The December 21, 2012 date is Uniiw (K’ank’in) 3 in the Mayan Haab Calendar
There are three dates on Monument 6 in the Tortuguero Mayan ruin in the Mexican state of Tobasco, in the Yucatan Peninsula. The “third of Uniiw (K’ank’in) refers to a date in the 365 day Mayan calendar called the “Haab.” Here’s an excerpt from Wikipedia’s online article on the Haab:
Continue readingThe Haab’ is part of the Maya calendric system. It was the Maya version of the 365-day calendar known to many of the pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica. Unlike the Tzolk’in, another Mayan Calendar system with no obvious relation to an astronomical or geophysical cycle, the Haab’ approximated the solar year.
The Haab’ comprises eighteen “months” of twenty days each, plus an additional period of five days (“nameless days”) at the end of the year known as Wayeb’ (or Uayeb in 16th C. orthography).
The December 21, 2012 Mayan prophecy names 3 dates in 3 Mayan calendars
As I said yesterday, this is the great epigrapher David Stuart‘s translation of the one and only 2012 prophecy in the Mayan glyphs:
“The Thirteenth ‘Bak’tun” will be finished
(on) Four Ajaw, the Third of Uniiw (K’ank’in).
? will occur.
(It will be) the descent(??) of the Nine Support? God(s) to the ?”
There are three Mayan calendar days in that prophecy:
1. A “Bak’tun” refers to a date in the Long Count Calendar.
2. An “Ajaw” refers to a date in the Tzolk’in Calendar, on the day called Ajaw
3. An “Uniiw” (or “K’ank”in”) refers to a date in the Haab Calendar during the month of Uniiw
That may sound complicated, but, if you were to look at our calendrical system, you could see that we do the same kind of organizing of our days. For example, today is:
Day 274 in the Year Long Calendar
Day 1 in the Month Long Calendar, this month called October
Day 6 in the Week Long Calendar, this day of the week called Saturday
Translation of the Mayan 2012 prophecy
I love the Mayan Mysteries of 2012: A Young Person’s Guide. It has information and links to articles about 2012. I mentioned a quote about 2012 from David Stuart in a previous post. He has translated the only ancient Mayan prophecy about December 21, 2012. It is carved on Monument 6 in the Tortuguera Mayan ruins in Tabasco, Mexico, in the Yucatan Peninsula. A fantastic sketch of Monument 6 is posted on the Mayan Mysteries of 2012 website. You can see it on this blog site–my post from two days ago.
Following, you’ll see the 2012 prophecy in Mayan and then below it, David Stuart’s translation from the Mayan Mysteries of 2012 website. You’ll notice that part of the prophecy are missing because the Mayan glyphs are not complete due to their age and the effects of weathering.
Continue readingTaTzuhtz-(a)j-oom u(y)-uxlajuun pik
(ta) Chan Ajaw ux(-te’) Uniiw.
Uht-oom ?
Y-em(al)?? Bolon Yookte’ K’uh ta ?.“The Thirteenth ‘Bak’tun” will be finished
(on) Four Ajaw, the Third of Uniiw (K’ank’in).
? will occur.
(It will be) the descent(??) of the Nine Support? God(s) to the ?”
Guatemalan Mayan elder speaks on 2012
Guatemalan Mayan Indian elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun Photo: AP
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?”
Continue readingTortuguera Mayan ruins contains 2012 date
A Sketch of Tortuguera Monument 6 with the Mayan 2012 date and prophecy from the Mayan Mysteries of 2012 website
Carol Chapman Event: 2012 and the End of the World
Here’s a description of my up-coming talk at Book ‘Em Waynesboro, Virginia, on October 16th.
2012 and the End of the World
by Carol Chapman
The media buzzes with 2012 and the end of the world. A “2012” Google search brought up 353 million listings! After seeing the 2012 movie, some people wondered about euthanizing their pets before the fatal date. What is going on! Will the world really end on December 21, 2012? This prediction is based on ancient Maya prophecies. While in Yucatan researching my books, When We Were Gods and Arrival of the Gods in Egypt, as well as filming my documentary, Yucatan Travel: Cancun to Chichen Itza, I interviewed Maya people, including shamans. Come out to my talk and find out what the Maya really have to say about 2012 and the end of the world.
Continue readingEnd of the World: 2012, Planet X and Nibiru
Here’s a great photograph from God Discussion on the buzz about the End of the World 2012, Planet X and Nibiru:
2012 Doomsday Prophesies: Nibiru, Planet X and the Mayan Calender
Continue reading2012 Pole Shift Caused by Ice Melt?
I recently saw the Public Broadcasting Station‘s shocking but beautiful documentary, Extreme Ice. Dazzling photographs of illustrate the possibly irreversible melting of crucial glaciers at the earth’s poles. Could this meltdown of the ice lead to a pole shift as predicted by Edgar Cayce? I vaguely remember reading in the foreword of one of Immanuel Velikovsky‘s books something about a shift in the ice at the poles possibly causing the earth’s crust to shift over our planet’s core like the rind over the inside of an orange. Could this be the 2012 cataclysm?
Continue reading2012 Warning Doesn’t Make Sense
Here’s a quote that doesn’t make sense. It says that our solar system will be below the Milky Way Galaxy. That’s impossible since the Solar System – our sun, earth, moon, and the planets – are part of the Milky Way Galaxy. We are IN the Milky Way Galaxy. We cannot be below it. We are tiny. All the stars you see at night surrounding us are also in the Milky Way Galaxy, which is huge. For us to be below the Milky Way, we would have to be out in space without stars surrounding us.
The Milky Way Galaxy is our home galaxy. To say that the Solar System would be below and out of the Milky Way Galaxy is as absurd as saying that a waterlily would not be in a pond.
Here’s the quote from 2012 Warning:
The sun, earth, and milky way will align at the galactic equator, on December 21, 2012, the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, and the end of the Mayan calendar. This only happens every 25,800 years! For the first time in recorded history, our entire solar system will move BELOW the milky way galaxy. These combined cosmic events, will be the end of the world as we know it.
Continue readingDecember 21, 2012 Date Uncertain
As I’ve said before in this blog, and as I say in my lectures on, “2012, Edgar Cayce and the Maya,” the December 21, 2012 date has changed a number of times.
The change in date is the result of developments in the translation of ancient Mayan glyphs, the written language of the ancient Maya. The Mayan glyphs have only recently been translated by archeologists and linguists.
Modern-day Maya do not know how to read the ancient Mayan glyphs. Although many modern-day Maya speak their traditional language, they virtually lost their written language when Bishop Diego de Landa, fired with Spanish Inquisition zeal, burnt all of their books on July 12, 1562. These books were one-of-a-kind, meticulously transcribed codices written by shamans similar to scrolls produced by monks. They were irreplaceable . . . and they are all, except for 3 codices and parts of a fourth, gone.
It has taken modern scholars a long time to decipher the unusual ancient glyphs. Once they had the dates translated, they had to correlate the dates they discovered with the dates of the calendar we use, the Gregorian Calendar. In the process, the date for the end . . . and subsequent beginning of the new . . . Mayan Long Count Calendar has changed a number of times.
At the present time, December 21, 2012 is the agreed upon date that has been correlated with the Gregorian calendar as the date was that translated from the ancient Mayan glyphs.
But don’t hold your breath. That date may yet change again.
Carol Chapman
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