The 2012 Story (63 page)

Read The 2012 Story Online

Authors: John Major Jenkins

BOOK: The 2012 Story
6.59Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
13
Porterfield, Kay Marie. “Ten Lies about Indigenous Science—How to Talk Back.”
http://www.kporterfield.com/aicttw/articles/lies.html
. See also Porterfield, Kay Marie, and Emory Dean Keoke.
The Encyclopedia of American Indian Contributions to the World: 15,000 Years of Invention and Innovation
, which details more than 450 examples of indigenous science and independent innovation from the abacus to zucchini.
14
Stephens, John Lloyd.
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas & Yucatan.
London: Century, 1988, p. 49.
15
Tompkins, Peter.
Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids.
New York: Harper & Row, 1976, pp. 166-167.
16
Woolley, Benjamin.
The Queen’s Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee.
17
Salisbury, Jr., Stephen.
The Mayas, the Sources of Their History: Dr. Le Plongeon in Yucatan, His Account of Discoveries.
Worcester: Press of Charles Hamilton, 1877, p. 65.
18
Ibid., p. 65.
19
Coe, Michael.
Breaking the Maya Code
, revised edition, 1999, p. 138; Long, Richard. “Maya and Mexican Writing.”
Maya Research
2 (1). New Orleans, 1935.
20
Coe, Michael.
Breaking the Maya Code
, revised edition, 1999, p. 138.
21
Graham, Ian.
Alfred Maudslay and the Maya, A Biography.
Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002, p. 102.
22
Goodman, Joseph T.
The Archaic Maya Inscriptions.
Volume 5 of Maudslay, Alfred,
Biologia Centrali-Americana
, 1897, pp. ii-iv.
23
Ibid., p. iv.
24
Ibid., p. v.
25
Coe, Michael.
Breaking the Maya Code
, revised edition, 1999, p. 140.
26
Thompson, J. Eric S.
Maya Hieroglyphic Writing: An Introduction
. Publication 589, Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1950, p. 295. For essays exploring anagogical themes in world literature, see Strelka, Joseph P.
Anagogic Qualities of Literature
. University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1971.
27
Campbell, Joseph.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
, second edition. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1968, p. 3.
28
Houston, Stephen. “Classic Maya Depictions of the Built Environment.”
Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture,
ed. Stephen Houston. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1998, p. 355; and discussion, pp. 348-363.
29
Thompson, J
.
Eric S. “A Correlation of the Mayan and European Calendars.” Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Series, 17(1):1-22, 1927, pp. 19-21.
http://www.archive.org/details/
correlationofmay171thom.
CHAPTER 2. THE LONG CAREER OF THE LONG COUNT
1
Malmström, Vincent.
Cycles of the Sun, Mysteries of the Moon
. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1997, p. 258.
2
Tedlock, Barbara. “The Road of Light: Theory and Practice of Mayan Skywatching.”
The Sky in Mayan Literature
, ed. by Anthony F. Aveni. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 18-42.
3
Wilber, Ken.
No Boundary
. Boston and London: Shambhala Publications, 1981.
4
Edmonson, Munro.
Book of the Year: Middle American Calendrical Systems.
Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.
5
Coe, Michael. “Cycle 7 Monuments in Middle America: A Reconsideration.”
American Anthropologist
59, 1957, p. 606.
6
Guernsey, Julia.
Rituals & Power in Stone
. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2006, p. 14.
7
Schele, Linda, Peter Mathews, and Floyd Lounsbury. “Redating the Hauberg Stela.”
Texas Notes
, No. 1, 1990.
http://www.utmesoamerica.org/texas_notes/TN-01.pdf
.
8
Rice, Prudence M.
Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materialization of Time.
Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2007.
9
Coe, Michael.
The Maya.
Great Britain: Thames & Hudson, 1966.
10
Malmström, Vincent. “Origin of the Mesoamerican 260-Day Calendar.”
Science,
181, 1973, pp. 939-941.
11
Coe, Michael.
Mexico,
third edition, revised and enlarged. London: Thames & Hudson, 1988, p. 86.
12
Schieber de Lavarreda, Christa, and Miguel Orrego Corzo.
Abaj Takalik.
Guatemala City: Proyecto Nacional Tak-alik Ab’aj, Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, 2001, p. 37.
