Mayan Calendar Prophecies: The Complete Collection of 2012 Predictions and Prophecies (18 page)

Palenque was ruled by a man named Pakal who was born in 603 AD, just 63 years after the impact event of 540 AD. Pakal ruled Palenque for 68 years until his death in 683 AD. On the West Tablet from Palenque, a “prophecy” connects Pakal’s accession date to a date in the far future: October 23, 4772.

Curiously, astronomers have noted that comet Swift-Tuttle has a small chance of collision with Earth on September 15, 4479
[160]
. Since the comet has a 133-year orbit even if it does not collide with Earth in 4479, its close approach could alter its orbit causing it to collide in one of its subsequent returns either in 4612 or 4745.

Swift-Tuttle is significantly larger than the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs thus an impact with this comet would be devastating to life on Earth. This would truly be the end of the world as we know it. Could the Maya have projected its orbit into the future and calculated a future impact around 4772? The astronomical and mathematical accomplishments of the Maya prove they were more than capable of making such forecasts.

Interestingly, the lid of Pakal’s sarcophagus features a world tree with a Celestial Quetzal Bird at the top. The symbolism is quite similar to stela 2 from Izapa and the Mayan Blowgunner Vase both of which seem to be related to impact events. Was Pakal trying to send a message to the future about this deadly comet?

Lid of Pakal’s sarcophagus featuring a Celestial Bird at the top of a cross or World Tree. (Courtesy Wikipedia.)

Interestingly, the Mayan calendar’s start date is August 11, 3114 BC. August 11
th
just happens to correspond to the peak night of the Perseid meteor shower. The Perseids are created by dust and debris from the Comet Swift-Tuttle. Did the Maya purposefully restart their calendar on this date to encode this meteor shower in order to alert the future about the dangers of Comet Swift-Tuttle?

Or was the calendar’s start date incidental and, instead, it was purposefully designed to end on December 21, 2012 in order to coincide with a galactic alignment as theorized by John Major Jenkins in his book
Maya Cosmogenesis 2012
? As we have seen throughout this book the Galactic Center appears to have played a primary role in the events of both 10,500 BC and 3300 BC. Were the Maya purposefully using the end date of their calendar to direct our attention to the Galactic Center to highlight the dangers that lurk there?

As the preceding chapters have shown, a major impact event occurred near the end of the last calendar cycle and prophecies suggest another such event is expected around the end of the current calendar cycle. But the key word is “near.” In fact, the impact event around 3300 BC occurred nearly two hundred years before the end of the previous calendar cycle that ended on August 11, 3114 BC.

The best way to think of this is to compare Mayan predictions to modern scientific forecasts. For instance, imagine a geologist who plotted on a linear timeline the date of every eruption of a particular volcano. After looking through his data suppose the geologist noted that the volcano appeared to erupt once every 5,000 years. Now imagine he realized that the last eruption was 4999 years ago. Would this mean that the volcano would erupt the next year on the very last day of the 5000-year cycle?

Of course not. That is not how cycles work. The volcano could erupt a week later, a month later or five years later. It could erupt twenty years later. Or it could have moved off its hotspot and never erupt again. The cycle only shows the average time between eruptions in the past. But once you reach the end of a cycle it lets you know that you have left the “safe zone” and that the probability of an eruption increases.

This is likely the same message the ancient Maya were trying to send to their future descendants by encoding this 5,000 year cycle into their calendar. They were likely trying to warn their descendants that at the end of the current calendar cycle the probability of a catastrophic impact event would increase.

But the fact is, we do not really understand why the Maya encoded a 5000-year cycle into their calendar. What we do know is that astronomers have determined that there appears to be a 500-year cycle, 1000-year cycle, and a 3,000-year cycle of impact events on Earth. Did the Maya know of a 5,000-year cycle that our scientists have yet to discover?

Based on the research for this book I believe this is very likely the case. It has become very clear over the course of researching and writing this book that all the Mesoamerican cultures from the Maya to the Aztecs believed in cycles of catastrophes that impacted Earth. Most of these catastrophes appear to have been impact events and the associated mega-tsunamis, floods, rains of fire, and dust-induced darkness and climate downturns associated with such events.

All Mesoamerican religion appears to have been focused on avoiding such catastrophes in the future through various rituals including human sacrifice. Is it a coincidence that riots occurred in the elite quarters of Teotihuacan after the impact event of 540 AD? Undoubtedly the elites and priests of this culture assured their citizens that they could protect them from future catastrophes. The citizens made their offerings, put up with the horror of human sacrifice, even offering up their own children for this purpose, yet despite all of these efforts and the assurances of their leaders, still another such event occurred. Would it not be easy to then turn on those same rulers who had now been exposed as the frauds they truly were?

