1
Grofe, Michael. PhD dissertation.
The Serpent Series: Precession in the Maya Dresden Codex
. Davis, CA: University of California, 2007, p. 335.
2
Gillespie, Susan D., and Rosemary A. Joyce. “Deity Relationships in Mesoamerican Cosmology: The Case of the Maya God L.”
Ancient Mesoamerica
9, 1998, pp. 279-296; Houston, Stephen, and David Stuart. “Of Gods, Glyphs, and Kings: Divinity and Rulership Among the Classic Maya.”
Antiquity
70, 1996, pp. 289-312.
4
Linguistic critique of my Nahuatl knock-knock joke. E-mail of September 12, 2008.
5
John Justeson spoke informally about his statistical analysis of the likelihood of the solstice placement of the cycle-ending date being a coincidence at the Tulane 2012 conference, February 2009. Archived online:
http://Alignment2012.com/Tulane2009.html
.
6
Aveni, Anthony, and Horst Hartung. “Water, Mountain, Sky: The Evolution of Site Orientations in Southeastern Mesoamerica.”
Precious Greenstone, Precious Quetzal Feather,
ed. by Eloise Quiñones Keber. Labyrinthos, 2000, pp. 55-68.
7
Barbara MacLeod, e-mail of January 26, 2008.
8
Sitler, Robert K. “The 2012 Phenomenon: New Age Appropriation of an Ancient Maya Calendar.
Nova Religio
9 (3), 2006, p. 29.
10
Sitler, Robert K. “The 2012 Phenomenon: New Age Appropriation of an Ancient Maya Calendar.”
Nova Religio
9 (3), 2006.
17
Jenkins, John Major. “In the Roots of the Milky Way Tree.”
New Dawn Magazine
. No. 97. Australia, July-August 2006.
19
Ibid., comments section.
21
Houston, Stephen. “Classic Maya Depictions of the Built Environment.”
Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture,
ed. by Stephen Houston. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1998.
29
Coe, Michael.
The Maya
, first edition. 1966, p. 174.
36
de Santillana, Giorgio.
The Crime of Galileo.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955; de Santillana, Giorgio. “Galileo and Oppenheimer.”
Reflections on Men and Ideas
, 1968, pp. 120-136.
41
Jenkins, John Major. Original 2000 essay reprinted in
Galactic Alignment
. Rochester, VT: Bear & Company, 2002, pp. 40-42.
42
Pointed out to me by Michael Grofe, e-mail of February 2009. Grofe, Michael. “Palenque’s Temple XIX and the Creation Stories of Central Mexico: Flint, Fire, and Tlaltecuhtli.” n.d.
45
Stuart, David, and Stephen Houston. “Classic Maya Place Names.”
Studies in PreColumbian Art and Archaeology
#33, Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1994, p. 80.
53
Audio clips and/or the full recording of Aveni’s talk will remain available for informational purposes on:
http://alignment2012.com/Tulane2009.html
. Aveni’s quotes from various authors are transcribed directly from his reading.
55
Pawlowski, A. “Apocalypse in 2012? Date Spawns Theories, Film.” CNN .com/technology. January 27, 2009.
http://www.alignment2012.com/
CNNinterviewerPawlowski.html. Compare to Joseph’s comments in
Apocalypse 2012
, pp. 8, 10, 114, and 126.
56
Newsome, Elizabeth.
Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World.
Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2001.
57
Looper, Matthew G. “Quirigua Zoomorph P: A Water Throne and Mountain of Creation.”
Heart of Creation: The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele
, ed. by Andrea Stone. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2002, p. 199.
58
The Lacandon Maya conceive of the Milky Way’s bulge in Sagittarius as the roots of a giant tree. Bruce, R. D., C. Robles U., and E. Ramos Chao.
Los Lacandones 2, Cosmovision Maya
. Publicaciones 26. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Departamento de Investigaciones Antropológicas, 1971.
