
One inscription, known as Tortuguero monument 6, is generally agreed among Mayanists to refer to the 2012 date. It has been partially defaced; Mayanist scholar Mark Van Stone has given the most complete translation:
- Tzuhtz-(a)j-oom u(y)-uxlajuun pik
- The Thirteenth [b'ak'tun] will end
- (ta) Chan Ajaw ux(-te') Uniiw.
- (on) 4 Ajaw, the 3rd of Uniiw [3 K'ank'in].
- Uht-oom Ek'-...
- Black ... will occur.
- Y-em(al) ... Bolon Yookte' K'uh ta-chak-ma...
- (It will be) the descent(?) of Bolon Yookte' K'uh to the great (or red?).
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Our galaxy has a centre which all the stars take millions of years to revolve around, and it is located in the starriest part of the Milky Way, as seen from Earth. On four occasions within the 25,800-year cycle our galactic centre aligns with the sunrise of a solstice or equinox. The last time it occurred was on a fall equinox 6,450 years ago, approximately the dawn of Old World civilisations. On Dec 21, 2012, which is a winter solstice (Northern Hemisphere) this centre will align with our sun once more. Jenkins presents a mass of astrological, monumental and mythological evidence to show the importance of this event for the Maya, and how their calendar runs out on this day for a reason. Unfortunately he is not sure what that reason is.His book mentions:
a door into the heart of space and time will open[1]
Image of a date inscription
for the Mayan Long Count.
the cosmos will be reborn or recreated[2]
we will reach the Zero Point of the process - a moment of collective spiritual birth[3]
".our basic orientations will be inverted. On the level of human civilization, our basic assumptions and foundation values will be exposed, and we will have the opportunity to embrace values long since driven under the surface of our collective consciousness"[4]
"On a literal level of interpretation, one supported by many popular writers, the field-effect reversal that mystics and futurists intuitively feel occurring on this planet bodes an impending pole shift, a literal shift in the position of the Earth's North Celestial Pole, an event that would have disastrous effects around the globe. I suppose there is not much we can do about it... I prefer to emphasize what might be termed a pole shift in our collective psyche. This places the possibility of successful, positive transformation squarely in our own hands."[5]
So, what will happen? Maybe the McKenna's flood of change, a global cataclysm or the dawning of the Age of Aquarius? Could there be a new age love-fest in 2012?
" from http://survive2012.com/index.php/galactic-alignment.html "
Age of Aquarius
No one knows when it starts! The twelve zodiacal constellations are of different sizes, and the borders between them are very indistinct. We will be moving into the New Aquarian Age of western astrology sometime within the next 200 years. There is no singlular date on which it will happen, just a gradual change. In the same vein we find hidden in the fifth appendix of Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 an admission from Jenkins that.
"it would be more accurate to say that the alignment occurs in the era of AD. 2012; because precession is such a slow phenomenon, fifty years on either side might be appropriate." [Author's italics][6]
It appears we must look elsewhere for the why and how of what may happen. It is unlikely that the Mayan calendar end-date coincidentally occurs on a solstice, yet a solstice is only an annual position within our orbit around the sun - a solstice on its own cannot change or harm us. I suggest that 2012 is a year that the Maya always knew of, a year in which a cosmic activity will affect our planet. Their choice of Dec 21 to end the calendar on was chosen only because the winter solstice is the gloomiest day of the year, and the most appropriate day to form myths around.
[1] John Major Jenkins, Maya Cosmogenisis 2012 (1998), Bear & Co, page xlvii
[2] John Major Jenkins, Maya Cosmogenisis 2012 (1998), Bear & Co, page 30
[3] John Major Jenkins, Maya Cosmogenisis 2012 (1998), Bear & Co, page xlvi
[4] John Major Jenkins, Maya Cosmogenisis 2012 (1998), Bear & Co, page 329
[5] John Major Jenkins, Maya Cosmogenisis 2012 (1998), Bear & Co, page 330
[6] John Major Jenkins, Maya Cosmogenisis 2012 (1998), Bear & Co, page 361
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- Hopi Predict a 25yr period of purification followed by End of Fourth World and beginning of the Fifth.
- Mayans Call it the 'end days' or the end of time as we know it.
- Maoris Say that as the veils dissolve there will be a merging of the physical & spiritual worlds.
- Zulu Believe that the whole world will be turned upside down.
- Hindus Kali Yuga (end time of man). The Coming of Kalki & critical mass of Enlightened Ones.
- Incas Call it the 'Age of Meeting Ourselves Again'.
- Aztec Call this the Time of the Sixth Sun. A time of transformation. Creation of new race.
- Dogon Say that the spaceship of the visitors, the Nommo, will return in the form of a blue star
- Pueblo Acknowledge it'll be the emergence into the Fifth World
- Cherokee Their ancient calendar ends exactly at 2012 as does the Mayan calendar.
- Tibetan Kalachakra teachings are prophesies left by Buddha predicting Coming of the Golden Age.
- Egypt According to the Great Pyramid (stone calendar), present time cycle ends in year 2012 AD
- "from http://churchofcriticalthinking.org/planetx.html "
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