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

and resulting flood of blood? If any myth has an astronomical basis then surely it is this myth for it explicitly states that the events it relates all began in the sky.

The Mayan Flood Myth was recorded on a platform in Temple XIX at Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico. The myth was recorded in Mayan glyphs in the year 734 AD and discovered by archaeologists in 1999. According to Mayan scholar David Stuart who partially deciphered these glyphs, “the record of mythical…events recorded in these texts warrants their addition to the select group of highly important religious and historical documents from Palenque.”[89]

The myth began with the date on which the events transpired: March 10, 3309 BC. On this date the myth relates that a deity known as God GI was enthroned in the sky under the supervision of another deity named Yax Naah Itzamnaaj. Eleven years later it recorded that a cosmic caiman or crocodile was decapitated which resulted in a catastrophic flood of blood. Since it was the decapitation event that led to the flood, it is this event that I will decode first and attempt to find an astronomical explanation.

What was the cosmic crocodile?

According to Stuart, the glyphs that represent the cosmic crocodile include “two distinctive and unusual signs: a representation of a ‘hunched’ and seemingly headless human body and, below, a head of the creature [called] the ‘Starry Deer Crocodile,’ who seems a distinctive yet poorly understood aspect of the ‘Celestial Monster’ or ‘Cosmic Serpent.’”[90]

In their 1982 book entitled The Cosmic Serpent, astronomers Bill Napier and Victor Clube argued that ancient references to cosmic serpents and dragons were, in actuality, references to comets.[91] Could Palenque’s Cosmic Caiman or “Starry Deer Crocodile” represent a comet?

A comet consists of a head called a coma and a long tail. A crocodile also consists of a head and a body that merges into a long tail thus it would be easy to see why the ancient Maya would use such an animal to symbolize a comet.

According to Stuart, the crocodile heads in the aforementioned glyphs “each display the long-lashed ‘star’ eye and the long deer ear, also decorated by a ‘star,’ that readily identify it as the Starry Deer Crocodile.”[92] Stuart also noted that “the Starry Deer Crocodile serves as the head variant of the day sign Lamat and also in the month patron for Yax, which in their standard forms are simply the ‘star,’ probably read EK’, ‘star, planet.’”[93]

In other words, the Cosmic Crocodile had strong associations with stars/planets. Coincidentally, a comet does not begin growing its tail until it enters the inner solar system near Jupiter. Until that point it is indistinguishable from a star or planet. Perhaps the Maya referred to comets as “crocodile stars” once they grew their tails similarly to how the Chinese referred to comets as “long tailed pheasant stars.”[94]

If Palenque’s Cosmic Crocodile was, in fact, a comet then what sort of astronomical phenomenon could account for the decapitation event? A clue comes from the text itself that states the crocodile was decapitated eleven years after God GI was enthroned in the sky. It is known that the sun has an eleven-year sunspot cycle; i.e., every eleven years the sun enters an active phase wherein sunspots increase on its surface and solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) increase. Could a solar flare or CME be responsible for the decapitation event?

On April 20, 2007, NASA’s STEREO-A probe was recording Comet Encke when the comet was hit by a massive coronal mass ejection from the sun. The CME ripped off the comet’s tail leaving only its coma or head.[95] The CME decapitated the comet! This phenomenon is now referred to as a “tail disconnection event.”[96] (Watch a time-lapse video of this event at NASA.gov.)

Interestingly, Stuart noted that the phrasing of the Palenque decapitation event was somewhat complex. It started with the word CH’AK meaning “to cut, chop something” followed by U-BAAH meaning “his/her/its self/body/head.”[97] This suggests that the cosmic crocodile cut off its own body, which is precisely how the event would have appeared to an earth-based observer. A witness to the event would have simply seen the body and tail of the ‘crocodile star’ blown away leaving a disembodied head (coma) in the sky.

Is there any physical evidence that the sun was experiencing a heightened level of activity in 3300 BC? In fact, there is. Scientists have noted a Beryllium-10 spike in the Antarctic ice core that corresponds to 3300 BC[98]. Such spikes are associated with an increase in cosmic rays hitting the upper atmosphere, which can be caused by either supernovae or increased solar activity. Thus the physical evidence supports an interpretation that the ancient Maya recorded a tail disconnection event caused by a CME.

What was the flood of blood?

After the decapitation event, the myth recorded a flood of blood: “copiously flowed the blood of the one who raises the stream, the one who drills the fire.”[99] Researchers have noted that crocodiles were associated with catastrophic floods throughout Mesoamerica.[100] The only way a comet could cause such a flood is if it or its fragments crashed into the ocean causing an impact tsunami. Evidence of four impact tsunamis dating to 3300 BC has, in fact, been discovered in the sedimentary record.[101] (Details later.) Yet how would a tail disconnection event lead to impacts in four separate oceans?  The only way this could happen is if the comet fragmented into at least four large pieces.

When Comet Encke experienced its tail disconnection event the comet did not fragment and the tail later reformed. Is there any evidence that a CME could either cause or coincide with a fragmentation event?

The answer to this question came in August 2011 when Comet Elenin was struck by a CME. The comet immediately flared up and then astronomers noted it appeared to be breaking apart:

“Shortly after the coronal mass ejection the comet flared up and you could see some beautiful details in the tail, with the tail was twisting about