Tag Archive

Tag Archives for " mayan "

2012: No Doomsday in Sight!

Here’s an excerpt from a blogspot on 2012 that, I believe, comes from Russia or the Ukraine or one of the Slavic countries since many of the links are in Cyrillic Script.

What this means to me is that people in Russia, the Ukraine, or other Slavic countries are thinking about and aware of the 2012 Doomsday Prophecies.

Here’s the cute quote from Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki who appears to be a physics professor at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Australia!!! Wow! This 2012 prophecy stuff really get around!

OK, Here’s Dr. Karl:

…when a calendar comes to the end of a cycle, it just rolls over into the next cycle. In our Western society, every year 31 December is followed, not by the End of the World, but by 1 January. So 13.0.0.0.0 in the Mayan calendar will be followed by 0.0.0.0.1 – or good-ol’ 22 December 2012, with only a few shopping days left to Christmas.” – Excerpt from Dr Karl’s “Great Moments in Science“.

360 degrees review: No Doomsday in 2012

Maybe the blogspot has Cyrillic Script on it because Vladimir Korsakov, the writer of this post, is bilingual in English and Russian or another Cyrillic Script language.

Check it out!

Carol Chapman

Continue reading

More from Mayan Elder Hunbatz Men on 2012

Since the December 21, 2012 date comes from a translation of Mayan glyphs, I believe it is important to find out what Maya people say about 2012. Here’s an excerpt of a letter from Mayan Elder Hunbatz Men of the Itza tradition in northern Yucatan:

We the Mayans who have not been cultured by the Western
Culture do not agree with all the negative things our sacred
calendars have been involved in.

Mayan Elders Speak about 2012 – Authors of Idiots Guide to 2012

Continue reading

2012 Movies

I’ve been looking up 2012 movies to see how they compare with the one I’m working on. To my surprise, I’ve seen trailers for 2012 movies with what appears to be Tibetan Monks, something about the dead coming alive, a talking head movie of a young guy with such poor audio I can hardly hear what he’s saying who is denouncing the whole thing as a scam to make money, another talking head view of young man speaking at a conference.

Isn’t 2012 about December 21, 2012, the end of the Long Count Calendar of the ancient Maya? It appears as if there are few 2012 movies about the Maya people, ancient and modern, of Mexico. That’s what my 2012 movie is about.

Carol Chapman —

Continue reading

Where to find happiness?

Here’s an interesting observation as a result of my interview with 2012 expert Robert K. Sitler, Ph.D. He told me how he’s always sad when he comes back to the US from Guatemala or Yucatan where he’s been visiting with modern-day Maya.

I said, “Did I hear you right? Aren’t they very poor and live in one-room mud and wattle houses? Shouldn’t you be happy to get back to civilization?”

He said that I had heard him right. He is sad because they have such a richness of spirit, family and intimacy. In comparison, returning to the US feels cold, lonely and as if most people are depressed. He said that many modern-day Maya are very happy even though they have little material possessions. He said that their children are also very happy even though they don’t have toys but only use natural objects like stones and sticks for fanciful play.  They also revere the natural world in which they live.

Here’s my experience. On my way down to the Winter Star Party, every restaurant where we stopped that also had a gift shop, I wanted to buy something such as marble Easter eggs, bowls with rabbits painted on them, and stuffed bunnies for Easter. We decided to buy these items on the way home from our week of star gazing.

However, after the friendship, conviviality of fellow amateur astronomers as well as living in nature in a rustic cabin – we also lived by nature’s rhythms since we couldn’t use electricity after dark to preserve our night vision – I felt so content within myself that on the way home from the Winter Stay Party, all the things I thought I needed and wanted to buy meant nothing to me.

Was it because of the intimacy, friendship and closeness to nature – the way the Maya live – that I did not need things to make me happy?

Very interesting is all I can say!

Carol Chapman —

Continue reading

WPGrow