13
Rice, Prudence M.
Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materialization of Time.
Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2007.
14
These day-sign translations come from Dennis Tedlock,
Breath on the Mirror
. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994, pp. 233-234.
15
Freidel, David, Linda Schele, and Joy Parker.
Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman’s Path
. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1993, p. 67ff.
16
Jenkins, John Major. “The Equation of Maya Time,” in
The Solstice-Galaxy Alignment in 2012
. Denver, CO: Four Ahau Press, 2005.
17
Jenkins, John Major. “Katun Beginnings Which Conjunct Seasonal Quarters.”
Tzolkin.
Garberville, CA: Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, 1994, pp. 300-301.
18
Schele, Linda, and David Freidel.
Forest of Kings.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1990, p. 158.
19
Michael Grofe, personal communication: e-mail to me March 2009.
20
Milbrath, Susan.
Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars.
Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1999, p. 293.
21
Taube, Karl. “The Jade Hearth: Centrality, Rulership, and the Classic Maya Temple.”
Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture,
ed. by Stephen Houston. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1998, pp. 427-478.
22
Puleston, Dennis E. “An Epistemological Pathology and the Collapse, or Why the Maya Kept the Short Count.”
Maya Archaeology and Ethnohistory
, ed. by Norman Hammond and Gordon R. Willey. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1979, pp. 63-71.
23
Grofe, Michael John.
The Serpent Series: Precession in the Maya Dresden Codex
. PhD dissertation. Davis: University of California, 2007; Grofe, Michael. “Fruit from the Cacao Tree: From the Haab’ to Precession.” Miami: Institute of Maya Studies newsletter, vol. 38, issues 5 and 6 (May and June, 2009).
24
Carlsen, Robert S.
The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town
. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1997.
25
Edmonson, Munro.
The Ancient Future of the Itza: The Book of Chilam Balam of Tizimin
. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1982.
26
Edmonson, Munro S. “Baktun Ceremonial of 1618.”
The Fourth Palenque Round Table,
1980, vol. VI, ed. by Merle Greene Robertson and Elizabeth P. Benson. San Francisco: Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute, 1985.
27
Stray, Geoff. “An Open Letter to Robert Sitler (and ensuing correspondence).”
http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/sit.htm
. 2006.
28
The enforced English education thrust upon Hopi children by government policy is an example of this. See Frank Waters,
Book of the Hopi
.
29
Wikipedia entry, “Jacinto Canek.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacinto_Canek
.
30
Coe, Michael.
Breaking the Maya Code
, revised edition. London: Thames & Hudson, 1999, p. 275.
31
“It could also refer to the end of the millennium at Oxlan B’ak’tun.” Montejo, Victor.
El Q’anil: Man of Lightning,
English trans. by Wallace Kaufman and Susan G. Rascón. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001, p. 26 and pp. 97-98.
CHAPTER 3. SEDUCTIVE SPELLS
1
Srimad Tandavaraya Swami’s Tamil text, 1408-1534. English trans. by Tantavaraya Cuvamikal. Series, Publication no. 1. Thanjavur, India: Kala Samrakshana Sangkam, 1995.
2
Vinson Brown’s introduction to Tony Shearer’s
Lord of the Dawn, Quetzalcoatl.
Healdsburg, CA: Naturegraph Publishers, 1971, p. 3.
3
Argüelles, José.
The Transformative Vision
. Boulder and London: Shambhala, 1975, p. 304. A common error in reporting the beginning date confused the calculational year “-3113” with the historical year 3114 BC.
4
McKenna, Terence.
True Hallucinations
. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993, p. 111.
5
McKenna, Terence. “Temporal Resonance.”
ReVision: A Journal of Consciousness and Transformation,
vol. 10, no. 1, 1987, pp. 25-30; McKenna, Terence.
The Archaic Revival.
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.
6
Terence McKenna in his introduction to Jenkins’s
Maya Cosmogenesis 2012
, Bear & Company, 1998, p. XXVII.
7
Griffin, David R (ed.).
