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Although many are focused on the doom and gloom possibilities surrounding them, I wish to encourage you to live in the Moment, face any fears that present themselves to you and fill your heart, soul and mind with thoughts of gratitude and love for your fellow man.
The information on this page is offered to give you a basic idea of how the date December 21, 2012 has come to the forefront as a possible time of great change.
Know that you are the creator of your future, beginning with each thought, word and emotion in this Moment. There is no greater power than to seize the day and be the Master of who you are, right Now!
BRIEF TIMELINE OF 2012 THEORIES
1566 Diego de Landa Calderon, the first Bishop of Yucatan, records two specific Maya Long Count (MLC) dates in relation to the Gregorian calendar in his work, Relacion de las Cosas en Yucatan.
1897 Joseph Goodman, journalist, first scholar to publish a paper proposing the start day of the Maya Long Count calendar as August 11, 3114 BC. His findings were based on studies of inscriptions of Maya glyphs and supported by the Yucatan scholar, Juan Martinez’s, scrutiny of Bishop Calderon’s records.
1905 Joseph Goodman discovers correlation between the Maya Long Count calendar and the Gregorian which is still used by epigraphers today.
1937 Sir John Eric Sydney Thompson, English archeologist and Maya epigrapher publishes the Goodman, Martinez, Thompson (GMT) Correlation, stating August 13, 3114 BC as the starting date and December 21, 2012 as the ending date of the MLC calendar.
1971 Books referring to the date 2012 begin to hit the market, including Tony Shearer’s Quetzalcoatl: Lord of the Dawn (1971) and The Transformative Vision (1975) by José Argüelles, which resulted in the Harmonic Convergence on August 16, 1987.
1996 Graham Hancock publishes his book, Fingerprints of the Gods, becoming the first to express the idea that in 2012 the world will end due to a global cataclysm.
1998 Maya Cosmogenesis 2012: The True Meaning of the Maya Calendar End-Date by John Major Jenkins introduces the concept of a Galactic Alignment in the year 2012.
2000 Robert Bast launches Survive 2012, the first website devoted to the 2012 doomsday theory.
2006 The History Channel airs Decoding the Past: Mayan Doomsday Prophecy, the first of many documentaries on this topic.
2009 The movie 2012 reinforces the belief of a global cataclysm.
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2012: APOCALYPSE OR NEW WORLD?
What is the importance of December 21, 2012?
by Theresa Crabtree
Since antiquity, the Maya have recorded their history in stone throughout Mesoamerica. These Master Timekeepers have created over 20 calendars to mark the passage of cosmic and global events as well as agricultural, civil and spiritual calendars. Five of these calendars remain a mystery to those beyond the Maya Priesthood.
The calendar under debate is referenced by scholars as the Maya Long Count (MLC) calendar which is a never-ending cycle of approximately 5200 Gregorian years. This calendar was used in the Maya culture to identify events far into antiquity as well as into the future.
THE HISTORIANS
The first recorded correlation between the Christian (Julian and Gregorian) calendars and the Maya Long Count calendar was in 1566. Diego de Landa, the first Bishop of Yucatan, catalogued a limited explanation of the written and oral language of the Maya people in his treatise, Relacion de las Cosas en Yucatan. With the assistance of Maya priests, Bishop Landa recorded information on the Maya religion and culture.
At that time, the Maya followed a calendrical cycle of 256 years which scholars today commonly call the K’atun Wheel. In his Relacion, Bishop Landa mentioned two events, recording both the Christian date and the Maya date.
Landa was not aware of the Long Count calendar since it had fallen out of common use centuries prior to the influx of Europeans in the Yucatan region. However, the dates he recorded were major keys for the Maya scholars in the late 1800′s who were interested in correlating dates between the Christian calendar and the Maya Long Count calendar.
American journalist Joseph Goodman (1838 – 1917), who is widely known for “discovering” Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), became interested in the Maya Long Count while studying Maya inscriptions in the Yucatan. With his limited understanding of the Maya culture, he deciphered the Maya calendar and in 1897, published a short paper proposing August 11, 3114 BC as the starting date of the Long Count calendar.
His work was supported by Yucatan scholar, Juan Martinez, who introduced Goodman to the Chilam Balam manuscripts and the Chronicle of Oxkutzkab, both colonial documents written by the Maya which contained dates corroborating the dates in Landa’s Relacion.
Goodman expanded upon his discoveries of the correlation between the Gregorian calendar and the MLC calendar in 1905. His findings are still used by modern archaeologists and epigraphers (those who study inscriptions).
In 1927, English archaeologist and Maya epigrapher, John Eric Thompson (1898 – 1975) collaborated with John Teeple (1874 – 1931), a chemical engineer whose hobby was to study the astronomy of Maya inscriptions. Their focus was to test Goodman’s theory against astronomical data in hieroglyphic texts from the Maya Classic Period.
Teeple discovered a correlation between the Lunar Series, specifically new moon cycles, from dates inscribed at the Temple of the Sun and the Temple of the Foliated Cross at Palenque.
Ten years later, Thompson published the Goodman-Martinez-Thompson (GMT) Correlation in 1937. In this work, he asserted the starting date of the Maya Long Count calendar to be August 13, 3114 BC and was the first to publish the ending date of December 21, 2012.
