PROVING a connection between the Mayan Culture and the Mississippian culture

Why in this thread 🧵🧭

This new research is from Anthropologist
@CamHMcConnell

The motifs, details, symbols, and angles on this calendar disk were painstakingly discovered by this brilliant man

The symbols on the disk show similarities to motifs in Mayan and MesoAmerican culture

This evidence is pretty strong, but still circumstantial

The twin serpeants, The hand and eye, the corn tails, all point to Mayan Culture

But the real evidence is in the details

The Calendar is connected to a ritual called the "Green Corn Ceremony"

Apparently allowing the keepers of the calendar to have TWO corn harvests a year

The introduction of this culture in the Mississippi coincides with the introduction of Corn cultivation in Meso-America

Through planning planting and harvests around the astronomy inherent in the Rattlesnake Disc, adherents to this religion, notably the Maya (known as People of the Corn) the people could harvest vast amounts of Maize

Here is how it works and how it proves the Mayan-Mississippi Connection

The center of the Rattlesnake Disk is skewed 9 degrees, which could be a mistake, but upon inspections seems to be intentional

This 60 degree angle represented here is the exact angle you see the sunrise on the summer solstice

The 9 degree offset shows WHEN the calendar was created, as this is offsets for the Earth's tilt on its axis, to locate the North Star (bear with me here, Cam explains this better than me)

The two snakes on this disk resemble the Hero Twins of Popol Vuh, found throughout Mayan Culture, including Chichen Itza

One with chevrons, one with stair-stepping pattern

Also notice the tail tips, that appear to be corn kernels

Quetzalcoatl is the God of Corn

Vega and Cassiopeia on the right and left sides of this image respectively

Lined up with the disk, the ends of the tongues align exactly with these stars, and the center with the north star, offset of course

This combined with the 60 Degree angle orients an individual in the night sky

Calendar Maps to Visualize the connection

Additionally, the Calendar Disk reveres rattlesnakes.

Rattlesnakes are known to live in Corn Fields and eat pests that harm the corn.

There is more evidence of this, and explained better by
@CamHMcConnell

Follow him for his Archaeology, and find the full video of his explanation on my youtube here

This includes connections of this same math in the megaliths of Mesoamerica

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