1990 La Voz de Aztlan

              Volume XXI, Number 1
California State University, Fresno
February 20, 1990
Prof finds historical key
Orozco says formula basis for Mayan and Aztec calendars
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Sylvia Castro
LA VOZ STAFF WRITER
Even though he has evidence that
proves a Native American civilization
that once lived in the Utah area was
advanced enough 500 B.C. and before
to successfully calculate the cycle of
Venus, Dr. Cecilio Orozco is far from
being
criti-
calry acclaimed.
The
CSUP
educa-
t lo B
profes-
■   or
It is erroneous to think that Asia,
Africa and Europe were the ones
who brought knowedge to America.
Dr. Cecilio Orozco
Dr. Cecilio Orozco explains his recent discovery - a math
formula which chronicles the cycles of Venus as depicted on
pictographs drawn by ancient Native Americans.
says
that he and Professsor Alfonso Rivas-
Salmon of the University Autonoma of
Guadalajara discovered a math formula which depicts the chronology of
Venus.
Rivas-Salmon is credited with deciphering the Aztec calendar which is a
book of the history and universe of the
inhabitants of Tenochtitlan, the Mex-
ica, said Orozco.
The local media has not been receptive to the discovery. Fresno Bee reporter Anne Dudley told Orozco the
Bee did not do an article because her
sources did not agree with his findings.
Last month Orozco was interviewed
byKMJ'sRay Appleton. It was Orozco's
first Fresno interview on the discovery. He was also interviewed on the
Spanish-language radio station KGST.
A CSUF anthropology professor and
a local astronomer were contacted; neither were aware of Orozco's findings.
"I haven't heard anything about the
discovery," said Clarence Funk, president of the Central Valley Astronomers.
Orozco has not let this disillusion
him. He will present sketched drawings and photos of the finding in the
Utah
canyons
March
17 from
6 p.m. to
8 p.m. at
Centro
Bellas
Artes in
Fresno.
Orozco
said though the discovery did not
happen overnight, a clue to the for-
mula had been in front of him all along.
The discovery, he said, will illustrate that the rootof an ancient American math formula was the basis for
both the Mayan and Aztec calendars.
The "key to the formula lay in pictographs" on the side of a wall in Sego
Canyon in Utah. These pictographs
are dated 500 B.C. and before. The
same pictographs were printed in a
National Geographic in January, 1980.
It tied directly to the Sun Stone, said
Orozco.
"The pictographs in the Geographic
shows a figure holding five knotted
ropes in one hand and eight knotted
ropes in the other. This is the exact
See OROZCO, page 7
FMLN rep
at CSUF
I Eloy Garcia
LA VOZ ASSISTANT EDITOR
Although the majority of El Salvador's
people do not support the present Cristiani government, the U.S. government
has been financially supportingitforyears.
Wednesday Salvador Rodriguez, a San
Francisco-based   representative of the
Farabundo Marti National Liber
Front (FMLN) will be speaking ii
stairs Cafeteria, Room 200 at noon.
The FMLN   pposesth
ernment. Due o the Ui
port of the gc
received mud
dra Gutierrez, presidt
Estudiantil C1
"Salvador &
know what is
dor and...plead with us to see what wecan
do over here in the United States to atop
U.S. intervention."
Rodriguez will also be speaking on the
November Offensive, the killing of the six
Jesuit priests, the increase of repression
under the Christiani government and the
FMLN's plan for peace and democracy.
Feb. 25 Nicaraguan elections to be
watched closely, says Prof Atwood
I
Sostcnes Infante Jr.
L4 VOZ STAFF WRITER
Free elections in Nicaragua have boon at the
center ofU 3. foreign policy towar•' the Central
American nation since its
revolution in 1078. Not
since that revolution has
the Uniteu, States recognizee! -,-n« outcome of
ia's- elections.
Nevertheless Nicaragua will hold national
elections on Feb. 25, their
third since the Sandinistas came to
power.
CSUF Telecommunications Professor Rita Atwood who just returned
from Nicaragua said over 3,000 observers from the United Nations, the
Organization of American States and
other independent organizations will
4 Fresnans part of monitoring
i
Soslenes Infante Jr.
LA VOZ STAFF WRITER
With the help of the sister
city program, the city of
Fresno will play a role in
Nicaragua's upcoming elections, which will be held on
Feb. 25.
Four Fresnans will travel
to Nicaragua to observe and
report on many facets o
elections, including pre-election activities, election day
voting and vote tallying in
the national, regional and
local elect;
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on of
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monitor the up
Atwood added that despite the historical complaints of tainted elections characteristic of U.S. administrations, "The election is going to be fair."
She went on to say that Greenberg-
Lake, a Washington D.C.-based tin
watchdog, found support for the Sandin
istas running at 51 percent with the nearest opposition group, the United
Nicaraguan Opposition,
led by Violetta de
Chamorro, at 21 percent.
Greenberg-Lake attributes the change in the
polls to the U.S. invasion
of Panama and the U.S.
troops surrounding of the
Nicaraguan Embassy
during that invasion.
Also the killing of the
six Catholic nuns last fall
in El Salvador has played
apart.
Atwood added that the
Nicaraguan government has put into
place safeguards against what could be
conflicts of interest, such as the forbidden
use of state property for political purposes and laws governing the use of the
nation's airwaves.
l are efforts to ensure free and fair
to is
lair