To date, a wide variety of Christian calendar correlation dates have been suggested. With modern findings, especially the decoding of an inscription recording a solar eclipse on a stella in Chiapas, the GMT+2 has gained popularity. The “+2″ refers to adding two days to Goodman’s original proposal, which makes the beginning date of the Maya Long Count calendar August 13 instead of August 11. The modern Maya of Guatelmala who use the Long Count calendar follow the original GMT dates.
THE AUTHORS
In 1971, Tony Shearer published his book, Quetzalcoatl: Lord of the Dawn, which states that when Quetzalcoatl departed, he left a prophecy that he would return at the end of 13 Heavens, then 9 Hells would begin. When Cortez arrived on the shores of Yucatan at the end of the 13 Heavens, he was accepted as the reincarnation of Queztalcoatl. Thus began the 9 Hells. Knowing that each cycle lasts 52 years, Shearer calculated the ending of the 9th Hell to be on August 16/17, 1985.
As a result of Shearer’s predictions, José Argüelles, in 1975, wrote The Transformative Vision whose historical scheme was based on the prophecy of the Thirteen Heavens and Nine Hells which ended on August 16/17, 1987. Arguelles called people to gather globally on this date to welcome the age of the new Heaven. This event is known as the Harmonic Convergence. Arguelles expanded on his version of the Tzolkin calendar in his books Earth Ascending (1984) and The Mayan Factor (1987).
Graham Hancock was the frst to suggest the idea of global cataclysm in his book, Fingerprints of the Gods (1996). Hancock asserted that to avoid annihilation, mankind’s salvation lies in the ability to change their behavior on a global level.
Since Goodman’s publication in 1897, many have speculated various end dates of the Mayan Calendar, including Carl Calleman, whose books explore the meaning of the 13 Heavens and 9 Hells and predicts the end of the MLC calendar to be October 28, 2011.
WHAT WERE THE MAYA COUNTING ?
Published in 1998, Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 by independent researcher and author, John Major Jenkins, explores why the Maya Long Count calendar ends on 13.0.0.0.0 (December 21, 2012). (Please note that this calendar is cyclical and will resume on Day 1 the following day.)
Studying the star charts, Jenkins noted that a rare alignment in the earth’s precessional ( rotational) cycle would occur on the winter solstice, December 21, 2012, when the earth and sun line up with the center of the Milky Way. This alignment occurs only once every 25,800 years.
Jenkins discovered that central to the Maya, Aztec and Toltec cosmology, mythology and calendrics, is the idea of the galactic center as the source of life. The Maya have a glyph that represents a black hole at the galactic center, which they see as the birthing place of the galaxy. The existence of this black hole has only recently been confirmed by astronomers.
The Maya view the end time as the beginning of the fifth world or “Sun.” As in the past four cycles, the earth will be renewed allowing the spiritual unfoldment of humanity.
In 2006, Daniel Pinchbeck published his book, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. Pinchbeck proposes “. . . that what happens in ’2012′ depends on what humanity decides to make of it. We might see global famines and wars and increasing misery, or we might decide to institute a new planetary culture based on empathy, alternative economic systems, sustainable design, and an equitable sharing of wealth. According to the prophecies held by the Maya and other indigenous cultures, we may integrate modern scientific knowledge with Eastern spiritual wisdom and indigenous shamanism, leading to a new understanding of the physical and psychic cosmos. Rather than ‘doomsday,’ 2012 could be a time of positive transformation and the opening to a new way of life.”
In 2008, Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilization’s End by Lawrence E. Joseph was published. Joseph writes about his concern of several scientific ecological and societal threats to the planet, gives credence to the planetary alignments and the Bible Code, bashes Christian fundamentalists and demonstrates concern of an impending apocalypse in December, 2012.
INTERNET EXPLOSION
Robert Blast launched the first website devoted to the 2012 doomsday theory in 2000. The Home page of Survive 2012 states: “The Long Count Calendar of the Ancient Mayans ends on Dec 21 2012. There isn’t much information regarding what the Mayans thought would occur in 2012, but the consensus of opinion is that there will be great change. To some people this means a positive, spiritual change. Others, like myself, consider that a catastrophic event may have been predicted. “
Following on his heels, Geoff Stray created a database of information related to the year 2012 with his website, Diagnosis 2012. This site currently has links to several hundred websites devoted to the year 2012.
In 2006, the website, 2012 Forum, was launched. It is the original and largest, meeting place for discussing all theories related to the 2012 phenomenon.
MEDIA COVERAGE
In 2006, the History Channel aired Decoding the Past: Maya Doomsday Prophecy, which became the first of many similar documentaries. “The examinings of the mysterious end date (which corresponds to December 21, 2012) of the Maya Long Count calendar that has led to speculation that this marks the end of the world.”
Hollywood blockbuster, 2012, released in 2009, caused a furor of discussion among people of all walks of life. The movie is summarized as “Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. A global cataclysm brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors. “
The wave of hysteria and skepticism around the date December 21, 2012 grows exponentially each day. No one, not even the Maya knows what will occur during this time of Transition.
Instead of being overly concerned with possibilities and probabilities, you are encouraged to focus on the Now moment, recognizing that your day will flow only as smoothly as your fear and belief codes will allow. Break the patterns of negative thinking and climb out of the box to enjoy each day as though it were the first and the last day of your life.
