What is El Sexto Sol and Why Should We Care? An Indigenous Point of View.

El Sexto Sol, the Sixth Sun, is a toltec name for the new solar age, now birthing, yes, now, as we live through Earth’s most chaotic times. If you’re aware of terms like the New Age, the Great Awakening, or maybe more negative depictions like the End Times and the Apocalypse, then you know we’re talking about the Earth’s future. What can we do?

Good thing we know more about our planet and ourselves than we ever have in the history of human beings, which is something like 6500 years of recorded history. As per the proclamation featured below, the Toltec Fifth Sun began and ended in that same space of time, since recorded history began. It’s time now for El Sexto Sol, the Sixth Sun to bring evolution and healing to our Mother, Earth.

STANZAS

The proclamation below shares how the Fifth Sun was created and who will be responsible for creating the Sixth Sun. The stanzas are from a decree, a proclamation, made by a council of 30 or so, mostly Mexican and South American tribes. They all gathered in Mexico City in March of 1994. Considering the amount of political strife, racism, violence and hunger indigenous communities yet endure, one might suppose the proclamation gathering was about those issues.

But no, the stanzas speak to the dawning of the Sixth Sun, referring to an ancient Toltec prophecy. The toltec knowledge of the stars and cosmos, you should know going in, make it more a deduction or a calculated prediction than a prophecy. Many believe toltec knowledge must be based on superstition and primitive rationales, but there is more evidence of an ancient-based science, built on experiential evidence collected over generations within a secretive discipline. 

This 1994 gathering of the tribes was, in essence, a review of that ancient science. The first stanza tells us the Fifth Sun cannot end until there is a rain of consciousness, because the Fifth Sun is one of awareness, awakening consciousness.

EARTHQUAKES

1

The Grandfathers left word

That this Fifth Sun which we are living,

Is going to end, end its movements,

With earthquakes on Earth and earthquakes in society.

But this Fifth Sun cannot be finished

until all are aware,

until awareness spreads and grows,

until there is a rain of consciousness,

for this Fifth Sun is precisely,

a Sun of Consciousness.

The second stanza covers the creation of the Fifth Sun, from the oral tradition. This cosmic event occurred at the pyramids of Teotihuacan , north of Mexico City, around 6500 years ago, at the dawn of civilization.

RABBIT

2

This ending sun was created by the Chief Lords:

Tecucistécatl, the Lord who became the Moon;

Nanahuatzin, the sick and wounded who became the Sun;

Papálotl and Mixcóatl, who volunteered

to give movement to the Sky, to the Stars;

and also by the Tochtli (Rabbit), the youngest of them all;

it was by His sacrifice that the Fifth Sun was created.

While the myth in stanza two(2) may be new for many, it’s been in the bloodlines of american indigenous people since the beginning of mesoamerican history.

The third stanza of the proclamation names the new creators of the Sixth Sun..

COMMON PEOPLE

3

Now a new Sun is announced,

that is going to be one of Justice.

But this new Sun must be made by the common people,

The Macehuales,with our sacrifice.

Now it’s our turn.

The Macehuales are the common people who share the characteristic of possessing merit in various forms throughout their lives. It’s common people of merit who will create and nourish this new Sun, setting in motion el Sexto Sol. 

If the Fifth Sun has been about consciousness and awareness ,it’s safe to say we are more aware now than ever, of how we have screwed things up for our planet. The Sixth Sun offers Justice and a new opportunity but there is no mention of how good it will get, or even how bad. The Proclamation announces that it’s up to us, the common people — the macehuales – to determine what the new Sun does on Earth going forward.

Again, we know more about our planet and ourselves than we ever have in human history. As we live out the transition from the Fifth to the Sixth Sun it’s pertinent to note that amazing, incredible evolution is in process: great things in science, medicine, space travel and so forth, emerge as we speak.

Will we common people of merit create our desired reality in this unprecedented time upon Earth?

We care that you care because no matter your race, creed, color, location, political party, occupation, sex or religion we all breathe and struggle on the same planet, in the same air. If we know it depends on us, it’s time for some decisions.

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