59
Western science and philosophy marginalize the insights of Traditionalist philosophy. See: Coomaraswamy, Ananda K.
Coomaraswamy 1, Selected Papers: Traditional Art and Symbolism
, ed. by Roger Lipsey. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977; Corbin, Henry.
Temple and Contemplation
, trans. by Philip Sherrard. London: KPI Ltd., 1986; Guénon, René.
Fundamental Symbols: The Universal Language of Sacred Science
. Cambridge, UK: Quinta Essentia, 1995; Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.
Knowledge and the Sacred
. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989;
The Betrayal of Tradition,
ed. Harry Oldmeadow;
Science and the Myth of Progress
, ed. by Mehrdad M. Zarandi; Wolfgang Smith.
The Wisdom of Ancient Cosmology
; René Guénon,
The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
, trans. by Lord Northbourne. New York: Penguin Books, 1972. Good books on Gnosis and Gnosticism include
The Gnostic Religion
by Hans Jonas,
Gnosis
by Dan Merkur, and
Gnosis
by Kurt Rudolph.
60
Publishers Weekly
on Aveni’s scientism, from a review on the
Amazon.com
listing for Aveni’s book
Behind the Crystal Ball
: “This informative but stacked-deck history of science and magic . . . presupposes a readership that embraces a scientific-materialistic worldview that sees little or no sense in the pursuit of so-called magical practices.”
62
Aveni, Anthony, and Horst Hartung. “Water, Mountain, Sky: The Evolution of Site Orientations in Southeastern Mesoamerica.”
Precious Greenstone, Precious Quetzal Feather,
ed. by Eloise Quiñones Keber. Labyrinthos, 2000.
64
Aveni, Anthony, and Horst Hartung. “Water, Mountain, Sky: The Evolution of Site Orientations in Southeastern Mesoamerica.”
Precious Greenstone, Precious Quetzal Feather
, ed. by Eloise Quiñones Keber. Labyrinthos, 2000, p. 58.
66
Lowe, Gareth, Thomas A. Lee, Jr., and Eduardo Martinez Espinoza. “Izapa: A Guide to the Ruins and Monuments.”
Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation
, No. 31. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1982; Norman, V. Garth. “Izapa Sculpture, Part 1: Album.”
Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation
, No. 30. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1973; Norman, V. Garth. “Izapa Sculpture, Part 2: Text.”
Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation
, No. 30. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1976; Norman, V. Garth.
Astronomical Orientations of Izapa Sculptures
. Master’s thesis, Anthropology Department. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1980.
67
Aveni, Anthony, and Horst Hartung. “Water, Mountain, Sky: The Evolution of Site Orientations in Southeastern Mesoamerica.”
Precious Greenstone, Precious Quetzal Feather
, ed. by Eloise Quiñones Keber. Labyrinthos, 2000, p. 55.
CHAPTER 7. THE GALACTIC ALIGNMENT THEORY: UPDATE
2
Grube, Nikolai, A. Lacadena, and S. Martin. “Chichén Itzá and Ek Balam: Terminal Classic Inscriptions from Yucatán.”
Notebook for the XXVIIth Maya Hieroglyphic Forum at Texas
. Austin, Tex.: Maya Workshop Foundation, 2003.
4
Grofe, Michael J. “Calculations of the Tropical Year and Precessional Cycles: Two Bone Fragments from Tikal Burial 116,” n.d., 2003.
5
Grofe, Michael J. “The Recipe for Rebirth: Cacao as Fish in the Mythology and Symbolism of the Ancient Maya.” The Foundation Research Department. Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc., 2009,
www.famsi.org/research/grofewriting
. Grofe’s latest observations were made very recently, in February of 2009, and are thus as yet unpublished. His overall work integrates epigraphic decipherment and astronomy, a sensitivity that very few epigraphers have. Grofe’s unpublished manuscripts include: “The Sidereal Year and Precession in the Cross Group of Palenque” and “Astronomical References in Tortuguero Monument 6.”