2012 Mayan Calendar

The latest articles related to 2012 Mayan Calendar

2012 Mayan Calendar

In 1975, the ending of the b’ak’tun cycle became the subject of speculation by several New Age authors, who believe it will correspond to a global “consciousness shift”. In his book ”Mexico Mystique: The Coming Sixth Age of Consciousness”, Frank Waters tied Coe’s December 24, 2011 date to astrology and the prophecies of the Hopi, [...]

2012 Mayan Calendar

According to the ”Popol Vuh”, a book compiling details of creation accounts known to the K’iche’ Maya of the Colonial-era highlands, we are living in the fourth world. The ”Popol Vuh” describes the first three creations that the gods failed in making and the creation of the successful fourth world where men were placed. In [...]

2012 Mayan Calendar

Mythology and religion In Norse mythology, earthquakes were explained as the violent struggling of the god Loki. When Loki, god of mischief and strife, murdered Baldr, god of beauty and light, he was punished by being bound in a cave with a poisonous serpent placed above his head dripping venom. Loki’s wife Sigyn stood by [...]

2012 Mayan Calendar

Since Calendar Round dates can only distinguish in 18,980 days, equivalent to around 52 solar years, the cycle repeats roughly once each lifetime, and thus, a more refined method of dating was needed if history was to be recorded accurately. To measure dates, therefore, over periods longer than 52 years, Mesoamericans devised the Long Count [...]

2012 Mayan Calendar

December 2012 marks the ending of the current ”b’ak’tun” cycle of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, which was used in Central America prior to the arrival of Europeans. Though the Long Count was most likely invented by the Olmec, it has become closely associated with the Maya civilization, whose classic period lasted from 250 to [...]

2012 Mayan Calendar

Apocalypticism is a frequent theme of literature, film and television. Y2K Apocalypticism was especially evident with the approach of the millennial year 2000, in which some predicted a massive computer crash which would throw global commerce and financial systems into chaos. These predictions did not come true, although a few remarkable isolated events did occur [...]

2012 Mayan Calendar

”Shadowrun” is linked to ”Earthdawn”, and is set in the “Sixth World”, where ”Earthdawn” is the “Fourth World” and modern-day Earth is at the tail end of the ”Fifth World”. Such links are not necessary for play, but they allow crossover potential. The concept of the “Worlds” is directly linked to the ancient Aztec belief [...]

2012 Mayan Calendar

The first promotional material appeared on May 8, 2007, when a picture was leaked into the internet, containing a poem, a Knights Templar seal, and several sentences in Spanish, Norwegian, French, German and Hebrew. When solved, the poem led to a series of internet pages, one of them with a riddle, and, eventually, to the [...]

2012 Mayan Calendar

*”Journey to the Mayan Underworld” (Four Ahau Press, Boulder, CO: 1989) *”Mirror in the Sky” (Four Ahau Press, 1991) *”Tzolkin: Visionary Perspectives and Calendar Studies” (Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, Garberville, CA: 1992/1994) *”Mayan Sacred Science” (Four Ahau Press, Boulder, CO: 1994) *”Maya Cosmogenesis 2012” (Bear & Company, Santa Fe, NM: 1998) *”Galactic Alignment: The Transformation [...]

2012 Mayan Calendar

2012 phenomenon comprises a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events will occur on December 21, 2012, which is said to be the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mayan Long Count calendar. Various astronomical alignments and numerological formulae related to this date have been proposed, but none have been accepted by [...]