Mayan Order
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Mayan Order | |
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Formation | c. 1930s |
Purpose/focus | Self-improvement through astrology, New Thought-type exercises |
Headquarters | Del Rio, Texas; San Antonio, Texas |
The Mayan Order (Mayanry) is (or was) a Texas-based group, originally founded in the late 1930s by William Perry Taylor, a.k.a. Koran, and Isabelle Taylor, a.k.a. Rose Dawn, which professed itself to be a secret order based "on the traditional wisdom of that mysterious race of astrologers and temple builders, the ancient Mayans of Mexico and Central Mexico."[1] Rose Dawn was the voice - via shows on John R. Brinkley's XERA "border blaster" radio in Del Rio - and face of Mayanry, being the Official Scribe and Patroness of the Order, and eventually the Supreme Leader after her husband "Koran" Taylor's death in 1953.
Selected Publications
- Mayan Mysteries: Your Way to a Better Life, Mayan Order, 1944
- Dawn, Rose (1958), The Yucatan Story, The Mayan Order
- Dawn, Rose (1959), The Miracle Power, Mayan Press
- Dawn, Rose (1966), The Search for Happiness, The Mayan Order
- Mayan Order Revelation Lessons: https://archive.org/details/MayanOrderRevelation
The group published a regular newsletter, The Daily Meditation: http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/daily_meditation/
Reading
- Crawford, Bill; Fowler, Gene (Feb. 1990), "Old Age, New Age", Texas Monthly: 76, 78, https://books.google.com/books?id=Ny4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA76
- Buescher, John Benedict (2021), Radio Psychics: Mind Reading and Fortune Telling in American Broadcasting, 1920-1940, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, https://www.amazon.com/Radio-Psychics-American-Broadcasting-1920-1940/dp/1476684650/?tag=apopheniacs-20