Mayan Calendar Prophecies: The Complete Collection of 2012 Predictions and Prophecies by Gary Daniels (best color ereader txt) 📗

superstitious nonsense by the most educated of some future civilization until they, too, come face to face with a similar catastrophe.

Or perhaps the world will combine its resources and launch some means to deflect the asteroid from its current Earth-crossing orbit. And if successful, perhaps this near-death experience will have profound effects on civilization and help us to see how fragile civilization and life are...and how special too. Such awareness would certainly lead to greater cooperation among the nations, ushering in a whole new era in civilization. For a time at least.

This concludes my interpretation of some of the Mayan prophecies as recorded in their prophetic books of Chilam Balam. But these are not the only prophecies associated with 2012. In fact, one final Mayan prophecy discovered by archaeologists carved into a monument at the Tortuguero site in Mexico specifically mentions the date December 21, 2012 and events expected to happen on or near this date. And the predictions are not good for civilization, as we know it. But before we can properly decode and understand this prophecy we must first dive deeper into Mayan religion and mythology to build a solid base of knowledge from which to interpret this ancient text.

III. Beyond 2012

7. Quest for the Truth about 2012 and Beyond

As mentioned in Part 1, chapter 3, “Predictions for Katun 4 Ahau (1993-2012),” in August 2004 a new green comet was discovered and named Comet Machholz. Astronomers calculated the orbital period of comet Machholz as 12,500 years meaning the last time it had visited Earth was in 10,500 BC. At that time geologists have noted Earth experienced a series of unimaginable catastrophes that included a great worldwide flood from glacial melt water, extensive continent-wide forest fires, a mass extinction that killed off the mammoths, mastodons and other Ice Age mega-fauna, the disappearance of North America’s stone age inhabitants known as the Clovis Culture, and the end of a period of rapid global warming and the return of Ice Age conditions that would last a thousand years.

Coincidentally, since the return and discovery of Comet Machholz in August 2004 Earth has experienced some of the most severe storms and earthquakes in recorded history. Some of the most severe space weather including the most powerful solar flares and gamma ray bursts in recorded history also occurred since 2004.  That year also had the most naked-eye visible comets ever recorded[30] which suggests an increase in the amount of space debris entering the solar system thereby increasing the odds of an impact with Earth. It was also in 2004 that NASA scientists discovered the asteroid Apophis was on a collision course with Earth.[31]

Climate scientists have predicted that due to global warming these severe weather events will only get worse in the future.  Space weather scientists say the sun appears to have entered a new period of increased activity. Geologists have noted there has been an increase in major earthquakes along the Pacific Plate since 2004 and they also expect more of the same in the future.[32]

Is this all a coincidence or are these events part of a natural, predictable cycle that happens every 12,500 years and just so happens to correspond with the orbit of Comet Machholz? Were the ancient Maya aware of this cycle and did they encode it in their myths about the return of Kukulkan, a green sky serpent that devours humans, as a warning and a visible sign post in the heavens to alert when the next age of catastrophes would begin?

Does the calendar date of December 21, 2012, mark the end of our rather quiet and peaceful epoch and the beginning of a new age of catastrophes similar to those that befell Earth in 10,500 BC? Mayan predictions do not end in 2012. As noted in Part 1, chapter 5, “Predictions for Katun 13 Ahau (2032-2052),” their most dire predictions for civilization were reserved for the years 2032-2052 which eerily correspond with NASA estimates that the asteroid Apophis has a chance of hitting Earth on Friday, April 13, 2037 and the asteroid 2011 AG5 could hit in 2040.

Finally, did other ancient civilizations such as the Greeks and Egyptians also encode this information into their myths and monuments to not only warn of the impending catastrophes but also show how to survive them? Is this the reason all the great pyramids on Earth seem to be constructed over tunnels and caves and all the ancient myths recall that the survivors of the last catastrophes emerged from caves and the underworld? Could this also be why Russia is currently building an underground city the size of Washington, DC under the Ural Mountains?[33]

These are the topics that will be explored in Part 2: The Return of Kukulkan. This section will be a search for the truth about 2012 that travels around the world and back through time to uncover the scientific truths behind some of mankind’s most ancient myths.

Once again, like an ancient Mayan priest (or modern scientist), I will explore what happened in the past to better understand what may happen in the future. Using concepts from the fields of geomythology, catastrophism and neocatastrophism, I will decode the ancient myths of the Maya and others to see what they may really be trying to tell us about events in our past and hence, about similar events in our future. My findings will be backed up with hard scientific data from fields including geology, archaeology, climate science, space science, genetics, and more.

These chapters are not meant to be the definitive interpretation of these ancient myths. They are simply meant to open the reader’s mind to the possibilities that these myths are not “mythical” and perhaps encode real information about the past. Much of the strangeness of these myths simply evaporates when one can compare their details with actual events. It is at that point that they stop sounding like superstitious nonsense and start to sound like accurate eyewitness accounts of real events.

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