Articles in Mayan Calendar
Dec 21, 2012: The Darkest Day
What if the end date of the ancient Mayan Long Count calendar was not meant to be taken literally?
The first question you need to ask is this: Dec 21 is also the Winter Solstice (in the northern hemisphere) – the darkest day of the year, so it is a coincidence or deliberate?
The second question is, if the date is deliberate, then why?
If there is a scientific basis to the Long Count calendar, if it is ultimately reflecting a scientific prediction, then there are still more questions:
Is there anything about a Winter Solstice than can cause a catastrophe?
Could an ancient culture predict a catastrophe, thousands of years away, accurate to a single day?
Or is Dec 21, 2012 a symbolic date for a scientific prediction for approximately Dec 2012?
What we do know:
The ancient Germanic people celebrated the solstice with Yule logs
The very ancient Newgrange tomb in Ireland is aligned to the winter …
2012: Transit of Venus
The planet Venus was important to the Maya civilization, who developed a religious calendar based in part upon its motions, and held the motions of Venus to determine the propitious time for events such as war. They named it Noh Ek’, the Great Star, and Xux Ek’, the Wasp Star. The Maya were aware of the planet’s synodic period, and could compute it to within a hundredth part of a day. (source: Wikipedia)
The Transit of Venus is pretty much the same as a solar eclipse, except that it is Venus passing in front of the Sun, and not the Moon. The other key difference is that from our point of view Venus appears much smaller in the sky, and it will not blot out the Sun:
Transits of Venus only occur roughly every 100 years, in pairs that are 8 years apart. The first of the current pair was in 2004, and the second is …
Popol Vuh? Vaticano-Latin Codex? Aztec Sun Stone?
The Popol Vuh, the Vaticano-Latin Codex and the Aztec Sun Stone are the primary sources for the 2012 Doomsday meme. Yet when I search Google News for references in the last week – a week in which 2012 has been covered by virtually every western newspaper – there is a singular mention of the Popol Vuh in an Indian newspaper, and that is it.
Is there a conspiracy to hide the truth? No, it’s just lazy reporting. Real lazy. Basically reporters have just looked at whatever made the news regarding 2012 in the last month or two and regurgitated it.
Mentioned the most has been NASA debunking anything to do with 2012, and scholars dismissing the Tortuguero monument:
One glyphic text that records the date 13.0.0.0.0, a carved stone plaque from the Mexican site of Tortuguero, was ambiguously read by Maya scholars in 1996 as possibly predicting an ominous event — the “descent” …
The Last Doomsday
It’s not a contradiction of terms – plenty of 2012 debunkers will let you know that every other doomsday prophecy was wrong. Well, it only takes one doomsday prophecy to be right – so how do we judge them?
Historically, regardless of how popular they became, doomsday prophecies tended to be based on the ideas of a religiously motivated individual. The most recent was Harold Camping. Aside from Y2K, all the major doomsday predictions that failed were:
Based on the Bible
Used dodgy logic, usually revolving around numbers or codes
Promoted by an individual
And Y2K was real, but we fixed it. And it wasn’t a prophecy, but rather reality.
The Mayan prophecy (and there is an implied prophecy, according to the Popol Vuh each previous “age” ended with the destruction of the human race) is not Biblical, doesn’t feel the need to offer any logic, and was embraced by an entire society. Nothing like anything …
Sven Gronemeyer: No Doomsday
Gronemeyer has been studying the stone tablet found years ago at the archeological site of Tortuguero in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
He said the inscription describes the return of mysterious Mayan god Bolon Yokte at the end of a 13th period of 400 years, known as Baktuns, on the equivalent of Dec. 21, 2012. Mayans considered 13 a sacred number. There’s nothing apocalyptic in the date, he said.
The text was carved about 1,300 years ago. The stone has cracked, which has made the end of the passage almost illegible.
Gronemeyer said the inscription refers to the end of a cycle of 5,125 years since the beginning of the Mayan Long Count calendar in 3113 B.C.
The above is well-known. What would have caught the attention of readers was the title of the Telegraph article – The end of the world not happening – for now …
Dec 21, 2012: Second Mayan Reference
Mayan experts keen to debunk 2012 doomsday theories used to point out how strange it was that the Mayans never mentioned the specific date of (their equivalent to) Dec 21, 2012, not anywhere. The only way we knew of it is by determining when their Long Count would finish, and start again. Then a few years ago some scholars let us in on a secret, the date is inscribed upon Tortuguero Monument 6:
…(long ago) it happened, the day Eight Chuwen, the ninth of Mak
when the Becoming-Ripe-House was constructed(?).
It was the ‘underground house’ (shrine) of (the god) Ahkal K’uk’.
It was two and nine-score days, three years, eight-score years and 3 x 400 years
(before) the Thirteenth Bak’tun will end
on Four Ajaw, the third of Uniiw,
when ..?.. it will occur,
the descent..?.. of B’olon Yookte’ at ..?..
Given that there was just one mention, experts assured us that Dec 21 2012 was not an important …
Skeptic Avoids Long Count Calendar
You can really sense the fear when experts and authority figures use spin rather than logic to discredit something.
Today’s press release from the University of Kansas, regarding the work of anthropologist and Maya scholar John Hoopes, is all about debunking 11/11/11 and 2012.
