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.
Continue readingCarlos 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.
Continue readingThe Galactic Alignment and 2012
The sun, on the December solstice, will take 36 years to precess through the Galactic equatorConflicting online information on 2012 and the Chilam Balam
I am trying to make sense of all the information on the 2012 prediction … and there is TONS of information on the topic, many of it conflicting. No sooner do I rejoice becasue I have found what appears to be a genuine Mayan prophecy on the end of the world 2012 in the Books of Chilam Balam (see The Short Count and the Books of Chilam Balam — Guide to 2012) than I become confused when I read a Wikipedia article (the 2012 Phenomenon), which doesn’t seem to have anything on Chilam Balam and 2012 even though a Google search lists Wikipedia’s 2012 Phenomenon first for my “Chilam Balam 2012” search.
During my 2009 visit to Yucatan, I videotaped a Maya man who talked about the Books of Chilam Balam as being very important to him. His mother tongue is Mayan, his second language is Spanish. He reads the Chilam Balam. If I remember correctly, when I asked him if there was a 2012 end of the world prediction in the Chilam Balam, he said that there was no specific date … if my memory is correct. I’m going to have to take a look a my video footage of that interview. Maybe I can get some clarity on the Chilam Balam since there seems to be conflicting views on the internet as concerns the Chilam Balam and any 2012 prophecy contained within it.
Do you have any information on the Books of Chilam Balam and the 2012 end of the world prophecies?
Continue readingThe Books of Chilam Balam were written in Latin script but sound out Mayan words
The Books of Chilam Balam where written in the Yucatecan Mayan language but using Latin script. The books were written in the 1700s and include prophecies about the end of the world, some believe associated with 2012.
In the Mayan language, Chilam means a priest that makes prophecies. Balam means jaguar and is a common name among the Maya.
Continue readingChilam Balam contains a 2012 end of the world prophecy!
A 2012 end of the world prophecy in the Maya’s Chilam Balam, the prophecies of the Jaguar Priesthood:
“In the final days of misfortune, in the final days of tying up the bundle of the thirteen (baktuns) on 4 Ahau, then the end of the world shall come and the katun of our fathers will ascend on high.” — The Book of Chilam Balam of Tizimin (Makemson)
Wow! If that isn’t an end of the world prophecy, I don’t know what is!
This is also from the online article, The Short Count and the Books of Chilam Balam. The article is by Mark Heley. According to the article, the prophecy is for the calendar cycle beginning on December 21, 2012.
Continue readingChilam Balam on the end of the world and 2012
Although the 2012 prophecy on Tortuguero’s Monument 6 does not seem to foretell an end ofthe world, the Chilam Balam does. Here’s a quote from the Chilam Balam from the online article entitled, The Short Count and the Books of Chilam Balam:
Continue reading“These valleys of the earth shall come to an end. For those katuns there shall be no priests, and no one who believes in his government without having doubts.” — The Book of Chilam Balam of Tizimin
Maya relinquished the use of their Long Count Calendar due to the influence of the Itza and Mexica
I had heard that the Maya had lost not only their written language but also their connection with the Long Count Calendar long before the arrival of the Spanish. However, until I saw the online article, “The Short Count and Chilam Balam,” I had not known the story of when or why. Here’s an excerpt explaining that the loss of the Long Count Calendar occurred when the Itza and Mexica influences predominated in Yucatan around AD 1000:
When the Itzá and Mexica influences became dominant in the Yucatán around A.D. 1000, the keeping of the Long Count, which had already started to fall out of usage, went into serious decline. This was largely because the Itzá only used the fifty-two-year–based calendar round. In a compromise between the different cultures of the two calendars, it was the distinctively Mayan Long Count that lost out.
The Short Count and Chilam Balam
The Long Count Calendar is the calendar that modern-day archaeologists can now read, which has led to the ability to read the 2012 prediction.
Continue readingMayan Long Count Calendar date is far beyond 2012
I am delighted to discover a corroboration of a Mayan Long Count Calendar date recorded on a tall stone slab called a stele. This date is on a particular stele called Stele One at the Mayan ruin in Coba. While videotaping footage for the Yucatan Travel Movie, we spent considerable time filming Stele One, and trying to get it right, whether the date on it was 4.1 billion, billion, billion years into the future or 4.1 billion, billion, billion, billion years into the future (3 or 4 billion years). The following excerpt from Wikipedia’s 2012 Phenomenon article states definitively that it was actually 41 octillion years in the future, or perhaps, an equal distance of time into the past. Ho hm, these confusing Mayan glyphs! Anyway, I am delighted to discover that we at least got the stele right, and the 4.1 (or 41) of the date correct.
Another example is Stele 1 at Coba, which gives a date of 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.0.0.0.0, or twenty units above the b’ak’tun, placing it either 4.134105 × 1028 (41 octillion) years in the future,[26] or an equal distance in the past.[38] This date is 3 quintillion times the age of the universe as determined by cosmologists.
~ 2012 Phenomenon
Stele One also has a date on it that alludes to December 21, 2012.
Continue readingFrom the pen of Dr. David Stuart on the Tortuguero Monument 6 2012 “prophecy”
On September 30th, I published a post on this blog in which I quoted a translation of the 2012 prophecy by famed Maya scholar Dr. David Stuart. He’s the one who spent considerable time in his childhood living in Maya ruins with his archaeologist parents and is fluent in the modern Mayan language, or so I’ve read. Or, maybe I saw it on public television. In any case, here is an update of Dr. Stuart’s most recent understanding of the meaning of the Maya glyphs on Monument 6 in the Tortuguero ruins that refer to the December 21, 2012 date. I just learned that Dr. Stuart has a WordPress blog called Maya Decipherment: A Weblog on Ancient Maya Script. This has to be a great website full of fantastic and unique information on the Maya and 2012. The following quote is excerpted from his October 4th, 2011 blog post:
Continue readingIn other words, the mention of 13.0.0.0.0 4 Ahaw 3 K’ank’in on Tortuguero Monument 6 is an isolated chronological anchor within a larger narrative, projected into the future in order to make a rhetorical point about the nature of the main historical event. The last few glyphs of the text, rather than being wedded to the 13.0.0.0.0 section, should be viewed instead as comprising a record of a contemporary episode — the building dedication — that’s the discursive focus of the entire inscription.