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2012 Refers to Mayan God’s Resurrection

According to John Major Jenkins in his The Mystery of 2012 article entitled, “The Origins of the 2012 Revelation,” the 2012 winter solstice on December 21, 2012, refers to the Maya sun diety called One Hunahpu.

Jenkin’s study of the Izapa, Guatemala group of monuments in the ancient ruin’s ball court led him to believe that the date refers to the resurrection of One Hunahpu.

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Maya: Those Who Gaze at the Center

In an article published in the pages of The Mystery of 2012, John Major Jenkins says that the Mesoamericans called themselves the “nik wak’inel” or “those who gaze into the center.”

Then, he asks the question, the center of what?

He replies that the ancient Mesoamericans identified three centers. They are:

The center of the North or the Polestar represented by what they called “Seven Macaw” which was the seven stars of the Big Dipper constellation
The center of the sky overhead or at the zenith. This they called Quetzalcoatl which was in the area of the Pleiades constellation
The center of the Milky Way Galaxy which is presently in the last three degrees of the constellation Sagittarius.

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Bye-bye to B.C.

I’ve had a wonderful week and a half in British Columbia taking beautiful nature photographs for next year’s Edgar Cayce Divine in Nature calendar. This really is a stunningly photogenic part of the world with its waterways and mountains. Now, it’s off to home . . . and the lovely beaches of the East Coast.

Tzolkin Mayan Calendar Measures Corn Life Cycle

The Tzolkin religious or ceremonial calendar of the Maya not only measures the gestation period of a human baby. It also measures the life cycle of the corn plant. One cycle of the Tzolkin lasts 260 days. In the highlands of Guatemala, 260 days marks the time between the day corn is planted and the day corn is harvested. According to John Major Jenkins, the Maya Creation Myth says that human beings are made of corn. Therefore, the human and the corn cycles coincide according to the Tzolkin.

Mayan Calendar Used by Mayan Midwives

According to John Major Jenkins, Mayan midwives use the 260-day religious or ceremonial calendar to predict the expected birthdate of a baby. The calendar is called the Tzolkin (pronounced zol-keen). The midwives use the date of the first missed period plus 260 days to determine the expected birthdate.

2012 Monument in Izapa

John Major Jenkins says that important Maya monuments in Izapa were carved between 400 BC and AD 100. He says that one of the stelae in the Izapa group says that the sun is reborn from the dark center of the Milky Way. In reading his article in The Mystery of 2012 I am not sure if the Izapa monuments contain the date December 21, 2012. In any case, Jenkins believes the Izapa monuments and their message are connected with the December 21, 2012 date.

Ahau God of December 21, 2012

In ancient Mayan text, the god of the December 21, 2012 date is called “Ahau,” which refers to the god of the sun, the origin of time, a fitting god for the end of the world. However, to the ancient Maya, the end of the world came every 52 years when they destroyed their furniture and built new items and when they built new temples on top of existing temples and pyramids to mark the new world.

Popul Vuh Says Maya Ancestors Came From East

According to the ancient Mayan text, the Popul Vuh, the first four humans who were the supernatural ancestors of the K’iche’ Maya, voyaged to and from a wonderful city to the east. They brought back with them benefits for their descendents, the K’iche’ Maya.

Robert K. Sitler says, in The Mystery of 2012, that he believes that the modern-day author Jose Arguelles and his Maya associate Hunbatz Men may have interpreted this ancient text as meaning that the ancestors of the Maya were extraterrestrials from the Pleiades.

I believe that the numerous ancient Maya myths about supernatural leaders traveling to and from a place in the east are the handed down memories of the Maya’s ancestors coming to and from Yucatan toAtlantis.

2012 December 21 Mayan Date Prophecy

In The Mystery of 2012, Robert K. Sitler, Professor of Latin Studies at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, says that the December 21, 2012 date is a 4 Ahau K’atun date which occurs approximtely every 256 years.

During a previous 4 Ahau K’atun in AD 987, a historical figure known as K’uk’ulk’an appeared. In the 1500s the date might have referred to the arrival of the Spanish.

The Gods of the Mayan Days

Each of the 20 days of the Mayan ceremonial calendar, the Tzolkin, was represented by a different god similar to the way our days of the week are overseen by a different planet (Sunday is Sun Day, Monday is Moon Day, etc.).

For example,

Imix, the god of the earth rules the first day
Ik, the god of moving air and wind rules the second day
Akbal, the god of the underworld, rules the third day
Kan, the god of maize and abundance, rules the fourth day