The significance of the Mayan god Bolon Yok-te in the 2012 Prediction

John Major Jenkins writes about the significance of the god Bolon Yok-te in the December 21, 2012 prophecy on Monument 6 at the Tortuguero Mayan ruins. As I understand it, Jenkins is saying that simply translating the decipherable text on Monument 6 is not enough. You have to also consider what the significance of Bolon Yok-te’s presence:

One thing about Bolon Yokte’s presence in the 2012 text should be emphasized. Apart from symbolizing war, conflict, and the underworld, Bolon Yokte is a god that is often present during Creation events, often referring to the Creation event of 13.0.0.0.0 in 3114 BC, and most notably on the Vase of the Seven Lords. So, what does it mean that a Creation Lord is present on the next 13.0.0.0.0, the one that falls in 2012 AD? Although some scholars have commented that the incomplete text on Tortuguero Monument 6 doesn’t tell us much, they have overlooked the obvious: Bolon Yokte’s mere presence suggests that 2012 was thought of as a Creation, a worldrenewal that, after all, makes perfect sense in the context of a World Age doctrine that sequences forward in intervals of 13 baktuns. This may seem to go without saying, but in fact my work has been criticized for characterizing 2012 as a “cosmogenesis.” Here the scholars are one step closer to understanding 2012 for what the Maya knew it to a be: a rebirth and the beginning of a new World Age.
Comments on the 2012 text on Tortuguero Monument 6 and Bolon Yokte K’u

Evidence for 2012/Galactic Alignment found at Izapa Mayan Ruins

In an article called In the Roots of the Milky Way Tree: The Mayan Lord of Creation and 2012, John Major Jenkins says that:

The belief that we don’t have “direct statements” about 2012 in the archaeological record ignores the plethora of pictographic images at Izapa that portray a rare celestial alignment that appears in the skies in the years around 2012.7 This galactic alignment is the key to understanding 2012, and it involves the rebirth of the December solstice Sun Lord through the Dark Rift “cleft” in the Milky Way, located between Sagittarius and Scorpio.
The Mayan Lord of Creation and 2012

Jenkins refers to Mayan ruins in Izapa, Mexico, which is very close to the Guatemala border. He says the Izapa were an intermediate step between the earlier Olmecs and the classic-period Mayans. They, like the Olmecs, used and understood the Long Count Calendar. According to Jenkins, they also understood the alignment between the start/end point of a 5,125 year cycle in the Long Count Calendar and the solar system with the Milky Way’s center.

2012 Movie Plans

I am happy, because today we (me and my editor-in-chief) decided to make a movie of the information I presented during Wednesday’s presentation: Do Mayan Shamans believe the world will end in 2012?

2012 and the Mayan Shamans

I enjoyed speaking at the Edgar Cayce Forum last night. As usual, I met many wonderful people both those I had met before and also those I met for the first time. I am also happy because of all the fantastic feedback I received for my presentation, Do Mayan Shamans believe the world will end in 2012?

Do Mayan Shamans believe the world will end in 2012?

I am excited about my presentation tonight at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, Virginia, sponsored by the Edgar Cayce Forum. I will be speaking on, “Do Mayan Shamans believe the world will end in 2012?” which will include a dynamic PowerPoint Presentation that includes videotaped interviews of Mayan shamans and Dr. Robert K. Sitler, an expert on the Maya. The event starts at 7:30 p.m. See you there!

What is a Mayan Daykeeper?

Since I’ll be presenting excerpts from my interview with Mayan Daykeeper Hunbatz Men, author of Secrets of Mayan Science/Religion at the Edgar Cayce Forum on October 26th, at 7:30 p.m., I wondered what a Mayan Daykeeper was. This how Wikipedia defines a Mayan Daykeeper:

A daykeeper was the name for a diviner in the pre-Columbian Maya culture. The Mayans are renowned for their advanced skills in the fields of mathematics and astronomy, and had come up with a complex system of tracking days. The Maya calendar actually consisted of three individual calendars, the most sacred of the three being the Tzolkin or divinatory calendar. It was a daykeeper’s task to keep count of the days with coral seeds according to this sacred calendar, as well as to perform divination rituals based upon the dates of the sacred calendar. In this respect, their role was not unlike that of a modern astrologer, in that they attempted to use the day of a person’s birth to divine certain traits they would inherit as a result of that day, as well as what might befall them in the future. Daykeepers, unlike astrologers, would not take into account the position of the stars.
Daykeeper

That’s pretty interesting considering that each of the days are ruled by both the number and god of two different calendars. So, who needs to consult the stars! There’s a lot of divinatory information simply through knowing about the meaning of the numbers and gods of the two calendars, the Haab and Tzolk’in.

