2012 Prediction: Kukulcan Has Returned

Yeitecpatl, author of  Las 13 Profecias Mayas (13 Mayan Prophecies)  interprets the first of the 13 Mayan prophecies, four ahau katun, as meaning that Kukulcan, the plumed serpent, has returned.

The author believes Kukulcan has reincarnated, a male child who would have been born in 1993.

But I’m confused. Isn’t this supposed to be the time between 1993 and 2012 in the Mayan Long Count Calendar called four ahau katun in which, not only will the water serpent return, but also a quetzal and green yaxum bird will come vomiting of blood for the fourth time? How can Yeitecpatl make out of that phrase with such a benign interpretation as that Kukulcan has already returned?

Carol Chapman

2012 Prophecies

These are from the investigator Yeitecpatl, author of  13 Mayan Prophecies in which he wonders if Lord Pakal of Palenque will return to life.

The author says that the period from 1993 to 2012 is a time in the Mayan Long Count Calendar called four ahau katun in which a quetzal and green yaxum bird with come vomiting of blood for the fourth time. He also believes that during this time, Kukulcan, the water serpent, whose image is carved on both sides of the stairs of the Pyramid of Kukulcan of the archeological ruin in Chichen Itza.

He understands this time as an occasion when Kukulcan (also known as Quetzalcoatl) will return for the fifth time, especially seeking the Itzaes. This time, he will reutnr as Macuilxochilto, the Fifth Flower representing the fifth step.

What does this mean? More tomorrow.

Carol Chapman

Mayan Year 2012 Prophecies

About the 2012 Mayan prophecies–I wonder. Aren’t these prophecies just for the Maya? The December 21, 2012 date is supposed to be the same date, in the circular calendar that represents the arrival of the White Man and the subjugation of their people.

This is a serious prophecy. But, I wonder, does it not only concern the Maya? Why are so many people thinking that this prophecy, which was carved in stone hundreds of years ago by the ancient Maya, refer to anyone other than the Maya?  

Carol Chapman

Old Maya Guide Speaks

I often prefer books written for the juvenile audience to adult books. A good example is the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.  

In the field of books on the ancient Maya, I’ve just discovered the delightful The Mystery of the Maya: Uncovering the Lost City of Palenque. It describes personal experiences and is richly illustrated with photographs. The author Peter Lourie tells of his excursion in the snake-infested jungles of the Mexican state of Chiapas with archeologists who are uncovering the fascinating ruins at Palenque.

I especially enjoyed reading the words of an elderly Maya man, Moises Morales, who has been a guide for Palenque archeologists for many decades, his home being a gathering place for researchers starting in the 1970s.

Moises said that he did not think that scientists could be the best interpreters of the Maya mysteries since the basis of their knowledge and belief of the Maya comes from theories they have studied in text books. He believed that the best interpreters would be people who had an unbiased and open mind.

Carol Chapman

More Mayan Long Count Calendar Confusions

In a previous post I mentioned that the end date of the Mayan Long Count Calendar has changed over the years as researchers have improved their ability to translate the glyphs that make up the Mayan written language.

Today, many of the mysteries of the glyphs have now been revealed by such brilliant thinkers as Yuri Knorosov, a Russian linguist, and  David Stuart, an American Mayanist who began deciphering Mayan script at the age of eight while on archeological excavations in Yucatan with his parents George and Gene Stuart, National Geographic researchers.

Nonetheless, there are still discrepancies in the dates authors believe are important according to the Mayan calendar. For example, Swedish researcher Carl Johann Calleman Ph. D., believes that personal spiritual awakenings will have to be initiated by October 28, 2011 because enlightenment will not be possible after that date.

Drunvalo Melchizedek, author of Serpent of Light: Beyond 2012, says that in his personal experience with the Maya,  he has discovered that they believe the important date is not December 21, 2012, but February 19, 2013.