The closest thing we have to compare this mindset to is the promises made to us by our elected officials after the tragedy of 9/11. Citizens were promised by their governments that no such terrorist act would ever be allowed to happen again. Citizens have given up many freedoms, sacrificed their children in wars, and subjected themselves to all manner of security “rituals” at airports and other locations all for the assurance that these things are necessary in order to prevent a future catastrophe like 9/11. We will take off our shoes, submit to body scans, pat downs, and strip searches and even allow our children to be subjected to the same all for the sake of preventing another such catastrophe.

Yet imagine what would happen if terrorists were able to board aircraft and duplicate the events of 9/11? This would prove that all of our sacrifices were in vain and all of the security “rituals” were nothing more than theatrics to make us
feel
safer without actually making us safer. Would we as citizens continue to believe our elected officials’ guarantees that they could protect us? Or would we lose faith and even riot against our officials for their failures?

Once one understands the core fear underlying Mesoamerican beliefs, these cultures stop seeming so alien and become more human. They become just like us. They become people simply trying to make it day-to-day whose leaders preyed on their fears in order to enrich and empower themselves. With this knowledge, it is quite easy to relate to the ancient Maya despite all the superficial differences that previously made them seem so strange, foreign, and exotic.

The Maya were just like us except they knew a horrible truth about our past…and future. Our own astronomers and scientists are just beginning to learn this truth as well but there is still resistance to actually accepting that such catastrophes could happen to
us
, in our lifetimes. There is almost a sense of arrogance that somehow we are special and the laws of physics simply do not apply to us and our “advanced” civilization. Yet one can be assured, the laws of physics do not have exceptions for us. At some point our luck will run out and we, like our ancestors, will come face to face with the “stream from heaven,” as Plato called it. And at that point the ancient “myths” will no longer seem so mythological and we will wish we had taken their warnings more seriously.

My research began with a simple question: why did many ancient Native American civilizations in the Southeastern United States only last for 250 years? This question eventually led me to discover the Mayan belief in a 256-year cycle that regulated the rise and fall of civilizations. From here I learned of the many prophecies or predictions the Maya had for the future and how accurate they had been for similar periods in the past.

I was shocked that in all the discussions in the mainstream media about the “end of the Mayan calendar” not once were
the real Mayan prophecies
ever discussed. Lots of conjecture and pontification about what the “end” of the Mayan calendar may or may not have meant; yet, nothing about the actual Mayan system of predictions based on repeating historic cycles. At this point I decided to dig deeper to learn what else the mainstream media, 2012 “true believers,” and 2012 “debunkers” had missed in this discussion on the beliefs of the ancient Maya.

While doing further research I discovered that there was a 250-year seismic cycle and 250-year solar cycle. In my attempt to understand the possible connections between these cycles I discovered that everything from disease outbreaks to insect infestations appeared to be influenced by solar cycles. More importantly, the human psyche appeared to be influenced both positively and negatively by these same solar cycles. Finally, my research led me to discover that another source of influence, namely the Galactic Center, was likely a contributing factor as well.

But what surprised me the most was how little we still knew about the universe. Things that ancient cultures seemed very aware of, i.e., periodic bombardments from the heavens leading to massive devastation on Earth, our “advanced” civilization only learned about in the past few decades. I was amazed at how accurate many of these Mayan “myths” were once one realized the reality of what they were describing. These “myths” stopped sounding superstitious and started sounding scientific.

Before undertaking this research I had no idea of the many dangers lurking in the Universe in which we live. I had no idea there were so many earth-crossing asteroids and comets. I had no idea that hidden dangers lurked within the beautiful meteor showers I watched in awe each year. I had no idea of the connection between the Galactic Center and life on earth. Who knew something so far away could have such serious consequences for life on Earth. Who knew the sun could possibly experience super-flares that could set forests on fire. Who knew meteors could cause mega-tsunamis that could wipe out entire civilizations with mountainous waves.

And who knew human beings could survive such unbelievable catastrophes? More amazing than the cosmic catastrophes was the awareness that all of us alive today had ancestors who witnessed these events, experienced these events and somehow managed to survive these events and passed the stories down to us.

This is what everyone in the 2012 debate has completely missed. It is not about the end of the world. It is about
listening
to the stories of the past
not
ignoring
them and making prudent decisions based on the lessons we can learn from them. It is inevitable that another super solar storm impacts Earth and we are simply not prepared for it. It is inevitable that an asteroid eventually slams into Earth and we are simply not prepared for it. It is inevitable that another pandemic sweeps the globe and we are simply not prepared for it.

So for those with eyes to see and ears to hear, the ancient stories have a wealth of information to share. It is up to each of us to make the necessary decisions that will decide whether the genetic heritage we inherited from our courageous ancestors will continue into the future or get snuffed out at the next catastrophe. The only guarantee is that the next catastrophe will certainly come and will likely come unexpectedly. What one does with this awareness will, of course, determine much.

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