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Guatemalan Mayan elder speaks on 2012

Guatemalan Mayan Indian elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun Photo: AP

Guatemalan Mayan elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun says he is fed up with being bombarded by questions about 2012 and the end of the world.

In an online “The Telegraph” article entitled, 2012 is not the end of the world, Pixtun says that the world will not end even though some people are saying that the Mayan calendar says that time will “run out.”

But most archaeologists, astronomers and Mayans say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, internet doomsday rumours and TV specials such as one on the History Channel which mixes “predictions” from Nostradamus and the Mayans and asks: “Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?” ` The Telegraph

I am especially interested in what Mayan elders are saying about 2012, because I will be presenting excerpts from my videotaped interviews of Mayan elders on 2012 when I speak at the Edgar Cayce Forum on October 26th at 7:30 p.m. on “Do Mayan Shamans believe the world will end in 2012?”

Tortuguera Mayan ruins contains 2012 date

Tortuguera Monument 6 showing the 2012 date and prophecy

A Sketch of Tortuguera Monument 6 with the Mayan 2012 date and prophecy from the Mayan Mysteries of 2012 website

On the left is an image of Monument 6 in the Tortuguera Mayan ruin in the Yucatan Peninsula, in the Mexican state of Tabasco. It contains the 2012 date. The Mayan glyphs on this stele, a tall flat stone carved with Mayan glyphs, has the Mayan Long Count Calendar date that is translated into December 21, 2012 in our Gregorian calendar. The image on the left is from the Mayan Mysteries of 2012: A Young Person’s Guide.

David Stuart quote on 2012

Here is an amazing quote from David Stuart, one of the world’s greatest translators of Mayan glyphs.

David Stuart’s parents were both archaeologists. I read a wonderful book by his mother about their experiences in the Mayan ruins in Coba, Yucatan. I’ve heard that David had a Mayan nanny. As a result, he is fluent in Mayan. At 16, he was deciphering Mayan glyphs, because he knew the language and the archaeology. He translated the one text on earth with the 2012 date on it. Half of the inscription on a stone stele is indecipherable because of weathering. The part of the glyphs that David could read say something about an ancient Mayan god named Bolon descending. From this comes all the whoopla about 2012? Here’s the quote from David Stuart I found on a website called, Exposing PseudoAstronomy.

From David Stuart, director of the Mesoamerica Center at the University of Texas at Austin:

“There’s going to be a whole generation of people who, when they think of the Maya, think of 2012, and to me that’s just criminal. … The whole year leading up to it is going to be just crazy, I’m sorry to say. I just think it’s sad, it really just frustrates me. People are really misunderstanding this really cool culture by focusing on this 2012 thing. It means more about us than it does about the Maya.”

Speaking Events: The Advent of the Fifth Root Race

It’s been another day of writing descriptions of seminar topics. Today, one of the topics I wrote about is called, The Advent of the Fifth Root Race. The “root races” are an extremely “far out” topic associated with the types of people that populated Lemuria and Atlantis. The Austrian occultist Rudolph Steiner and the Ukrainian mystic Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky also wrote about them. My main source for information on the root races are the psychic readings of Edgar Cayce. As far out as this topic is, there are many people who are intrigued by it. I will be discussing the root races, and specifically the advent of the fifth root race, on Thursday, April 18th, in the evening, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.

Atlantis and its Colonies in Egypt and Yucatan

Today I enjoyed putting together a summary of a speaking event I’ve given before called, “Atlantis and its Colonies in Egypt and Yucatan,” except, in the past, I only included Egypt. I am happy to be including Yucatan since I’ve traveled to Yucatan four times to videotape footage for my travelogue: Yucatan Travel: Cancun to Chichen Itza. I will be giving the Atlantis and its Colonies in Egypt and Yucatan day-long seminar on Saturday, April 21st, 2012, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. More details to follow.

Interview of Mayan Shaman at Chichen Itza ceremony included in 2012 lecture

During my upcoming presentation at the Edgar Cayce Forum on October 26, 7:30 p.m., at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, Virginia, I will also refer to an interview of a Mayan shaman who had just participated in a Spring Equinox ceremony in the vicinity of the Chichen Itza Mayan ruins. I asked him for his predictions for December 21, 2012. This is for my talk called, “Do Mayan Shamans believe the world will end in 2012?”

Blog comments fueled the Julie and Julia movie

Today I saw the movie Julie and Julia about Julia Child and a young woman named Julie Powell who wrote a blog about cooking the over 500 recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. In the movie, Julie Powell wonders if anyone is reading her blog. Then, she begins to receive comments.

I like it when I receive comments on this blog. When I look up the statistics for this blog, there have been up 79,000 hits per month here. So, I know someone is reading the blog. I would enjoy hearing from more readers. But are people who are interested in the lost city of Atlantis chatty?

Dr. Robert Sitler interview included in 2012 presentation

My Wednesday, October 26th, Edgar Cayce Forum 7:30 p.m. presentation will also include 2012 information I learned during an interview with Mayan expert Robert Sitler, PhD., Stetson University, Deland, Florida, and author of The Living Maya: Ancient Wisdom in the Era of 2012. The seminar is called, “Do Mayan Shamans Think the World Will End in 2012?”

Hunbatz Men Interview on 2012

Today I enjoyed reviewing video footage I taped while in Yucatan after the 2009 spring equinox near Chichen Itza. It is an interview of Mayan Daykeeper and Ceremonial Leader Hunbatz Men on his explanation of the Mayan science behind the 2012 prophecies. I am preparing for my presentation, “Do Mayan Shamans Believe the World Will End in 2012,” at the Edgar Cayce Forum on October 26th at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Atlantis was a Maritime Civilization all over the world

A YouTube video entitled The Lost Continent of Atlantis includes an interview with Graham Hancock of Fingerprints of the Gods fame. In the video, Hancock says that he believe Atlantis was a Maritime civilization that settled along many of the coastlines of the world. At the end of the Ice Age around 12,500 B.C., when the ice melted, these coastal settlements became submerged. In Hancock’s opinion, therefore, Atlantean ruins will be found underwater all over the world. He sites both Mediterrean and eastern Atlantic Ocean ruins as examples of likely Atlantean sites.