My talk is called, “Do Mayan Shamans believe the world will end in 2012?” and it will be held at 7:30 p.m. at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and sponsored by the Edgar Cayce Forum.

Movie of Mayan Elder prophecy for 2012

I’ve had a very enjoyable day, because my video footage of interviews with Mayan Elders are inserting successfully into my Powerpoint Presentation. I will be speaking at the Edgar Cayce Forum on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 (2 days away) at 7:30 p.m. at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, Virginia. My topic: Do Mayan Shamans believe the world will end in 2012?

An explanation of why the Mayan Tzolk’in calendar has 260 days

I have read that the reason the Mayan religious and ceremonial calendar called the Tzolk’in has a cycle of 260 days is because it refers to the gestation period of a human baby. According to Wikipedia’s Gestation, the average gestational age of a human baby is 40 weeks or 40 weeks x 7 days in a week = 280 days.

Since the human gestational age includes the two weeks before conception, the actual gestation period of a human is 260 days. BINGO! The length of the Tzolk’in.

But why make a calendar the length of a human baby’s development in the womb from conception to birth? Granted, that is a very important time for us. However, since the Maya were such astronomers and daykeepers, I wondered if there might be another explanation for the 260-day long Tzolk’in.

And, I felt hopeful when I saw the Ancient World Mysteries website, which at first seemed to say that the 260 days coincided with the orbit of the planet Venus. However, when I read the site’s article, The Mayan Calendar: 260 Days & the Venus Orbit, I realized it was much, much more complicated than that since the orbit of Venus is approximately 224 earth days. According to Keith M. Hunter, author of the above article, the 260 day cycle refers to a relationship between the orbit and the earth.

I’m interested in the Mayan calendars because I will be talking on “Do Mayan Shamans believe the world will end in 2012?” on October 26th at 7:30 p.m. at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E., in Virginia Beach, Virginia, sponsored by the Edgar Cayce Forum.

Don Alejandro Cirillo Guatemalan Mayan Elder prophecies

When I read Mark Heley’s online article on Don Alejandro Cirillo prophecies for 2012, I was reminded of my interview of an American man who had been married to a Mayan woman for 10 years. I had asked the man if he knew of any predictions the Maya made for 2012. He replied that, although he was not allowed into the sacred observances of the Maya he lived among for 10 years while he was married to his Mayan wife, he did hear the Maya talking among themselves about “2000 and then a little bit” in reference to predictions of upcoming earth changes. I wrote about my experience with this man in my book When We Were Gods. I interviewed him in 1999.

Interestingly, Don Alejandro Cirillo, who is a revered elected leader of the Mayan Council of Elders of Guatemala and a thirteenth-generation Quiche priest, also refers to a vague “some time that is coming soon” rather than to a definite date such as December 21, 2012 in making his prophecies of earth changes. In fact, according to Heley’s article, Cirillo does not have strong feelings about events specifically occurring on December 21, 2012 at all. Furthermore, he does not believe that this date is necessariy the accurate date for the end date of the Mayan calendar.

He does say that we need to prepare ourselves of a time of major earth changes, such as earthquakes and floods, and characterized by a number of days in which the sun will be darkened. He suggests that we remain indoors during this unusual time when the sun is darkened and in anticipation to have stored food and water on hand. After this time of the sun’s darkening, there will be a new world.

On October 26th, I will be speaking at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on “Do Mayan Shamans believe the world will end in 2012?” The event starts at 7:30 p.m. and is sponsored by the Edgar Cayce Forum.

Carlos Barrios speaks on 2012 on behalf of Guatemalan Maya Elders

Although I did not have the opportunity to interview Mayan Elders from Guatemala on 2012 and the end of the world, here is an excerpt from an online article about Carlos Barrios who is Day Keeper of the Eagle Clan of the Mam Maya in Guatemala. The article is by Mark Heley.

Evidently Carlos, who is Spanish rather than Maya, has, nonetheless, studied the Mam Maya Eagle Clan for 25 years. As their spokesman, he says that the Elders of the Maya Mam Eagle Clan do not believe the world will end in 2012 but that it will be transformed from the fourth to the fifth world of creation, and that a new element, ether, will be part of our understanding of life on earth.

According to Barrios, as we transition between the fourth and fifth worlds, the old economic order will break down and the world banking system will collapse. He also foretells the melting of the polar ice caps and a general rise in sea level, though this has been a mainstay of climate-change prediction for some time.
Carlos Barrios

I will be speaking at the Edgar Cayce Forum on this Wednesday, October 26, at 7:30 p.m. on: Do Mayan Shamans Believe the World Will End in 2012? at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, Virginia.