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| Kukulacan Temple in Chichen Itza |
2012 is the year for our biannual trip
to the Mayan Riviera for vacation. I find it interesting and ironic that the
visit coincides with the end of the Mayan Calendar. I've listened to all of the
doomsday predictions, but really don't have any more faith in them than I did
in the Y2K predictions that didn't happen either. I do have a lot of respect
for what the Mayan people accomplished in the jungles of Mexico and won't
belittle their beliefs or predictions.
I always wonder about where people get the dates that these cataclysmic
events are supposed to happen on. In this case 21 December, 2012 is the date on
a Mayan stairway in Guatemala at the La Corona site. In April–May 2012, a team of archaeologists unearthed a previously
unknown inscription on a stairway. The inscription, on what is known as
Hieroglyphic Stairway 12, describes the establishment of a royal court in
Calakmul in 635 AD, and compares the then-recent completion of 13 k'atuns with
the future completion of the 13th b'ak'tun. However, it contains no speculation
or prophecy of what the scribes believed would happen at that time.
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| Astrological Observatory at Chichen Itza |
In 1983, with the publication of
Robert J. Sharer's revised table of date correlations in the 4th edition of
Morley's "The Ancient Maya" each became convinced that 21
December 2012 had significant meaning. By 1987, the year in which he organized
the Harmonic Convergence event, Argüelles was using the date 21 December 2012
in "The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond
Technology." He claimed that
on 13 August 3113 BC the Earth began a passage through a "galactic
synchronization beam" that emanated from the center of our galaxies, that
it would pass through this beam during a period of 5200 tuns (Maya
cycles of 360 days each), and that this beam would result in "total
synchronization" and "galactic entrainment" of individuals
"plugged into the Earth's electromagnetic battery" by 13.0.0.0.0 (21
Dec. 2012). He believed that the Maya aligned their calendar to correspond to
this phenomenon.
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| Temple of 100 Columns at Chichen Itza |
I find this date has some logic to
it that many others have not, but I don't believe this is going to be a cataclysmic
event either. The Mayan's were scientists and looked at things in a different
way than others of their time did and spent a lot of time developing their calendar
and temples. The Kukulacan Temple in Chichen Itza is placed so on the Solstice
the sun's cast shadows of the corners that give the appearance of a serpent
coming down from the top of the pyramid. This is only possible if they truly
had an understanding of the cycles of the earth and documented it.
I am Looking forward
to writing my blog on the 23 December, 2012 and for some time beyond. ;o)