The next big date to consider is 11/11/11, when many in the New Age movement plan celebrations to receive emerging energies in preparation for a transformation of consciousness on Dec. 21, 2012.
Whether these dates mark a time for transformation of consciousness or a catastrophic end, they are part of a 2012 eschatological myth that originated with Christopher Columbus and Franciscan missionaries, not the ancient Maya calendar, Hoopes emphasizes.
I presume Hoopes is suggesting that in the 1500s the concept of a religious doomsday was popular, and he believes that is the main …
David Wilcock: The Source Field Investigations
It’s quite common for 2012ish researchers to present information from disparate directions, without being convincing as to why each element connects to the other. David Wilcock is a great example. His video that preludes his book, The Source Field Investigations: The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies (released in a fortnight), covers many different angles:
Hypnosis
Astral Bodies
Coincident Inventions
Pineal Gland (I love the Vatican connection…)
Elongated Skulls
Climate Change throughout the Solar System
Rapid DNA Change
The US Dollar Bill
While he segues well between each topic, it is never very clear why the powers-that-be did such things, and there’s a general lack of cohesion.
BUT, David does tend to present information that is not well-known, such as this gob-smacker:
Click here for a closer look, where you will see the Aztec Sun Stone, which is essentially the Mayan Long Count calendar. This is part of the frieze within the Capitol building in Washington D.C., created …
Geoff Stray: 13-Baktun vs 20-Baktun
There are more than a few 2012 experts out there who will tell you that the end of the Long Count calendar is actually in 4772 AD and there is nothing to worry about meanwhile. This is based on a handful of inscriptions that show dates beyond the end of the 13th baktun. Geoff Stray has just published a paper that I presume is the most comprehensive discussion on the merits of the two points of view – and it concludes that 2012 is the end of the Long Count. He also hints that the 20 baktun concept has new age bias. According to Geoff:
This essay re-states the arguments that were built over 50 years, culminating in the realisation circa 1950, that it is not an either/or situation, but that the Maya had a 13-baktun era for historic dates within the current era, (with 5 numeric places) and a 20-baktun …
Latest iPhone App for 2012
Convert modern time (on your iPhone) into ancient Mayan time, with full descriptions of what this really means… It is called 1320Sync
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Dec 21 2011 is -366 Day
Like a NASA rocket launch, we can create a 2012 countdown. While several 2012 countdowns have been running for some time, an “official” countdown would have more gravity. I don’t need to explain the power of “this time next year” and how it can translate globally.
So rather than just suggesting, I am stating: Dec 21 2011 will be known as -366 day. The reference to the leap year could lessen the wrath from the scientific community.
The concept is simple. On Dec 21 2011, merely take a trial run of whatever you believe will happen one year later.
If you have unconvinced family, it’s a good opportunity to show them that the exercise is more like a campimg trip.
If you are unsure how committed you are, use this day to test our convictions.
If you have a Über-bunker in the distant highlands, use this day to test that everything works.
Or even just have …
Merry Xmas – Three Years To Go
Christmas is a great time for re-assessing what is most important in life. We (adults) might notice how little we care for presents, and how much we appreciate the family and friends who we spend the festive season with. We get to have some time away from the 9 to 5 job, a short burst of freedom from the daily grind. Unless you are the one doing all the cooking
This week also reminds us that there are only three years remaining until the end of the Mayan Long Count calendar – whatever that will mean. For me personally, it is a kick up the backside. Like a mid-life crisis, I am getting the feeling that time is running out, and if I am going to make a bigger effort, it needs to start right now.
If you get a chance, and the weather is nice, go for a drive. …
Spooky Action from Supernova in 3113BC?
Swiss physicists have unleashed a large-scale experiment that proves what Einstein described as “spooky action at a distance.” Although this has been proven previously, this is the first time it has been shown to work over a long distance.
From Geneva they sent a pair of photons along fiber-optic cables, one to each village. When they measured one photon upon its arrival, the other changed instantaneously —though it was 11 miles away. This weird linkage, called quantum entanglement, raises exotic possibilities like teleportation. When two particles are entangled, the measurement of one immediately affects the other, no matter how distant.
…One might assume that one particle sent an ultrafast signal to its partner, says physicist Nicolas Gisin, a member of the University of Geneva team. If that were true, the quantum communiqué would have traveled at more than 10,000 times the speed of light, something difficult to reconcile with the known laws …
The Calendar Ends Because It Has To?
I just read this blog post that was submitted here as a comment:http://shanmadham.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html
I’m not a fan of his main theory:As Solar Sun aligns with the galatical center in 2012, the electro magnetic gravitational forces balances out only after massive Solar flaring of huge Mass Energy ejection leading to creation of tiny planet between Sun and Mercury.
But then he proceeds to make a very valid point:“Around the Sun in 365.2425 days” by Earth will change and we have to revolve longer to curcumscribe our Solar Sun. Perhaps this is too a reason why Mayan/Aztec’s calenders end on 21 dec 2012 and they didnt calculate Calendrical system/Time after Time Wave Zero in 2012.
If there was to be a pole shift, or some kind of disturbance within the Solar System, then the Long Count calendar, which the ancient Mayans used for such things as predicting eclipses, would no longer be accurate. Even if …
