Why did the ancient Maya walk away from their cities leaving them to turn into ruins? I just watched an Emmy Award-winning DVD by Time Life called Lost Civilizations. “The Maya: The Blood of Kings” is one section among ten, which include the ancient cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, China, Rome, the Inca, Africa, the Aegean world and Tibet.
This very well-done audio-visual presentation says that the reason why the advanced ancient Mayan civilization perished is because the people lost faith in their rulers. However, although the story includes wonderful historical footage–even the discovery of the bones of Lord Pacal in Palenque–it does not adequately explain why the ancient Maya deserted their cities. They appear to have simply walked away.
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According to Jose Arguelles, author of The Mayan Factor, the original Maya came to earth to map and chart the planet. In an article in The Mystery of 2012: Predictions, Prophecies & Possibilities, Arguelles says that a Mayan man named Hunbatz Men came to the author and told him that the Earth is the seventh planet the ancient Maya had explored.
Evidently the extraterrestrial Maya came to earth during the Classic time of ancient Mayan civilization, from AD 400 to 830. Their purpose was to give us information showing that we are passing through a galactic beam that is generated by the core of the galaxy and influenced by our sun. We have been passing through this beam for 5,125 years–since 3113 BC.
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I don’t know about you, but it has occurred to me that this December 21, 2012 date is on a Mayan calendar. The stela I saw at the Mayan ruin in Coba in January 2008–just two months ago–was made in the 800s or 900s way before Europeans even came to North America.
Therefore, doesn’t the date and the Mayan Long Count Calendar only refer to the Mayan civilization? Makes sense to me.
So then, why is everyone else, who is not Mayan, getting themselves worked up about the date?
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Here’s a selection from what appears to be My Telegraph.co.uk by a Ugandan writer called “Kenz.”
The Mayans never said that date was the end of the world. It was just the end/beginning of a cycle to them. Winter solstice of 2012 represents both a solar maximum, and one complete wobble of the Earth (precession, which occurs only once every 25,780 years). It is very likely that this is why that date was significant to them.
Have you heard about the end of the world in 2012?! : March 2008 : Kenz : My Telegraph
In one amazing article, Kenz writes about the Mayan 2012 and the end of the world (selected above), crop circles, and the straying planet, “Niribu,” described by Zacharia Sitchin in his controversial 1976 book The Twelfth Planet. This book is evidently Sitchin’s understanding of a translation of ancient Sumerian texts as saying that there is a twelfth planet in the solar system which has an extremely wide elliptical orbit bringing it back to the solar system every 3,600 years.
Kenz also says that 80 percent of crop circles have been discovered to be hoaxes. Still, that leaves 20 percent unaccounted for. What causes the 20 percent?
In any case, have you heard of this Niribu? Do you believe in it?
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Gregg Braden, best selling author who bridges science and spirituality, writes, in The Mystery of 2012, that modern-day Maya say that their descendents left their temples, pyramids, and observatories, walked into the jungle and disappeared.
What does that mean? Disappeared, as in “vanished” presto, poof, gone? Or disappeared, as in walked deep into the jungle and stayed out of sight?
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Here’s an interesting post from the “Lord Pakal Ahau’s Maya Diaries” blog site. For me this is amazing news because I was not aware that so many modern-day indigenous people are aware of the 2012 prophecies.
Actually, now that I’ve read the article through a couple of times, I realize the article does not mention 2012. The native leaders did not come to Palenque because of concern for the 2012 prophecies but because of their concern for Mother Earth. The article is about their concern for the environment. The web site is about 2012. Nonetheless, it is a coincidence that the native leaders met in an area where some people have interpreted ancient Mayan texts to refer to December 21, 2012.
The leaders came from as far away as Alaska and the Northwest Territories of Canada. The article goes on to say that some scholars believe the ancient Maya’s downfall resulted from environmental abuses. If you click through on the link below, you can read the whole article and see a photograph of the assembly.
More than 200 leaders from 71 American Indian nations in Mexico, the United States and Canada came together to the natal town of Lord Pakal Ahau in Palenque on March 2008 with a 2012 message. Here’s the AP article.
