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Emilio Ortiz interviews Christine Olivia Hernandez on her book Remember Your Roots and on Mayan teaching. This is a class in ancestral practice, not a report of alien contact. She does call herself a channel for ancestors and spirit guides. Time, she says, is a spiral. The year 2012 closed a cycle, not the world, and the new earth is old practice carried forward. Training as a daykeeper meant releasing family stories so she could teach in the city. Cacao from Guatemala sent her to San Marcos La Laguna. A black bird over Lake Atitlan, her father was nicknamed Crow, she read as the ancestors. Gifts, in her account, arrive in dreams or down a family line. Nana Maria’s father was already a wisdom keeper. Olivia’s day sign, muddled by the captions, is a sun and healer sign that requires hardship before light. Past eighty, as her teachers put it, a person can carry cosmic and earthly wisdom. We are here, she says, as expressions of love.
Key points
- The interview is a teaching about Mayan cyclical time and ancestral practice, not a story of alien contact.
- Olivia presents 2012 as a turn in a spiral and the new earth as older ways carried forward.
- She describes initiation as a daykeeper and herself as a channel for lineage wisdom.
- Cacao, a journey to Lake Atitlan, and a black bird are the signs she reads as her ancestors.
- Her day sign is taught as a hard sun and healer path that requires passing through darkness.
- She says people are here as expressions of love, and she ties communal healing to the eagle and condor prophecy.
Short quotes
A New Earth right we do move in in cycles and it is a spiral
Christine Olivia, Olivia on cyclical Mayan time
She corrects the new earth idea into a spiral return of older cycles. Watch at 3:13
I can be someone who is open to be a channel
Christine Olivia, Olivia on cyclical Mayan time
She presents the daykeeper path as becoming a channel for wisdom, which is the teaching rather than an alien contact. Watch at 5:42
I believe we are here and I believe that many of my ancestors believe this as well
Christine Olivia, Olivia on cyclical Mayan time
She answers why people are alive by joining her view to what she says her ancestors held. Watch at 43:51
Video by Emilio Ortiz. Watch on YouTube.