Isn’t Melchizedek the fellow Bob Frissell mentions in Nothing in This Book is True But It’s Exactly How Things Are as revealing that extraterrestrial aliens kept the earth from being destroyed by powerful solar radiation in August 1972 by surrounding the earth with a protective field in the shape of a three-dimensional Mer-ca-ba?

Carol Chapman

Three Mayan Calendars Confusion

That the ancient Maya used three calendars is, at first, very confusing. You want to say, “Why couldn’t those people have had one simple calendar like we do.”

The three calendars of the ancient Maya are:

1. The 260-day ceremonial calendar which we call the Tzolkin (It was referred to as the ch’olk’ib (or day count) in Spanish colonial document.) No one knows what the ancient Maya called it. The Tzolkin kept a record of all the ceremonial religious days of the year. It was composed of 13 groups of 20 days.
2. The Haab calendar of 365 days is the most closely similar to our present 365 day year – 366 days in a leap year. The Haab consisted of 20 months of 18 days plus five extra “evil” days which were spent in fasting and penitence.
3. The Long Count Calendar represents an era of about 5,125 years. Correlated with Western calendar dates, our present era began on August 11, 3114 B.C. and will end on December 21, 2012. On December 22, 2012, the Long Count Calendar will start on day 1 again in the same way our centuries last for 1000 years and start on day 1 again.

Carol Chapman

The Nine Underworlds of the Maya

In his article “The Nine Underworlds,” Swedish researcher Carl Johan Calleman, Ph. D., says that the three most important pyramids of the ancient Maya were built in nine levels to represent the nine levels of the Mayan underworld.

The three most important pyramids he refers to are:

1. The Temple of the Inscriptions in Palenque
2. The Pyramid of the Jaguar in Tikal
3. The Pyramid of Kukulcan in Chichen Itza

In the article, which is printed in The Mystery of 2012: Predictions, Prophecies and Possibilities, he says that the nine levels represent nine different creations. Even the Maya today reenact ceremonies in which they honor previous creations, for example, a previous world in which monkeys, not man, had prominence.

Carol Chapman

Are You Translucent?

I feel so encouraged and full of hope after reading  Aruna Ardagh’s article,“The Clock is Ticking,” in The Mystery of 2012. Ardagh is the author of The Translucent Revolution which reminds me of the pivotal 1987 book The Aquarian Conspiracy in which author Marilyn Ferguson relates her delight in discovering that all over the globe people who may be isolated from each other are, nonetheless, conspiring, in the sense of “breathing together,” toward a realization of oneness with each other and with the world.

Ardagh goes further by similarly revealing that people all over the globe who may be isolated from each other and unaware of the other person’s experiences may, nonetheless, be experiencing not only realizations but also an awakening of oneness with all life. He calls these people “translucent” because the light within them shines through them. This awakening goes further than a mental understanding. It heralds a physical and mental awakening to the spiritual.

The translucents live life with a knowing that they are not separate from others. And, many people in all walks of life and in all areas of the world, are experiencing this awakening.

A lovely article and very hopeful. Do you know what Ardagh is talking about? Are you feeling it too?  Are you “translucent?”

Carol Chapman

Ancient Maya of Classic Period Not Atlanteans

In yesterday’s post I said that American’s great psychic Edgar Cayce had said, in trance, that the ancient Maya had come from Atlantis. Since Atlantis had been destroyed by 9,000 BC according to Plato, the Maya of the Classic period, from about AD 350 to 800 could not have been the ancient Maya Cayce referred to.

Carol Chapman

Ancient Maya Came From Atlantis

According to the psychic readings of Edgar Cayce, the ancient Maya were Atlanteans who traveled from Atlantis to the stable lands of the Yucatan before Atlantis went down into the sea.  

Therefore, their amazing astronomical abilities and their very accurate calendar system, including the Long Count Calendar,  originated in the technological prowess of the Atlanteans.

Carol Chapman