Physics and the Ultimate Significance of Time
. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1986.
8
Waters, Frank.
Mexico Mystique.
Chicago: Sage Books, 1975, p. viii.
9
Tompkins, Peter.
Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids.
New York: Harper & Row, 1976, p. 399.
10
PAN Agent 11 on behalf of PAN Agents 22 and 185. “Mexico—Anahuac 2002.”
http://www.tortuga.com/foundation/teotihuacan.html
.
11
South, Stephanie.
2012: Biography of a Time Traveler
. Franklin Lakes, N.J.: New Page Press, 2009, p. 159.
12
Ibid., p. 172.
13
Shearer, Tony. “Tony Shearer: The Mythmaker.” August 1987. Recorded by Thomas Lofstrom / ECS.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6579324553647980067
.
14
Brian Swimme’s introduction to
The Mayan Factor
, 1987, p. 10.
15
Ibid., p. 146.
16
See John Major Jenkins, “On 2012 & the Galactic Alignment,” Bouncing Bear Films, September 2008,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYbg3_GHZ5Y
.
17
South, Stephanie.
2012: Biography of a Time Traveler.
Franklin Lakes, N.J.: New Page Press, 2009, p. 303; Braden, Gregg.
Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age
. Hay House, 2009; de Vinente, Enrique. “El Gran Alineamiento Galáctico.”
Año Cero.
Madrid: Spain, 2009, pp. 24-32. (
www.akasico.com
)
18
Jenkins, John Major.
Tzolkin: Visionary Perspectives and Calendar Studies.
Garberville, CA: Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, 1994, p. 151.
19
Jenkins, John Major. “A Manifesto for Clarity.” For the Institute of Maya Studies. 1995. Jenkins, John Major. “A Manifesto for Clarity.” Miami: Institute of Maya Studies, 1995.
http://alignment2012.com/manifesto.htm
.
20
Jenkins, John Major. “Following Dreamspell.” November 2002.
http://Alignment2012.com/following.html
.
21
Father Sun Speaks: Cosmic Mayan Message for the 21st Century
. VHS tape. Footage of Hunbatz Men facilitating the 1995 solar initiations at Dzibilchaltún and Chichén Itzá. Produced by Baird Bryant, conceived by Patricia Quinn.
http://www.portalmarket.com/humbatz.html
.
23
South, Stephanie.
2012: Biography of a Time Traveler.
Franklin Lakes, N.J.: New Page Press, 2009, pp. 157-158.
24
See “History of an Idea,” Appendix 1 to
Maya Cosmogenesis 2012.
25
Dozens of other factual problems are detailed in my online review essay,
http://alignment2012.com/mproph.htm
.
26
Cotterell, Maurice, and Adrian Gilbert.
The Mayan Prophecies
, p. 211.
27
“Terence McKenna: The Last Interview. A Conversation with Erik Davis.” Resonant Media, Lux Natura, 2003.
CHAPTER 4. BREAKTHROUGHS OR BREAKDOWN?
1
Tedlock, Barbara. “Maya Calendars, Cosmology, and Astronomical Commensuration.”
New Theories on the Ancient Maya
, ed. by Elin C. Danien and Robert J. Sharer, University Museum Symposium Series, vol. 3, University Museum Monograph 77. Philadelphia: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1992, p. 224.
2
de Santillana, Giorgio.
The Crime of Galileo
. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1955.
3
Kuhn, Thomas.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Chicago: University of Chicago, 1962.
4
Insightful books on the universal doctrine of sacrifice and initiatory death-rebirth are many. Stanzione, Vincent.
Rituals of Sacrifice
. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003; Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. “On the Loathly Bride.”
Coomaraswamy 1, Selected Papers: Traditional Art and Symbolism
, ed. by Roger Lipsey. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1977; Campbell, Joseph.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1949; Eliade, Mircea.
Rites and Symbols of Initiation,
trans. by Willard Trask. London: Harvill Press, 1958; Frazer, James.
The Golden Bough.
England, 1890; Henderson, Joseph L., and Maude Oakes.
Wisdom of the Serpent: The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and Resurrection
. New York: George Braziller, 1963; Kingsley, Peter.
In the Dark Places of Wisdom
. Inverness, CA: The Golden Sufi Center, 1999.

Other books

And Yet... by Christopher Hitchens
The Conservationist by Gordimer, Nadine
Augusta Played by Kelly Cherry
A Love of My Own by E. Lynn Harris
Ollie by Olivier Dunrea
Volt: Stories by Alan Heathcock
Ghoul Interrupted by Victoria Laurie