The Indian Yugas and the Mayan Great Year

The Mayans were among the many cultures looking at the larger cycles that appear in the skies and in life on Earth. Possibly the most famous long cycles known outside the Mayan long count calendar are those of the Yugas of the Indian masters, also called the “Great Year” by Plato.

Complete Yuga cycles have been interpreted as 24,000 to 26,000 years, or roughly five Mayan long count cycles of slightly over 5,113 years ending on December 21, 2012. Most devotees of Yogananda and Sri Yukteswar believe that the 24,000 year cycle is based upon the sun being in a mutual orbit with an unseen twin star. The orbit of the newly discovered dwarf planet Sedna has about a 12,000 year cycle around our sun. One scientifically accepted reason for her strange orbit is the possibility of an unseen twin star to our sun! The 26000 year cycle of the precession of the equinoxes matches nicely with 500 Mayan calendar round cycles, so both systems seemed to be observing the same sky events. Read the rest of this entry »