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

Machholz? In August 2004 comet Machholz was first discovered. This coincided with the start of the Atlantic hurricane season, which climate scientists had predicted would be uneventful. Yet the 2004 hurricane season was “one of the deadliest and most costly Atlantic hurricane seasons on record” with “one of the highest Accumulated Cyclone Energy totals ever observed.”[56]

In fact, there were eight named storms that formed during August despite a weak El Nino that emerged that summer. “In an average summer, only three or four storms would be named in August. The formation of eight named storms in August [broke] the old record….”[57] The highest number of tornadoes ever recorded also occurred in 2004.

On Christmas Eve in December 2004 the third largest earthquake ever recorded occurred off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The earthquake spawned tsunamis that killed over 230,000 people in fourteen countries making this event one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history.[58]

This rare event coincided with the brightest gamma ray burst ever recorded. This gamma ray burst came from a star only 12 miles across on the other side of our galaxy and released more energy in a tenth of a second than the sun emits in 100,000 years.[59]

  The burst also affected Earth’s ionosphere, briefly expanding it similarly to what happens during solar flares. The fact that a star so far away could affect Earth’s ionosphere was a great surprise to the scientists who discovered it.

Physicist Dr. Paul LaViolette has theorized that such gamma ray bursts are preceded by gravity waves that can cause earthquakes on Earth.[60] Dr. LaViolette has calculated that such a gravity wave would have arrived around the same time as the 2004 Indonesian megaquake that caused the tsunami. Dr. LaViolette calculated that the odds were extremely small that two such rare and powerful events could occur together and be unrelated.

On January 7, 2005, Comet Machholz made its closest visit to the Pleiades. Then just thirteen days later a solar flare “released the highest concentration of protons ever directly measured, taking only 15 minutes after observation to reach Earth….”[61]

Protons can cause severe damage to body tissues leading to radiation sickness and death. Typically the protons from such flares take an hour or more to reach Earth giving astronauts plenty of time to take shelter. Yet this time they travelled nearly the speed of light.[62]

It also should be noted that the strongest solar flare ever measured occurred on November 4, 2003, just nine months before the discovery of Comet Machholz. Other large solar flares have taken place on October 28, 2003, September 7, 2005, and February 17, 2011. In fact, “from January 2005 to September 2005 [Earth] experienced 4 severe geomagnetic storms and 14 X [class] flares.”[63]

Could the green comet of Hermes/Quetzalcoatl be associated not only with increased terrestrial storms but also increased solar storms? Mercury, the Roman version of Hermes, is always shown wearing a solar hat thus clearly has solar associations.

Likewise, the type of snake associated with Quetzalcoatl was the rattlesnake species Crotalus durissus. Researchers have noted that this rattlesnake has a design near its rattles that is identical to the Mayan glyph ahau that “designates the Sun God.”[64] Thus in addition to encoding the concepts of “twin” and “serpent,” coatl also encoded the concept of “sun.” There were other species of rattlesnake they could have used to symbolize Quetzalcoatl but they chose the Crotalus durissus with the ahau symbol on its tail. This seems quite purposeful.

Usually humanity is protected from solar storms by Earth’s magnetic field but in 2008 NASA scientists discovered a huge hole in this field “ten times larger than anything previously thought to exist….The entire day-side of the magnetosphere was open to the solar wind.”[65]

Any major flares occurring at that time would have hit Earth unimpeded by the protective magnetic field and caused immense damage to both life and technological infrastructure.

Has the sun entered a new phase of activity that could pose dangers to Earth in the near future?  Is this why the Maya referred to the beginning of a new age as the birth of a new sun? Is it the sun causing an increase in storm activity? Is the sun, in fact, the root cause of global warming and not carbon dioxide?

Astronomer Sallie Baliunas and astrophysicist Willie Soon, researchers at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, have shown that "changes in the Sun can account for major climate changes on Earth for the past 300 years, including part of the recent surge of global warming…[and] heat-trapping gases emitted by smokestacks and vehicles -- the so-called greenhouse effect -- appear to be secondary."[66]

A few months after the January 2005 solar flare, the Atlantic hurricane season began. This was “the most active Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history [with] a record twenty-eight tropical and subtropical storms formed, of which a record 15 became hurricanes. Of these, seven strengthened into major hurricanes, a record-tying five became Category 4 hurricanes and a record four reached Category 5 strength.... Among these Category 5 storms were Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma, respectively the costliest and the most intense Atlantic hurricanes on record.”[67]

Since 2005 some of the largest and/or deadliest natural disasters in recorded history have occurred including the 2005 Kasmir earthquake (79,000 dead), 2006 Java earthquake, 2008 Sichuan earthquake (61,000 dead), 2008 Cyclone Nargis (138,000 dead), 2010 Chile earthquake and tsunami (8.8 magnitude), 2010 Haiti earthquake and tsunami (222,000 dead), & the 2011 Tohoku Japan earthquake and tsunami (20,000 dead). [68]

This period also included two of the deadliest avalanches in history (2010 Salang & Kohistan avalanches in Afghanistan and Pakistan respectively) and two of the deadliest blizzards (2008 Afghanistan blizzard & 2008 Chinese winter storms). It also included two of the deadliest heat waves in history: Europe 2003 (40,000 dead) & Russia 2010 (56,000 dead) and two of the deadliest non-cyclone storms both in Brazil, 2008 (128 dead) and 2011 (1,000 dead).[69]

The most tornadoes to touch down in a single day, 312, occurred on April 28, 2011, which was double the previous record.[70]