Mar 11, 1:53 AM (ET) By MARK STEVENSON – PALENQUE, Mexico (AP) – North American Indians assembled in the shadow of ancient Mayan pyramids Monday discussed how their tradition wisdom could help save the planet, and were told that even indigenous cultures have struggled with environmental abuse.
Lord Pakal Ahau’s Maya Diaries
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Here’s an item from another person’s blog. It looks like Hollywood has jumped on the 2012 bandwagon. Mel Gibson is not the only one doing movies on Apocalypto and the Maya. It looks as if this movie is not geared to the past, as was Gibson’s, but is looking toward scaring the movie-viewing population as we get closer December 21, 2012. Evidently, this director did the disaster movie, “Independence Day.”
Continue readingThe following announcement was of interest:
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Sony Pictures has picked up disaster-movie king Roland Emmerich’s apocalyptic script “2012,” one of the first big projects to hit the market since the three-month writers strike ended on February 12.
While a deal almost was assured, many studios quickly dropped out of the hunt. Some didn’t like the story, describing it as a “Roland Emmerich greatest-hits package.” Others balked at the price tag. The project comes with a $200 million budget.
The script blends the idea of the Mayan calendar, which predicts the world ending in 2012, with natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, typhoons and glaciers plaguing the planet and a large cast of characters dealing with the mayhem.
Emmerich, known for such films as “Independence Day” and “Godzilla,” will direct the project from a script he co-wrote with Harald Kloser. Sony is planning a July 10, 2009, release. http://www.reuters.com/article/industryNews/idUSN2252926420080222
December 21, 2012 is when the Maya’s “Long Count” calendar marks the end of a 5,126-year era.
While some astronomical occurrences will happen then, some people suspect that the Mayan date may mark the end of civilization or perhaps the beginning of a time of great tribulation or the emergence of a new and better age.
A few others seem to believe that December 22, 2012 may mark the beginning of a new and better era for humanity.
In Mexico Mystique, author Frank Waters outlines the steps researchers took to correlate the fateful 13.0.0.0.0 4 Ahau 8 Cumku date in the Mayan Long Count Calendar with our Gregorian Calendar.
The Maya view of time is that of a recurring cycle. Therefore, the 13.0.0.0.0 4 Ahau 8 Cumku date has occurred in the past and will occur again in the future. Researchers first attempted to pinpoint the last occurrence of this date so they could know what date in the future it would fall on.
One researcher, Willson, dated the beginning of our present world as August 25, 3511 B.C. Spinden said it was October 14, 3373 B.C. Morley said the year should be 3340 B.C. Escalona-Ramos said 2853 B.C. On the other hand, G. Zimmer’s date was August 29, 3512 B.C. Then J.T. Goodman set the year as 3113 B.C. Juan Martinez Hernandez made a change of one day and J. Eric S. Thompson made a four-day correction so that the date was settled at August 12, 3113 B.C.
Based on this date, the next 13.0.0.0.0 4 Ahau 8 Cumku will occur on December 24, 2011. Mexico Mystique was published in 1975. I assume recent researchers have further modified the last date so that the the beginning of the next projected new world is now December 21, 2011.
All I can say is that this date keeps changing. Who knows what new understanding of the Mayan glyphs will reveal? The date may change again.
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While surfing the net for info on the Discovery Channel’s 2012 Doomsday “documentary” – sounds rather like fiction if their blurb is to be believed – I came across this link to an End of the World (as we know it) Planner. Cute! The idea is that you’ve only got 4 years to live so stop procrastinating. And, if the world still is here after 12 21 12, so much the better—because of your anti-procrastination planner, you’re living the life you’ve always wanted to live.
http://12-21-12-planner.com/
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For your interest, here’s a link to a 3 minute video that says that the I Ching and the Book of Revelation all agree with the Mayan December 21, 2012 doomsday prediction. They don’t.
http://www.history.com/media.do?id=doomsday_why2012_broadband&action=clip
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