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

Researchers have also noted that Tutuguero’s Monument 6 is one of only two monuments that feature “deep-future forecasts,”[159] the other being the West Tablet from Palenque. Coincidentally, the West Tablet contains a “prophecy” that is also likely a reference to a future impact event.

Palenque was ruled by a man named Pakal who was born in 603 AD, just 63 years after the impact event of 540 AD. Pakal ruled Palenque for 68 years until his death in 683 AD. On the West Tablet from Palenque, a “prophecy” connects Pakal’s accession date to a date in the far future: October 23, 4772.

Curiously, astronomers have noted that comet Swift-Tuttle has a small chance of collision with Earth on September 15, 4479[160]. Since the comet has a 133-year orbit even if it does not collide with Earth in 4479, its close approach could alter its orbit causing it to collide in one of its subsequent returns either in 4612 or 4745.

Swift-Tuttle is significantly larger than the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs thus an impact with this comet would be devastating to life on Earth. This would truly be the end of the world as we know it. Could the Maya have projected its orbit into the future and calculated a future impact around 4772? The astronomical and mathematical accomplishments of the Maya prove they were more than capable of making such forecasts.

Interestingly, the lid of Pakal’s sarcophagus features a world tree with a Celestial Quetzal Bird at the top. The symbolism is quite similar to stela 2 from Izapa and the Mayan Blowgunner Vase both of which seem to be related to impact events. Was Pakal trying to send a message to the future about this deadly comet?

Lid of Pakal’s sarcophagus featuring a Celestial Bird at the top of a cross or World Tree. (Courtesy Wikipedia.)

Interestingly, the Mayan calendar’s start date is August 11, 3114 BC. August 11th just happens to correspond to the peak night of the Perseid meteor shower. The Perseids are created by dust and debris from the Comet Swift-Tuttle. Did the Maya purposefully restart their calendar on this date to encode this meteor shower in order to alert the future about the dangers of Comet Swift-Tuttle?

Or was the calendar’s start date incidental and, instead, it was purposefully designed to end on December 21, 2012 in order to coincide with a galactic alignment as theorized by John Major Jenkins in his book Maya Cosmogenesis 2012? As we have seen throughout this book the Galactic Center appears to have played a primary role in the events of both 10,500 BC and 3300 BC. Were the Maya purposefully using the end date of their calendar to direct our attention to the Galactic Center to highlight the dangers that lurk there?

22. End of the Cycle

As the preceding chapters have shown, a major impact event occurred near the end of the last calendar cycle and prophecies suggest another such event is expected around the end of the current calendar cycle. But the key word is “near.” In fact, the impact event around 3300 BC occurred nearly two hundred years before the end of the previous calendar cycle that ended on August 11, 3114 BC.

The best way to think of this is to compare Mayan predictions to modern scientific forecasts. For instance, imagine a geologist who plotted on a linear timeline the date of every eruption of a particular volcano. After looking through his data suppose the geologist noted that the volcano appeared to erupt once every 5,000 years. Now imagine he realized that the last eruption was 4999 years ago. Would this mean that the volcano would erupt the next year on the very last day of the 5000-year cycle?

Of course not. That is not how cycles work. The volcano could erupt a week later, a month later or five years later. It could erupt twenty years later. Or it could have moved off its hotspot and never erupt again. The cycle only shows the average time between eruptions in the past. But once you reach the end of a cycle it lets you know that you have left the “safe zone” and that the probability of an eruption increases.

This is likely the same message the ancient Maya were trying to send to their future descendants by encoding this 5,000 year cycle into their calendar. They were likely trying to warn their descendants that at the end of the current calendar cycle the probability of a catastrophic impact event would increase.

But the fact is, we do not really understand why the Maya encoded a 5000-year cycle into their calendar. What we do know is that astronomers have determined that there appears to be a 500-year cycle, 1000-year cycle, and a 3,000-year cycle of impact events on Earth. Did the Maya know of a 5,000-year cycle that our scientists have yet to discover?

Based on the research for this book I believe this is very likely the case. It has become very clear over the course of researching and writing this book that all the Mesoamerican cultures from the Maya to the Aztecs believed in cycles of catastrophes that impacted Earth. Most of these catastrophes appear to have been impact events and the associated mega-tsunamis, floods, rains of fire, and dust-induced darkness and climate downturns associated with such events.

All Mesoamerican religion appears to have been focused on avoiding such catastrophes in the future through various rituals including human sacrifice. Is it a coincidence that riots occurred in the elite quarters of Teotihuacan after the impact event of 540 AD? Undoubtedly the elites and priests of this culture assured their citizens that they could protect them from future catastrophes. The citizens made their offerings, put up with the horror of human sacrifice, even offering up their own children for this purpose, yet despite all of these efforts and the assurances of their leaders, still another such event occurred. Would it not be easy