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

The Maya had one asterism, or star group, which was associated with the rattles of a rattlesnake: the Pleiades[40]. Tzab-ek, the Mayan name for this asterism, meant “rattlesnake rattles star.” Rattlesnakes were often depicted throughout Mexico with four rattles, which likely corresponded to the four brightest stars of the Pleiades. The kan suffix in Kukulkan not only means “serpent” and “sky” but also “four” which further supports this idea. This symbolism suggests the green comet is therefore associated with the Pleiades.

In the period of Katun 4 Ahau (1993-2012) were there any green comets associated with the Pleiades? Since 1993 there have been three green comets but only one was associated with the Pleiades: Comet Machholz. Comet Machholz was first discovered in August 2004 and became naked eye visible in November of that year. It reached its brightest level on January 7, 2005. At this time it also made its closest approach to the Pleiades. In fact, the tail of the comet entered the Pleiades[41] thus giving this green sky serpent its rattles! The return of Kukulkan, the green cosmic rattlesnake, appears to have occurred just as the Mayan ‘prophecies’ predicted.[*]

“Comet Machholz meets the Pleiades” © Stefan Seip, Astromeeting.de

9. Prelude to Disaster?

Yet, as noted previously, Comet Machholz is a long period comet with an orbital period of 12,500 years.[42] This means the last time anyone on Earth would have seen this comet (and thus been able to calculate its return) was in the year 10,500 BC. Could the Maya have had access to astronomical data going back that far in history?

Scholars have noted that the Mayan concept of the four world directions being associated with four different colors is remarkably similar to cultural practices in Asia and thus likely has origins in deep antiquity[43]; i.e., it came with them when their ancestors migrated across the Bering land bridge from Siberia at the close of the last Ice Age. Thus, at least one aspect of Mayan cultural practices still practiced today dates to that time period; thus, why not astronomical information encoded in their mythology?

More importantly, what message were the ancient Maya trying to convey by encoding the year 10,500 BC into their prophetic books? Since it is known that the Maya believed time was cyclical and that past events would reoccur in the future, did something happen in 10,500 BC which they felt might repeat again in the future?

In fact, one of the worst catastrophes ever to affect life on Earth occurred around 10,500 BC. Before this date, Earth had experienced rapid global warming which resulted in the melting of the glaciers from the last Ice Age raising sea levels hundreds of feet. Yet in 10,500 BC a catastrophe seems to have struck Earth. Temperatures plummeted as Earth entered a new period of extreme cold known as the Younger Dryas climate event.[44] In fact, this abrupt climate change happened within the course of only a few months![45]

This was brought about by the collapse of an ice dam that allowed the enormous glacier lake known as Lake Agassiz to catastrophically dump its contents into the Arctic Ocean and North Atlantic. This influx of cold water shut down currents in the Atlantic which brought warm water up from the tropics to the northern hemisphere. Without this warm water the northern hemisphere reentered the Ice Age for another thousand years.

It was also at this time that mastodons, mammoths, and other mega-fauna all became extinct and the people known as the Clovis Culture disappeared from North America. Scientists consider this the most severe mass extinction since the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago. Ninety-five percent of all large mammals went extinct but small animals were affected too. For example, ten genera of birds went extinct at this time. Such an event would clearly have left a strong cultural memory in the myths and legends of the survivors.

Although this event appears to have affected North America the most, it also severely impacted Europe, Siberia, and South America. In their book The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: How a Stone-Age Comet Changed the Course of World Culture, scientists Richard Firestone and Allen West argued that the impact of a comet or meteor caused both the mass extinction and climate event.

In order to validate a theory one must be able to make predictions and then verify those predictions with research data. Therefore, if comet Machholz was the basis of the Kukulkan myth then it would follow that Kukulkan should be associated with disasters, especially flooding, such as what happened at the onset of the Younger Dryas when comet Machholz last appeared. Is there any evidence that the Maya and other Mesoamerican cultures associated Kukulkan/Quetzalcoatl with floods and disasters?

There is, in actuality, an abundance of evidence that the “sky serpent” was associated with floods and disasters. The earliest site in Mesoamerica dedicated to the worship of Quetzalcoatl was at Teotihuacan. A mural at Teotihuacan shows a flood of water streaming from the mouth of a great green serpent. A great flood caused by a “sky serpent” also occurs in the Mayan books known as the Dresden Codex, the Madrid Codex and the Popol Vuh.

Teotihuacan mural shows a flood being emitted from the mouth of a green feathered serpent.

In the Popol Vuh the deity known as Hunab Ku, “Heart of Heaven” (aka Kukulkan, Hurakan) destroyed the world by flood. Likewise, the Dresden Codex shows an image of the same giant serpent as seen at Teotihuacan with a torrent of water coming from its mouth. In this case, the story was also associated with Mayan deities known as the four Bacabs who were responsible for holding up the sky. According to this myth they did not do their job and the sky fell. The Bacabs are associated with the Pleiades and likely represented the four brightest stars of this asterism.[]

Page from the Dresden Codex showing a flood of water coming from the mouth of a green serpent. Also shows the goddess